Short Biography

Prof. Prasanta K. Jana received M. Tech. degree in Computer Science from University of Calcutta in 1988 and Ph. D. in 2000 under the joint supervision of Indian Statistical Institute and Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is a former Professor (HAG) and former Emeritus Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, India. He has contributed 219 research publications in his credit and co-authored six books, including two published by CRC Press, four book chapters and three edited volumes. He has also produced 22 Ph. Ds. As a recognition of his outstanding research contributions, he has been awarded Senior Member of IEEE in 2009. He is the recipient of Canara Bank Research Publication Award in the year 2015 and 2017. He is also among the World ranking of top 2% (all fields) Indian scientists in Artificial Intelligence surveyed by Stanford University, USA in four consecutive years, i.e., 2020-2024. His current research interest includes Cloud Computing, Fog/edge Computing and Machine Learning with a special interest on Federated Learning.  He is an Associate editor of International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley. He has served as referees in many reputed international journals. Prof. Jana has acted as the General Chair of the International Conferences ICADCML-2022, RAIT-2018 and RAIT-2012, Co-chair of national conference RAIT-2009 and Convener of the workshop WPDC-2008. He has also served as the member of Advisory Committee and Programme Committee of several international conferences. He has made academic visit to several foreign universities including University of Aizu, Japan, Imperial college of London, UK, University of Macau, Macau and Curtin University, Malaysia. He has also made visit to Las Vegas, USA and Hong Kong for academic purpose.