Examining the Metaverse in Healthcare: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions

Gururaj T. is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Davangere affiliated to VTU. He received his Ph.D. from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi, Karnataka, India, and Master of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from J. N. National College of Engineering, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India (VTU). He has published a good number of research papers in reputed International Conferences and Journals. He is a member of ISTE and has more than 20 years of teaching experience. His main area of interest includes studies related to Big Data and its Applications, Data Science, Data Analytics and Bioinformatics.

S. Goyal completed PhD in the Computer Science & Engineering in 2012 from India and served many institutions in many different academic and administrative positions. He is holding 19+ years experience at national and international level. He has peerless inquisitiveness and enthusiasm to get abreast with the latest development in the IT field. He has good command over Industry Revolution (IR) 4.0 technologies like Big-Data, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence & Blockchain, computer networking, deep learning etc. He is the first one to introduce IR 4.0 including Blockchain technology in the academic curriculum in Malaysian Universities.He had participated in many panel discussions on IR 4.0 technologies at academia as well as industry platforms. He is holding 19+ years’ experience in academia at National & International level. He is serving as a reviewer or guest editors in many Journals published by Inderscience, IGI Global, Springer. He is contributing as a Co-Editor in many Scopus books. He had contributed in many Scopus/ SCI Journal/ conferences. Currently, Dr Goyal is associated as a Director, Faculty of Information Technology, City University, Malaysia.

Dr Vinod Kumar Shukla is currently working with Amity University, Dubai, U.A.E., as Associate Professor and Head of Academics for the Engineering Architecture and Interior Design department. He has more than 15 years of experience. He has completed his PhD in “Semantic Web and Ontology” and is an active member of IEEE. He has appeared in the prestigious Stanford's list, USA of top 2% of scientists for in 2022. He has authored 100+ research publications in journals, book chapters and Conferences, and have 500+ plus Scopus citations. He has edited books in the field of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Industry 4.0 and Healthcare, and People Analytics. He is the recipient of various awards such as the “Global Academic Excellence Award- 2021”, “Faculty Achievement Award” under the category of research publication in continuous two years 2021, 2022, “Best Paper Award” in the International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Data Science Application- 2020”. His research area includes cyber security, the Internet of Things, and Blockchain. Currently, he is working on the books and exploring the transition of technologies and their possible impact from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0.

Alessandro Bruno is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computer Science at IULM University (Milan, Italy). He is affiliated with the Department of Business, Law, Economics, and Consumer Behaviour “Carlo A. Ricciardi”. He earned a PhD in Computer Engineering and majored in Computer Vision, Image Processing and Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Visual Saliency, Visual Attention, and Biomedical Image Analysis. He covered postdoc positions at the University of Palermo (Italy), INAF IASF Palermo (Italian National Institute for Astrophysics), NCCA (National Centre for Computer Animation) in the UK, Bournemouth University's Department of Computing and Informatics in the UK. Alessandro was Lecturer in Computing at Bournemouth University. He was a research visitor at UCL (University College London) in 2019 in the group of imaging from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory. In 2021 and 2022, he served as Co-Investigator for a European Research Project. He now serves as Principal Investigator for an NGI-Search-funded project on Fake News Mitigation. Associate Editor of several International Scientific Journals. [Editor]