Prof. Suresh Kaswan School of Computing | IQAC at RIMT University, India

BIO: Dr. Suresh Kaswan is an eminent researcher having engineering mind set with Computer Science & Engineering specialization. He is working as Professor & Dean, School of Engineering & Information Technology at Sanskriti University. He has worked with Chitkara University, RIMT University, KCT Group of Institution, Bharat Group of Colleges, PPU & JCD Vidhyapeeth in his long journey of teaching and academic administration. His Administrative Responsibilities include Examination Head University Integrated Project Incharge, Dean Academics, Dean (Engg.), Head of Department, Principal (Polytechnic), Director (Engg.). He also Organized NITTTR-ICT enabled workshops, Achievers Award-2017, Salaam-e-KCT-2017, Existence-2017- a corpo-summit, Convocation-2015 at BGC, Flying Squad Chairman for PSBTE & ITI, Organizer/Convenor of Most of the Events in PPIMT(Tech. & Non-tech.) i.e. ESTEEM-2013, GRACCE-2013, IMPERIA-2013, BRIGHTEN MIND, IMPERIA-2014, ESTEEM-2014, Seminars, Member of DT&P of the college JCDV, Worked as IT HEAD and Head of Department and core member of the team responsible for policy making of PPIMT, Worked as Key Person for Web Domain & Web portal of PPU, Inter Campus Communication. ie E-mailing & PSTN, Establishment of Labs., H/W & S/W maintenance, E-surveillance through camera, Networking & Internet, Biometric Attendance system, IT support to all departmental Labs-CSE, ME, ECE, CE, AE, Assessment of GATE & IBPS Exams.

Prof. Xiaofeng Ding Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

BIO: Ding Xiaofeng, doctor of engineering, professor and doctoral supervisor of School of Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His main research interests are big data management, cloud computing, data privacy protection methods and data query processing technology. As a postdoctoral researcher, he worked in the National University of Singapore in 2010 and the University of South Australia in Australia in 2013 on big data management, privacy protection, query processing and data-intensive service technology.

Title: Efficient Secure and Verifiable Location-Based Skyline Queries

Assoc. Prof. Ruchi Doshi (IEEE Senior Member) Amity University, India

BIO: Dr. Ruchi Doshi is having more than 16 years of academic, research and software development experience. She also worked with BlueCrest University College, Ghana; Amity University, India & Trimax IT Infrastructure & Services as a software engineer. She is interested in the field of Computer vision, Cloud-Edge Computing and Machine Learning in higher education. She has published research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. She is an Ambassador for World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security & Sustainability S4 in 2018. She is a Reviewer, Advisor, & Editorial board member of various reputed International Journals and Conferences such as MIR Labs, USA, IEEE W4S, IJCS and IJERT. Her book, "The Proliferation of Smart Devices on Mobile Cloud Computing", was published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany in 2014 and another book “Cloud Computing: Concepts, Architecture and Applications” was published by BPB Publications in India 2019. She is an active member in organizing many international seminars, workshops and conferences in India, Ghana, Liberia, Denmark and Ethiopia.

Assoc. Prof. GHAMGEEN IZAT RASHED (IEEE Member)  Wuhan University-School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, China

Research Area: AI application in Power System, Smart Grid, Reliability of Power System, FACTS devices, Renewable Energy

BIO: Assoc. Prof. GHAMGEEN IZAT RASHED, postgraduate tutor of School of Electrical and Automation, Wuhan University. Research interests: application of artificial intelligence in power system, reliability of power system and smart grid. He has published more than 50 SCI and EI papers in core journals and international conferences, participated in more than 30 high-level international academic conferences and delivered keynote speeches. Member of IEEE and CIGRE, presiding over 5 international exchange projects, participating in 13 horizontal projects and 1 863 project. Presided over 5 excellent courses at the school level.

Prof. Gautam Srivastava (IEEE Senior Member) BRANDON UNIVERSITY，Canada

Research Area: Security and Privacy

BIO: Dr. Gautam Srivastava (Senior Member, IEEE) has extensive Guest Editorial Experience including IEEE Trans on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Trans on Industrial Informatics, Computer Standards and Interfaces, Applied Stochastic Modeling and Business, and many others. Dr. Gautam Srivastava was awarded a B.Sc. from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa, the U.S.A. in 2004, followed by an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in the years 2006 and 2011, respectively. He then worked for 3 years at the University of Victoria in the Department of Computer Science (Faculty of Engineering), where he was regarded as one of the top Undergraduate professors in Computer Science Course Instruction at the University. From there in 2014 he started a tenure-track position at Brandon University in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, where he currently is an Assistant Professor. Dr. G (as he is popularly known) is active in research in the fields of Data Mining and Big Data. During his 6-year academic career, he has published a total of 200 papers in high-impact conferences and journals. He has also given guest lectures at many Taiwan universities in Big Data. He currently has active research projects with other academics in Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, and the U.S.A. Dr. Srivastava currently holds a federal grant from the Canadian Government to research Cybersecurity Education to Rural Populations of Canada and also another federal grant to explore Security and Privacy in IoT.