Dr J P Patra is a Professor at Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Professional Management and Technology, Raipur, under Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, Bhilai, India. He has more than 17 years of experience in research, teaching in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Analysis and Design of Algorithms, Cryptography, and Network Security. He was acclaimed for being the author of books such as Analysis and Design of Algorithms and Performance Improvement of a Dynamic System Using Soft Computing Approaches, and has published more than 51 papers in SCOPUS, Web of Science, and UGC-CARE listed journals. He has published and granted Indian/Australian patents. He has contributed to book chapters, published by Elsevier, Springer, and IGI Global. He is associated with AICTE-IDEA LAB, IIT Bombay, and IIT Kharagpur as a coordinator. He is on the editorial board and reviewer board of four leading international journals. In addition, he is on the Technical Committee Board for several international conferences. He is having a Life Membership of professional bodies such as CSI, ISTE, and QCFI, and he has also served the post of Chairman of the Raipur Chapter for the Computer Society of India, which is India's largest professional body for computer professionals. He has served in various positions in different engineering colleges as Associate Professor and Head. Currently, he is working with SSIPMT, Raipur, as Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Mr Gurudatta Verma is Assistant Professor at Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Professional Management and Technology, Raipur, under Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, Bhilai, India. He has more than 12 years of experience in research, teaching in the areas of parallel processing and machine learning. He has published more than 15 papers in SCOPUS, Web of Science, and UGC-CARE listed journals. He has published and granted Indian/Australian patents. He has contributed to book chapters published by Elsevier, Springer, and IGI Global.
