Autore: Dipanwita Roy Chowdhury

RAM MOHAPATRA is professor of mathematics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. He received his Ph D degree 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 120 research papers. He referees articles for professional journals and serves as a member of editorial board of a number of journals. DIPANWITA ROY CHOWDHURY is professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. She is also the chairman of Kalpana Chawla Space Technology Cell, IIT Kharagpur. Professor Roy Chowdhury is Ph D from IIT Kharagpur and M.Tech. in Computer Science from the University of Calcutta. Her topics of research interest are cryptography, error-correcting code and cellular automata. She has published more than 150 research papers in several international journals and conference proceedings. Professor Roy Chowdhury is the recipient of INSA Young Scientist Award and associate of Indian Academy of Science. She is a fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE). DEBASIS GIRI is 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 and formal languages and automata theory. His research interests include cryptography, network security, security in wireless sensor networks and security in VANETs. Dr. Giri had delivered several talks and guest lectures at various universities and conferences. He is supervisor of three Ph D research scholars, as well as he has guided many B.Tech. and M.Tech. students. He is 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 of many reputed international journals. He is also program committee member of many international conferences. He is life member of Cryptology Research Society of India. He received his Ph D on “Cryptanalysis and improvement of protocols for digital signature, smartcard authentication and access control” from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He did both his M.Tech. and M.Sc. from IIT Kharagpur. He secured 10th position in all India rank with percentile score 98.42 in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) examination in 1999. Dr. Giri has published more than 30 technical papers in several international journals and proceedings.