Dr. Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences (ANITS), Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science Engineering from JNTUH, Hyderabad and Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha. He has more than 27 years of teaching and research experience. His research interest includes machine learning, data mining, swarm intelligence studies and their applications to engineering. He has more than 98 publications to his credit in various reputed international journals and conference proceedings. He has edited many volumes of Springer AISC and LNCS in past and he is also the editorial board member in reputed international journals. He is a senior member of IEEE and Life Member of Computer Society of India. Currently, he is the National Chairman of Division-V (Education and Research) of Computer Society of India.Dr. V. Kamakshi Prasad is a Professor and Head of Computer Science and Engineering Department at JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad. He completed his PhD in speech recognition from IIT Madras, India. He did his M.Tech. from Andhra University and B.Tech. from K.L. College of Engineering. He has completed over 12 years in JNTU on various positions. He has 21 years of teaching and 11 years of research experience. Dr. Prasad has been teaching subjects like speech processing, pattern recognition, computer networks, digital image processing, artificial neural, artificial intelligence and expert systems, computer graphics, object oriented analysis and design through UML, and soft computing. He has supervised 12 PhD and 2 MS students. His research areas are speech recognition and processing, image processing, neural networks, data mining and ad-hoc networks. He has authored two books published by Lambert AcademicPublishing and over 50 papers in national and international level journals.Dr. B. Padmaja Rani is a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department at JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad. Her interest area is information retrieval embedded systems. She has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and conferences in the areas of agile modeling, web services and mining, etc. She was the former Head of Department of CSE, JNTUH. She is a professional member of CSI.Dr. Siba K. Udgata is a Professor of School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India. He is presently heading Centre for Modeling, Simulation and Design (CMSD), a high performance computing facility at University of Hyderabad. He has got his Master’s followed by PhD in Computer Science (mobile computing and wireless communication). His main research interests are wireless communication, mobile computing, wireless sensor networks and intelligent algorithms. He was a United Nations Fellow and worked in the United Nations University/International Institute for Software Technology (UNU/IIST), Macau as research fellow in the year 2001. Dr. Udgata is working as a principal investigator in many Government of India funded research projects mainly for development of wireless sensor network applications and application of swarm intelligence techniques. He has published extensively in refereed international journals and conferences in India as well as abroad. He was also in the editorial board of many Springer LNCS/LNAI and Springer AISC Proceedings. Dr. K. Srujan Raju is the Professor and Head, Department of CSE, CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad, India. Prof. Raju earned his PhD in the field of network security and his current research includes computer networks, information security, data mining, image processing, intrusion detection and cognitive radio networks. He has published several papers in refereed international conferences and peer reviewed journals and also he was in the editorial board of CSI 2014 Springer AISC series; 337 and 338 volumes. In addition to this, he has served as reviewer for many indexed journals. Prof. Raju is also awarded with Significant Contributor, Active Member Awards by Computer Society of India (CSI) and currently he is the Honorary Secretary of CSI Hyderabad Chapter.
