Dr. Vijay Nath received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Master’s degree in Electronics from DDU Gorakhpur University, India, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He received his PGDCN (GM) from MMMUT Gorakhpur in 1999 and Ph.D. degree in VLSI Design & Technology from Dr. RML Avadh University Ayodhya in association with CEERI- Pilani in 2008. From 2000 to 2001 he was project trainee in the IC Design Group at CEERI-Pilani. He has been an Associate Professor at the Dept. of ECE, BIT Mesra Ranchi (JH), India, since 2006. His research interests include micro & nano-electronics, analog & digital VLSI design, ASICs, embedded system design, Internet of things, & machine learning. He has published 175 papers in respected Scopus & SCI journals and at conferences. He has successfully completed two R&D projects funded by DST New Delhi with DRDL Hyderabad and MHRD New Delhi, and a third project, funded by RESPOND SAC ISRO Ahmadabad, is ongoing. He is the editor of Nanoelectronics, Circuits & Communication Systems, Proceeding of NCCS-2015 & NCCS-2017, and of Microelectronics, Computing & Communication Systems, Proceedings of MCCS-2015, MCCS-2017 & MCCS-2018 in a Scopus book series: LNEE, Springer. He is a member of several professional societies and academic bodies, including IETE, ISTE, ISVE and IEEE.Prof. J.K. Mandal received his M.Sc. in Physics from Jadavpur University in 1986 and M.Tech. in Computer Science from the University of Calcutta, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering by Jadavpur University in 2000. Currently, he is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Management, Kalyani University, West Bengal for two consecutive terms, having started his career as a lecturer at NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh in 1988. His areas of research include coding theory, data and network security, remote sensing and GIS based applications, data compression, error correction, visual cryptography, steganography, security in MANET, wireless networks and unify computing. He has published than 30 proceedings volumes, 6 books, 160 journal articles and 300 other articles. He is one of the editors of the Springer AISC and CCIS Series.
