Unveiling Blockchain Enabled Business Applications

K.Saravanan is Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering at College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science engineering. His research interest includes cloud computing, blockchain, software engineering, IoT and smart cities. He has published papers in 14 international conferences and 30 international journals. He has also written 20 book chapters and edited nine books with international publishers. He is a reviewer for many reputed journals and is Fellow of Institution of Engineers (IEI) and member of International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), etc. He has undertaken consultancy projects for municipal corporation and smart city schemes.

Raghvendra Kumar is Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Department at Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology (GIET) University, Gunupur, India. After his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, he did his Postdoc (Fellow) from Institute of Information Technology, Virtual Reality and Multimedia, Vietnam. As a post-doc, he also served as Honorary Adjunct Distinguished Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory–AI Lab, Ton Duc Thang university, Vietnam (April 21, 2022 - April 20, 2023), and as Visiting Research Fellow at Advanced Telecommunication Research Center (ATRC), Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia (June 2023-May 2025). He serves as Series Editor of the book series Internet of Everything (IOE): Security and Privacy Paradigm; Green Engineering and Technology: Concepts and Applications; and Bio-Medical Engineering: Techniques and Applications. He has published number of research papers in international journal and conferences. He authored and edited 34 books and published 16 chapters in edited books in field of IoT, data mining, biomedical engineering, big data, robotics etc. He has served as organizing chair, keynote speaker, session chair, co-chair, publicity chair, publication chair, advisory board, and technical program committee member in many international conferences. He has also served as guest editors in many special issues published in reputed journals. His researches areas are computer networks, data mining, cloud computing and secure multiparty computations, theory of computer science and design of algorithms.

Swamynathan Ramakrishnan has 23 years of experience in academics and is currently serving as University Research Committee Member and faculty in School of Business, Amity University, Dubai. In the previous assignment, he has been a full time faculty member with Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai and with PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. Dr. Swamynathan’ s academic contributions, apart from teaching the core subjects of marketing and supply chain management, include authoring of 32 papers in leading journals, 6 case-studies and successfully guiding 8 PhDs scholars in management sciences under Anna University. He is a reviewer for Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Consumer Studies and few more high ranked Scopus indexed journals. He is also a consultant for SMEs in the area of market potential assessment. Dr. Swamynathan Ramakrishnan was leading the US-Indian MBA program – University of Toledo MBA; and a champion for ACBSP– the international accrediting agency for B-school quality.