Recent Trends in Blockchain for Information Systems Security and Privacy

Amit Kumar Tyagi is Assistant Professor (Senior Grade), and Senior Researcher at Vellore Instituteof Technology (VIT), Chennai Campus, India. He earned his PhD in 2018 from Pondicherry CentralUniversity, India. He joined the Lord Krishna College of Engineering, Ghaziabad (LKCE) from 2009-2010 and 2012-2013. He was Assistant Professor and Head Researcher at Lingaya's Vidyapeeth (formerlyknown as Lingaya's University), Faridabad, Haryana, India from 2018 to 2019. Dr. Tyagi's current researchfocuses on machine learning with big data, blockchain technology, data science, cyberphysical systems,smart and secure computing and privacy. He contributed to several projects such as AARIN and P3-Block to address some of the open issues related to the privacy breaches in vehicular applications (suchas parking) and medical cyberphysical systems (MCPS). He has also published more than 8 patents in thearea of deep learning, Internet of Things, cyberphysical systems and computer vision. Recently, he wasawarded best paper award for A Novel Feature Extractor Based on the Modified Approach of Histogram oforiented Gradient, ICCSA 2020, Italy. He is a regular member of the ACM, IEEE, MIRLabs, RamanujanMathematical Society, Cryptology Research Society, and Universal Scientific Education and ResearchNetwork, CSI, and ISTE.Ajith Abraham is Director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a not-for-profit scientificnetwork for innovation and research excellence connecting industry and academia. As an investigator andco-investigator, he has won research grants worth over US$100 million from Australia, USA, EU, Italy,Czech Republic, France, Malaysia, and China. His research focuses on real world problems in the fieldsof machine intelligence, cyberphysical systems, Internet of Things, network security, sensor networks,web intelligence, web services, and data mining. He is Chair of the IEEE Systems Man and CyberneticsSociety Technical Committee on Soft Computing. He is editor-in-chief of Engineering Applications ofArtificial Intelligence (EAAI) and serves/served on the editorial board of several international journals.He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.