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Prof. Rodrigo da Rosa Righi is a professor at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), Brazil. He concluded his postdoctoral studies at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea, focusing on RFID and cloud computing. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. His research interests include performance analysis, process scheduling and migration, load balancing, and resource provisioning in cluster, grid, and cloud environments. In addition, he has expertise in mobile and embedded computing systems that employ Linux or WinCE operating systems. Further, he is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and a member of ACM.  

Navin Singh Rajput is an Associate Professor of Electronics Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - BHU, Varanasi, and holds a Ph.D. in Neural Processing Systems from the same university. His main area of interest concerns the applications of neural networks and artificial intelligence in communication and computational networks. He has recently established an R&D and Technology Extension Laboratory for Networked Communication and Computation (NCCL) at the IIT (BHU), which hosts institute-level IT services such as advanced proxies, academic automation servers, HPC clusters using Hadoop, and the Sun Grid Engine. His additional research interests include IoT, cyber security, cloud computing, smart cities, and machine learning.   

Hasnan Baber is an assistant professor of management at the Abu Dhabi School of Management. He got his Ph.D. in Management Studies from Woosong University in South Korea. During this program, he was named an "exemplary meritorious student." He is an expert in sustainability, entrepreneurship, fintech, and crowdfunding. Dr. Hasnan has two master's degrees: a Masters of Business Administration from the Central University of Kashmir and a Masters of Art in Public Administration from the Indra Gandhi National Open University, India. He holds a KPMG-certified Six Sigma green belt. He has also qualified for the UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) in Management for a lectureship. In addition, Dr. Hasnan authored a book on “Business Ethics and Corporate Governance,” and his research areas are crowdfunding, fintech, entrepreneurship, e-learning, digital literacy, and Islamic finance. 

Iftekhar Salam received the B.Eng. from Multimedia University, Malaysia, in 2008, the M.Sc. degree from Dongseo University, South Korea, in 2011, and the PhD degree from Queensland University of Technology, Australia, in 2018. From 2011 to 2018, he held academic and research positions at Korean, Malaysian, and Australian universities and research institutes. He has been an Associate Professor at Xiamen University Malaysia's Department of Information and Communication Technology since 2018. His main research interests include cryptography, cryptanalysis, authenticated encryption, stream ciphers, cryptographic protocols, blockchain, and privacy-preserving computation. 

Hasan Tinmaz is an assistant professor in the department of AI & Big Data, ECIS, at Woosong University, South Korea. His research interests include social media (in education, communication and business), Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, Educational Technology, Curriculum and Instruction Design, Social sciences statistics, technology management, psychological and sociological issues in technology, e-learning, m-learning, research methods (qualitative, quantitative, and mixed), Human-Computer Interaction, Usability Testing, Technology Planning, Industry 4.0, CyberSecurity and Big Data.  

Priyan Malarvizhi Kumar (Member, IEEE) received the Bachelor of Engineering degree from Anna University and the Master of Engineering and Ph.D. degrees from the Vellore Institute of Technology University. He is currently working at the Department of Information Science, University of North Texas, Tx, USA. Prior that, he was worked in the Department of Computer and Information Science, Gannon University, PA, USA, and as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science Engineering, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. Before that, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Middlesex University, London, U.K. His current research interests include big data analytics, the Internet of Things, and soft computing.