Cloud IoT

IoT is based on intelligent self-configuring nodes interconnected in a dynamic and global collaborative network infrastructure. In contrast, Cloud computing has virtually unlimited capabilities in terms of storage and processing power, speed. Due to intrinsic nature of Cloud computing and IoT, they both complement each other.

Dr. Jitendra Kumar Verma is an Assistant Professor at 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 delivered a numerous 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 four books, Applications of Machine Learning (Springer Verlag, 2020), Computational Intelligence and Its Applications in Healthcare (Elsevier Academic Press, 2020), IoT and Cloud Computing for Societal Good (Springer International Publisher, 2021), Advances in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (Springer Verlag, 2022).

He is an awardee of the prestigious DAAD "A new Passage to India" Fellowship (2015–16) funded by the 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 Laureates including discovery of X-Rays), as a visiting research scholar.

His core research interests include software engineering, Internet of Things, social computing, image processing, artificial intelligence, and soft computing techniques. Dr. Verma has organized several international conferences, seminars, and workshops. He has delivered several invited talks. He is associate editor and guest editor of many international journals. Dr. Verma is a member of several national and international societies/professional bodies including ACM (USA), IEEE Industrial Applications Society (USA), IEEE Young Professional (USA), IEEE (USA), Institut De Diplomatie Publique (United Kingdom), Hyderabad Deccan ACM Chapter, Computer Society of India (New Delhi) and Soft Computing Research Society (New Delhi). He serves as a reviewer for various high impact international journals, conferences, and workshops.

Dr. Deepak Saxena is an Assistant Professor at School of Management and Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur. 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 Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology, and American College Dublin. His research is published in Australasian Journal of Information Systems, International Journal of Project Management, 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 Díaz 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 of Management 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.

Dr. Vira Shendryk started her academic career in Sept. 2002 at the Sumy State University, Ukraine. Current position is Deputy Head of Computer Science Department, Head of the Information Technology Section, Associate Professor at Sumy State University.

She was a visiting scholar at McMaster University, Canada in 2012, visiting professor at Malmo University, Sweden in 2013 and Riga Technical University, Latvia in 2014. Her research interest is focused on the field of Information Systems and Decision Science particularly in decision making under uncertainty. She has written over 200 journal articles and conference paper and presentations. She has also been a Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Green Computing (IJGC), Manchester Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Applied Sciences (MJAIAS) and a Member of Programme Committees the International scientific conferences in Ukraine, Lithuania, Austria, Poland.