About the Author: Dr. Swamidoss Sathiakumar is working as Senior Lecturer with School of Electrical & Information Engineering in The University of Sydney, Australia. He has completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 1985. His areas of interests include control of electric machines, realtime control with micro controllers, power converters and switching techniques, power electronics, power quality, sensing technologies, smart grid, and smart city. Dr. Sathiakumar has authored couple of books in 2012 and also published many research articles in international journals.
Dr. Lalit K. Awasthi is Professor and Head of Computer Centre in NIT, Hamirpur, India. He has completed his PhD from IIT Roorkee, India. His areas of interests are computer networks & mobile computing, high performance computing, and sensor networks. Dr. Awasthi has over 24 years of experience in teaching, research and consultancy. He has published more than 100 research papers in reputed International journals and conferences. Delivered over 50 Keynote addresses at International/National Conferences and Faculty Development Programmes. Reviewed papers for IEEE Transactions on Computers, Elsevier International Journal of Adhoc Networks, IEEE Transactions on Dependable & Secure Computing.
Dr. M. Roberts Masillamani is Dean of School of Computing Sciences at the Hindustan University, Chennai. He has completed his Doctorate from the Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering, Anna University, Chennai. He is an alumnus of REC Trichy, IIT Madras, Anna University, SRM University, University of Sydney, and Haggai Institute, USA. Dr. Roberts has 37 years of industrial, administration, academic and research experience. He has to his credit more than 100 technical papers in refereed international journals and conferences. One patent is pending at the Indian Patent Office, GoI. He is serving as Chairman and member of different boards in various universities.
Prof. S.S. Sridhar is currently working as Professor with Department of Computer Science Engineering in SRM University, Chennai, India. Prof. Sridhar is pursuing PhD in Artificial Neural Networks from SRM University. He has teaching experience of more than 20 years and his areas of interests include artificial neural networks, pattern recognition and image processing. He has published several papers in international journals and conference proceedings.