Prof. (Dr.) Sandeep Saxena, working as a Professor-IT and Director-IQAC in IMS Unison University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, INDA. He has received his Ph.D. degree in CSE from NIT Durgapur, West Bengal. He has received his MS degree in Information Security from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Prayagraj. He has received his B.Tech degree in CSE from U.P.T.U. Lucknow. He has more than 13 Years of Teaching and Research Experience. His areas of interest and research include Security and Privacy in Blockchain Technology and Cloud Computing, Architecture Design for Cloud Computing, Access control techniques in Cloud Computing, and Blockchain Technology.He has performed the role of a key member in more than 10 International Conferences as Keynote Speaker/Organizing Secretary/ Organizing Chair/ Session Chair. He has written 3 technical books for UP Technical University, Lucknow, and published multiple research papers in reputed international journals and conferences. He has published more than 30 research papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals/conferences indexed by (Scopus, SCIE, Google Scholars, DBLP) with high impact factors, more than 10 Patents published, and 2 Patents are Granted. He is participating in multiple professional societies like IEEE (Senior Member), IAASSE (Senior Member), Life Time Member in CSI, and Life Time Member in CRSI. Ashok Kumar Pradhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science at SRM University, Amaravati. He received his M. Tech degree from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, India, in 2010. He received his Ph.D. degree from NIT Durgapur, India, in 2015. His areas of interest and research include security and privacy in blockchain-based IoT, architecture design for blockchain-based IoT, access control techniques in blockchain-based IoT, blockchain-enabled ecosystem in healthcare, agriculture, and supply chain, experimental prototyping, and testbeds for blockchain-based IoT. He has published over 20 research papers in reputed peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is a lifetime member of cryptography and security and the Indian science congress association.
