Dr. Hiren Kumar Thakkar received his M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIIT Bhubaneswar, India, in 2012 and a Ph.D. degree from Chang Gung University, Taiwan, in 2018. Later, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Occupation Therapy, Motor Behavioral Research Lab (MBRL), Chang Gung University, Taiwan. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gujarat, India. Dr. Thakkar has published several journal research papers in the areas such as optimization, machine learning, and reinforcement learning. He is a member of IEEE. Dr. Mayank Swarnkar is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi. He completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore in 2019. He completed his M.Tech in Wireless Communication and Computing from the Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad Prayagraj in 2013 and B.E. in Information Technology from Jabalpur Engineering College in 2011. He joined IIT(BHU) in 2020. He also worked as Software Engineer in NEC Technologies India during 2013-2014. His primary areas of interest are network and system security. He works mainly in network traffic classification, zero-day attacks, intrusion detection systems, IoT security analysis, network protocol vulnerability analysis, and VoIP spam detection. He has several publications in international journals and conferences. He is a member of IEEE and ACM. Robin Singh Bhadoria completed his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore in January 2018. He also finished his M.Tech. and B.E. in CSE from different institutions affiliated with RGPV Bhopal in 2011 and 2008, respectively. He has been awarded the University Gold Medal for his M.Tech. Degree at Vidhan Sabha of Madhya Pradesh in 2011. He has published over 07 edited books and over 29 journal papers, and 21 peer-reviewed international conference papers. He is a member of IEEE (USA), IAENG (Hong-Kong), Internet Society, Virginia (USA), IACSIT (Singapore), and IEI (India).
