Prof. Kar (PhD) is Associate Professor of the Information Systems area in DMS, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has extensive experience in teaching, training, consultancy and research. He has published over 120 high impact articles, 6 books and has over a thousand citations for his research. He is member in multiple Advisory Committees of Central Government Ministries and Universities. Before joining IIT Delhi, he has earlier taught in IIM Rohtak as Assistant Professor(v). Prior to joining academics, he has worked in IBM Research Lab and Cognizant Business Consulting. He has provided research driven advisory services to leading MNCs and Government Departments / Ministries in India and globally through funded projects and consultancies of around 5 Crores INR. He has received multiple awards and recognitions from reputed organizations like Elsevier, IFIP, I3E, IIT Delhi, IIM Rohtak, PMI, AIMS, TCS, Jadavpur University, etc.

Dr. Maheshkumar H. Kolekar is working as Associate Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2007. During 2008 to 2009, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. During May to July 2017, he worked as DAAD fellow in Technical University Berlin where he worked in the research area EEG signal analysis using machine learning. His research interests are in the area of Digital Signal, Image and Video Processing, Video surveillance, Biomedical Signal Processing, Deep Learning. Recently, he has authored a book titled as “Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems: An Algorithmic Approach”, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2018. He has successfully completed R&D Project Sponsored by Principal Scientific Advisor to Govt of India on abnormal human activity recognition.

Dr. Sudeep Tanwar is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He is visiting Professor in Jan Wyzykowski University in Polkowice, Poland and University of Pitesti in Pitesti, Romania. He received B.Tech in 2002 from Kurukshetra University, India, M.Tech (Honor’s) in 2009 from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India and Ph.D. in 2016 with specialization in Wireless Sensor Network. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 technical research papers published in leading journals and conferences from the IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, etc. Some of his research findings are published in top cited journals such as IEEE Transactions on TVT, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Applied Soft Computing, Journal of Network and Computer Application, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, International Journal of Communication System, Telecommunication System, Computer and Electrical Engineering and IEEE Systems Journal. He has also published six edited/authored books with International/National Publishers like IET, Springer. He has guided many students leading to M.E./M.Tech and guiding students leading to Ph.D. He is Associate Editor of IJCS, Wiley and Security and Privacy Journal, Wiley. His current interest includes Wireless Sensor Networks, Fog Computing, Smart Grid, IoT, and Blockchain Technology. He was invited as Guest Editors/Editorial Board Members of many International Journals, invited for keynote Speaker in many International Conferences held in Asia and invited as Program Chair, Publications Chair, Publicity Chair, and Session Chair in many International Conferences held in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has been awarded best research paper awards from IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, IEEE ICC 2019, and Springer ICRIC-2019.