Dr. C Raghavendra Rao is Senior Professor at School of Computer & Information Sciences (SCIS) at University of Hyderabad. He obtained his Bachelor of Science from Andhra University, his master's and doctorate degrees from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has received Fellow of IETE and APAS and elected as Senior Member of IRSS. His research areas include operations research, stochastic processes, computer graphic, artificial intelligence, and rough computing. Dr. C R Rao authored and co-authored more than 180 scientific papers and contributions in international journals, conferences, and wrote four books. He has supervised 15 Ph.D. scholars and many master's students. He has organized many workshops and conferences. He was in the technical program committee members for many conferences including CIT2009, AMLTA2012, and MIWAI 2017. He is Professional Member of ACM, Society for Development of Statistics, Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, Indian Mathematical Society, IETE, and many more.
Dr. Salvatore Distefano is Associate Professor at University of Messina, Italy; Fellow Professor at Kazan Federal University, Russia; and Head of the Social and Urban Computing Group and of the Cisco Innovation Center in Kazan. In 2001 he got the master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Catania, and then, in 2006, he received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Messina. Dr. Salvatore authored and co-authored more than 200 scientific papers and contributions in international journals, conferences, and books. He took part in several national and international projects, such as Reservoir, Vision (EU FP7), SMSCOM (EU FP7 ERC Advanced Grant), Beacon, and IoT-Open.EU (EU H2020). He is in the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, International Journal of Performability Engineering, Journal of Cloud Computing, International Journal of Engineering and Industries, International Journal of Big Data, International Journal of Computer Science & Information Technology Applications, and International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.
Prof. Sandeep Singh Rawat is Experienced Researcher and Consultant with proven leadership abilities in areas of Knowledge Extraction, Information System and Machine Learning, Database, Information Retrieval, Data Warehousing, Big Data, and Groups Decision Support Systems. Dr. Sandeep obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, Surat (formerly REC, Surat), his master's from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, and doctorate degree from University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad. Dr. Sandeep was Research Scholar and Visiting Professor at Iowa State University, USA (2016 to 2018).
Dr. Sandeep actively participates in multiple committees at IGNOU, including those overseeing online course coordination, innovation promotion, and cybersecurity planning. He also contributes to the School Board at various IGNOU schools and serves as Board of Studies Member at UOU, Haldwani, Uttrakhand. Dr. Sandeep is Senior Member of IEEE and Life Members of Indian Society for Technical Education & Computer Society India and served as Co-editors of the prestigious Springer Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC)and Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) series. He is Reviewer and Technical Committee Member for many national/international conferences. He has published/presented high-quality research papers in international, national journals and proceedings of international conferences.
