This Taylor & Francis, CRC Press volume contains the papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Intelligent Computing Techniques (ICETICT – 2024) held during 27th and 28th December 2024 organized by DRIEMS University, Tangi, Cuttack, Odisha, India. A lot of challenges at us and no words of appreciation is enough for the organizing committee who could still pull it off successfully. The conference draws the excellent technical keynote talk and many papers. The keynote talks by Prof. Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban, University of South-Eastern Norway and Prof. Bidyadhar Subudhi, Director, NIT, Warangal are worth mentioning. We are grateful to all the speakers for accepting our invitation and sparing their time to deliver the talks.
Dr. Tusharkanta Samal holds a Bachelor of Technology in In received MTech and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and engineering from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla, Odisha, India. Currently he is working as an associate Professor in Department of Computer Science and engineering, DRIEMS University, Odisha, India. He has more than 12 years of teaching and research experience in different Engineering colleges and Universities. Dr. Samal has authored over 30 scientific papers published in SCI, Scopus Indexed Journals and Conferences.
Dr. Ambarish Panda holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Master of Technology in Power System Engineering from Sambalpur University and V.S.S University of Technology. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from V.S.S University of Technology since April, 2016. He has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience in different Engineering colleges and Universities. To his credit, he has published multiple research articles in SCI/SCIE indexed journals with high repute. Besides his research activities he serves as reviewer and Editor in SCI/SCIE Indexed Journal.
Manas Ranjan Kabat is currently working as the principal of IMIT, a constituent college of BPUT. He has received his M.E. degree in Information Technology and Computer Engineering from Bengal Engineering College, India, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Sambalpur University He has more than two decade of teaching experience both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has published more than 75 research paper in various referred international journals and conferences. He has guided more than 20 M.Tech and 9 Ph.D. students. Chaired and organized many international and national conferences. Contributed as editor and reviewer of many peer-reviewed international journals His research interests include QoS in internet, Wireless Sensor Network, Body Area Network, Cloud Computing etc.
Ali Ismail Awad (Ph.D., SMIEEE, MACM) is an Associate Professor at the College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, where he has been coordinating the master’s program in Information Security since 2022. He is also an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K. From 2018 to 2023, he served as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Plymouth, Plymouth, U.K. Dr. Awad joined the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering at Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Luleå, Sweden, in 2013. In 2017, he was promoted to Associate Professor (Docent) and served as the coordinator of the master’s program in Information Security from 2017 to 2020. In recognition of his teaching merits and pedagogical achievements, he was promoted to the rank of Recognized University Teacher at LTU in 2021. His research interests include cybersecurity, network security, Internet of Things (IoT) security, and image analysis with biometrics and medical imaging applications. He has edited or co-edited several books and authored or co-authored numerous journal articles and conference papers in these areas of interest. From 2021 to 2024, he was recognized among the top 2% of influential scientists worldwide. Dr. Awad serves on the Editorial Boards of Future Generation Computer Systems, Computers & Security, Internet of Things; Engineering Cyber-Physical Human Systems, Health Information Science and Systems, and Security, Privacy and Authentication (Frontiers). Dr. Awad is an IEEE Senior Member and an ACM Professional Member.
Dr. Suvendra Kumar Jayasingh is working as Associate Professor and HOD in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Institute of Management and Information Technology (IMIT), Cuttack (A Constituent College of BPUT, Govt. of Odisha) after being selected in OPSC (Orissa Public Service Commission) in 2005. He has obtained his Bachelor of Engineering the year 2003 from University College of Engineering (UCE), Burla (Now VSSUT). He got his M. Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering in 2007 from RVU, Udaipur and Ph. D. in Computer Science & Engineering in 2020 from North Orissa University, Baripada (Now Maharaja Sriram Chandra Bhanja Deo University). He is having 20 years of teaching experience in Computer Science & Engineering and MCA. He has published several articles, book chapters in reputed National and International journals and periodicals including Springer and Taylor & Francis and has presented research papers in National and International Seminars and Conferences. He has also participated in many National and International Workshops, FDPs, Industrial Training Programs organized by IITs, NITs and NITTTRs. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Soft Computing, Machine Learning, Computational Intelligence, Database Management System and Algorithm Analysis and Design. He has published a book on “Introduction to Machine Learning” and a UK patent on “Smart Home Air Quality Monitoring Device”.He is a life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE).
Dr. Deepak K Tosh is an assistant professor in Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso. Before that he was a Cybersecurity Researcher at the DoD Sponsored Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity, Norfolk State University (NSU), Norfolk, Virginia. During that time, he has closely collaborated with researchers from Air Force Research Lab and Army Research Lab to establish data provenance mechanisms in cloud computing in addition to addressing research challenges in the arena of distributed system security, Blockchain, cyber>threat information sharing, cyber-insurance, and Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT). He was appointed shortly as a postdoctoral researcher at the Tennessee State Univerity, where he worked with Dr. Sachin Shetty in the CyberViz Laboratory. He has been collaborating with Dr. Shetty since then focusing on research topics such as: distributed consensus models in Blockchain technology, cyber-resiliency in battlefield environment, and various practical issues in cloud computing security. He has received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Nevada, Reno, under the supervision of Dr. Shamik Sengupta. His dissertation was focused on designing market based models to enable cybersecurity information sharing among organizations. He received my masters in Computer Science from University of Hyderabad, India in 2012. His master thesis addressed the issue of cognitive radio transmission parameter adaptation problem using multi-objective optimization techniques.
