Dr. Sudeep Tanwar is a Professor in the Computer Engineering Department at the Institute of Technology of Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India. He received his Ph.D. in 2016 from the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Mewar University, India, with a specialization in Wireless Sensor Networks. His current interests include routing issues in WSN, integration of sensors in the cloud, computational aspects of smart grids, and Blockchain Technology. He has authored or co-authored more than 150+ technical research papers published in leading Peer-reviewed International journals and International Conferences from the IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, John Wiley and has authored five books: He is recipient of the Best Research Paper awards from IEEE GLOBECOM-2018 and Springer ICRIC-2019. He is a TPC member and reviewer of many international conferences across the globe. He is an associate editor of the Security and Privacy Journal, and is a member of the IAENG, ISTE, and CSTA. He has Google scholar citations 8405, H-index 52 and i-10 Index 140.Dr. Pradeep Kumar Singh is currently working as an Associate Professor Computer Science and Engineering, Central University of Jammu, J&K, India. He is Associate Editor of the IJISMD, [IJISMD is indexed by Scopus & Web of Science], IJAEC, IGI Global USA, SPY, Wiley & IJISC from Romania. He is recently appointed as a Section Editor, Discover IoT, Springer Journal. He has published nearly 200 research papers. He has received three sponsored research projects grant worth Rs 25 Lakhs. He has edited a total 16 books from Springer and Elsevier and also edited several special issues for SCI and SCIE Journals from Elsevier and IGI Global. He has Google scholar citations 3250, H-index 27 and i-10 Index 62.Dr. Maria Ganzha is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science. She has an MS and a PhD degrees in Mathematics from the Moscow State University, Russia, and a Doctor of Sciencedegree (in Computer Science) from the Polish Academy of Sciences. Maria has published more than 200 research papers, is on editorial boards of 6 journals and a book series, and was invited to program committees of more than 150 conferences. She is also the Principal Investigator, of the SRIPAS team, in the INTER-IoT project. Here, her team is responsible for use of semantic technologies in the context of interoperability of IoT platforms. She has 1594 google citations, h-index 19 and i-10 index 58 in her account. Her area of interest includes computational intelligence, distributed systems, agent based computing and semantic data processing.Dr. Gregory Epiphaniou currently holds a position as an Associate Professor of security engineering at the University of Warwick. His role involves bid support, applied research and publications. Part of his current research activities is formalised around a research group in wireless communications with the main focus on crypto-key generation, exploiting the time-domain physical attributes of V-V channels. He led and contributed to several research projects funded by EPSRC, IUK and local authorities totalling over £8M. He is also the main inventor of a patented-pending technology on a distributed ledger system (GB2576160A/US200042497A1). He was previously holding a position as a Reader in Cybersecurity and acted as deputy director of the Wolverhampton Cybersecurity Research Institute (WCRI). He has taught in many universities both nationally and internationally in a variety of areas related to proactive network defence with over 120 international publications in journals and conference proceedings and author in several books and chapters. He holds several industry certifications in Information Security and worked with several government agencies, including the UK MoD, in Cybersecurity related projects. He currently holds a subject matter expert panel position in the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments. He acts as a technical committee member for several scientific conferences in Information and network security. He serves as a key member in the development of WS5 for the formation of the UK Cybersecurity Council.
