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Jitendra Kumar Verma is Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi in IT Discipline. Prior to joining IIFT, he served at Amity University Haryana, Galgotias University and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (University of Delhi). He received his degree of M.Tech and Ph.D. in computer science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He obtained his degree of B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology (KNIT), Sultanpur in 2008. Over his short career, he has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed international journals, books with renowned publishers, conference proceedings papers, and book chapters. He has organized several international conference, seminars, and workshops. He also delivered several invited talks and seminars at several platforms of national and international repute. Dr. Verma authored one book, Green Cloud Computing (Lambert Academic Publishing, 2016), and edited three books, Applications of Machine Learning (Springer Verlag, 2020), Computational Intelligence and its Applications in Healthcare (Elsevier Academic Press, 2020), Advances in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (Springer Verlag, 2021).

He is awardee of prestigious DAAD “A new Passage to India” Fellowship (2015-16) funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research – BMBF, Germany and German Academic Exchange Service. He worked at Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany (mother of 14 Nobel Laureate) as a Visiting Research Scholar.

His core research interest includes Software Engineering, Internet of Things, Social Computing, Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence, and Soft Computing techniques. He has organized several International conference, seminars and workshops. He has delivered several invited talks. He is associate editor and guest editor to many International Journals. He is a member of several Societies and professionalbodies including ACM, IEEE Industrial Applications Society, IEEE Young Professional, IEEE, Hyderabad Deccan ACM Chapter, Institut De Diplomatie Publique. He serves as a reviewer for various International Journals, conferences, and workshops.

 

Dr. Deepak Saxena is Assistant Professor at Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani. Prior to this, he was a Research Fellow with the Trinity Centre for Digital Business. He holds a PhD in Business from Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) and M. Tech. (Industrial and Management Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.

Before moving to Ireland for his PhD, he has worked with the Indian Space Research Organisation, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and Defence Research and Development Organisation. He is interested in the area of digital transformation, with a special focus on public service organizations.

He has previously taught at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology, and American College Dublin. His research is published in Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Information Science, Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, and Electronic Journal of e-Government. He has presented his papers in the British Academy of Management, European Conference of Information Systems, European Academy of Management Conference, the UK Academy for Information Systems Conference, and the Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference.

 

Dr. Vicente González-Prida currently works for a private company as project manager sharing his professional performance with teaching activities for degree programs in Spain and LATAM, as well as the development of research projects for the university.

In the academia, he has been honored with the following recognitions:

• Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate by the University of Seville;
• National Award for PhD Thesis on Dependability-RAMS by the Spanish Association for Quality;
• National Award for PhD Thesis on Maintenance by the Spanish Association for Maintenance;
• Best Nomination from Spain for the Excellence Master Thesis Award bestowed by the European Federation of National Maintenance Societies;
• First Class Honours in the Executive Master in Business Administration, by the Chamber of Commerce

Dr. González-Prida has edited four books, (IGI-Global 2015, 2017 and 2019; Springer Verlag 2018), regarding Maintenance Modelling, RAMS, Asset Management and Decision Making, and authored two books (Confemetal 2018; Springer Verlag 2014) about ISO-55000 and After Sales Management.

His research works have been presented in conferences like WCEAM, ESREL, IEEE, ESREDA, etc., and published in journals such as Reliability Engineering and System Safety; Production Planning and Control; IMA Journal ofManagement Mathematics; Computers in Industry, among others.

His main interest is related to ILS, RAMS, Life Cycle Optimization, as well as the Industry 4.0 and Disrupted Technologies.

Finally, Dr. González-Prida is member of the Technical Committee of the Engineering Institute of Spain, fellow of the Club of Rome (Spanish Chapter), member of the Technical Advisory Board for the Observatory of Intelligence, Security and Defence, among other institutions.

De la contraportada

This book gathers the state-of-the-art for industrial application of scientific and practical research in the Cloud and IoT paradigms to benefit society. The book first aims to discuss and outline various aspects of tackling climate change. The authors then discuss how Cloud and IoT can help for digital health and learning from industrial aspects. The next part of book discusses technical improvements in the fields of security and privacy. The book also covers Smart Homes and IoT in agriculture. The book is targeted towards advancing undergraduate, graduate, and post graduate students, researchers, academicians, policymakers, various government officials, NGOs, and industry research professionals who are currently working in the field of science and technology either directly or indirectly to benefit common masses.

• Presents the latest developments in Cloud computing and Internet of Things and how they can be used for societal advancement; 
• Establishes links between interdisciplinary areas where IoT and Cloud both play a key role for improving process and related application;
• Provides insights of non-IT related models for improvement in lives of the general public.