Poonkuntran Shanmugam earned a BE degree in Information Technology from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, India; and MTech and PhD degrees in Computer and Information Technology from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, India. He is presently with VIT Bhopal University, Madhya Pradesh, India as Professor & Dean for the School of Computing Science and Engineering. He has more than a decade of experience in teaching and research and successfully executed three funded research grant projects from the Indian Space Research Organization, Defense Research Development Organization, and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, to the tune of 1.10 Crores. He received two seminar grants from Anna University, Chennai, and the All India Council for Technical Education-Indian Society for Technical Education for the tune of 4 Lacs. He has published more than 80 technical publications, authored 6 books and 2 chapters. He is the recipient of Cognizant Best Faculty Award 2017–18 and served as a State Level Student Coordinator for Region VII, CSI, India in 2016–17. He is a lifetime member of IACSIT, Singapore, CSI, India, and ISTE, India. His research areas of interests include information security, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.Dr Rajesh Kumar Dhanraj is a Professor in the School of Computing Science and Engineering at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India. He earned a BE degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Anna University Chennai, India in 2007, then an MTech from the Anna University Coimbatore, India in 2010 and a PhD in Computer Science from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 2017. He has contributed to 30+ authored and edited books on various technologies, 21 Patents and 53 articles and papers in various refereed journals and international conferences and contributed chapters to books. His research interests include Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member of the Computer Science Teacher Association (CSTA), and the International Association of Engineers (IAENG). He is an associate editor and guest editor for reputed journals. He is an Expert Advisory Panel Member of Texas Instruments Inc., USA.Balamurugan Balusamy is currently an Associate Dean Student in Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR. Prior to this assignment he was Professor, School of Computing Sciences & Engineering and Director of International Relations at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India. His contributions focus on Engineering Education, Block Chain and Data Sciences. His Academic degrees and twelve years of experience working as a faculty member in a global University like VIT University, Vellore, has made him more receptive and prominent in his domain. He has 200 plus high impact factor papers in Springer, Elsevier and IEEE. He has done more than 80 edited and authored books and collaborated with eminent professors across the world from top QS ranked universities. Prof. Balamurugan Balusamy has served up to the position of associate professor in his 12 years stint with VIT University, Vellore. He completed his Bachelors, Masters and PhD degrees at top premier institutions in India. His passion is teaching, and he adapts different design thinking principles while delivering his lectures. He has published 80+ books several top-notch conferences in his resume and has published over 200 quality journal articles, conferences and book chapters combined. He serves in the advisory committee for several start-ups and forums and does consultancy work for industry on Industrial IOT. He has given over 195 talks at various events and symposiums.
