Dr. Yashwant Singh is Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at the Central University of Jammu where he has been a faculty member since 2017. Prior to this, he was at the Jaypee University of Information Technology for 10 Years. He completed his Ph.D. from Himachal Pradesh University Shimla, his post-graduate study from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh, and his undergraduate studies from SLIET Longowal. His research interests lie in the area of Internet of Things, Vulnerability Assessment of IoT and Embedded Devices, Wireless Sensor Networks, Secure and Energy Efficient Routing, ICS/SCADA Cyber Security, ranging from theory to design to implementation. He has collaborated actively with researchers in several other disciplines of computer science, particularly Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering. He has served on Thirty International Conference and Workshop Program Committees and served as the General Chair for PDGC-2014, ICRIC-2018, ICRIC-2019, ICRIC-2020, and ICRIC-2021.Dr. Pradeep Kumar Singh is currently working as Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Central University of Jammu, J&K, India. He is Senior Member of Computer Society of India (CSI), IEEE, ACM and Life Member. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD), Indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. He is also Associate Editor of International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC), IGI Global USA, Security and Privacy, Wiley. He has received three sponsored research projects grant from Govt. of India and Govt. of HP worth Rs 25 Lakhs. He has edited a total 24 books from Springer and Elsevier. He has Google Scholar citations 3100, H-index 30 and i-10 Index 70. His recently published book titled Handbook of Wireless Sensor Networks: Issues and Challenges in Current Scenario’s from Springer has reached more than 27000 downloads in last few months.Dr. Paulo J. Sequeira Gonçalves is Professor of Electrotechnical and Industrial Engineering with the School of Technology in the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal. He is also Senior Researcher at IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was trained in Mechanical Engineering, achieving the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, 1998 and 2005, respectively. He served as Chair of the IEEE-CIS (computational Intelligence) Portuguese chapter, was officer of the IEEE RAS working group who developed the first RAS standard and one of the first ontology-based IEEE standards. He received several scientific awards both national and international. He organized and chaired several international conferences, and edited its proceedings. He received funding for his research projects, in Principal Investigator and/or Researcher, from the EU, IEEE, private companies and the Portuguese National Research Funding Agency.Dr. Arpan Kumar Kar is Professor of the Information Systems area in DMS, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has extensive experience in teaching, training, consultancy, and research. He has published over 120 high impact articles, 6 books and has over a thousand citations for his research. He is Member in multiple Advisory Committees of Central Government Ministries and Universities. Before joining IIT Delhi, he has earlier taught in IIM Rohtak as Assistant Professor(v). Prior to joining academics, he has worked in IBM Research Lab and Cognizant Business Consulting. He has provided research driven advisory services to leading MNCs and Government Departments/Ministries in India and globally through funded projects and consultancies of around 5 Crores INR. He has received multiple awards and recognitions from reputed organizations like Elsevier, IFIP, I3E, IIT Delhi, IIM Rohtak, PMI, AIMS, TCS, Jadavpur University, etc.
