Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra has received M.Tech Degree in Computer Science from DAVV, Indore in 1994 and PhD degree in Computer Engineering in 2008. Presently, he is working as a Professor (CSE) and Director, Microsoft Innovation Centre at Shri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore, MP, India. He is also a visiting faculty at IIT-Indore, MP, India. He has 24 years of teaching and 10 years of research experience. He has completed his PhD under the guidance of Late Dr. M. Chandwani on "Secure Multi-Party Computation for Preserving Privacy". He has published more than 90 papers in refereed international/national journals and conferences including IEEE, ACM conferences. He has organized many conferences like WOCN, CONSEG and CSIBIG in the capacity of conference General Chair and editor of conference proceeding. His publications are listed in DBLP, Citeseer-x, Elsevier and Scopus. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and held many positions like Chairman, IEEE MP-Subsection (2011-2012),and Chairman IEEE Computer Society Bombay Chapter (2009-2010). Dr. Mishra has also served the largest technical and profession association of India, the Computer Society of India (CSI) by holding positions as Chairman, CSI Indore Chapter, State Student Coordinator- Region III MP, Member-Student Research Board, Core Member-CSI IT Excellence Award Committee. He has been recently elected as Chairman CSI Division IV Communication at National Level (2014-2016). Dr. Mishra has delivered his tutorials in IEEE International conferences in India as well as abroad. He is also the programme committee member, and reviewer of several international conferences. He visited and delivered his invited talk in Taiwan, Bangladesh, Singapore, Nepal, USA, UK and France. He has authored a book on "Database Management Systems". He had been Chief Editor of Journal of Technology and Engineering Sciences. He has been also serving as member of Editorial Board of many national and international refereed journals. He has been a consultant to industries and government organizations like sales tax and labour department of government of Madhya Pradesh, India. Recently he has been awarded with "Paper Presenter at International Level" by Computer Society of India. Currently, he is Chairman of Division IV Computer Society of India and Chairman of ACM Chapter covering Rajasthan and MP State Dr. Ahmad Taher Azar has received the M.Sc. degree (2006) in System Dynamics and PhD degree (2009) in Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Systems from Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University (Egypt). He is currently serving as Assistant Professor in Faculty of Computers and Information, Benha University, Egypt. Dr. Azar is associate editor of IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems. Dr. Ahmad Azar has worked in the areas of Control Theory & Applications, Process Control, Chaos Control and Synchronization, Nonlinear control, Computational Intelligence and has authored/coauthored over 170 research publications in peer-reviewed reputed journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He is an editor of many books in the field of Fuzzy logic systems, modeling techniques, control systems, computational intelligence, Chaos modeling and Machine learning. Dr. Ahmad Azar is closely associated with several international journals as a reviewer. He serves as international programme committee member in many international and peer-reviewed conferences. Dr Ahmad Azar is also a senior member in IEEE, Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Egypt Chapter and Vice-chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Interdisciplinary Emergent Technologies Task Force. Also, he is the Vice-president (North) of System dynamics Africa Regional Chapter and an Academic Member of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence. Mr. Amit Joshi is a young entrepreneur and researcher who has completed his graduation (B.Tech ) in Information Technology and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering and pursuing his research in the areas of Cloud Computing and Cryptography. He has an experience of around 6 years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations of Udaipur and Ahmedabad. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Technology at Sabar Institute in Gujarat. He is an active member of ACM, CSI, AMIE, IACSIT-Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA and many other professional societies. He is an Honorary Secretary of CSI Udaipur Chapter and Secretary for ACM Udaipur Chapter. He has presented and published more than 30 papers in national and international journals and conferences of IEEE and ACM. He has also edited three books on diversified subjects including Advances in Open Source Mobile Technologies, ICT for Integrated Rural Development and ICT for Competitive Strategies. He has organized more than 15 national and international conferences and workshops including International Conference ICTCS - 2014 at Udaipur through ACM - ICPS. For his contribution towards the society, he has been given Appreciation Award by The Institution of Engineers (India), ULC, on the celebration of Engineers, 15 September 2014 and by SIG-WNs Computer Society of India on the Occasion of ACCE - 2012 on 11 February 2012.
