Dr. Harish Sharma is an Associate professor at Rajasthan Technical University, Kota in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering since 2014. He has worked as an Assistant professor at Govt. Engg. College Jhalawar and Vardhman Mahaveer Open University Kota India. He is the secretary and one of the founder members of the Soft Computing Research Society of India. He is a lifetime member of the Cryptology Research Society of India, ISI, Kolkata. He has contributed to more than 125 papers published in various international journals and conferences. He has been listed among the world’s 2% top scientists in 2020 and 2021. He has completed 8 DST-SERB and AICTE-TEQIP-funded projects and has published 02 patents. He is the series editor of springer book series “Studies in Smart Technologies”. He is an Associate Editor of “The International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (IJSI)” published by Inderscience. He has also edited many special issues of the reputed journals. His primary area of interest is nature-inspired optimization techniques.
Dr. Antorweep Chakravorty is an Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger. His current research and development work is in the field of applied Blockchains, Big Data, Large Scale Machine Learning, and Data Privacy. He has an interest in real-world problems, especially development of privacy enabled data-driven services in smart energy, healthcare, and smart city domains. Antorweep completed his PhD. in 2015 with a thesis on Privacy Preserving Big Data Analytics at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Along with having a background in applied research in data-driven solutions, he is also involved in mentoring, teaching and supervision.