Editors and Contributors

About the Editors

Debashis De is Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering &

Director of School of Computational Science of MAKAUT, WB, India. He is Senior

Member-IEEE, Fellow IETE, Life member CSI. He was awarded the prestigious

Boyscast Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government

of India, to work at the Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK. He received the

Endeavour Fellowship Award from 2008 by DEST Australia to work at the Univer-

sity of Western Australia. He received the Young Scientist award both in 2005 at New

Delhi and in 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey, from the International Union of Radio Science,

Belgium. In 2016 he received the JC Bose research award by IETE, New Delhi. He

established the Center of Mobile cloud computing (CMCC) for IoT applications. He

is Vice-chair of Dew Computing STC of IEEE Computer Society. He published in

320 journals and 200 conference papers, Fifteen books, and filed ten patents. His h

index is 32, citation 5200. Listed in Top 2% Scientist List of the world by Stanford

University, USA. His research interest includes Mobile Edge Computing, IoT, and

Quantum Computing.

Prof. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics

and Optoelectronics and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from University of

Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998 and 2000 respectively. He completed PhD in Computer

Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient

of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He

is the recipient of several coveted awards including the Distinguished HoD Award

and Distinguished Professor Award conferred by Computer Society of India, Mumbai

Chapter, India in 2017, the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University

of South America and the South East Asian Regional Computing Confederation

(SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He has

been appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for the tenure 2018-2020. He

is currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and

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