Bio: Satish Narayana Srirama is a Research Professor and the head of the Mobile & Cloud Lab at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia and a Visiting Professor at University of Hyderabad, India. He received his PhD in computer science from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His current research focuses on cloud computing, mobile web services, mobile cloud, Internet of Things, fog computing, migrating scientific computing and enterprise applications to the cloud and large scale data analytics on the cloud. He is an Editor of Wiley Software: Practice and Experience, a 49 year old Journal, was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions in Cloud Computing and a program committee member of several international conferences and workshops. Dr. Srirama has co-authored over 130 refereed scientific publications in international conferences and journals. Dr. Srirama has successfully managed several national, international and enterprise collaborative research grants and projects.

Bio: Vincenzo Piuri has received his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy (1989). He is Full Professor in computer engineering at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (since 2000). He has been Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at George Mason University, USA. His main research interests are: artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, intelligent systems, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, signal and image processing, biometrics, intelligent measurement systems, industrial applications, digital processing architectures, fault tolerance, dependability, and cloud computing infrastructures. Original results have been published in more than 400 papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters. He is Fellow of the IEEE, Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and Senior Member of INNS. He has been IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2015), IEEE Director, President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Vice President for Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council, Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE Systems Council, and Vice President for Membership of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (2013-19), and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and IEEE Access, and has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. He received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award (2002). He is Honorary Professor at: Obuda University, Hungary; Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China; Northeastern University, China; Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan; and the Amity University, India.

Bio: Mohammad Aazam, Senior Member IEEE (SMIEEE), is currently working as Senior Research Scientist with Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. He previously held the position of Post-doctoral Research Associate with Carnegie Mellon University from Jul., 2017-Aug., 2018. . He is also working with Ryerson University, Canada as a part-time postdoc fellow. Previously, he has been Sessional Faculty and Post-doctoral Fellow with Carleton University, Canada. Additionally, he is actively collaborating with University of Kentucky, USA and University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). He completed his Ph.D. Computer Engineering from Kyung Hee University (KHU), Korea, in 2015 where he also served as Research Engineer and worked on large scale R&D projects. In addition to that, he has completed a course Data Science with R from Harvard University, USA, in 2017, and a course Internet of Things (IoT) from King’s College London, UK, in 2016. He started his professional career in 2006, serving as University Lecturer. Since then, he has served at Federal Urdu University, Islamabad, Mohiuddin Islamic University, Islamabad, Bahria University, Islamabad, SZABIST, Islamabad, and Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Islamabad. Aazam has been Research Engineer and Events Manager at Center of Research in Networks and Telecom (CoReNeT), Mohammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU), Islamabad, for more than 4 years. He has also served as Web Developer and Webmaster at Commissioner’s Officer Rawalpindi.