Internet of Vehicles and its Applications in Autonomous Driving

Nishu Gupta is specialized in the field of Vehicular Communication and Networking. He is Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication Engineering with specialization in designing MAC Protocols for Vehicular Ad-hoc Network for enhanced safety in vehicles. Presently he is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics, University of Oviedo, Spain along with working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Vaagdevi College of Engineering, Warangal, India. Dr. Gupta is an active reviewer of research articles in high impact Journals. He has co-authored several books, has more than 38 publications among peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conferences proceedings. Dr. Nishu has been Invited as Speaker, Session Chair and Conference Chair on various occasions and has been awarded and honored by various academic and research organizations throughout the world owing to his contribution to the fraternity. His research interest includes wireless communication, Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles, Autonomous Vehicles, Edge Computing, Augmented Intelligence, Ad-Hoc Networks, Vehicular Communication, Cognitive Radio Ad-hoc Network, etc. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and holds active membership of many other professional institutions.Arun Prakash received his PhD from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India in 2011. He was a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Waterloo, Canada during September 2008 to February 2009. At present, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, India. His research interests are in the area of wireless and mobile communication, Mobile ad hoc networks, Vehicular Networks (Intelligent Transportation Systems-ITSs), Cognitive Radio Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks. He has published more than 50 papers in international journals and conferences of repute. He is a member of IEEE, IAENG and IETE.Rajeev Tripathi received his B.Tech, M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Allahabad University, India. At present, he is working as Director of Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India where he is also a serving Professor in the Electronics and Communication Engineering department. He worked as a faculty member at the University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, WI, during September 2002-June 2004. He was a visiting faculty at School of Engineering, Liverpool John Moorse University, U.K., during May-June 1998 and Nov-Dec 1999. Prof. Tripathi has made pioneering research contributions and has solved a number of open problems. He has published more than 140 papers in international journals and conferences of repute and supervised 18 Ph.D. students till date. He has worked closely with Government as well as industry on various problems and has successfully led and completed large projects and programmes at national and international levels. His research interests are in the area of wireless and mobile communication systems, Mobile ad hoc networks, computer network protocols, sensor networks and others.