Dr. Pavel Lafata obtained his M.Sc. from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU in Prague in 2007 and his Ph.D. from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the CTU in Prague in 2011. Since 2011, he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, CTU in Prague. Od roku 2011 pusobí jako odborný asistent na Katedre telekomunikacní techniky, Fakulty elektrotechnické, CVUT v Praze. His specialization includes fixed access networks and technologies, VDSL2/G.fast, transmission systems modeling, topology modeling, transmission media and topologies modeling, passive optical networks (PON), PON topology optimization, FTTx, VHDL, and FPGA. Since 2011, he has been Supervisor of more than 20 bachelor and diploma thesis and student projects, since 2014 he has been Supervisor of 3 Ph.D. students. Since 2011, he has been Teacher and Lecturer of various courses, especially in the field of telecommunication networks and systems, optical systems, digital systems, fixed access networks, etc. He is Author or Co-author of numerous scientific papers published in reviewed international journals or conferences, he is also Member of several scientific committees of international conferences and editorial boards of international journals, and he also acts as Fellow Reviewer for numerous impact journals.
Dr. Ram Palanisamy is Professor of Enterprise Systems at the Gerald Schwartz School of Business, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. He obtained his Ph.D. in information systems management from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India. He had academic positions at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA; University Telekom Malaysia; and National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. Palanisamy’s research has appeared in several peer-reviewed articles in several journals, edited books, and conference proceedings.
Dr. Khaled A. Kamel is currently Chairman and Professor at Texas Southern university, College of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science, Houston, TX. He has published many research articles in refereed journals and IEEE conferences. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience. He has been General chair, Session Chair, TPC Chair, and Panelist in several conferences and acted as Reviewer and Guest Editor in referred journals. His research interest includes networks, computing, and communication systems.
