Rajarshi Mahapatra received a PhD degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, and a postdoctoral degree from the CEA-LETI, Grenoble, France. In his postdoctoral research, he was engaged in FP7 Call4 BeFEMTO and Greentouch projects. He is presently serving as an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Dr. SPM IIIT Naya Raipur. He also served as Dean (Academics) of IIITNR. Earlier, he had worked for Collins Aerospace, Hyderabad, on software-defined radio and electronic warfare.
Dr. Rajarshi Mahapatra has worked extensively in the domain of physical layer design and analysis of a wireless communication system. He worked in the fields of cognitive radio, 5G & 6G communication, heterogeneous wireless communication, molecular communication, and energy-efficient communication. His team designed and developed software-defined radio and direction-finding systems for EW applications in Collins Aerospace. industry. He has about 18 years of teaching, research, and industry experience. He has guided PhD scholars in the area of wireless communication. He has published several research papers in various refereed Journals and IEEE Journals. He is a regular reviewer of premier IEEE Transactions and other peer-reviewed Journals and IEEE conferences. He has been organizing many workshops on 5G in recent years. He has also developed several high-value research labs, including the 5G test bed. He has successfully completed and undertaken high-value sponsored projects in the field of communication systems.
He has been awarded a National scholarship, an MHRD scholarship for research, and an EU-FP7 fellowship for a European project. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the Communication Society. His research interests include 5G & beyond communication, machine learning for communication, molecular communication, intelligent reflecting surfaces, and optical access networks.
Dr. Avishek Nag is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin in Ireland. Dr. Nag received the BE (Honours) degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2005, the MTech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 2007, and the PhD degree from the University of California, Davis, in 2012. He worked as a research associate at the CONNECT centre for future networks and communication at Trinity College Dublin before joining University College Dublin. Dr Nag is the recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2nd IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Symposium in 2008 and has published over 35 publications, including journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters with over 950 citations. His research interests include but are not limited to Cross-layer optimization in Wired and Wireless Networks, Network Reliability, Mathematics of Networks (Optimisation, Graph Theory), Network Virtualisation, Software-Defined Networks, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Blockchain, and the Internet of Things. Dr. Nag is a senior member of the Institute of Electronics and electrical engineers (IEEE) and also the outreach lead for Ireland for the IEEE UK and Ireland Blockchain Group.
Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics, and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from the University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998, and 2000 respectively. He completed his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India, in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He is the recipient of several coveted awards, including the Distinguished HoD Award and Distinguished Professor Award conferred by the Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter, India in 2017, the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University of South America, and the South East Asian Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He has been appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for the tenure of 2018-2020. He was inducted into the People of ACM Hall of Fame by ACM, the USA in 2020. He has been appointed as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for the tenure of 2021-2023. He has been elected as a full foreign member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS) and the Russian Academy of Engineering (REA). He has been elected a full fellow of The Royal Society for Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA), London, UK.
He is currently serving as the Principal of Rajnagar Mahavidyalaya, Rajnagar, Birbhum. He is also serving as the Scientific Advisor of Algebra University College, Zagreb, Croatia. He served as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Christ University, Bangalore. He was the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India, from 2017-2019. He has also served as a Senior Research Scientist in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic (2018-2019). Prior to this, he was the Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He served as the Head of the Department from March 2014 to December 2016. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Information Technology at RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India, from 2011-2014. Before that, he served as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology at the University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India, from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology at Kalyani Government Engineering College, India, during 2001-2005. He is a co-author of 6 books and the co-editor of 98 books and has more than 400 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got two PCTs and 19 patents to his credit. He has been a member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He is the founding Chair of ICCICN 2014, ICRCICN (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), and ISSIP (2017, 2018) (Kolkata, India). He was the General Chair of several international conferences like WCNSSP 2016 (Chiang Mai, Thailand), ICACCP (2017, 2019) (Sikkim, India), ICICC 2018 (New Delhi, India), and ICICC 2019 (Ostrava, Czech Republic).
He is the Associate Editor of several reputed journals, including Applied Soft Computing, IEEE Access, Evolutionary Intelligence, and IET Quantum Communications. He is the editor of the International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research and the founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Hybrid Intelligence, Inderscience. He has guest-edited several issues with several international journals. He is serving as the Series Editor of IGI Global Book Series Advances in Information Quality and Management (AIQM), De Gruyter Book Series Frontiers in Computational Intelligence (FCI), CRC Press Book Series(s) Computational Intelligence and Applications & Quantum Machine Intelligence, Wiley Book Series Intelligent Signal and Data Processing, Elsevier Book Series Hybrid Computational Intelligence for Pattern Analysis and Understanding and Springer Tracts on Human Centered Computing.
His research interests include hybrid intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, social networks, and quantum computing.
He is a life fellow of the Optical Society of India (OSI), India, a life fellow of the International Society of Research and Development (ISRD), UK, a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, a fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India and a fellow of Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, the International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA.
He is the founding President of the Asia=Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Kolkata and the Chairman of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Kolkata Chapter. He is a life member of the Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI), Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI), Center for Education Growth and Research (CEGR), Integrated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), and Association of Leaders and Industries (ALI). He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, International Rough Set Society, International Association for Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), USA, International Association of Academicians, Scholars, Scientists and Engineers (IAASSE), USA, Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists (IDES), India, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) and The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). He is also a certified Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong.
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