Ali Kashif Bashir is Associate Professor at the Department of Computing and Mathematics, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. He is also with Visual Research Intelligent Center, University of Electronics Science and Technology of China (UESTC) as Honorary Professor and Chief Adviser; with University of Science and Technology, Islamabad (NUST) as Adjunct Professor, and with University of Guelph, Canada, as Special Graduate Faculty. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of IEEE Industrial Electronic Society, member of ACM, and distinguished speaker of ACM. He received his Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from Korea University, South Korea. He has authored over 200 research articles; and received over 3 Million USD funding as PI and Co-PI from research bodies of South Korea, Japan, EU, UK and Middle East. His research interests include internet of things, wireless networks, distributed systems, network/cyber security, network function virtualization, machine learning, etc. He is serving as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE FUTURE DIRECTIONS NEWSLETTER. He is also serving as the area editor and associate editor in several top ranking journals. He is leading many conferences as a chair (program, publicity, and track) and had organized workshops in flagship conferences like IEEE Infocom, IEEE Globecom, and IEEE Mobicom.
Giancarlo Fortino (SM’12) is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Unical in 2000. He is also Distinguished Professor at Wuhan University of Technology and Huazhong Agricultural University (China), high-end expert at HUST (China), Senior Research Fellow at the Italian ICAR-CNR Institute, CAS PIFI Visiting Scientist at SIAT—Shenzhen, and Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Sensors Council. He is Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher 2020. His research interests include wearable computing systems, e-Health, Internet of Things, and agent-based computing. He is currently the scientific responsible of the Digital Health group of the Italian CINI National Laboratory at Unical. He is author of 500+ papers in int’l journals, conferences, and books. He is (founding) Series Editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Human-Machine Systems and EiC of Springer Internet of Things series and AE of many int'l journals such as IEEE TAC, IEEE THMS, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE SJ, IEEE JBHI, IEEE SMCM, IEEE OJEMB, IEEE OJCS, Information Fusion, JNCA, EAAI, etc. He organized as chair many int’l workshops and conferences (100+), was involved in a huge number of int’l conferences/workshops (500+) as IPC member, is/was guest-editor of many special issues (60+).
Ashish Khanna [M’19, SM’20] received his Ph.D. degree from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, in March 2017. He has completed his M. Tech. in 2009 and B. Tech. from GGSIPU, Delhi, in 2004. He has completed his Post-Doc (PDF) from Internet of Things Lab at Inatel, Brazil,, in 2018. He has around 152 accepted and published research papers and book chapters in reputed SCI, Scopus journals, conferences and reputed book series including 82 papers accepted in SCI indexed Journals. He also has 4 published Patents to his credit. Additionally, He has authored, edited and editing around 40 books. He has also served as a keynote speaker, resource person and given several invited. He has worked as Guest Editor in several reputed journals. He is also serving as Series Editor in publishing houses like De Gruyter (Germany) of "Intelligent Biomedical Data Analysis" series, Elsevier of “Intelligent Biomedical Data Analysis” and CRC Press of “Intelligent Techniques in Distributed Systems: Principles and Applications”. He is also acting as a consulting editor for Elsevier. His research interest includes, DistributedSystems and its variants (MANET, FANET, VANET, IoT), machine learning. He is the recipient of 2021 IEEE System Council Best Paper Award. He is serving as convener in some springer international conferences series like ICICC, ICDAM, and DoSCI. He is a senior IEEE member (SMIEEE) and ACM member too. He has played key role in promoting and initiating several startups and is also a startup consultant.
Deepak Gupta [M’19, SM’20] received a B.Tech. degree in 2006 from the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India. He received M.E. degree in 2010 from Delhi Technological University, India and Ph. D. degree in 2017 from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow, India. He has completed his Post-doc from National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil, in 2018. He has co-authored more than 192 journal articles and 44 conference articles. He has authored/edited 50 books, published by IEEE-Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, CRC Press,DeGruyte
