Prof. Keshav Dahal
Bio:
Keshav Dahal is a Professor of intelligent systems and the director of the Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Communications and Network (AVCN) Research Institute at University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK. He received his masters and PhD degrees from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He also held academic and research positions at the University of Strathclyde and University of Bradford UK. His research interests lie in the areas of applied AI, trust and security modelling in distributed systems, blockchain technologies and scheduling/optimization problems. He has been principal investigator or co-investigators on more than 20 externally funded projects, and supervised over 30 PhD and postdoctoral researchers. He has published over 190 papers in his research fields with award winning publications and has sat on organizing/program committees of over 70 international conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE
Dr. Sandeep Kumar Chaturvedi
Bio:
Dr. Sandeep Kumar Chaturvedi received his B.Sc.
(Electronic) from A.P.S. University, Rewa (M.P.), India in
1995, M. Sc. (Electronics) from Dr. Hari Singh Gour
University, Sagar (M.P.), India in 1997 , M. Tech
(Instrumentation) from Devi Ahilya University, Indore(M.P.), India in 1999 and Ph.D in Microwave Engg from IIT Delhi. He is recipient of “Gaur Samman” in 1997 for securing first rank in the faculty of engineering sciences in Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar. He joined the Gallium Arsenide Enabling Technology Center (GAETEC), Hyderabad, India’s only GaAs MMIC foundry, in Nov 1999, where he has worked in the areas of RF characterization of high frequency active and passive devices and MMICs, measurement automation, MMIC packaging and modeling and design of state of the art MMICs. He is
currently Deputy General manager and Head- MMIC Design Center in GAETEC. His current research interests and activities are in the field of device modeling, packaging and MMIC design. Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), and Knowledge and Information System Journal (KAIS). More information about him can be found at http://www.cs.fiu.edu/~taoli.