Evolution in Signal Processing and Telecommunication Networks (eng)

Paladuga Satish Rama Chowdary is currently serving as Vice Principal and Head, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam. He obtained his M.E from Andhra University and Ph.D. from Department of ECE,  JNTUK Kakinada, in the field of Fractal Antennas. He currently holds the position of Executive Committee Member of IEEE Vizag Bay Section. He has 20 years of professional experience. His research interests are computational electromagnetics, fractal antennas and image processing. He has published two patents in the field of IoT and ML. He had published 40 journal and conference papers indexed by SCOPUS and SCIE. He co-edited proceedings of third and fifth ICMEET Conferences. He has also chaired several technical and special sessions in international conferences like FICTA, Soft Computing Informatics, ICMEET-2017, IC3T. He is Senior Member of IEEE, Life Member of Instrument Society of India, ICSES, and Soft ComputingResearch Society.
 Jaume Anguera is IEEE Fellow, Co-Founder and CTO of the technology company Fractus Antennas  (Barcelona),  Associate  Professor  at  Ramon  LLull  University  and  Member  of  the  GRITS   research   group.   He is Inventor   of   more   than   130   patents, and  most   of   them   licensed   to   telecommunication companies. He in Inventor of Virtual Antenna™ technology and  Author  of  more  than  230  widely  cited  papers, 6 books  and  international  conferences  (h-index  48).  He  has  taught  more  than  20  antenna  courses  around  the  world. With over 20 years  of  R&D  experience and provided solutions to  Korean companies such as Samsung and LG. He has directed the master/doctorate thesis to more than 110 students. His biography appears in Who’sWho in the World and in Science and Engineering. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal on Antennas and Propagation, Electronics Letters, International Journal  of  Electronics  and  Communications  and  Reviewer  in  several  IEEE  and  other  scientific  journals.
 Suresh Chandra Satapathy holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering, is currently working as Professor of School of Computer Engg and Dean―Research at KIIT (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India. He served as National Chairman (Educational and Research) of Computer Society of India and am also Senior Member of IEEE. He played a key role in organizing more than 60 International Conferences and edited more than 80 Book Volumes from Springer LNCS, AISC, LNEE and SIST Series as Corresponding Editor. His research areas are swarm intelligence, machine learning, data mining and cognitive sciences. He developed two new optimization algorithms known as social group optimization (SGO), published in Springer Journal and Social Evolution and Learning Algorithm (SELO) published in Elsevier. He has more than 150 publications in reputed journals and conference proceedings. He is Part of the editorial board of IGI Global, Inderscience, Growing Science journals and also Guest Editor for Arabian Journal of Science and Engg published by Springer. He is Editor-in-Chief of IJIDSS from Inderscience and Associate Editor of KES Journal from IOS press. I was awarded the Leadership in Academia Award in India by ASSOCHEM for the year 2017.
 Vikrant Bhateja is Associate Professor, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Shri Ramswaroop Memorial Group of Professional Colleges (SRMGPC), Lucknow, and also Head (Academics & Quality Control) in the same college. His area of research includes digital image and video processing, computer vision, medical imaging, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, neural networks, soft computing and bio-inspired computing techniques. He has more than 90 quality publications in various international journals and conference proceedings. Professor Bhateja has been on TPC and chaired various sessions from the above domain in international conferences of IEEE and Springer. He has been Track Chair and served in the core-technical/editorial teams for international conferences: FICTA 2014, CSI 2014 and INDIA 2015 under Springer-AISC Series and INDIACom-2015, ICACCI-2015 under IEEE. He is Associate Editor in International Journal of Convergence Computing (IJConvC) and also an Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM) under Inderscience Publishers. At present, he is Guest Editor for two special issues floated in International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA) and International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA) under IGI Global publications.