Professor T.V.Vijay Kumar is a well known academician and researcher in the field of computer science. He is currently serving as the Dean, School of Computer & Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
He has obtained his Ph.D from JNU, New Delhi. His research areas are Databases, Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Nature Inspired Algorithms, Disaster Management and Big Data Analytics.
He has been serving in JNU since 2004. He has around 30 publications in reputed international journals and conferences. He has guided 6 Ph.D scholars.
He has been honored with the designation of ACM senior member by Association of Computing Machinery in the year 2012 and IEEE Senior Member by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2017
He has received best paper awards for four of his research articles in reputed international conferences.
Dr. Chitra Balakrishna, is an academic, author, futuristic technology and open source enthusiast with over 19 years of experience spanning across academia and industry in the areas of Cyber Security, Data Networking, Mobile Communications, Technologies and Applications.
She is currently the Program Leader for Cyber Security at Open University. She has previously held position of program leader for Networking, Security and Forensics at Edge Hill University and Head of Networks and Services with Centre of Excellence for Mobile Applications and Services. During her tenure as an academic member of staff at the University of South Wales, she set up an open source next-generation networking (NGN) lab in collaboration with industrial partners such as Orange and France Telecom. She is a founding member of a very successful IEEE conference on Next-Generation Applications, Technologies and services which is in its 11th edition and a chair for an IEEE sponsored workshop on Smart Cities for 5 years.
Her current research interests include aspects of security within the context of smart cities, eHealth and Internet of Things. She has a keen interest in the pedagogical aspects of cyber security, particularly in gamification of cyber security education.
Her Areas of Expertise are IoT Security and Healthcare, Smart Cities – Technologies and Applications, Internet of Things - Communication Systems, Architectures and Applications, Experimentation with Open source platforms and hardware.
In 2017, she secured a £80K grant from HEA for a project on gamification of cyber security education. She has been instrumental in acquiring research income of over £2 million as a co-investigator or principal investigator from funding sources such as ERDF, Innovate UK, HEA, EPSRC and British Council. She has over 40 academic publications to her credit in international journals and conference proceedings. In addition, she has authored a highly cited book on 'IP Multimedia Subsystem ' by John Wiley publications.
She is the Founder and Chairman of International Workshop on Technologies and Applications for Smart Cities, Founder and Chairman of IEEE-sponsored International Workshop on Next-Generation Networks: Open Platform and Services [NGNOPS], Member of Technical Program Committee of various International conferences.
She is the recipient Data Telecommunications Award, Funded by University of Salford, UK, 2003
Prof. Santhi Thilagam is senior academician and researcher in the field of computer science and she is serving in NIT Surathkal since 1994. She has got her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering and her areas of interest are Database Security, Data Management, Data Analysis and Distributed Computing.
She has successfully completed a DST-GOI sponsored R&D project worth 33.26 lakhs. She has also completed four MeitY sponsored R & D Project in total amounting to 3.45 Crores.
She has guided 7 Ph.D scholars.
She has around 80 commendable publications in reputed international journals and one patent to her credit.
She is the recipient of the Distinguished alumnus award from NITK, MS Ramanujan Award and BITES Best Ph,D, Thesis award and best paper awards in National and international conferences.