Prof. Dr. AZLAN BIN MOHD ZAIN

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Azlan Mohd Zain (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), in 2010. He is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Computing, UTM. As an academic staff, he has successfully supervised more than 25 postgraduate students and received more than 20 research grant funding to support research students. He has published more than 100 research papers. He has been invited as keynote speaker at over five international conferences, serves on numerous committees, and has served on editorial board for several international journals.

Prof. Sudeep Tanwar

Marwadi University, India

Biography:

Sudeep Tanwar (Senior Member, IEEE) is working as a full professor at Marwadi University, India. He is also an honorary Visiting Professor at Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Advanced Research, Florida, USA, WSG University, Bydgoszczy, Poland, Jan Wyzykowski University, Poland, and the University of Pitesti, Romania. He is a senior member of IEEE and also the Vice Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Gujarat Section. He received B. Tech in 2002 from Kurukshetra University, India, M.Tech (Honours) in 2009 from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India and PhD in 2016 with specialisation in Wireless Sensor Network. He has authored/edited 44 books and has published more than 500 technical articles in top-cited journals and conferences, including IEEE TNSE, IEEE TVT, IEEE TII, IEEE TGCN, IEEE TCSC, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE NETWORKS, IEEE WCM, ICC, IWCMC, GLOBECOM, CITS, and INFOCOM. He initiated research on blockchain technology adoption across various verticals in 2017. His H-indexes on Google Scholar and Scopus are 94 and 78, respectively. His research interests include blockchain technology, D2D communication, Deep Learning/machine Learning, wireless sensor networks, fog computing, smart grid, and the IoT. He is a member of the Technical Committee on Tactile Internet of the IEEE Communications Society. Recently, he has been awarded a cash prize of Rs 50,000 for publishing papers with an impact factor of 5+ and for publishing books with Springer, IET & CRC under the scheme of "Faculty Awards and Incentives" of Nirma University for the year 2019-2020. He has been awarded the Best Research Paper Award from IEEE SCIoT 2022, IEEE IWCMC-2021, IEEE ICCCA-2021, IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, IEEE ICC 2019, and Springer ICRIC-2019. He has won the Dr KW Wong Annual Best Paper Prize (with a prize of 750 USD) for 2021, sponsored by Elsevier (publisher of JISA). He has served as a member of the Organising Committee for many international conferences, including as the Publication Chair for FTNCT-2020, ICCIC 2020, and WiMob2019, and as a General Chair for IC4S 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, ICCSDF 2020, and FTNCT 2021. He is also serving on the editorial boards of COMCOM-Elsevier, IJCS-Wiley, Cyber Security and Applications-Elsevier, Frontiers of Blockchain, SPY-Wiley, IJMIS (Inderscience), JCCE, and JSSS. He is also leading the ST Research Laboratory, where group members are working on the latest cutting-edge technologies.