Advanced Computing and Communication Technologies

Ramesh K. Choudhary, Director, Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, Panipat, obtained ME from Moscow Academy of Instrument Making and Information Science, Moscow and PhD from VMU, Salem. He has co-authored 'Testing of Fault Tolerance Techniques' published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. He is an Indian Co-ordinator, FUSION, an EU (ERUSMUS MUNDUS) project to foster partnerships of emerging Asian countries with the EU countries to reinforce the existing collaborations developed through the EU funded projects. He is an Indian Indian Coordinator of Project LEADER in collaboration with University of Sannio, Italy and Jiao Tong University, China. His current areas of research are Software Engineering, Fault Tolerant Computing. He is Fellow of Institution of Engineers [India], Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers, and Member of IEEE, ACM, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.J. K. Mandal, former Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Management, University of Kalyani, Kolkata, obtained M.Tech in Computer Science from Calcutta University and PhD (Engg.) in Computer Science & Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Prof. Mandal has co-authored 6 books all published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. He has over 350 papers published to his credit. His current areas of research are Coding theory, Data and Network Security, Remote Sensing and GIS-based Applications, Data Compression, Error Correction, Visual Cryptography and Steganography, Distributed and Shared Memory Parallel Programming. Prof. Mandal is included in the 31st edition of Marque's World Who's Who published in 2013. He is Fellow of Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers, and Member of IEEE, ACM, and Computer Society of India.Nitin Auluck is Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science at Quincy University, Illinois, USA. He obtained PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA in 2005. He has published in IEEE Trans. on PDS, Trans. on Computers and Intelligent Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming 2012, Taipei etc. His current areas of research are Real-time Systems, Scheduling, Parallel and Distributed Computing.H. A. Nagarajaram is a Group Leader, 'Laboratory of Computational Biology' CDFD, Hyderabad. Dr. Nagrajaram obtained PhD from Molecular Biophysics Unit [MBU], IISc, Bengaluru and did post-doctoral research with Sir Tom Blundell, FRS, University of Cambridge, England. His current research interests mainly focus on proteins with regard to their structures, variations and interactions. He has publications in several high impact journals. e.g. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA (PNAS) etc. Dr. Nagarajaram is a Member of The National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India.