Keynote Speakers

 

 

Name: Prof. Fausto Pedro García Márquez Affiliation: Full Professor at Castilla-La Mancha University, Spain Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=JXGOwl4AAAAJ&hl=es Date & Time: Date: 10/12/2021 Time: 3:30 PM IST Title: Artificial Intelligence and Green Energy

Brief Profile: Fausto works at UCLM as Full Professor (Accredited as Full Professor from 2013), Spain, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham University, UK, Lecturer at the Postgraduate European Institute, and he has been Senior Manager in Accenture (2013-2014). He obtained his European PhD with a maximum distinction. He has been distinguished with the prices: Grand Prize (2021), Runner Prize (2020) and Advancement Prize (2018) for Management Science and Engineering Management Nominated Prize, First International Business Ideas Competition 2017 Award (2017); Runner (2015), Advancement (2013) and Silver (2012) by the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM). He has published more than 170 papers (103 JCR(49Q1; 27Q2; 24Q3; 3Q4), 65 % ISI, 30% JCR and 92% internationals), some recognized as: “Applied Energy” (Q1, IF 9.746, as “Best Paper 2020”), “Renewable Energy” (Q1, IF 8.001, as “Best Paper 2014”); “ICMSEM” (as “excellent”), “Int. J. of Automation and Computing” and “IMechE Part F: J. of Rail and Rapid Transit” (most downloaded), etc. He is author and editor of 40 books (Elsevier, Springer, Pearson, Mc-GrawHill, Intech, IGI, Marcombo, AlfaOmega,…), 90 international chapters, and 6 patents. He is Editor of 5 Int. Journals, Committee Member more than 60 Int. Conferences. He has been Principal Investigator in 4 European Projects, 7 National Projects, and more than 150 projects for Universities, Companies, etc. His main interests are: Artificial Intelligence, Maintenance, Management, Renewable Energy, Transport, Advanced Analytics, Data Science.

 

Name: Prof. Paolo Rocca Affiliation: Associate Professor, University of Trento, Trento, Italy & Huashan Scholar Chair Professor, Xidian University, Xi'an, China Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pRfK0vEAAAAJ Date & Time: Date: 10/12/2021 Time: 4:30 PM IST Title: Building a Smart EM Environment for Next-G Wireless Communications

Brief Profile: Paolo Rocca (IEEE Senior Member) is Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (University of Trento) and a member of the ELEDIA Research Center. In April 2017, Prof. Rocca received the National Scientific Qualification for the position of Full Professor.Prof. Rocca is the author/co-author of over 300 peer-reviewed papers on international journals and conferences. He has been a visiting Ph.D. student at the Pennsylvania State University (U.S.A.), at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria (Italy), and a visiting researcher at the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S@ Supèlec, France) in 2012 and 2013. Moreover, he has been an Invited Professor at the University of Paris Sud (France) in 2015 and at the University of Rennes 1 (France) in 2017. Prof. Rocca has been awarded from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the Italy Section with the best PhD thesis award IEEE-GRS Central Italy Chapter. His main interests are in the framework of artificial intelligence (optimization and machine learning) techniques as applied to electromagnetics, antenna array synthesis and design, and electromagnetic inverse scattering. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters in the period 2011-2016.

 

Name: Dr. Pietro Bartocci Affiliation: University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy Editor-in-Chief,Energy Nexus Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XkYD_pEAAAAJ&hl=en Date & Time: Date: 11/12/2021 Time: Will be updated Title: To be updated

Brief Profile: Researcher on bioenergy at the Department of Engineering of the University of Perugia, Italy. Visiting professor at the Institute on Clean and Renewable Energy hosted at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. More than 15 years of experience in the bioenergy sector, environmental impact assessment, carbon footprinting, carbon emissions reduction technologies, green energy and sustainable industry, with particular attention to food industry and agricultural operations.

 

Name: Prof. Yassine Maleh Affiliation: National School of Applied Sciences at Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=fCfq24sAAAAJ&hl Date & Time: Date: 10/12/2021 Time: Will be updated Title: Machine Intelligence and data analytics for Cybersecurity in the industry 4.0 era

Brief Profile: Prof. Yassine Maleh (http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4704-5364) is an Associate Professor at the National School of Applied Sciences at Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Morocco. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Hassan 1st University, Morocco. He is a cybersecurity and Information Technology researcher and practitioner with industry and academic experience. He worked for the National Ports Agency in Morocco as an IT manager from 2012 to 2019. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of the International Association of Engineers IAENG and The Machine Intelligence Research Labs. Dr Maleh has made contributions in information security and privacy, Internet of Things Security, Wireless and Constrained Networks Security. His research interests include Information Security and Privacy, Internet of Things, Networks Security, Information system and IT Governance. He has published over 50 papers (Book chapters, international journals and conferences/workshops), 7 edited books and 3 authored books. He is the editor in chief of the International Journal of Smart Security Technologies (IJSST). He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access (2019 Impact Factor 4.098), the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF) and the International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP). He was also a Guest Editor of a special issue on Recent Advances on Cyber Security and Privacy for Cloud-of-Things of the International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics (IJDCF), Volume 10, Issue 3, July-September 2019. He has served and continues to serve on executive and technical program committees and as a reviewer of numerous international conference and journals such as Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Sensor Journal, ICT Express, and Springer Cluster Computing. He was the Publicity chair of BCCA 2019 and the General Chair of the MLBDACP 19 and MLBDACP 21 symposiums.

 

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Name: Dr. Valery Vyatkin Affiliation: Professor of Information and Computer Engineering in Automation, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=o5T_LG8AAAAJ&hl=en

 

Name: Dr. Sheng-Lung Peng Affiliation: Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan DBLP: https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/p/Peng:Sheng=Lung.html

Brief Profile: Sheng-Lung Peng is a Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. He received the BS degree in Mathematics from National Tsing Hua University, and the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the National Chung Cheng University and National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, respectively. He is an honorary Professor of Beijing Information Science and Technology University of China, and a visiting Professor of Ningxia Institute of Science and Technology of China. He is also an adjunct Professor of Mandsaur University of India. He is now serving as the secretary general of the ACM-ICPC Contest Council for Taiwan and the regional director of the ICPC Asia Taipei-Hsinchu site. He is a director of Institute of Information and Computing Machinery, of Information Service Association of Chinese Colleges and of Taiwan Association of Cloud Computing. He is also a supervisor of Chinese Information Literacy Association, of Association of Algorithms and Computation Theory. His research interests are in designing and analyzing algorithms for Bioinformatics, Combinatorics, Data Mining, and Networks. Dr. Peng has edited several special issues at journals, such as Soft Computing, Journal of Internet Technology, Journal of Computers and MDPI Algorithms. He is also a reviewer for more than 10 journals such as IEEE Access and Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Theoretical Computer Science, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Journal of Modelling in Management, Soft Computing, Information Processing Letters, Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, and so on. He published more than 100 international conferences and journal papers.

 

Name: Prof. Arpan Kumar Kar Affiliation: Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India DBLP: https://dblp.org/pers/k/Kar:Arpan_Kumar.html
Brief Profile: Prof. Kar (PhD) is Associate Professor of the Information Systems area in DMS, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has extensive experience in teaching, training, consultancy and research. He has published over 120 high impact articles, 6 books and has over a thousand citations for his research. He is member in multiple Advisory Committees of Central Government Ministries and Universities. Before joining IIT Delhi, he has earlier taught in IIM Rohtak as Assistant Professor(v). Prior to joining academics, he has worked in IBM Research Lab and Cognizant Business Consulting. He has provided research driven advisory services to leading MNCs and Government Departments / Ministries in India and globally through funded projects and consultancies of around 5 Crores INR. He has received multiple awards and recognitions from reputed organizations like Elsevier, IFIP, I3E, IIT Delhi, IIM Rohtak, PMI, AIMS, TCS, Jadavpur University, etc.

 

Name: Dr. Maheshkumar H.Kolekar Affiliation: Associate Professor at Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=0WnZiBgAAAAJ&hl=en
Brief Profile: Dr. Maheshkumar H. Kolekar is working as Associate Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2007. During 2008 to 2009, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. During May to July 2017, he worked as DAAD fellow in Technical University Berlin where he worked in the research area EEG signal analysis using machine learning. His research interests are in the area of Digital Signal, Image and Video Processing, Video surveillance, Biomedical Signal Processing, Deep Learning. Recently, he has authored a book titled as “Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems: An Algorithmic Approach”, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2018. He has successfully completed R&D Project Sponsored by Principal Scientific Advisor to Govt of India on abnormal human activity recognition.

 

Name: Dr. Sanjay Sood Affiliation: Associate Director at CDAC Mohali, Punjab, India Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=fOBOjBIAAAAJ&hl=en

 

Name: Dr. Sergey Kulik Affiliation: Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zqxGigQAAAAJ&hl=ru

 

Session Chairs/ Short Invited Talk/Workshops

Name: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Affiliation: Discipline of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban-4041, South Africa

Brief Profile: P. Kumar received his Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Master of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2003, 2005 and 2009, respectively. He completed his post-doctoral studies from Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain. He is involved in teaching and research activities since last 14 years. He received various awards/fellowship such as MHRD fellowship during MEngg, A4U fellowship at Autonoma University of Madrid, research excellence award, JW Nelson fund research award etc. He was selected to receive Brain Korea 21 postdoctoral fellowship, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. He is registered as Professional Engineer with Engineering Council of South Africa. He is the author of many research papers published in various peer reviewed journals/conferences. He is serving as reviewer/member of editorial board for many journals/conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Journals, SAIEEE Research Journal, International Journal of Electronics etc. He has organized many IEEE international conferences. At present, he is working with University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is the academic member of Center of Excellence, University of KwaZulu-Natal. His research areas include antennas, wireless communication, wireless networks and image processing.

 

Name: Dr. Vivek Sehgal Affiliation: Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, HP, India Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=Wf6KJJgAAAAJ&hl=en

Brief Profile: Vivek Kumar Sehgal (SM’18) received the B.Tech. degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (Deemed University), in 2000, M.Tech. degree in Process Control Engineering from Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology (Delhi University), in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Uttrakhand Technical University, Dehradun, in 2007- 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Information Technology, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, H.P-India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Senior Member of ACM, member IEEE Computer Society, Member of IEEE Exe. Com. Delhi Section, member of SIAM, and a Fellow of Institution of Engineers. His current research interests include embedded processor architecture, hardware-software co-design, Networks-on-Chip, Smart Instrumentation, Cyber- Physical Systems, and Internet of Things. He is a member of the technical program committees for several technical conferences and editorial member of IEEE Access and other reputed journals

 

Name: Dr. Pradeep Kumar Singh Affiliation: Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan (H.P.) India Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=MGQVfyAAAAAJ&hl=en

 

Name: Prof. Sudeep Tanwar Affiliation: Professor at Nirma University,Gujarat, India Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=ZvvEpQkAAAAJ&hl=en
Brief Profile: Dr. Sudeep Tanwar is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He is visiting Professor in Jan Wyzykowski University in Polkowice, Poland and University of Pitesti in Pitesti, Romania. He received B.Tech in 2002 from Kurukshetra University, India, M.Tech (Honor’s) in 2009 from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India and Ph.D. in 2016 with specialization in Wireless Sensor Network. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 technical research papers published in leading journals and conferences from the IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, etc. Some of his research findings are published in top cited journals such as IEEE Transactions on TVT, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Applied Soft Computing, Journal of Network and Computer Application, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, International Journal of Communication System, Telecommunication System, Computer and Electrical Engineering and IEEE Systems Journal. He has also published six edited/authored books with International/National Publishers like IET, Springer. He has guided many students leading to M.E./M.Tech and guiding students leading to Ph.D. He is Associate Editor of IJCS, Wiley and Security and Privacy Journal, Wiley. His current interest includes Wireless Sensor Networks, Fog Computing, Smart Grid, IoT, and Blockchain Technology. He was invited as Guest Editors/Editorial Board Members of many International Journals, invited for keynote Speaker in many International Conferences held in Asia and invited as Program Chair, Publications Chair, Publicity Chair, and Session Chair in many International Conferences held in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has been awarded best research paper awards from IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, IEEE ICC 2019, and Springer ICRIC-2019.

 

Name: Dr. Yugal Kumar Affiliation: Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, HP, India Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=GTbyw4IAAAAJ&hl=en Title of Talk: Nature Inspired Algorithms and Its Application to Clustering and Feature Reduction

Brief Profile: Dr. Yugal Kumar is presently working as Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Waknaghat, Himachal Pradesh, India. He has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience at reputed colleges and universities of India. His primary area of research includes meta-heuristic algorithms, data clustering, swarm intelligence, pattern recognition and medical data mining. He has published more than seventy five papers in international journals and conferences of repute. He is also serving as editorial review board member of various journals including Soft Computing, Neurocomputing, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, PLOSE ONE, Sustainable Computing, IEEE Access, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics and Journal of Information Processing System.

Proceedings

FTNCT-2018		FTNCT-2019
FTNCT-2020 Part 1		FTNCT-2020 Part 2

Past Organisations

CDAC	University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
University of Informatics Sciences, Cuba	University of Cádiz, Spain
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden	Institute of Control Sciences of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
University of Malaga, Spain	Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
University of Habana, Cuba	Southern Federal University, Russia