Trends of Data Science and Applications : Theory and Practices

Siddharth Swarup Rautaray is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Engineering, KIIT-Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India. He received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, U.P., India. He has over 9 years of teaching and research experience. His research interest areas are big data analytics, image processing, intelligent systems, human-computer interaction, and similar innovative areas. His research contribution includes 05 co-edited proceedings/books, over 75 research publications in reputed conferences, book chapters, and journals. As an organizing chair, he has organized 05 international conferences and has been part of different core committees of other conferences and workshops. He has delivered invited talks in several workshops and conferences.

Hrushikesha Mohanty, Professor at the School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad is currently on lien to serve as the Vice-Chancellor of KIIT, Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar. His research interests include distributed computing, software engineering, and computational social science. Before joining the University of Hyderabad, he worked at Electronics Corporation of India Limited, Hyderabad for developing strategic real-time systems. Other than computer science researchpublications, he regularly writes Odia poems, stories, and a weekly Odia column MoKatha.