مؤلف: Tanmoy Som

DEBDAS GHOSH is an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. He has completed his Ph D in mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in 2014. His research interests include convex optimization, numerical optimization and optimization under uncertainty.DEBASIS GIRI is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology, India. His topics of interest are discrete mathematics, cryptography, information security, coding theory, advanced algorithms, design and analysis of algorithms, network security, security in wireless sensor networks, security in VANETs, and formal languages and automata theory. Professor Giri has delivered several talks and guest lectures at various universities and conferences. He is the supervisor of three Ph D research scholars, as well as he has guided many B.Tech. and M.Tech. students. Heis associate editor of the  Journal of Security and Communication Networks (Wiley) and the  Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Innovations. Further, he is editorial board member and reviewer for many reputed international journals. He is also program committee member of many international conferences. He is a life member of Cryptology Research Society of India. He received his Ph D on “Cryptanalysis and improvement of protocols for digital signature, smart card authentication and access control” from IIT Kharagpur. He also did his M.Tech. and M.Sc. from IIT Kharagpur. He secured the 10th position in all India rank with percentile score 98.42 in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) examination in 1999. Professor Giri has published more than 30 technical papers in several international journals and proceedings. RAM N. MOHAPATRA is a professor of mathematics at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. He received his Ph Ddegree from the University of Jabalpur, India, in 1968. Earlier, he taught at Sambalpur University in India, American University in Beirut, Lebanon, University of Alberta, and York University, Canada, prior to coming to Orlando. His area of research is mathematical analysis, and he is the author of two books, two edited monographs and over 168 research papers. He referees articles for professional journals and serves as a member of editorial board of a number of journals.KOUICHI SAKURAI is a professor at the Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. He is concurrently working with the Institute of Systems & Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies, as the chief of Information Security Laboratory, for promoting research cooperation among the industry, university and government under the theme “Enhancing IT-security in social systems”. He has established research cooperation in the field of information security with Prof. Bimal Kumar Roy (the former director of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India). The first time Japan has partnered with the Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI). Professor Sakurai has published more than 250 academic papers in cryptography and information security. EKREM SAVAS is a professor at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Letters, Istanbul Commerce University, Turkey. In 2004, he received the American Honor Medal Award from the American Biographical Institute for his work in the field. He has published 2 books and over 280 international scientific publications, out of which 190 papers are published in SCI-indexed journals.  TANMOY SOM is a professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. He completed his Ph D from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India in 1986. He has successfully guided over 11 Ph D students and published over 100 papers and several book chapters in reputed national and international journals, proceedings and edited books. He is editorial board member and reviewer of few reputed journals. He has delivered several invited talks at national and international conferences/seminars/refresher courses etc. His research interests are in functional analysis, optimization and mathematical modelling, fuzzy set theory, soft computing and image processing.