Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things: Future Directions and Applications

Bhagirathi Nayak, PhD, is a highly results-oriented professional with experience of 25 years from IIT Kharagpur, India, in the areas of computer science and engineering, academics, administration, database design and development, and pedagogical activities. He is presently associated with Sri Sri University, Cuttack, India, as Head of the Department of Information and Communication Technology and Professor in-charge of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System. To date he has published more than 40 articles in reputed international journals and has written four books. He has holds five patents in the area of computer science and engineering. Dr. Nayak won the prestigious Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Professional Excellence Award in Data Science from the Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam Research Centre. He was also honored with the Best Professor of Data Science in Odisha, India Education Award 2019 at Bangalore. For his significant contribution to the field of data science, he awarded a Best Researcher Award by the Technological Conclave 2019, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He also received the Research and Innovation Award of the Year on the occasion of the National Summit 2020 on 17th January 2020 at New Delhi in the august presence of Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari (Honorable Minister of MSME). Four PhD scholars have been awarded and presently six PhD scholars are working under him. He did many more projects in the works, such as on bioinformatics with the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, MSME & Paradip Port, Odisha, India.

Subhendu Kumar Pani, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and also Research Coordinator at Orissa Engineering College (OEC) Bhubaneswar, India. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. His research interests include data mining, big data analysis, web data analytics, fuzzy decision-making, and computational intelligence. He is the recipient of five researcher awards. In addition to research, he has guided two PhD students and 31 MTech students. He has published over 50 international journal papers (25 Scopus indexed). His professional activities include roles as associate editor, editorial board member, and/or reviewer of various international journals. He is associated with a number of conferences and societies. He has more than 100 international publications, five authored books, two edited books, and ten book chapters to his credit. He is a fellow in Scientific Society of Advance Research and Social Change and a life member in many other professional organizations.

Tanupriya Choudhury, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UPES Dehradun, India. Recently he has received the Global Outreach Education Award for Excellence and Best Young Researcher Award at the Global Outreach Education Conference and Awards 2018. His areas of interests include human computing, soft computing, cloud computing, data mining, etc. He has filed 14 patents to date and received 16 copyrights from the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development for his own software. He has been associated with many conferences in India and abroad. He has authored more than 85 research papers and has delivered invited talks and guest lectures at several universities in India and elsewhere. He has been associated with many conferences throughout India as TPC member and session chair, etc. He is a lifetime member of IETA, member of IEEE, and member of IET (UK) and other renowned technical societies. He is associated with corporate, and he is Technical Adviser of DeetyaSoft Pvt. Ltd. Noida, IVRGURU, and Mydigital360, etc.

Suneeta Satpathy, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the College of Engineering Bhubaneswar (CoEB), Bhubaneswar, India. Her research interests include computer forensics, cyber security, data fusion, data mining, big data analysis, and decision mining. In addition to research, she has guided many postgraduate and graduate students. She has published papers in many international journals and conferences in repute. She has two Indian patents in her credit. She is an editorial board member and/or reviewer of the Journal of Engineering Science, Advancement of Computer Technology and Applications, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, and Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. She is a member of CSI, ISTE, OITS, ACM, and IE.

Sachi Nandan Mohanty, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education Hyderabad, India. He has published 20 journal papers and has edited four books. He is actively involved as a fellow of the Indian Society Technical Education, the Institute of Engineering and Technology, the Computer Society of India, and as member of the Institute of Engineers and IEEE Computer Society. He is currently a reviewer of many journals, including Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Computational and Structural Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence Review, and Spatial Information Research. He has been awarded a Best Researcher Award from Biju Pattnaik University of Technology in 2019, Best Thesis Award (first prize) from the Computer Society of India in 2015, and an Outstanding Faculty in Engineering Award from the Dept. of Higher Education, Government of Odisha in 2020. He has also received international travel funds from SERB, Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, for chairing several sessions at international conferences (USA in 2020). Dr. Mohanty received several best paper awards during his PhD at IIT Kharagpur from the International Conference at Bejing, China, and the International Conference on Soft Computing Applications, organized by IIT Rookee, India, in 2013. Prof. Mohanty's research areas include data mining, big data analysis, cognitive science, fuzzy decision-making, brain-computer interface, and computational intelligence.

Bhagirathi Nayak博士是一位高度以成果為導向的專業人士，擁有來自印度卡拉格普爾理工學院(IIT Kharagpur)的25年經驗，專長領域包括計算機科學與工程、學術、行政管理、數據庫設計與開發以及教學活動。他目前在印度Cuttack的Sri Sri大學擔任資訊與通訊技術系主任和企業資源規劃(ERP)系統負責人。迄今為止，他在國際知名期刊上發表了40多篇文章，並撰寫了四本書。他在計算機科學與工程領域擁有五項專利。Nayak博士曾獲得阿卜杜勒·卡拉姆博士數據科學專業卓越獎，該獎項由阿卜杜勒·卡拉姆研究中心頒發。他還榮獲2019年奧里薩邦最佳數據科學教授的印度教育獎。由於在數據科學領域的重要貢獻，他獲得了2019年技術大會在印度奧里薩邦布巴內斯瓦爾舉行的最佳研究員獎。他還在2020年1月17日的全國峰會上獲得了研究和創新年度獎，該峰會在新德里舉行，當時尼廷·賈伊拉姆·加德卡里先生(工業和內陸水運部部長)也在場。他指導了四位獲得博士學位的學者，目前還有六位博士研究生在他指導下進行研究。他還與印度生物技術部、中小企業和巴拉迪普港等部門進行了許多項目，例如生物信息學等。

Subhendu Kumar Pani博士是印度布巴內斯瓦爾的奧里薩工程學院(OEC)計算機科學與工程系的教授，也是研究協調員。他擁有超過15年的教學和研究經驗。他的研究興趣包括數據挖掘、大數據分析、網絡數據分析、模糊決策和計算智能。他獲得了五項研究員獎。除了研究工作外，他還指導了兩位博士研究生和31位碩士研究生。他發表了50多篇國際期刊論文(其中25篇被Scopus收錄)。他的專業活動包括擔任各種國際期刊的副編輯、編委會成員和/或審稿人。他與許多會議和學會有關聯。他的著作包括100多篇國際出版物、五本著作、兩本編輯著作和十篇書籍章節。他是科學研究和社會變革科學學會的會士，也是其他許多專業組織的終身會員。

Tanupriya Choudhury博士是印度德拉敦的UPES大學計算機科學與工程系的副教授。他最近在全球外展教育會議和獎項2018年獲得了卓越全球外展教育獎和最佳年輕研究員獎。他的研究領域包括人類計算、軟計算、雲計算、數據挖掘等。他迄今為止已申請了14項專利，並從印度人力資源發展部獲得了16項軟體版權。他與印度和國外的許多會議有關聯。他發表了85多篇研究論文，並在印度和其他地方的多所大學發表了邀請演講和客座講座。他在印度各地的許多會議中擔任技術計劃委員會成員和會議主席等職務。他是IETA的終身會員，也是IEEE和IET (UK)等知名技術組織的會員。他與企業有關聯，是DeetyaSoft Pvt. Ltd. Noida、IVRGURU和Mydigital360等公司的技術顧問。

Suneeta Satpathy博士是印度布巴內斯瓦爾的工程學院計算機科學與工程系的副教授。她的研究興趣包括計算機取證等。