Being M.Sc. in Physics from Jadavpur University in 1986, M.Tech. in Computer Science from University of Calcutta, Prof. J.K. Mandal was awarded PhD. in Computer Science & Engineering by Jadavpur University in 2000. Presently, he is working as Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and former Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Management, Kalyani University, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal for two consecutive terms. He started his career as lecturer at NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh in Sept., 1988. He has teaching and research experience of 25 years. His areas of research include coding theory, data and network security, remote sensing and GIS based applications, data compression, error correction, visual cryptography, steganography, security in MANET, wireless networks and unify computing. He has produced 9 PhD. degrees, one submitted (2013) and 8 are ongoing. He has supervised 3 M. Phil and 26 M. Tech. He is life member of Computer Society of India since 1992, CRSI since 2009, ACM since 2012 IEEE since 2013 and Fellow member of IETE since 2012, Executive member of CSI Kolkata Chapter. He has chaired 17 sessions in various International Conferences and delivered 20 expert/invited lectures. He is reviewer of various International Journals and Conferences. He has over 284 articles and 5 books published to his credit. Dr. Suresh Chandra Satapathy is currently working as Professor and Head, Dept. of CSE at Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences (ANITS), Andhra Pradesh, India. He obtained his Ph. D. in Computer Science and Engineering from JNTU Hyderabad and M. Tech in CSE from NIT, Rourkela, Odisha, India. He has 26 years of teaching experience. His research interests are data mining, machine intelligence and swarm intelligence. He has acted as program chair of many international conferences and edited 6 volumes of proceedings from Springer LNCS and AISC series. He is currently guiding 8 scholars for PhDs. Dr. Satapathy is also a Sr. Member IEEE. Dr. Manas Kumar Sanyal obtained his M.Tech. in Computer Science from Calcutta University in 1989. He worked in the Industries for about four years and joined as Lecture at BCKV in the year 1994 and obtained his PhD. in the year 2003. Presently he is working as Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Management in University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal. His current research interests include Big Data, e-governance, e-procurement data warehousing and data mining. In addition to presenting his work at numerous international conferences, Dr. Sanyal has also organized and chaired several international and national conferences. He has contributed over 100 research papers in various international journals and proceedings of international conferences. Dr. Partha Pratim Sarkar obtained his PhD. in Engineering from Jadavpur University in the year 2002. He obtained his M.E. from Jadavpur University in 1994 and B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Bengal Engineering College in 1991. He is presently working as Senior Scientific Officer (professor rank) at D.E.T.S, University of Kalyani, India. His areas of research include microstrip antenna, microstrip filter, frequency selective surfaces and artificial neural network. He has contributed over 210 research articles in various journals and conferences of international repute. He is a life fellow of IETE, and fellow of IE (India). Dr. Anirban Mukhopadhyay is an Associate Professor and former Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. He did his B.E. from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, in 2002 and M.E. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2004, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2009. Dr. Mukhopadhyay is the recipient of the University Gold Medal and Amitava Dey Memorial Gold Medal from Jadavpur Universityin 2004. He also received Erasmus Mundus fellowship in 2009 to carry out post-doctoral research at University of Heidelberg and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany during 2009-10. Dr. Mukhopadhyay also visited I3S laboratory, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Nice, France in 2011 as a Visiting Professor, and University of Goettingen, Germany, as a Visiting Scientist with DAAD scholarship in 2013. He has received Institution of Engineers, India (IEI) Young Engineers Award (2013-14) and Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award (2014). He has co-authored one book and more than 100 research papers in various International Journals and Conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE, USA, and member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA. His research interests include soft and evolutionary computing, data mining, multiobjective optimization, pattern recognition, bioinformatics, and optical networks.
