Chiranji Lal Chowdhary is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology & Engineering at VIT University, where he has been since 2010. He received a BE (CSE) from MBM Engineering College at Jodhpur in 2001, and MTech (CSE) from the M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology at Bangalore in 2008. He received his PhD in Information Technology and Engineering from the VIT University Vellore in 2017. From 2006 to 2010 he worked at M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology in Bangalore, eventually as a Lecturer. His research interests span both computer vision and image processing. Much of his work has been on images, mainly through the application of image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, biometric systems, deep learning, soft computing, and computational intelligence. As of 2020, Google Scholar reports over 270 citations to his work. He has given a few invited talks on medical image processing. Professor Chowdhary is editor/co-editor of three books and is the author of over 40 articles on computer science. He filed two patents deriving from his research. Dr. Thippa Reddy Gadekallu is currently working as Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering, VIT, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He obtained his BTech in CSE from Nagarjuna University, India; MTech in CSE from Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; and completed his PhD in VIT, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He has more than 14 years of experience in teaching. He has published more than 50 international/national publications. Currently, his areas of research include Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Deep Neural Networks, Blockchain, Computer Vision. He filed one patents deriving from his research. Dr. B. D. Parameshachari is currently working as a Professor and Head in the Department of Telecommunication Engineering at GSSS Institute of Engineering & Technology for Women, Mysuru, affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, Karnataka, India. Under his leadership, the Dept. of TCE, GSSSIETW has Achieved NBA (Tier-II) Accreditation Twice. He completed his BE degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Kalpatharu Institute of Technology, Tiptur and MTech degree in Digital Communication Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore. and completed his PhD in ECE from Jain University, Bangalore. He has a total 17+ years of teaching and research experience, and he has worked in various positions and at places like Karnataka, Kerala, and Mauritius (abroad). He is recognized as a Research Guide at VTU, Belagavi, and currently, five research scholars were pursuing PhD degrees under his supervision. Under his leadership, his affiliated department was successfully approved by various accreditation bodies and received certification. He was instrumental in establishing collaboration between GSSSIETW and Multimedia University, Malaysia and also with University of Sannio, Italy.
