Rising Threats in Expert Applications and Solutions (eng)

The book presents high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from the FICR International Conference on Rising Threats in Expert Applications and Solutions 2022 organized by IIS (Deemed to be University), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, during January 7–8, 2022. The volume is a collection of innovative ideas from researchers, scientists, academicians, industry professionals, and students. The book covers a variety of topics, such as expert applications and artificial intelligence/machine learning; advance web technologies such as IoT, big data, cloud computing in expert applications; information and cyber security threats and solutions, multimedia applications in forensics, security and intelligence; advancements in app development; management practices for expert applications; and social and ethical aspects in expert applications through applied sciences.

Prof. (Dr.) Vijay Singh Rathore obtained Ph.D. (Computer Science), MCA, M.Tech. (CS), MBA, ICAD-USA, ICDA-USA, and Diplomas in French & German. Presently, he is working as Professor of CS, Director – International at IIS (Deemed to be University), Jaipur (India), Secretary, ACM Jaipur Chapter, and Past Chairman, CSI Jaipur Chapter. He is having teaching experience of 20+ years, 3 patents published, Ph.D. supervised (awarded: 18, under supervision: 09), published 94 research papers, and 10 books, associated as Editor and Reviewer in some reputed journals, and received 20+ national and international awards of repute. His core research areas include Internet Security, Cloud Computing, Big Data, and IoT. He has organized and participated 25+ national and international conferences of repute. His foreign visits for various academic activities (Delegate/Invited/Keynote Speaker/Session Chair/Guest) include USA, UK, Canada, France, Netherlands, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Nepal, etc. He had been Member of Indian Higher Education Delegation and visited 20+ leading universities at Canada (May, 2019), UK (July, 2017), and USA (Aug, 2018) supported by AICTE and GR foundation.  Other delegation visits include University of Amsterdam (2016), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2018), University of Lincoln, QMUL, Brunel University, Oxford Brookes University (2020) for discussions on academic and research collaborations. He is an active academician and always welcoming and forming innovative ideas in the various dimensions of education and research for the better development of the society.

Prof. Subhash Chander Sharma (https://www.iitr.ac.in/~DPT/scs60fpt) received M.Sc. (Electronics, IITR),  M. Tech. (Electronics & Communication Engg., IITR), and Ph.D. (Electronics & Computer Engg., IITR) in 1981, 1983, and 1992, respectively, from IIT Roorkee (erstwhile University of Roorkee). He started his career as R & D Engineer in 1983 and then joined the teaching profession in January 1984 at IIT Roorkee and continuing till date. He has more than 35 years of teaching and research experience at IIT Roorkee. He has published over three hundred fifty research papers in national and international journals (152)/conferences (150) and supervised more than 30 projects/dissertations of PG students. He has supervised 20 Ph.D. in the area of computer networking, wireless network, computer communication, cloud & its security, mobile computing and continuing supervising Ph.D. in the same area. He has successfully completed several major research projects funded by various government agencies like AICTE, CSIR, UGC, MHRD, DST, DRDO, and many minor research projects related to communication and SAW filter design sponsored by the Government of India. IIT Roorkee has awarded him the Khosla annual research prize with the best research paper. His many research papers have been awarded by National and International Committees and Journals. He has worked as Research Scientist at FMH, Munchen, Germany, and visited many countries (UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, UAE, Thailand, Netherlands, etc.) related to research work. He has chaired sessions of international conferences and delivered invited talks at various forums. He is Active Reviewer of the IEEE Journals and Editor of various reputed international and national journals. He is Honorary Member of NSBE, ISOC, and IAENG, USA. He has also worked as group leader of Electronics & Instrumentation Engg. Department of BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus, from August 2003 to August 2005. Presently, he is continuing as Professor at IIT Roorkee, Saharanpur Campus.

Joao Manuel R. S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal, in 1992. He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto in 1995 and 2001, and attained his Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI) and Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). He is Co-editor of more than 60 books and Co-author of more than 50 chapters, 650 articles in international and national journals and conferences, and 3 international and 3 national patents. He has been Committee Member of several international and national journals and conferences, is Co-founder and Co-editor of the book series “Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics” published by Springer, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization” published by Taylor & Francis, Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering” published by Taylor& Francis, and Co-founder and Co-chair of the international conference series: CompIMAGE, ECCOMAS VipIMAGE, ICCEBS, and BioDental. Additionally, he has been (Co-)supervisor of several M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis and Supervisor of several post-doc projects, and has participated in many scientific projects both as researcher and as scientific coordinator. His main research areas include computational vision, medical imaging, computational mechanics, scientific visualization, human–computer interaction, and new product development.  

Catarina Moreira is Computer Scientist and passionate about decision-making technologies that can empower human decisions.  She is Lecturer in Information Systems at the Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology, where she holds the role of Deputy High Degree Research Academic Lead.  Currently, she is Associate Editor for the Springer Nature journal BMC Bioinformatics, section "Machine learning and artificial intelligence." She is a pioneer in the development of quantum-like probabilistic graphical models for decision making to empower human decision making. Her work also comprises machine learning / deep learning models, and innovative human interactive probabilistic models for explainable AI with the goal of understanding how and why machines make decisions. One of her aspirations is to support women in research and in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) with the aim of contributing to a society that promotes equal opportunities across all genders to engage in STEM-related areas.  

Dr. B. Surendiran is working as Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, NIT Puducherry, Karaikal. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He had completed his Ph.D. in the year 2012 from NIT Trichy. His research interests are medical image processing, machine learning, dimensionality reduction, etc. He had 40 internationaljournal and conference publications to his credit. He has delivered 75+ invited lectures, reviewed 350+ research papers, and guided 10 PG/Ph.D. scholars. He has received Best Reviewer Award in 2019 by publons.com, Web of Science, and also Outstanding Reviewer Award by Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal in the year 2020. He is Active Reviewer for IEEE sensors, IET image processing, and various SCI/Scopus Journals.