Advanced Computing and Communication Technologies

Ramesh K. Choudhary, Former Director, Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, Panipat, obtained Ph.D. from VMU, Salem, has co-authored 'Testing of Fault Tolerance Techniques' published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. He was the Indian Coordinator, Featured EUrope and South Asia MObility Network (FUSION), an ERUSMUS MUNDUS (EU) project to foster partnerships of emerging Asian countries with the EU countries reinforcing the existing collaborations developed through the EU funded projects. He had also significantly contributed to the EU-ASIA mutual recognition of studies in engineering, management and informatics. He is Fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), IETE, and Members of IEEE, ACM, and Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.Jyotsna Kumar Mandal former Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Management, and Senior Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Kalyani, India. He has obtained Ph.D. (Engg.) from Jadavpur University. Professor Mandal has co-authored six books, viz., Algorithmic Design of Compression Schemes and Correction Techniques-A Practical Approach; Symmetric Encryption-Algorithm, Analysis and Applications: Low Cost-based Security; Steganographic Techniques and Application in Document Authentication-An Algorithmic Approach; Optimization-based Filtering of Random Valued Impulses-An Algorithmic Approach; and Artificial Neural Network Guided Secured Communication Techniques: A Practical Approach; all published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. He has authored more than 350 papers on a wide range of topics in international journals and proceedings. His profile is included in the 31st edition of Marque's World Who's Who published in 2013. His areas of research include 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. He is Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, and Members of IEEE, ACM, and Computer Society of India. Dhananjay Bhattacharyya, Head Computer Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, India, obtained Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Post-doctoral Fellow from National Institutes of Health, Bethseda, Maryland, USA. Dr. Bhattacharyya's research interest is in understanding structure-function relationship of biological macromolecules, particularly nucleic acids. In this context, he utilizes available crystallographic data to carry out molecular dynamics simulation and ab initio quantum chemical calculations to understand structural stabilization of nucleic acid bases and recognition of nucleic acid by other ligands. In order to understand different structural features of nucleic acids, the CS division at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics have developed few software tools under his guidance, such as NUPARM, BPFIND, PyrHB Find, etc. Using some of these tools, the CS division have classified structures of different non-canonical base pairs appearing in RNA crystal structures. Dr. Bhattacharyya has successfully guided several doctoral candidates on computational biology and bioinformatics.