Monika Mangla, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering (LTCoE), Navi Mumbai, India. She has two patents to her credit as well as over 18 years of teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and she has guided many student projects. Her interest areas include IoT, cloud computing, network security, algorithms and optimization, location modelling, and machine learning. She has published several research papers and book chapters (SCI and Scopus-indexed) with reputed publishers. She has also been associated with several SCI-indexed journals such as the Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (TUBITAK), Industrial Management & Data Systems, etc., as a reviewer. She is a life member of the Computer Society of India and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers. Dr. Mangla received her PhD from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India.
Ashok Kumar, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor in Chitkara University Research and Innovation Network (CURIN) Department, Punjab, India. He has over 15 years of teaching and research experience. He has filed three patents and has published a number of publications in international journals and conferences of repute. His current areas of research interest include cloud computing, Internet of Things, and mist computing. Further, he is supervising four PhD scholars and two ME students. His teaching interests includes Python, Haskell, Java, C/C++, advanced data structures, and data mining. He has been a guest editor of the International Journal of Cloud Computing (Inderscience). Dr. Kumar holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Thapar University, Punjab, India.
Vaishali Mehta, PhD, is working as an Associate Professor in the Department Information Technology at Panipat Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panipat, Haryana, India. She has two patents published to her credit. She has over 17 years of teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research interests include approximation algorithms, location modelling, IoT, cloud computing, and machine learning. She has published research articles in quality journals (SCI and Scopus-indexed), national and international conferences, and books of reputed publishers. She has reviewed research papers of reputed journals and conferences. Dr. Mehta has a PhD in facility location problems from Thapar University, India.
Megha Bhushan, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing, DIT University, Dehradun, India. She has four years of research experience as a Junior Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow under the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, Government of India. She was awarded with fellowship by UGC, Government of India, and was also a recipient of a Grace Hopper Celebration India (GHCI) fellowship. She has filed four patents and published many research articles in international journals and conferences of repute. Her research interest includes software quality, software reuse, ontologies, artificial intelligence, and expert systems. She is also the reviewer and editorial board member of many international journals. She received her PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Thapar University, Punjab, India.
Sachi Nandan Mohanty, PhD, working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at College of Engineering Pune, India. Professor Mohanty’s research areas include data mining, big data analysis, cognitive science, fuzzy decision making, brain-computer interface, and computational intelligence. He has received three best paper awards during his PhD studies and has since published 20 papers in SCI journals. As a Fellow of the Indian Society Technical Education, The Institute of Engineering and Technology, and the Computer Society of India, and as a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers and Senior member of IEEE Computer Society, he is actively involved in the activities of professional societies. He has received the Best Researcher Award from the Biju Pattnaik University of Technology in 2019, Best Thesis Award (first prize) from Computer Society of India in 2015, and Outstanding Faculty in Engineering Award from Dept. of Higher Education, Govt. of Odisha in 2020. He has also received international travel funds from SERB, Dept of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, for chairing a session at an international conference USA, 2020. Dr. Mohanty is currently acting as a reviewer of many journals, including Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Computational and Structural Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence Review, and Spatial Information Research. He has also published four edited books and three authored books.
