Padmalaya Nayak is working as Professor in department of Computer Science Engineering at Gokaraju Rangaraju Institute of Engineering Technology, Hyderabad under Jawaharlal Technological University, Hyderabad, since 2009. She completed her doctoral degree from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India in 2010. She has 17 years of teaching and research experience in the area of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks. She has published more than 45 research papers in various International Journals and Conferences. She has also contributed three book chapters to her credit. She has visited many countries to present her research paper in many International Conferences. She has received many National/International Level awards for her academic contributions towards the education system. She is the Reviewer of many IEEE/SPRINGER/ELSEVIER Journals and Conferences. She has worked with many funding projects sponsored by AICTE and UGC. She is the member of IEEE, IETE, CSI, and IEANG professional bodies. She is also a member of the advisory committee and Technical Program Committee for several International Conferences. Niranjan Ray is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Engineering, at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. He received his PhD in CSE from National Institute of Technology Rourkela in 2014 and Masters from Utkal University Bhubaneswar in 2007. His area of interest includes Mobile Ad hoc Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things (IoT) and software defined network, fog and edge computing etc. He is the steering committee member of Odisha IT Society and publication chair of International Conference on Information Technology since 2014. He has published one book on sensor network and currently serving as Associate Editor of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. He is in the Technical Program Committee of many International Conference such as IEEE INIS, IEEE ICIIS, IEEE ICCE and many more. He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 12th Edition (2016) and Who's Who in World, 32nd Edition (2015). He is a member of IEEE. P. Ravichandran is a Pedagogical Expert who has to his credit two PhDs, one in Education and one in Information Technology. His first PhD research title was "Empowering the Teachers in using Webtools"and the second PhD was "Developing a Student Model for Intelligent Tutoring System". He has published several papers and journals and is a life member of AIAER (All India Association for Educational Research). Dr Ravichandran has taught classes for Educational Doctorate Degree students in research and quantitative research methods. He was also an External Examiner for PhD students from India (SRM University, Madras). He has published a book on Computer Based Training, which is used for the Diploma students in a Malaysian university. He has published 30 papers in international journals and conferences and authored two book chapters. Apart from the above academic achievements to his credit, he had taken several roles in the field of education as an author, curriculum designer, module writer, external examiner for PhD scholars and as a Keynote speaker. From the knowledge he gained in facilitating postgraduate students in Research Methodology courses, he worked as a research coordinator at various top universities across Malaysia, such as Taylor's University, University Science Malaysia and Open University Malaysia by receiving internal research grants. He had also served as a research consultant for Taylor's University, Malaysia in the field of MOOCs and had published many papers at international conferences. Not the least, Dr Ravichandran had handled research methodology course for University of West Scotland and University of Wolverhampton students, UK. During his tenure in handling research methodology classes for postgraduate students, he had supervised several Master level and PhD level theses. He has conducted many workshops and in-house training for faculty in research methodology and E-learning. He has also conducted e-learning workshops for professors from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and also is a trained Technology Enabled Learning trainer for Commonwealth of Learning (CoL), From 2019 onwards, he was served as Adjunct Lecturer of an American university, University of the People to teach its prestigious online Master degree course in Education.
