Nor Aida Mahiddin earned a BS in information technology at the National University of Malaysia, a master's in computer science with a major in distributed computing, and a PhD in computer and information sciences at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Informatics and Computing at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia, and is affiliated with the East Coast Environmental Research Institute (ESERI).
Dr. Mahiddin is the author of numerous papers published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. She is also an active member of professional organizations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Internet Society, and the Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC).
Her research interests span a diverse range of areas with a focus on disaster recovery planning and infrastructure. Additionally, she explores emergency communication frameworks and their optimization as well as ad hoc network design and traffic flow frameworks.
Nurul I. Sarkar is a Professor and the Director of the Networking and Security Research Centre at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. He is a keynote speaker, chair, and committee member for various national and international fora. Professor Sarkar has 30 years of teaching experience in universities at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has taught a range of subjects, including next-generation networking, computing technologies in society, Cisco networking, IoT, data communications, and wireless networks. He earned a PhD in electrical, computer, and software engineering (wireless networks) at the University of Auckland. Improving the Performance of Wireless LANs: A Practical Guide (Taylor & Francis, 2014) is his second book. His first book, Tools for Teaching Computer Networking and Hardware Concepts, was published by IGI Global in 2006 and has received commendation worldwide.
Professor Sarkar has published over 200 articles (16+ Q1 journals since 2018) in refereed international journal and conference proceedings, including IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on Education, Ad Hoc Networks, Computer Communications, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Computer Networks, and Sensors. He has spent periods of research leave in China, Japan, and Malaysia in recent years. He was a conference general Co-Chair for ITNAC'19 and CECNet'18 and TPC Co-Chair for ICOIN'24 and IEEE ICC14. He was the co-recipient of the 2017 Best Paper Award from the 31st ICOIN for a paper on mobility-aware network selection for V2I Communication over LTE-A networks. Professor Sarkar is a Member of ACM and a Senior Member of IEEE Communications and Vehicular Technology Societies and the Australasian Association for Engineering Education. His research interests include wireless network protocols, cognitive radio ad hoc networks, IoT, and fog computing.
