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Lapina, Maria: - Dr. Maria Lapina is working as Deputy Director for Research of the Institute of Digital Development and Associate Professor of the Department of Information Security of Automated Systems at North Caucasus Federal University, Stavropol, Russia. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience. She received PhD in mathematics from Stavropol State University in 2005 and received an associate professor degree in 2009. She obtained her Master's degree in Information security. She defended her master's thesis at the North Caucasus Federal University with honors in 2015. Her research interests include Data Science, Machine Learning, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Cryptography, Trusted Artificial Intelligence, Edu-Tech, Teacher Education, & Higher Ed. She has published in peer-reviewed journals indexed in Scopus and WoS. She has more than 100 research papers. He has written book chapters in international publishing houses like Taylor & Francis, IGI Global and Springer. She is an active editorial board member for Springer Nature and IGI Global. She is the editor of books titled "Educational Perspectives on Digital Technologies in Modeling and Management", & "Digital Technologies in Modeling and Management: Insights in Education and Industry" published by IGI Global. She is an active reviewer of MDPI publishing journals Educational Sciences, Drones, Sensors, Mathematics, AgriEngineering. She is the organizer, co-chair and editor of the proceedings of international scientific events: SLET-2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023: International Conference Innovative Approaches to the Application of Digital Technologies in Education, AISMA-2021, 2022, 2023, 2024: International Workshop on Advanced in Information Security Management and Applications, DMAI-2021: International Workshop on Data Mining and Al, YRID-2020: International Workshop on Data Mining and Knowledge Engineering. She has participated in international internships at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), the Technical University of Dresden (Germany) and the 2nd ASEF Innovation Laboratory of Higher Education (ASEFInnoLab) at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. She received a grant from the Vladimir Potanin Foundation and an award as the Best Lecturer of Russia. She is a finalist of the All-Russian management competition "Leaders of Russia".
Sajid, Mohammad: - Mohammad Sajid is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, A.M.U. Aligarh, India. He has completed his M.C.A., M. Tech. and Ph.D. from School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr. MOHAMMAD SAJID has many research publications in different international conferences and international journals of repute. His research interests include Evolutionary Computation, Parallel Computing, Cloud Computing, and Internet of Things.
Shahid, Mohammad: - Dr. Mohammad Shahid is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Application in the Department of Commerce, A.M.U. Aligarh. He has completed his Ph.D. and M. Tech. from School of Computer and Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He earned his M.C.A. from A.M.U. Aligarh. He has published 21 research papers with the publisher of international repute (including Elsevier, Inderscience, Online Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Emerald Insight, IGI Global etc.) and 15 book chapters in springer edited books. Also, he has published 15 research papers in the proceedings of online peer-reviewed International conferences indexed in Scopus. He is awarded with research startup grant (10 lakhs) from UGC-BSR (2017), India. one major research project (6 lakhs) from ICSSR, India, is sanctioned in 2020 under his principal investigation. He is reviewer of the journals from the publishers of international repute (such as Elsevier, Springer, etc.). He is also member of IEEE.
