Special Issue on IoT, Sensor Networks and Blockchain Technology for Smart Cities and Societies

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Jyotsna Kumar Mandal

Jyotsna Kumar Mandal (F-232495) is former vice chancellor, Raiganj University, Raiganj, West Bengal. He received MTech in computer science from University of Calcutta in 1987, awarded PhD (Engineering) in computer science and engineering by Jadavpur University in 2000. Currently, he is a professor of computer science & engineering, University of Kalyani. He is a former dean, Faculty of Engineering, Technology & Management, KU for two consecutive terms during 2008-2012; former director, IQAC and former chairman CIRM Kalyani University. He served as professor, computer applications, Kalyani Government Engineering College for two years. He was the associate professor computer science for eight years at North Bengal University and assistant professor, computer science, North Bengal University for seven years. He also served as lecturer at NERIST, Itanagar for one year. He possesses over 35 years of teaching and research experience in coding theory, data and network security and authentication; remote sensing & GIS based applications, data compression, error correction, visual cryptography and steganography. He has awarded 30 PhD degrees and 8 scholars are still pursuing. He supervised 03 MPhil, more than 80 MTech and more than 130 MCA dissertations. He is the guest editor of MST Journal (SCI indexed) of Springer. Dr Mandal has published more than 450 research articles out of which 190 articles are in international journals; 12 books from Springer, LAP Germany, IGI Global etc. His latest published text book is on Reversible Steganography and Authentication via Transform Encoding from Springer (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-4397-5). He has organized 60 international conferences and is a corresponding editor for edited volumes and conference publications of Springer, IEEE and Elsevier, etc. As a volume editor, he has worked on sixty books so far. He has finished five research projects funded by the AICTE and the Government of West Bengal. He has led the CSI in both the Kolkata and Siliguri chapters, and he was the IETE Kolkata Centre secretary. He has status as an expert with the AICTE's Evaluation and Validation Committee and serves on the NAAC's Peer Team. He is involved in academic auditing at a number of different institutions. In 2018, he received the "Siksha Ratna" award for his exceptional contributions to the field of education from the Government of West Bengal in India. Email: [email protected]

Debashis De

Debashis De (F-502108) is a professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal, India. He received MTech from the University of Calcutta, in 2002 and a PhD from Jadavpur University in 2005. He is Senior Member-IEEE, Fellow IETE, and Life member CSI. He was awarded the prestigious Boyscast Fellowship by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to work at the Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK. He received the Endeavour Fellowship Award from 2008–2009 by DEST Australia to work at the University of Western Australia. He received the Young Scientist award both in 2005 at New Delhi and in 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey, from the International Union of Radio Science, Belgium. In 2016 he received the JC Bose research award from IETE, New Delhi. In 2019 he received Shiksha-Ratna Award from the Govt of West Bengal. He established the Center of Mobile Cloud Computing (CMCC) for IoT applications. He is Vice-chair of Dew Computing STC of the IEEE Computer Society. He published 375 journals and 200 conference papers, fifteen books, and filed ten patents. His h index is 42, the citation is 8000. He has supervised 20 PhD students. Listed in the Top 2% Scientist List of the world, Stanford University, USA. His research interest is mobile cloud computing, IoT, and quantum computing. He is chairman of IETE and CSI Kolkata chapter. Email: [email protected]