Amit Kumar Tyagi is an Assistant Professor at the National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar, India. He previously held academic and research positions, including at Vellore Institute of Technology (2019โ2022), and earned his PhD from Pondicherry Central University in 2018. He has supervised doctoral and masterโs students and contributed to research projects on privacy and security in vehicular applications and medical cyber-physical systems. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and holds more than 25 patents in areas such as deep learning, the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and computer vision. He has edited over 25 books and authored four books in related fields, and has received multiple research awards. His interests include machine-based communications, blockchain, and secure, privacy-preserving computing. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.
Dr. Ajith Abraham is the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academics, Research, Incubation, and International Relations at Bennette University. He is also the Founding Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a global non-profit scientific network that connects academia and industry to support research and innovation. He is also serving as Vice Chancellor of Sai University, Chennai. His research interests include artificial intelligence and machine intelligence, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), network security, Web intelligence, sensor networks, and data mining. He serves as Chair of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing and has held editorial leadership roles, including Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Abraham earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Monash University, Australia.