Prof. Bibudhendu Pati is Head in the Department of Computer Science, Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, India (Only Govt. Women’s University in the state of Odisha, India). He received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He has around 22 years of experience in teaching and research. His areas of research interests include wireless communication, cloud computing, big data, Internet of things, and advanced network technologies. He has got several papers published in reputed journals, conference proceedings, and books of international repute. He was General Chair of ICACIE 2016, IEEE ANTS 2017, ICACIE 2018, and ICACIE 2019. He is the life member of Indian Society for Technical Education, Computer Society of India, and a senior member of IEEE.
Prof. U Rajendra Acharya is a senior faculty member at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. He is also (i) Adjunct Professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, (ii) Adjunct Faculty at Singapore Institute of Technology, University of Glasgow, Singapore, and (iii) Associate Faculty at Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology Karnataka (Surathkal, India) and D.Eng. from Chiba University (Japan). He has published more than 630 papers, in refereed international SCI-IF journals (345), international conference proceedings (42), books (17) with 26,681 citations in Google Scholar (with h-index of 76), and ResearchGate RG Score of 47.76. Presently, he is Editor of Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, BME Online Journal, International Journal of Neural Systems etc. His major academic interests are in biomedical signal and imaging processing, data mining, and biophysics for better healthcare systems. He is ranked in the top 1% of the Highly Cited Researchers (2016 and 2017) in Computer Science according to the Essential Science Indicators of Thomson.