Dr. Suresh Chandra Satapathy iscurrently working as Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science andEngineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences (ANITS),Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his PhD in Computer ScienceEngineering from JNTUH, Hyderabad and Master degree in Computer Science andEngineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha. Hehas more than 27 years of teaching and research experience. His researchinterest includes machine learning, data mining, swarm intelligence studies andtheir applications to engineering. He has more than 98 publications to hiscredit in various reputed international journals and conference proceedings. Hehas edited many volumes from Springer AISC and LNCS in past and he is also theeditorial board member in few international journals. He is a senior member ofIEEE and Life Member of Computer society of India. Currently, he is theNational Chairman of Division-V (Education and Research) of Computer Society ofIndia.Dr. J.K. Mandal has M.Sc. inPhysics from Jadavpur University in 1986, M.Tech. in Computer Science fromUniversity of Calcutta. He was awarded PhD. in Computer Science &Engineering by Jadavpur University in 2000. Presently, he is working asProfessor of Computer Science & Engineering and former Dean, Faculty ofEngineering, Technology and Management, Kalyani University, Kalyani, Nadia,West Bengal for two consecutive terms. He started his career as lecturer atNERIST, Arunachal Pradesh in September, 1988. He has teaching and researchexperience of 28 years. His areas of research include coding theory, data andnetwork security, remote sensing and GIS based applications, data compression,error correction, visual cryptography, steganography, security in MANET,wireless networks and unify computing. He has produced 11 PhD degrees, threesubmitted (2015) and 8 are ongoing. He has supervised 3 M.Philand 30 M.Techthesis. He is life member of Computer Society of India since 1992, CRSI since2009, ACM since 2012, IEEE since 2013 and Fellow member of IETE since 2012,Executive member of CSI Kolkata Chapter. He has delivered invited lectures andacted as program chair of many international conferences and also edited 9volumes of proceedings from Springer AISC series, CSI 2012 from McGraw-Hill,CIMTA 2013 from Procedia Technology, Elsevier. He is reviewer of variousInternational Journals and Conferences. He has over 355 articles and 5 bookspublished to his credit.Dr. Siba K. Udgata is a Professor of School of Computer and InformationSciences, University of Hyderabad,India. He is presentlyheading Centre for Modelling, Simulation and Design (CMSD), a high performancecomputing facility at Universityof Hyderabad. He has gothis Masters followed by Ph.D in Computer Science (mobile computing and wirelesscommunication). His main research interests are Wireless Communication, MobileComputing, Wireless Sensor Networks and Intelligent Algorithms. He was a UnitedNations Fellow and worked in the UnitedNations University/International Institute for Software Technology (UNU/IIST), Macauas research fellow in the year 2001. Dr. Udgata is working as a principalinvestigator in many Government of India funded research projects mainly fordevelopment of wireless sensor network applications and application of swarmintelligence techniques. He has published extensively in refereed internationaljournals and conferences in Indiaas well as abroad. He was also in the editorial board of many SpringerLNCS/LNAI and Springer AISC Proceedings. Prof. Vikrant Bhateja is AssociateProfessor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, ShriRamswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges (SRMGPC), Lucknow and alsothe Head (Academics & Quality Control) in the same college. His area ofresearch include digital image andvideo processing, computer vision, medicalimaging, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, neural networks,soft computing and bio-inspired computing techniques. He has more than 90quality publications in various international journals and conference proceedings.Prof. Vikrant has been on TPC and chaired various sessions from the abovedomain in international conferences of IEEE and Springer. He has been the trackchair and served in the core-technical/editorial teams for internationalconferences: FICTA 2014, CSI 2014 and INDIA 2015 under Springer-ASIC Series andINDIACom-2015, ICACCI-2015 under IEEE. He is associate editor in InternationalJournal of Convergence Computing (IJConvC) and also serving in the editorialboard of International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM) under IndersciencePublishers. At present he is guest editors for two special issues floated inInternational Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA) andInternational Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA) under IGI Globalpublications.
