Machine Learning, Big Data, and IoT for Medical Informatics

Dr. Pardeep Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Wakanaghat. With more than 17 years of extensive experience in higher education, Dr. Kumar has served as Executive General Chair of 2016 Fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC) and 2024 Eighth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC) , Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Robust and Secure Data Hiding Techniques for Telemedicine Applications", Multimedia Tools and Applications: An International Journal, Lead Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Recent Developments in Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing for Big Data", published in International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Guest Editor of Special Issue on "Advanced Techniques in Multimedia Watermarking", published in International Journal of Information and Computer Security. Dr. Kumar is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access Journal. Dr. Kumar’s research focus includes machine & deep learning optimized Internet of Things (IOT) solutions to real life complex problems; blockchain, Internet of Things, data science and artificial intelligence for smart cities including AI driven health and medical informatics, big data analytics.Dr. Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, School of Technology Management and Engineering, NMIMS University, Chandigarh Campus, Mumbai, India. Prior to joining NMIMS University, Dr. Kumar was associated with Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Wakanaghat, Himachal Pradesh, India. He completed his PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from Birla institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi. He has more than 17 years of teaching and research experience, has published over 120 research papers in reputed journals, edited more than eight books, and has presented at various national and international conferences. His primary area of research includes medical informatics, meta-heuristic algorithms, data clustering, swarm intelligence, pattern recognition, medical data analytics.Mohamed A. Tawhid earned his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. From 2000 to 2002, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Currently, he is a Professor at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. He has published more than 75 peer-reviewed research papers, 13 book chapters and edited four special issues in international journals. He has also co-authored a book published by Springer. His research has been funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) grants. Moreover, he has served on several journals' editorial boards and worked on several industrial projects in Canada. Fatos Xhafa, PhD in Computer Science, is Full Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. He has held various tenured and visiting professorship positions. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey, UK (2019/2020), Visiting Professor at the Birkbeck College, University of London, UK (2009/2010) and a Research Associate at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA (2004/2005). He was a Distinguished Guest Professor at Hubei University of Technology, China, for the duration of three years (2016-2019). Prof. Xhafa has widely published in peer reviewed international journals, conferences/workshops, book chapters, edited books and proceedings in the field (H-index 55). He has been awarded teaching and research merits by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education, by IEEE conferences and best paper awards. Prof. Xhafa has an extensive editorial service. He is founder and Editor-In-Chief of Internet of Things - Journal - Elsevier (Scopus and Clarivate WoS Science Citation Index) and of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, (Emerging Sources Citation Index), and AE/EB Member of several indexed Int'l Journals. Prof. Xhafa is a member of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society and Founder Member of Emerging Technical Subcommittee of Internet of Things.His research interests include IoT and Cloud-to-thing continuum computing, massive data processing and collective intelligence, optimization, security and trustworthy computing and machine learning, among others. He can be reached at fatos@cs.upc.edu. Please visit also http://www.cs.upc.edu/~fatos/ and at http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/x/Xhafa:Fatos

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