Author: Akhtar Kalam

Professor Akhtar Kalam has been working at Victoria University, Melbourne since 1985 and was a Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science for 7 years. He is currently the Head of the Engineering Department. He is also the current Chair of the Academic Board and lectures in the Masters by coursework program in the Engineering Institute of Technology, Perth, Australia. Further, he has Distinguished Professorship position at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and five Malaysian universities. He received his B.Sc. and B.Sc. Engineering degrees from University of Calcutta and the Aligarh Muslim University, India. He completed his MS and Ph.D degrees at the University of Oklahoma, USA and the University of Bath, UK.  Dr. Swagatam Das is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. His research interests include evolutionary computing, pattern recognition, multi-agent systems, and wireless communication. Dr. Das has published one research monograph, one edited volume, and more than 200 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He is the founding co-editor-in-chief of “Swarm and Evolutionary Computation”, an international journal from Elsevier. He also serves as the associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE Access, Neurocomputing (Elsevier), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), and Information Sciences (Elsevier). Dr. Das has 7500+ Google Scholar citations and an H-index of 44 till date. Prof. (Dr.) Kalpana Sharma completed her Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, in 1998 and M.Tech in the Department of Computer Science and Technology (CSE) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT, Kharagpur) and Ph D from Sikkim Manipal University (SMU), Sikkim. She is presently working as a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). She has been actively participating in institute level and university level research and development (R&D) activities and has successfully executed the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Funded Research Project: “Design of an Integrated Security Scheme of Wireless Sensor Network”. Her research areas are Sensor Networks, Software Engineering, Real-Time Systems and Security. She has published a number of technical papers in national and international journals and conferences. She has also organized workshops, seminars and conferences.