Rural Futures: Innovation, Resilience, and Sustainable Development

Pushan Kumar Dutta is a distinguished associate professor in the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department at ASETK, Amity University Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He earned his PhD in electronics and telecommunication engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and his postdoctorate from the Erasmus Mundus Association. His areas of research include data mining, big data, AI, edge computing, federated learning, predictive analytics, earthquake precursor study, computer hardware, sustainability, electronic devices, design thinking, Industry 5.0, machine ethics, and intelligent systems for biomedicine.

Sonal Trivedi is an associate professor at Manav Rachna University, Faridabad, Haryana, India. She earned her PhD in management (finance) from the University of Kota, Rajasthan. She has more than 12 years of teaching experience, including being a teaching assistant at S. V. National Institute of Technology (NIT), Surat, India. Her areas of research include blockchain technology, finance, banking, and insurance.