Dr. Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay currently is working as a Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering with the School of Engineering, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia. He is the Discipline Leader of the Mechatronics Engineering Programme. He is also the Director of International Engagement for the School of Engineering. His fields of interest include Sensors and Sensing Technology, Instrumentation, Wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things, Mechatronics and Robotics etc. He has authored/co-authored 9 books, over 400 papers in different international journals, conferences and book chapter. He has edited eighteen conference proceedings. He has also edited twenty four special issues of international journals as guest editor and thirty three books.

Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering

Director, International Engagement, School of Engineering

Discipline Leader, Mechatronics Engineering degree Programme

Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Sensors Council

FIEEE (USA), FIEE (UK), FIETE (India) and Topical Editor, IEEE Sensors Journal

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements,

Founding Chair, IEEE Sensors Council NSW Chapter.

Julian Cheng received a B. Eng. Degree (First Class) in electrical engineering from the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada in 1995, a M.Sc. (Eng.) degree in mathematics and engineering from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada in 1997, and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, in 2003. In July 2006, He joined the School of Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia (Okanagan campus) as an Assistant Professor. He is now a Full Professor in the same School. Previously, Dr. Cheng worked for Bell Northern Research (BNR) and Northern Telecom (later known as NORTEL Networks), and taught at both University of Alberta and Lakehead University. His current research interests include digital communications over wireless channels, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, spread spectrum communications, statistical signal processing for wireless applications, and optical wireless communications. Dr. Cheng co-chaired the 12th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT 2011), the 6th EAI International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNet 2016), and the 28th Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC 2016). In 2012, he chaired the 2012 Wireless Communications, which was held July 3-5, 2012 in Banff, Canada. Currently, he serves as an Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications. In the past, he severed as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Access. He also served as a Guest Editor for a special issue of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications on optical wireless communications. Dr. Cheng is also a Senior Member of IEEE. Dr. Cheng was also the founding chair of IEEE Okanagan Subsection. He is a registered Professional Engineer in British Columbia. Currently, he is serving as the President for the Canadian Society of Information Theory (CSIT) as well as the Secretary of Radio Communication Committee (RCC) of IEEE Communications Society.

Dr. Suraj Sharma is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at International Institute of Information Technology Bhubaneswar. Dr. Suraj Sharma has done MTech and PhD from NIT Rourkela and currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at IIIT Bhubaneswar since 2012. He is also associated with the startups such as: TechBootCamps, QualkiAcademy & AUUM Technologies and Government funded projects. He has published more than 60 research papers in the reputed International Journals and Conferences. He is the director of the IoT and Cloud Computing lab established in IIIT and currently supervising four Ph.D. scholars, two MTech. scholars and more than ten BTech. students in the research area of Internet of Things (IoT), Localization, Machine Learning/AI, Big Data, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Cloud and Edge Computing. He involved in several research communities including IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, CSI, IEI, ISRD etc. He served on the editorial boards of top-quality international journals, including Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications & Application, IEEE Consumer Electronic Magazine and so on. He also served as the Track Chair, Publicity Chair and Program Chair for many International Conferences and Symposiums. He is actively involved in several international journals for reviewing the research papers including IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, ACM, Wiley etc. Dr. Sharma given several invited talks, webinar and guest lectures on Research Methodology, IoT, Cloud & Edge Computing, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Bigdata, Artificial Intelligence & Machine learning and other subjects of Computer Science at different places like NIT Rourkela, SVNIT Surat, NIT Patna, JNTU Hyderabad, DOON University Dehradun, BITS Mesra, KIIT University Bhubaneswar, Utkal University Bhubaneswar, IIST Indore, IIIT Kurnool, Silicon Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, VNRVJIET Hyderabad, NMREC Hyderabad, Poornima University Jaipur, GIFT Bhubaneswar, GIET Bhubaneswar, Bhubaneswar Police Academy, Autonomous College Bhubaneswar, CSIT Durg, SSEC Bhilai, Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University and other Academic and Research Institutions.

Dr. Sudhir Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna, India. Dr. Sudhir Kumar received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He was associated with TCS innovation Lab, Kolkata, India as a Scientist in the broad area of sensor Data Analytics. His broad research interests include wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things (IoT), cyber-Physical systems, Molecular and MIMO communications, Applications of signal Processing and Machine Learning.

Dr. Sajal K. Das is currently working as Professor and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair, Dept of Computer Science, Missouri University of Science and technology, Rolla. Dr. Sajal K. Das received his PhD in Computer Science from University of Central Florida, Orlando, in 1988. He received his M.S in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, in 1984. He received his B.S in Computer Science and Engineering from Calcutta University, India, in 1983. His areas of interest includes Cyber-Physical Systems, Security and Privacy, Smart Environments (Smart city, Smart Grid, Smart Healthcare), IoTs, Wireless sensor Networks, Big Data Analytics, Parallel, Distributed, and Cloud Computing, Applied Graph Theory and Game Theory. Dr. Sajal Das is the Founding Editor-in- Chief of Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal.