Data Analytics for Pandemics: A COVID-19 Case Study
暫譯: 疫情數據分析：以 COVID-19 為案例研究

本書的重點是針對 COVID-19 的數據分析，包括對 COVID-19 在疫情/流行病方面的概述、數據處理和知識提取。書中討論了數據來源、存儲和平台，並探討了數據模型、其性能、不同的大數據技術、工具和技術。

Gitanjali Shinde has overall 11 years of experience, presently working as SPPU approved Assistant Professor in Department of computer Engineering, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune - 41 till date. She has done Ph.D. in Wireless Communication from CMI, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark on Research Problem Statement "Cluster Framework for Internet of People, Things and Services" - Ph. D awarded on 8th May 2018. She obtained M.E. (Computer Engineering) degree from University of Pune, Pune in 2012 and B.E. (Computer Engg) degree from University of Pune, Pune in 2006. She has received research funding for project "lightweight group authentication for IoT" by SPPU, Pune. She has presented research article in World Wireless Research Forum (WWRF) meeting, Beijing China. She has published 40+ papers in National, International conferences and journals. She is author of 3 books and also editor of book "The Internet of Everything: Advances, Challenges and application", De Gruyter Press.

Ms. Asmita B. Kalamkar has 5 years of experience, presently working as Assistant Professor in Department of computer Engineering, Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune - 41 till date. She obtained M.E. (Computer Engineering) degree from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune in 2015 and B.E. (Computer Engineering) degree from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune in 2013. She has published 10+ papers in National, International conferences and journals. She is author of 1 book.

Parikshit N. Mahalle obtained his B.E degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, India and M.E. degree in Computer Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. He completed his Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering specialization in Wireless Communication from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He was Post Doc Researcher at CMI, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Currently, he is working as Professor and Head in the Department of Computer Engineering at STES's Smt. Kashibai Navale College of Engineering, Pune, India. He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience. He is serving as a subject expert in Computer Engineering, Research and Recognition Committee at several universities like SPPU (Pune), SGBU (Amravati). He is a senior member IEEE, ACM member, Life member CSI and Life member ISTE. Also, he is a member of IEEE transaction on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Internet of Things Journal. He is a reviewer for IGI Global - International Journal of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IJRSDA), Associate Editor for IGI Global - International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), Inderscience International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing (IJGUC). He is a Member-Editorial Review Board for IGI Global - International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI). He is also working as an Associate Editor for IGI Global - International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE). He has also remained a technical program committee member for International conferences and symposium like IEEE ICC, IEEE INDICON, IEEE GCWSN, IEEE ICCUBEA, etc.
He is a reviewer for the Springer Journal of Wireless Personal Communications, reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Applied Computing and Informatics, member of the Editorial Review Board of IGI Global - International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI), member of the Editorial Review Board for Journal of Global Research in Computer Science.
He has published more than 150 research publications having 1044 citations and H index 12. He has 5 edited books to his credit by Springer and CRC Press. He has 7 patents to his credit. He has also delivered invited talk on "Identity Management in IoT" to Symantec Research Lab, Mountain View, California. He has delivered more than 100 lectures at national and international level on IoT, Big Data and Digitization. He has authored 11 books on subjects like Context-aware Pervasive Systems and Application (Springer Nature Press), Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Cambridge University), Identity Management for the Internet of Things (River Publications), Data Structure and Algorithms (Cengage Publications), Programming using Python - (Tech-Neo Publications MSBTE).
He had worked as Chairman of Board of Studies (Information Technology), SPPU, Pune. He is working as Member - Board of Studies (Computer Engineering), SPPU, Pune. He has been a member of the Board of Studies at several institutions like VIT (Pune), Govt. College (Karad), Sandeep University (Nashik), Vishwakarma University (Pune), Dr. D. Y. Patil International University (Pune), etc. He has also remained a technical program committee member for many International conferences.
He is a recognized Ph. D guide of SSPU, Pune and guiding 7 PhD students in the area of IoT and Machine Learning. Recently, 2 students have successfully defended their Ph.D. He is also the recipient of "Best Faculty Award" by Sinhgad Institutes and Cognizant Technologies Solutions. His recent research interests include Algorithms, Internet of Things, Identity Management and Security. He has visited a few countries like Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Norway, China, Switzerland, and Singapore.

Nilanjan Dey is an Assistant Professor in Department of Information Technology at Techno India College of Technology (under Techno India Group), Kolkata, India. He is also a Visiting Professor at Duy Tan University, Vietnam, He was an honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015), Research Scientist of Laboratory of Applied Mathematical Modelling in Human Physiology, Territorial Organization of- Scientific and Engineering Unions, Bulgaria. Associate Researcher of Laboratoire RIADI, University of Manouba, Tunisia. He is an associated Member of University of Reading, London, UK and Scientific Member of - Politécnica of Porto. In addition, he was awarded as one among the top 10 most published academics in the field of Computer Science in India during the period of consideration 2015-17 during 'Faculty Research Awards' organized by Careers 360 at New Delhi, India on March 20, 2018. Before he joined Techno India, he was Assistant Professor of JIS College of Engineering and Bengal College of Engineering and Technology. He has authored/edited more than 30 books with Elsevier, Wiley, CRC Press and Springer, and published more than 270 papers. His h-index is 26 with more than 3000 citations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. f Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI, IGI Global, UK, Scopus), Int. J. of Rough Sets and Data Analysis (IGI Global, US, DBLP, ACM dl), Co- Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Synthetic Emotions (IGI Global, US, DBLP, ACM dl) and International Journal of Natural Computing Research (IGI Global, US, DBLP, ACM dl). He is the Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare (AUSAH), Elsevier, Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal processing and data analysis, CRC Press (FOCUS/Brief Series) and Advances in Geospatial Technologies (AGT) Book Series, (IGI Global), US, serves as an editorial board member of several international journals, including International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM), Inderscience, Associated Editor of IEEE Access (SCI-Indexed), and International Journal of Information Technology, Springer.
His main research interests include Medical Imaging, Machine learning, Computer Aided Diagnosis as well as Data Mining. He has been on program committees of over 50 international conferences, a workshop organizer of 5 workshops, and acted as a program co-chair and/or advisory chair of more than 10 international conferences. He has given more than 40 invited lectures in 10 countries, including many invited plenary/key note talks at the international conferences such as ITITS2017 (China), TIMEC2017 (Egypt) and SOFA2018 (Romania), BioCom2018 (UK) etc

Gitanjali Shinde 擁有 11 年的總經驗，目前擔任 Pune - 41 的 SPPU 認可的計算機工程系助理教授，任職於 Smt. Kashibai Navale 工程學院。她於丹麥哥本哈根的阿爾堡大學 (Aalborg University) 獲得無線通信的博士學位，研究題目為「人、物及服務的集群框架」- 博士學位於 2018 年 5 月 8 日授予。她於 2012 年在普那大學 (University of Pune) 獲得計算機工程碩士學位，並於 2006 年獲得計算機工程學士學位。她獲得了 SPPU, Pune 的研究資金，用於「物聯網的輕量級群組身份驗證」項目。她在中國北京的世界無線研究論壇 (WWRF) 會議上發表了研究文章。她在國內外會議和期刊上發表了 40 以上的論文。她是 3 本書的作者，並且是《萬物互聯：進展、挑戰與應用》一書的編輯，該書由 De Gruyter Press 出版。

Asmita B. Kalamkar 女士擁有 5 年的經驗，目前擔任 Pune - 41 的計算機工程系助理教授，任職於 Smt. Kashibai Navale 工程學院。她於 2015 年在 Savitribai Phule Pune University 獲得計算機工程碩士學位，並於 2013 年獲得計算機工程學士學位。她在國內外會議和期刊上發表了 10 以上的論文。她是 1 本書的作者。

Parikshit N. Mahalle 獲得了印度 Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University 的計算機科學與工程學士學位，並在 Savitribai Phule Pune University 獲得計算機工程碩士學位。他在丹麥阿爾堡大學完成了計算機科學與工程專攻無線通信的博士學位。他曾在丹麥哥本哈根的阿爾堡大學 (Aalborg University) 擔任博士後研究員。目前，他在印度 Pune 的 STES Smt. Kashibai Navale 工程學院擔任計算機工程系教授及系主任。他擁有超過 20 年的教學和研究經驗。他在 SPPU (Pune)、SGBU (Amravati) 等多所大學擔任計算機工程、研究與認可委員會的主題專家。他是 IEEE 的資深會員、ACM 會員、CSI 的終身會員及 ISTE 的終身會員。此外，他還是 IEEE 信息取證與安全期刊、IEEE 物聯網期刊的成員。他是 IGI Global - 國際粗集與數據分析期刊 (IJRSDA) 的審稿人，IGI Global - 國際合成情感期刊 (IJSE) 的副編輯，Inderscience 國際網格與公用計算期刊 (IJGUC) 的審稿人。他是 IGI Global - 國際環境計算與智能期刊 (IJACI) 的編輯審查委員會成員。他還擔任 IGI Global - 國際合成情感期刊 (IJSE) 的副編輯。他曾擔任 IEEE ICC、IEEE INDICON、IEEE GCWSN、IEEE ICCUBEA 等國際會議的技術程序委員會成員。

他是 Springer Journal of Wireless Personal Communications 的審稿人，Elsevier Journal of Applied Computing and Informatics 的審稿人，IGI Global - 國際環境計算與智能期刊 (IJACI) 的編輯審查委員會成員，Global Research in Computer Science 期刊的編輯審查委員會成員。他已發表超過 150 篇研究論文，擁有 1044 次引用，H 指數為 12。他編輯了 5 本由 Springer 和 CRC Press 出版的書籍，擁有 7 項專利。他曾在加州山景城的 Symantec 研究實驗室發表有關「物聯網中的身份管理」的邀請演講。他在物聯網、大數據和數位化方面在國內外發表了超過 100 場講座。他撰寫了 11 本書，主題包括上下文感知的普遍系統與應用 (Springer Nature Press)、演算法的設計與分析 (劍橋大學)、物聯網的身份管理 (River Publications)、數據結構與演算法 (Cengage Publications)、使用 Python 的程式設計 (Tech-Neo Publications MSBTE)。

他曾擔任 SPPU, Pune 的資訊技術學科委員會主席，目前擔任 SPPU, Pune 的計算機工程學科委員會成員。他曾在 VIT (Pune)、政府學院 (Karad)、Sandeep 大學 (Nashik)、Vishwakarma 大學 (Pune)、Dr. D. Y. Patil 國際大學 (Pune) 等多所機構的學科委員會任職。他還曾擔任多個國際會議的技術程序委員會成員。

他是 SPPU, Pune 的認可博士生導師，指導 7 名在物聯網和機器學習領域的博士生。最近，有 2 名學生成功通過博士論文答辯。他還獲得了 Sinhgad 學院和 Cognizant Technologies Solutions 的「最佳教師獎」。他最近的研究興趣包括演算法、物聯網、身份管理和安全。他曾訪問過丹麥、法國、瑞典、德國、奧地利、挪威、中國、瑞士和新加坡等幾個國家。

Nilanjan Dey 是印度加爾各答 Techno India College of Technology (隸屬於 Techno India Group) 的資訊技術系助理教授。他也是越南 Duy Tan 大學的訪問教授。他曾在美國加州的 Global Biomedical Technologies Inc. 擔任榮譽訪問科學家 (2012-2015)，並在保加利亞的科學與工程聯盟的應用數學建模實驗室擔任研究科學家。他是突尼西亞 Manouba 大學 RIADI 實驗室的副研究員。他是英國倫敦的雷丁大學的關聯成員，以及波爾圖理工學院的科學成員。此外，他在 2018 年 3 月 20 日於印度新德里舉辦的「教師研究獎」中被評選為 2015-17 年間印度計算機科學領域發表最多的前 10 名學者之一。在加入 Techno India 之前，他曾擔任 JIS 工程學院和孟加拉工程與技術學院的助理教授。他與 Elsevier、Wiley、CRC Press 和 Springer 合著/編輯了 30 本以上的書籍，並發表了超過 270 篇論文。他的 H 指數為 26，引用次數超過 3000。他是 IGI Global 的《環境計算與智能期刊》(IJACI) 的主編、《國際粗集與數據分析期刊》(IGI Global) 的主編、《國際合成情感期刊》(IGI Global) 的共同主編，以及《國際自然計算研究期刊》(IGI Global) 的主編。他是 Elsevier 的《醫療保健中普遍感知應用的進展》(AUSAH) 系列的共同編輯，CRC Press 的《工程問題解決中的計算智能與智能信號處理與數據分析》系列的編輯，以及 IGI Global 的《地理空間技術進展》(AGT) 書系列的編輯，並擔任多個國際期刊的編輯委員會成員，包括《國際圖像挖掘期刊》(IJIM)、Inderscience、IEEE Access (SCI 索引) 的副編輯，以及 Springer 的《國際資訊技術期刊》。

他的主要研究興趣包括醫療影像、機器學習、計算機輔助診斷以及數據挖掘。他曾參與超過 50 個國際會議的程序委員會，組織過 5 個研討會，並擔任超過 10 個國際會議的程序共同主席和/或顧問主席。他在 10 個國家發表了超過 40 場邀請講座，包括在 ITITS2017 (中國)、TIMEC2017 (埃及) 和 SOFA2018 (羅馬尼亞)、BioCom2018 (英國) 等國際會議上的多場邀請全體會議/主題演講。