Dr. Bibudhendu Pati is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, India. He received his Ph.D. degree from IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Pati has 23 years of experience in teaching, research, and industry. His areas of research include wireless sensor networks, cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, and networks virtualization. He is Life Member of the Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), and Senior Member of IEEE, Member of ACM, and Life Member of Computer Society of India (CSI). He has published several papers in leading international journals, conference proceedings, and books. He is associated with organizing different reputed international conferences. Dr. Chhabi Rani Panigrahi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, India. Dr. Panigrahi has received her doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Her research interests include software testing and mobile cloud computing. She has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience, and has published several scholarly articles in reputed journals and conferences of international repute. Dr. Panigrahi is Author of a text book and a few edited books. She is Life Member of the Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE) and Member of IEEE and the Computer Society of India (CSI). Prof. Prasant Mohapatra is serving as Vice Chancellor for Research at University of California, Davis. He is also Professor in the Department of Computer Science and served as Dean and Vice-Provost of Graduate Studies during 2016-18. He was Department Chair of Computer Science during 2007-13. In the past, Dr. Mohapatra has also held Visiting Scientist positions at Intel Corporation, Panasonic Technologies, Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore, and National ICT Australia (NICTA). Dr. Mohapatra received his doctoral degree from Penn State University in 1993, and received an Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award in 2008. He is also the recipient of Distinguished Alumnus Award from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. Dr. Mohapatra received an Outstanding Research Faculty Award from the College of Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He received the HP Labs Innovation awards in 2011, 2012, and 2013. He is Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of AAAS. Dr. Mohapatra's research interests are in the areas of wireless networks, mobile communications, cybersecurity, and Internet protocols. He has published more than 350 papers in reputed conferences and journals on these topics. Dr. Mohapatra's research has been funded through grants from the National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, US Army Research Labs, Intel Corporation, Siemens, Panasonic Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Raytheon, and EMC Corporation. Prof. Kuan-Ching Li is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at the Providence University, Taiwan. He has been Vice-Dean for the Office of International and Cross-Strait Affairs (OIA) at the same university since 2014. Prof. Li is the recipient of awards from Nvidia, the Ministry of Education (MOE)/Taiwan and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)/Taiwan, and also guest professorships from various universities in China. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2001. His areas of research include networked and graphics processing unit (GPU) computing, parallel software design, and performance evaluation and benchmarking. He has edited 2 books: Cloud Computing and Digital Media and Big Data published by CRC Press. He is Fellow of the IET, Senior Member of the IEEE, and Member of TACC.
