Dr. Hari Vasudevan has his Master's degree in production engineering as well as a Postgraduate diploma in industrial engineering from VJTI (University of Mumbai) and Ph.D. from IIT Bombay. He has also done a 3-month full time certificate programme (ERP-BaaN) from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai under the University Synergy Programme of the BaaN Institute, Netherlands. His areas of interest include manufacturing engineering, manufacturing systems and strategy, market orientation of manufacturing firms and world-class manufacturing. He is an approved Ph.D. guide at the University of Mumbai and NMIMS (Deemed to be University) and has so far guided 7 Ph.D. students. He is the president of Indian Society of Manufacturing Engineers (ISME); Life member of ISTE, New Delhi; Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India); Fellow of ISME and a senior member of IEDRC. He has over 26 years of experience in teaching and 2 years of experience in industry. Presently he is working as the Principal of Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai. He has published over 115 papers in International and National conferences as well as journals and has to his credit a couple of textbooks and few book chapters in various publications. He has also received 3 awards, of which 2 are from National professional bodies and 1 from an International NGO. Dr. Antonis Michalas have received his Ph.D. in Network Security from Aalborg University, Denmark, and currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computing Science at the Tampere University of Technology, Faculty of Computing and Electrical Engineering. Prior to that, he was working as an Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity at the University of Westminster, London. Earlier, he was working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Security Lab at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science in Stockholm, Sweden. As a postdoctoral researcher at the SCE Labs,he was actively involved in national and European research projects. Dr. Antonis has published significant number of papers in the field related journals and conferences and has also participated as a speaker in various conferences and workshops. His research interest includes private and secure e-voting system, reputation systems, privacy in decentralized environments, cloud computing, trusted computing and privacy-preserving protocols in participatory sensing applications. Dr. Narendra Shekokar has received his Ph.D. in Engineering (Network Security) from NMIMS University, Mumbai, and he is working as a Professor and Head of Department of Computer Engineering at SVKM's Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai (Autonomous College affiliated to University of Mumbai). He was a member of Board of Studies at the University of Mumbai for more than 5 years, and he has also been a member of various committees at the University of Mumbai. His total teachingexperience is 22 years. He is Ph.D. guide for 6 research fellows and more than 25 students at postgraduate level. He has presented more than 50 papers at international & national conferences and has also published more than 20 research papers in renowned journals. He has received the Minor Research Grant twice from University of Mumbai for his research projects. He has delivered an expert talk and chaired a session at numerous events and conferences. Dr. Meera Narvekar has obtained her Ph.D. in 2016 from SNDT University, Mumbai, in the area of Mobile Computing. Her thesis work was on optimization of data delivery in mobile networks. She is currently the Head of Department of Information Technology at SVKM's Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai (Autonomous College affiliated to University of Mumbai). She is presently a member of Board of Studies at the University of Mumbai. She was nominated as a Senate member of the University of Mumbai in 2008. She has a total experience of 20 years in teaching. Dr. Meera Narvekar has published around 45 papers in various international and national journals and conferences. She currently is guiding projects with applications in agriculture, which has also received grant from University. She has delivered talks in various conferences and workshops. She is also in the reviewer list and has been session chair of many conferences.
