Metaverse Driven Intelligent Information Systems: Emerging Trends and Future Directions

Dr. Sandeep Kautish is working as Professor & Director at Apex Institute of Technology at Chandigarh University, Punjab India (Ranked #691-700 as per QS World University Ranking 2024). He has worked as Director-Academics at LBEF CAMPUS (ASIA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, MALAYSIA’s Trans-National Education (TNE) site), Kathmandu Nepal. APU is ranked under #600 top universities as per QS World University Ranking 2023 and #240 in QS Asia University Rankings of 2023.  Dr. Kautish is an academician by choice and comes along with two decades of work experience in academics including about one decade in academic administration. He earned his bachelors, masters and doctorate degree in Computer Science on Intelligent Systems in Social Networks. He holds Diploma in Management also. His areas of research interest are Healthcare Analytics, Business Analytics, Data Mining, and Information Systems. He is an avid researcher with 100+ publications including 43 in JCR Q1 journals, 43 SCI/SCIE Indexed research papers, 87 Scopus indexed and 49 Web of Science Core Collection Publications.  In 2022, he pioneered a novel method for distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation strategy which is most suitable for hybrid cloud environment and this work is published in prestigious IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Impact Factor: 11.648). His research works has been published in reputed journals i.e. Scientific Reports (SCIE, Springer Nature, Impact Factor: 4.6), IEEE Access (SCI, Impact Factor: 3.415), Computer Standard & Interface (SCI, Elsevier, Impact Factor: 3.721), Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (SCIE, Springer, Impact Factor: 3.662), Wireless Personal Communications (SCIE, Springer, Impact Factor: 2.017), Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer, SCIE, Impact Factor: 2.577). He is a highly cited researcher with 1500+ Google Scholar citations with H-Index of 16 and 23 in Scopus and Google Scholar respectively. He has authored/edited more than 20 books with reputed publishers i.e. Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, De Gruyter, Bentham Science and IGI Global. He has been invited as Keynote Speaker at VIT Vellore in 2019 for an International Virtual Conference held at VIT Vellore Campus. He filed one patent in the field of Solar Energy equipment using Artificial Intelligence in 2019. He has been instrumental in organizing more than 10 conferences and 15+ FDPs/FTPs in India and abroad.

Álvaro Rocha was listed in 2023 as World’s 1% Top Scientists by Stanford University and Elsevier, World’s Top 0.05% Scientist by ScholarGPS, and World’s Top 1% Scientist by ResearchGate for the fields of Information Science and Information Systems. He is Professor at ISEG, University of Lisbon, Invited Professor at University of Calabria, Honorary Professor at Amity University, President of ITMA - Information and Technology Management Association, Vice-Chair of IEEE SMC Portugal Chapter, and Book Series Scientific Manager at Springer-Nature. He holds the title of Honorary Professor, and holds a D.Sc. in Information Science, Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technologies, M.Sc. in Information Management, and BCs in Computer Science. He is researcher at the ADVANCE (the ISEG Centre for Advanced Research in Management), and a collaborator researcher at CINTESIS (Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems). His main research interests are maturity models, information systems quality, online service quality, requirements engineering, intelligent information systems, e-Government, e-Health, and information technology in education. He is also Founder and Editor-in-Chief of both following Scopus and/or WoS journals: JISEM (Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management) and RISTI (Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação / Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies). Moreover, he has served as Vice-Chair of Experts for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Program, and as an Expert at the COST - intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, at the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Program, at the Government of Italy’s Ministry of Universities and Research, at the Government of Latvia’s Ministry of Finance, at the Government of Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology, at the Government of Polish's National Science Centre, at the Government of Cyprus's Research and Innovation Foundation, and at the Government of Slovak's Research Agency.