Prof. Arun Kumar Sangaiah

National Yunlin University of Science and Technology

Distinguished Professor and Yushan Young Scholar

Dr. Arun Kumar Sangaiah (Member IEEE) received his Master of Engineering from Anna University and Ph.D. from VIT University, in 2007 and 2014, respectively. Further, he has visited many research centres and universities in China, Japan and South Korea for join collaboration towards research projects and publications. His areas of research interest include IoT, Artificial Intelligence, wireless networks machine learning, and software engineering. Dr. Sangaiah's outstanding scientific production spans over 200+ contributions published in high standard ISI journals, such as IEEE-Communication Magazine, IEEE Systems and IEEE IoT. In addition, he has authored/edited 8 books (Elsevier, Springer and others) and edited 50 special issues in reputed ISI journals, such as IEEE-Communication Magazine, IEEE-TII, IEEE-IoT, ACM transaction on Intelligent Systems and Technology etc. He has also registered one Indian patent in the area of Computational Intelligence. His Google Scholar Citations reached 9400+ with h-index: 53 and i10-index: 207. Finally, Dr. Sangaiah is responsible for Editorial Board Member and Associate Editor of many reputed ISI journals. Dr. Sangaiah’s outstanding achievement in his research area, received several recognitions, such as PIFI-CAS overseas researcher award, Careers 360 India’s Top-10 Researcher award, UPEC-France visiting researcher reward and etc.

Assoc. Prof. Pushpendu Kar, University of Nottingham, UK

Dr. Pushpendu Kar is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, UK (China campus), where he has also served as an Assistant Professor since 2019. Before this, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the National University of Singapore (NUS), and Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He also worked in different engineering colleges as a lecturer and in the IT industry as a software professional. He has over 14 years of experience in teaching and research, as well as 1.5 years of industrial experience at IBM. He has completed all his PhD, Master of Engineering, and Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. He also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) in 2023. He received the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission, the ERCIM Alain Bensoussan Fellowship from the European Union, and the SERB OPD Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He has received the 2020 IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award. He has received six research grants to support research-based projects, three of which were as a Principal Investigator (PI). He also received many travel grants to attend conferences and doctoral colloquiums. He is the author of over 70 scholarly research papers that have appeared in prestigious journals, conferences, book chapters, and IT magazines. He has also published one authored and three edited books. He holds nine patents. He has organized the ICIoT2024 and ICDSEC2025 conferences with a team. He has also chaired numerous conference committees, collaborated with a team to organize short-term courses, and delivered a few Keynote and Invited talks at international conferences and institutions. He has also served on the editorial boards of several international journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), UK, a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE), India, and a Chartered Engineer (CEng) from the Engineering Council, UK. The Ningbo Municipal Government in China has recognised him as a High-Level Talent. Dr. Kar mainly teaches Computer Networks and programming-related modules. His research areas include Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Content-Centric Networking, Blockchain, BigData, and Quantum Communication.

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