Intelligent Computing and Communication : Proceedings of 6th ICICC 2022

Dr. M. Seetha, was awarded Ph.D. from JNTU Hyderabad. She has 30 years of teaching experience in reputed institutions. The department received a total grant worth Rs. 9,611,419/- under various schemes like TIDE, DDP, AICTE―CAYT, MODROBS, and PMKVY schemes in her headship for conducting research and organizing conferences. Two DST projects worth Rs. 5,814,719/- were sanctioned under Device Development Programme (DDP) and Technology Interventions for Disabled and Elderly (TIDE) schemes. A grant of Rs. 9.8 Lakhs was received under PMKVY Scheme, a grant of Rs. 7.1 Lakhs was received under MODROBSAICTE (AQIS) to support research in artificial intelligence, a SEED amount of Rs. 425,000/- was sanctioned from GNITS Management for two research projects, a grant of Rs. 366,700/- was sanctioned from AICTE for conducing international conference in November 2022 as part of Silver Jubilee celebrations of GNITS, MODROBS of Rs. 2.65 lakhs was received to establish “IoT and Analytics Centre of Excellence” under AICTE-(AQIS) scheme. AICTE―CAYT grant of Rs. 10.5 Lakhs were received in 2009. 81 research projects were applied to different funding agencies like DST, AICTE, DRDO, NRSC, TSCOST, and BTBP till date. She is the recipient of Best HOD of the Year Award by CSI Mumbai TechNext, Acharya Ratna Award by Information Technology Association of Andhra Pradesh in 2019, Distinguished Faculty in Engineering Award by Venus International Foundation, Chennai, in 2017 and Star Achiever Award from Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd. in 2016. She has published 175 research papers in national/international journals and conferences. She is the incharge of college website design and maintenance. She delivered sessions as a resource person in various FDPs/workshops in the areas of machine learning, deep learning, and IoT. She is recognized as supervisor and co-supervisor for various universities like JNTUH, VTU, JNTUA, KLU, and JNTUK. Twelve research scholars have been awarded with Ph.D. and three arepursuing under her guidance. She is the member of Governing Body, GNITS. Curriculum development is done for two specialization courses in CSE (artificial intelligence and machine learning), and CSE (data science) under her headship. She serves as an Editorial Board Member, Reviewer, Advisory/Program/Steering committee member of various national/international journals and conferences. She is the BOS member, subject expert for Staff Selection Committee for other colleges and also a Life member of ISTE, IETE, CSI, and Fellow of IE.
Sateesh K. Peddoju is currently associated with the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, since 2010 and has 25+ years of teaching, research, and consultancy experience. He is the Senior Member of ACM, Senior Member of IEEE, and Member of various other councils, including IETE, CSI, ISTE, DMTF, OPF, and HPC Advisory Council. He receives the Cloud Ambassador Award from AWS Educate, IBM SUR Award, Microsoft Educate Award, the University merit scholarship, the best teacher award in his previous employment, the best student thesis award, the best student internship award, the best paper/presentation awards, and travel grants. Sateesh has more than 65 publications, of which 19+ are published in reputed journals, and 35+ are published in high-quality conferences. He is the co-author of the book Security and Storage Issues in the Cloud Environment published by Springer and co-editor of six books by Springer and two by others. Sateesh is the Treasurer for the IEEE Roorkee section and Founding faculty sponsor for ACM IIT Roorkee Student Chapter. He was the Program Chair, Organizing Chair, and Web Chair for IEEE MASS 2020 and Founding Steering Committee Chair for the SLICE workshop series. Sateesh was the Publicity Chair for BDA-2022, Program Chair for ICICC-2022, ICCISC-2022, and ICRTC-2022. He has contributed INR 700+ lakhs in grants from various funding agencies due to research and consultancy. Under his supervision, six doctoral and 44 master-level students were awarded the thesis and are currently guiding two master’s and 11 doctoral students. Sateesh is involved in various national/international committees, including being the Chair for the Communications subgroup of the IoT Security Workgroup constituted by MEITY, Government of India, and an Expert member in the CERT-UK (Cyber Security Guidelines) committee constituted by the Department of IT, Government of Uttarakhand. His research interests include cloud computing, ubiquitous computing, and security aspects.
Vishnu Pendyala is an IEEE Distinguished Contributor and past ACM distinguished speaker with over two decades of experience in the software industry in Silicon Valley. Educational qualifications are Ph.D. (Computer Engineering) from Santa Clara University, California, USA, and Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Engineering), Osmania University, Hyderabad, TS, India. Professional experience includes being a faculty member in Applied Data Science from 2021 to present at San Francisco Bay Area, USA, and adjunct faculty member from January 2019 to 2021 at San Jose State University, San Francisco Bay Area, USA; Infosys technical management team member at Verizon during 2020 and 2021; Cisco Systems software engineer/technical leader during 2010–2020 at San Francisco Bay Area, USA; and Synopsys senior engineer during 2001–2010 at San Francisco Bay Area, USA. He received the Ramanujan Memorial Gold Medal at the State Math Olympiad. He is a senior member of IEEE and published papers in various international conferences. He served as a technical paper reviewer for journals and conferences from 2003 to 2007. He served as an area governor with Toastmasters International and received the Distinguished Toastmaster, Area Governor of the Year, and Silver Scribe awards. He taught a one-week course sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, on “Big Data Analytics for Humanitarian Causes” under the GIAN program to 60 research scholars of Computer Science in November 2017. During his recent 3-year term as an ACM Distinguished speaker and before that as a researcher and industry expert, he gave numerous (50+) invited talks in conferences, faculty development programs, and other forums. His book, Veracity of Big Data, is available in several libraries, including those of MIT, Stanford, CMU, and internationally. Two other books on machine learning and software development that he edited are also well-received and found place in reputed libraries.
Dr. Vedula V. S. S. S. Chakravarthy is a professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering and Dean R&D at Raghu Institute of Technology (A), Visakhapatnam. He is the member of Communication, Signal Processing, Antenna and Propagation, MTT, Education Societies, and WIE affinity group of IEEE. He is serving as Chair of IEEE Communication and Signal Processing Societies Joint Chapter of IEEE Vizag Bay Section. He is also serving as the branch counselor of IEEE SB at RIT. He is currently volunteering the Educational activities of APS and Section representative for DART group of IEEE India. During his officer role tenure, the SB established Computer Society student Chapter and Signal Processing student Chapter. He served as publication committee member of ICISGT conference organized by Vizag Bay Sub-Section. He co-edited three volumes of Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering published by Springer Inc as part of ICMEET 2016, ICMEET 2019, ICMEET 2021, and ICMEET 2022 conferences. His research interests include computational intelligence, smart antenna, data modeling, machine learning, and evolutionary computing tools. He has 20 years of teaching and two years of industry experience. He has four research scholars working in the field of smart antennas, evolutionary computing tools, and high-impedance antennas, and one scholar got awarded. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of Applied Computational Electromagnetic Society (ACES), Senior life member of Wireless, Antenna and Microwave Symposium (WAMS) and life member of professional bodies like Instrumentation Society of India, the International Computer Science and Engineering Society (ICSES), and Soft Computing Research Society. He published more than 40 journal and conference papers along with one book chapter which are indexed in SCOPUS and SCI. He is the associate editor of International Transactions on Evolutionary and Meta heuristic Algorithms published by the International Computer Science and Engineering Society and guest editor to special issue in Soft Computing Journal published by Springer-Nature.