Dr. Parikshit N. Mahalle obtained B.E degree in Computer Engineering from Amravati University, M.E. degree from SPPU, Pune and Ph.D in specialization in Wireless Communication from Aalborg University, Denmark. He was Post Doc Researcher at CMI, Aalborg University, Copenhagen. Currently working as Professor and Head in the Department of Computer Engineering at Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, and recognized as Ph. D guide of SSPU Pune. He has 20 years of teaching and research experience. He is on the Research and Recognition Committee at several universities. He is a senior member IEEE, ACM, Life member CSI and ISTE. He is reviewer, editor of ACM, Springer, Elsevier Journals and Member-Editorial Review Board for IGI Global. He has published 150+ publications with 1242 citations and H index 14. He edited 5 and authored 13 books and 7 patents to his credit. He has published a book on Data Analytics for COVID-19 Outbreak. He has delivered 100+ lectures at national and international level on IoT, Big Data and Digitization. He had worked as BOS-Chairman for Information Technology and working as Member-BOS Computer Engineering SPPU and several other institutions also. He received "Best Faculty Award" by Sinhgad Institutes and Cognizant Technologies Solutions. Dr. Gitanjali R. Shinde has overall 11 years of experience, presently working as SPPU approved Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune - 41 till date. She has done Ph.D. in Wireless Communication from CMI, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark, on Research Problem Statement "Cluster Framework for Internet of People, Things and Services" - Ph.D. awarded on 8th May 2018. She obtained M.E. (Computer Engineering) degree from the University of Pune, Pune, in 2012, and B.E. (Computer Engineering) degree from the University of Pune, Pune, in 2006. She has received research funding for project "lightweight group authentication for IoT" by SPPU, Pune. She has presented research article in World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF) meeting, Beijing, China. She has published 50+ papers in national and international conferences and journals. She is author of 5 books and also Editor of book "The Internet of Everything: Advances, Challenges and application", De Gruyter Press. Dr. Nilanjan Dey is an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Technology at Techno India College of Technology, Kolkata, India. He is a visiting fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He was an honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He was awarded his PhD. from Jadavpur Univeristy in 2015. He has authored/edited more than 70 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press and Springer, and published more than 300 papers. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global, Associated Editor of IEEE Access and International Journal of Information Technology, Springer. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing, Springer, Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, Elsevier, Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal processing and data analysis, CRC. His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine learning, Computer Aided Diagnosis, Data Mining etc. He is the Indian Ambassador of International Federation for Information Processing - Young ICT Group and Senior member of IEEE. Prof. (Dr.). Aboul Ella Hassanien is Founder and Head of the Egyptian Scientific Research Group (SRGE) and Professor of Information Technology at the Faculty of Computer and Information, Cairo University. Professor Hassanien is ex-dean of the Faculty of Computers and Information, Beni Suef University. Professor Hassanienis a collaborative researcher member of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba. He also holds the Chair of Computer Science and Information Technology at the Egyptian Syndicate of Scientific Professions (ESSP). Dr. Hassanien is Founder and Head of Africa Scholars Association in Information and Communication Technology. Professor Hassanien has more than 650 scientific research papers published in prestigious international journals and conferences and over 40 books covering such diverse topics as data mining, medical images, big data analysis, virtual reality, intelligent systems, social networks and smart environment. His other research areas include computational intelligence, medical image analysis, security, animal identification and multimedia data mining.
