Security and Privacy Applications for Smart City Development (eBook)

Sharvari C Tamane is working as the Professor and Head of Department of Information Technology in MGMs Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India. She has 23 years of teaching experience in Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, Aurangabad. She is working as a Chairman of 'Board of Studies' (BoS) for Dept. of 'Information Technology' at MGM University Aurangabad. She is the active member of BoS for 'Computer Science & Engineering' for Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad and Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere, MS, India. Her research interests include: Big Data Analytics, Watermarking, Neural Network, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic, Wavelet analysis, etc. She is working as an Editorial Board Member of various International Journals. Dr. Tamane edited books on 'Privacy and Security Policies in Big Data' and 'Big Data Analytics for Smart and Connected Cities' with IGI Global. She is author of two chapters 'The Basics of Big Data & Security Concerns' and 'Smart and Connected Cities Through Technologies' published by the above-mentioned edited books by IGI Global. She is author of a book, 'Data Structures Using C' and published more than 50 research papers in international conferences and journals. She has also worked as a Reviewer for many SCIE, Scopus indexed journals. She has been invited as a panelist for the International Conference at Mauritius in the panel discussion Towards 'Sustainable Development Goals in India' and for the International Conference at Women in Data Science (WiDS) 2019 Pune in the panel discussion towards 'Upskilling, Careers and Career Paths in Data Science'. She has also been invited to many institutes to deliver expert talks and also delivered webinars/online seminars on various research areas. She has organized many special sessions in International conferences. She has also worked as a Program Chair for IEEE and CSI sponsored international conferences, held at MGMs' JNEC. 

Nilanjan Dey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology at Techno International New Town (Formerly known as Techno India College of Technology), Kolkata, India. He is a Visiting Fellow of the University of Reading, UK. He is a Visiting Professor at Duy Tan University, Vietnam. He was an honorary Visiting Scientist at Global Biomedical Technologies Inc., CA, USA (2012-2015). He was awarded his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2015. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, IGI Global. He is the Series Co-Editor of Springer Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing, Springer Nature, Series Co-Editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, Elsevier, and Series Editor of Computational Intelligence in Engineering Problem Solving and Intelligent Signal processing and data analysis, CRC. He has authored/edited more than 75 books with Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and CRC Press and published more than 300 peer-reviewed research papers. His main research interests include medical imaging, machine learning, computer-aided diagnosis, data mining, etc. He is the Indian Ambassador of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) - Young ICT Group.

Aboul Ella Hassanein is the Founder and Head of the Egyptian Scientific Research Group (SRGE) and a Professor of Information Technology at the Faculty of Computer and Artificial Intelligence, Cairo University.   Professor Hassanien has more than 1000 scientific research papers published in prestigious international journals and over 50 books covering such diverse topics as data mining, medical images, intelligent systems, social networks and smart environment.    Prof. Hassanien won several awards including the Best Researcher of the Youth Award of Astronomy and Geophysics of the National Research Institute, Academy of Scientific Research (Egypt, 1990). He was also granted a scientific excellence award in humanities from the University of Kuwait for the 2004 Award, and received the superiority of scientific in technology - University Award (Cairo University, 2013). Also He honored in Egypt as the best researcher in Cairo University in 2013. He was also received the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) prize on Technology (2014) and received the state Award of excellence in engineering sciences 2015. He Holds the Medal of Sciences and Arts from the first class from President of Egypt in 2017.