Pethuru Raj has been working in the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Center of Excellence, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. (RJIL), Bangalore. My previous stints are in IBM Cloud center of Excellence (CoE), Wipro consulting services (WCS), and Robert Bosch Corporate Research (CR). In total, I have gained more than 17 years of IT industry experience and 8 years of research experience. Finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree at Anna University, Chennai and continued with the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thereafter, I was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. Published more than 40 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, Inderscience, etc. Have authored and edited 16 books thus far and focus on some of the emerging technologies such as IoT, Cognitive Analytics, Blockchain, Digital Twin, Docker Containerization, Data Science, Microservices Architecture, fog / edge computing, Artificial intelligence (AI), etc.
Kavita Saini (IEEE and ACM Member) is presently working as Professor, School of Computing Science and Engineering, Galgotias University, Delhi NCR, India. She received her PhD degree from Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Banasthali. She has 18 years of teaching and research experience supervising Masters and PhD scholars in emerging technologies. She has published more than 80 research papers in national and international journals and conferences. She has published 18 authored books for UG and PG courses for a number of universities including MD University, Rothak, and Punjab Technical University, Jallandhar with National Publishers. Kavita Saini has edited more than 12 books with International Publishers including Elsevier, IET Publisher, IGI Global and CRC Press, NOVA Science Publisher and published 25 book chapters with International publishers. Under her guidance many M Tech and Ph D scholars are carrying out research work. She has also published various patents. Kavita Saini has also delivered technical talks on Blockchain: An Emerging Technology, Web to Deep Web and other emerging Areas and Handled many Special Sessions in International Conferences and Special Issues in International Journals. Her research interests include Smart and Sustainable Agricultural, Blockchain Technology, Industry 5.O, and Cloud and Edge Computing, Digital Twin and Web-Based Instructional Systems (WBIS)Vinicius Pacheco is an IT professional as well as an academic researcher. As a Brazilian federal public employee, he has over two decades of experience working at the IT department of several public offices, mainly in IT governance, cloud computing, unified communications, network management, and network security. He has also occupied the position of Chief Information Officer at two different federal organizations. As a researcher, he holds a Ph.D. in cloud security and has published several academic papers and book contributions, lately focusing on enabling privacy in the cloud computing paradigm.