Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (eBook)

Debasis Giri is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (Formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology), West Bengal, India. Prior to this, he also held academic positions as Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Dean in the School of Electronics, Computer Science and Informatics, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India. He did his masters (M.Tech and M.Sc) both from IIT Kharagpur, India, and also completed his Ph.D from IIT Kharagpur, India. He is ten-th all India rank holder in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 1999. He received a certificate from All India Science Teachers' Association in Science Aptitude & Talent Search Test in 1988. His current research interests include Cryptography, Information Security, E-commerce security and Design & Analysis of Algorithms. He has authored more than 75 research papers in reputed international journals and conference proceedings.  He is editorial board member and reviewer of many International journals. He is the founder of the International Conference on Mathematics and Computing. He is also program committee member of several international conferences. He is a member of IEEE, and a life member of Cryptology Research Society of India, and the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC).

Professor Anthony T.S. Ho holds a Personal Chair in Multimedia Security and served as Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey from 2010 to 2015. He is also a Tianjin Distinguished Professor, Guest Professor of Tianjin University of Science and Technology and of Wuhan University of Technology, China, as well as Visiting Professor of University of Malaya, Malaysia. He was the recipient of the prestigious Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation in Engineering Award under the Security category for his research and commercialization work on digital watermarking in 2006. 

Professor Ho obtained his MSc in Applied Optics from Imperial College London in 1980 and his PhD in Digital Image Processing from King's College London, University of London in 1983. After graduation, he worked in technical management positions in industry for 11 years in the UK and Canada. From 1994 to 2005, He was a Senior Lecturer and then Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has published more than 160 articles in international journals and conference proceedings as well as 8 international patents granted related to watermarking and steganography.

Professor Ho is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA) and an Area Editor for Signal Processing: Image Communication, both published by Elsevier. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) and Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL) (2014-2016), as well as an Associate Editor for EURASIP Journal of Image and Video Processing published by Springer. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), Fellow of Institute of Physics (FInstP) and Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS).