Dr. Debasis Giri is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (Formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology), West Bengal, India. Prior to this, he also held academic positions as Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Dean in the School of Electronics, Computer Science and Informatics, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India. He did his masters (M.Tech. and M.Sc.) both from IIT Kharagpur, India, and also completed his Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, India. He is tenth all India rank holder in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 1999. He received a certificate from All India Science Teachers’ Association in Science Aptitude & Talent Search Test in 1988. His current research interests include cryptography, information security, e-commerce security, and design & analysis of algorithms. He has authored more than 75 research papers in reputed international journals and conference proceedings. He is serving as an Associate Editorial of the Journal of i) Information Security and Applications (Elsevier), ii) Security and Privacy Journal (Wiley), iii) International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), iv) Security and Communication Networks, v) Electrical and Computer Engineering Innovations, and vi) Azerbaijan Journal of High Performance Computing. Dr. Giri has been involved as Technical Program Committee members of several international conferences in repute. He is the Founder of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computing. He is also program committee member of several international conferences. He is a member of IEEE, and a life member of Cryptology Research Society of India, and the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC).
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the university, commercializing its innovations in cloud computing. He served as a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council during 2012–2016. He has authored over 625 publications and seven textbooks including “Mastering Cloud Computing” published by McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese, and international markets, respectively. He also edited several books including “Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms” (Wiley Press, USA, February 2011). He is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=132, g-index=294, 92,500+ citations). “A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature” by German scientists ranked Dr. Buyya as the World's Top-Cited (#1) Author and the World's Most-Productive (#1) Author in Cloud Computing. Dr. Buyya is recognized as a “Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” for four consecutive years since 2016, a Fellow of IEEE, and Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award by Elsevier and recently (2019) received “Lifetime Achievement Awards” from two Indian universities for his outstanding contributions to cloud computing and distributed systems. Software technologies for grid and cloud computing developed under Dr. Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. He served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Software: Practice and Experience, which was established 50 years ago.
Dr. S Ponnusamy is a Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Mathematics of IIT Madras. Hehas earned his B.Sc. (1980) and M.Sc. (1992) from the University of Madras. He completed his Ph.D. (1989) at IIT Kanpur. His current research interest includes complex analysis, quasiconformal and harmonic mappings, special functions, and functions spaces. Dr. S Ponnusamy is the founding “Fellow of the Forum de Analystes, Chennai, India”, 1992. He was elected as a “Fellow of The National Academy of Sciences, India” in the year 2002. He served five years as Head of the Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai Centre (October 2012–October 2017). He is the currently the President of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, India. Dr. S Ponnusamy has been associated with a number of organizations for popularization of science and serves on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed international journals. He is often invited to give plenary talks at international conferences and to give lectures in universities all over the world. He took part as a researcher in many funde
