Khalid Saeed received B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1976 from Baghdad University, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Wroclaw University of Technology, in Poland in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He received his D.Sc. degree (Habilitation) in Computer Science from Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 2007. He is a Professor of Computer Science at AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland. He has authored more than 190 publications including 23 edited books, Journals and Conference Proceedings, 8 text and reference books. He supervised more than 110 M.Sc. and 12 Ph.D. theses. His areas of interest are Biometrics, Image Analysis and Processing and Computer Information Systems. He gave 39 invited lectures and keynotes in different universities in Europe, China, India, South Korea and Japan. The talks were on Biometric Image Processing and Analysis. He received about 16 academic awards. Khalid Saeed is a member of the editorial boards of over 15 international journals and conferences. He is an IEEE Senior Member and has been selected as IEEE Distinguished Speaker for 2011-2013 and 2014-2016. Khalid Saeed is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Biometrics with Inderscience Publishers. Nabendu Chaki is a Professor in the Department Computer Science & Engineering, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Dr. Chaki did his first graduation in Physics from the legendary Presidency College in Kolkata and then in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Calcutta. He completed Ph.D. in 2000 from Jadavpur University, India. He is sharing two US patents and one patent in Japan with his students. Prof. Chaki is quite active in developing international standards for Software Engineering. He represents the country in the Global Directory (GD) for ISO-IEC. Besides editing more than 20 books in different Springer series including LNCS, Dr. Chaki has authored 5 text and research books and about 130 peer-reviewed research papers in Journals and International conferences. His areas of research interests include distributed computing, image processing and software engineering. Dr. Chaki has served as a Research Assistant Professor in the Ph.D. program in Software Engineering in U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. He is having strong and active collaborations in US, Europe, Australia and other institutes and industries in India. He is a visiting faculty member for many Universities in India and abroad. Dr. Chaki has been the Knowledge Area Editor in Mathematical Foundation for the SWEBOK project of the IEEE Computer Society. Besides being in the editorial board for several International Journals, he has also served in the committees of more than 50 international conferences. Prof. Chaki is the founder Chair of ACM Professional Chapter in Kolkata. Bibudhendu Pati is Associate Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at CV Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Dr. Pati has total 19 Years of Experience in Teaching, Research, and Industry. His interest areas include Wireless Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, and Network Virtualization. He completed his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur in 2014, MBA from Punjab Technological University in 2010 and M.E. from NITTTR, Chandigarh in 2008. He is a Life Member of Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), Member of IEEE, ACM, CSI and Computer Science & Engineering Research Group, IIT Kharagpur. He has got several papers published in journals, conference proceedings and books. Sambit Bakshi is Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India. He completed his M.Tech. and Ph.D. from NIT Rourkela in 2011 and 2014 respectively. His research interest areas are Biometric Security and Visual Surveillance. He has several journal publications, book chapters, 2 authored books and 6 edited volumes to his credit. He has been teaching subjects like biometric security, statistical analysis, linear algebra and statistical analysis laboratory, digital image processing, etc. He has also been involved in many professional and editorial activities. Durga Prasad Mohapatra received his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India in 1996, where he is presently serving as Associate Professor. His research interests include Software Engineering, Real-Time Systems, Discrete Mathematics, and Distributed Computing. He has published over thirty research papers in these fields in various International Journals and Conferences. He has received several project grants from DST and UGC, Govt. of India. He has received the Young Scientist Award for the year 2006 by Orissa Bigyan Academy. He has also received the Prof. K. Arumugam National Award and the Maharashtra State National Award for outstanding research work in Software Engineering for the years 2009 and 2010, respectively, from the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), New Delhi. He is going to receive the Bharat Sikshya Ratan Award for significant contribution in academics awarded by the Global Society for Health and Educational Growth, Delhi.
