Dr. Pao-Ann Hsiung got his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1996. He was the Director-General of the Smart Technology Office at the Chiayi City Government, Taiwan. He helped the city to obtain huge funds of around 300M NT$. As a result, Chiayi City was awarded the Top7 Smart City in the World by ICF Forum. He was also the Dean of International Affairs and the CS Department Chair at the National Chung Cheng University, where currently he is a full professor and Director of the Smart Living Technology Research Center. He has published more than 280 papers in top journals and international conferences. His main research interests include smart system design, blockchain, IoT design, distributed security, and smart grid. He is an IET Fellow and has received several international and national accolades such as Excellent Research Awards, etc.
Dr. Rudra Sankar Dhar obtained his B.E. in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, from CVRCE, Orissa, M.Phil in Microelectronics Engineering from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and earned his Ph.D. degree in field of Nanotechnology Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the area of Nanomaterials technology and Smart Electronics for development of green technology nanodevices at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has also served and worked as teacher and researcher for more than 15 years at some of the reputed Industry and Institutes globally such as Chipworks Inc. Canada, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Thapar University, India among few others in the area of nano-microelectronic and optoelectronic technology and devices based on semiconductor, molecular and smart materials for emerging IOT, networking and circuitry applications. Presently, he is working in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at NIT Mizoram since December 2015. He has solely supervised 1 PhD while 10 others are pursuing and many M.Tech students to completion and executed a few high value sponsored projects in India and abroad. He is the author of one book, and many Scopus indexed international book chapters while he has published more than 60 articles in international peer-reviewed high impact journals and conferences world-wide. He is also a reviewer and editor of many Scopus indexed journals and conferences. His research interests include semiconductor device physics, nanomaterials technology, microelectronic devices, IOT, networking and applications.