Recent Trends in Blockchain for Information Systems Security and Privacy

Amit Kumar Tyagi is Assistant Professor (Senior Grade), and Senior Researcher at Vellore Institute

of Technology (VIT), Chennai Campus, India. He earned his PhD in 2018 from Pondicherry Central

University, India. He joined the Lord Krishna College of Engineering, Ghaziabad (LKCE) from 2009–

2010 and 2012–2013. He was Assistant Professor and Head Researcher at Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth (formerly

known as Lingaya’s University), Faridabad, Haryana, India from 2018 to 2019. Dr. Tyagi’s current research

focuses on machine learning with big data, blockchain technology, data science, cyberphysical systems,

smart and secure computing and privacy. He contributed to several projects such as “AARIN” and “P3-

Block” to address some of the open issues related to the privacy breaches in vehicular applications (such

as parking) and medical cyberphysical systems (MCPS). He has also published more than 8 patents in the

area of deep learning, Internet of Things, cyberphysical systems and computer vision. Recently, he was

awarded best paper award for “A Novel Feature Extractor Based on the Modified Approach of Histogram of

oriented Gradient”, ICCSA 2020, Italy. He is a regular member of the ACM, IEEE, MIRLabs, Ramanujan

Mathematical Society, Cryptology Research Society, and Universal Scientific Education and Research

Network, CSI, and ISTE.

Ajith Abraham is Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a not-for-profit scientific

network for innovation and research excellence connecting industry and academia. As an investigator and

co-investigator, he has won research grants worth over US$100 million from Australia, USA, EU, Italy,

Czech Republic, France, Malaysia, and China. His research focuses on real world problems in the fields

of machine intelligence, cyberphysical systems, Internet of Things, network security, sensor networks,

web intelligence, web services, and data mining. He is Chair of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics

Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing. He is editor-in-chief of Engineering Applications of

Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and serves/served on the editorial board of several international journals.

He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.