Shivashankar B. Nair Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, (IIT-G)

Dr. Shivashankar B. Nair is a Professor and also the Head of the Department of Computer Science & Engg. at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India.
Prior to this he has held positions that include the South Korean Brain Pool Professor at the Hanbat National University, Daejeon, S. Korea and Chairman GATE 2007 at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has more than 27 years of teaching and research experience - out of which more than 14 years is at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His research interests include Real world Artificial Intelligence solutions, Bio-inspired, Emotional and Networked Robotics and Internet of Things, Mobile Agent based Systems and Artificial Immune Systems.

Amit Acharyya Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, India

Amit Acharyya received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., in 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, India. His research interests include signal processing algorithms, very large scale integration architectures, low power design techniques, computer arithmetic, numerical analysis, linear algebra, bioinformatics, and electronic aspects of pervasive computing.

Dr. K.Chandra Sekaran Professor,Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

K.Chandra Sekaran is currently Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, having 26 years of experience. He obtained his UG (1985) and PG (1987) qualifications from University of Roorkee (now known as IIT Roorkee) and Ph.D. from JNTU in 2002. He has more than 120 publications from reputed International journals, conferences which include IEEE, ACM, Springer etc. He has received best paper awards and best teacher award. He serves as a member of various reputed societies including IEEE, ACM, CSI, ISTE and ABS. He is also a member in IEEE Computer Society's Cloud Computing STC (Special Technical Community) He coordinated four sponsored projects supported by MHRD, ISRO/VSSC and some industries, and, six consultancy projects sponsored by industries. He has organized numerous events such as International conferences, International Symposium, workshops and several academic short term programs at NITK. He was a visiting fellow at LMU Leeds, UK in 1995, Visiting Professor at AIT, Bangkok in 2007, and Visitor at UF, USA in 2008. He had also worked as Visiting (Professor) at DoMS,IIT Madras during Feb-Dec. 2010. His areas of interest include: Computer Networks, Distributed Computing (includes Cloud Computing and security) and Business Computing & Information systems Management.

Fr Dr Jaison Paul Mulerikkal CMI Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology

Topic: Cloud Computing: Transforming the Present Synopsis: Maturity and convergence of technologies including virtualisation and Service Oriented Architecture along with the emergence of large and medium sized data-centers powered with cheap but powerful intra-network connectivity and are connected to the outside world with relatively fast Internet paved way to Cloud Computing. The 5-4-3 model gives an understanding of Cloud Computing characteristics and classifications based on deployment and service models. An interesting question to be asked is whether High Performance Computing in possible in the Cloud. Research at the Australian National University shows that Cloud infrastructure can provide properties similar to HPC facilities and can be harnessed even on mobile devices over the Internet. This will have very positive implications for the future of Cloud Computing as we move towards Internet of Things.

Mr. Chirag Warty Chief Technologist, Ahilya Technologies, Los Angeles, California, USA

He is currently the Chief Technologist for Ahilya Technologies, Los Angeles. He manages research teams in US, Italy and India. He received his BSEE from University of Mississippi with specialization in RF and wireless, Masters of Engineering from University of Illinois-Chicago. He also has several certificates in communications and signal processing from UCLA, UC Berkeley , UC San Diego and in project leadership and decision making from Stanford and Cornell University. He is a visiting faculty for University of Mumbai for management, IT and engineering programs. He currently manages several projects around the world and is responsible for technology related strategic decision of the organization. His research interests include MIMO, Cooperative Communications and Networking, software defined radio/Networking, OFDMA and LTE-A, 4G/5G technologies including game theory and its application for terrestrial wireless and satellite clusters. Since 2009 he has been the chair of Publications for IEEE Aerospace Conference. He has organized several panels and hosted forums on various technical subjects. He is Program Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Wireless in Space and Extreme Environments. He holds several key positions on IEEE societies and was If&E co-chair for "3G/4G/5G cellular and Satellite Networking" at GLOBECOM 2012.

Mr. Jayan Ozhikandathil
Research Associate and In-charge of ConSIM(Concordia Silicon Microfabrication) and OBML (Optical-Bio Microsystems laboratory), Concordia University, Montreal Canada.

Jayan Ozhikandathil is currently working as Research Associate and In-charge of ConSIM (Concordia Silicon Microfabrication) and OBML (Optical-Bio Microsystems laboratory), Concordia University, Montreal Canada. He received his Ph.D in Mechanical engineering from Concordia University, in 2012 and M.Tech in Optoelectronics and laser technology from Cochin University of Science and technology, Cochin, India, in 2005. His PhD work focuses on developments of novel micro and nano integrated lab-on-a-chip devices on integrated optics and polymer platforms. His research interest includes Optical MEMS, micro-nano integration microfluidics and biosensors.
He has taught at various undergraduate and graduate levels and promoted research in micro and nanotechnologies. He has over 6 years of experiences in micro and nano device modeling & fabrication from various research laboratories including Indian Space Research Organization (LEOS-ISRO, Bangalore India), Indian Institute of Science (IISc Bangalore, India), Nano-Tool Microfab(McGill university, Montréal, Canada) Microphotonics laboratory (Ecole polytechique, Montréal Canada) and ConSIM (Concordia University, Montréal Canada).
He has more than 20 scientific contributions, which includes 2 patents pending, 6 international journal papers, 10 international conference papers and 1 book chapter.

Paul Thadikaran
Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation in Austin, TX.

Paul Thadikaran is currently a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation in Austin, TX with focus on SOC development for mobile applications. His experience range from system architecture to manufacturing of HVM products. His interests include system security, embedded software development and development of high-performance processors. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from University of New York and B.E. from NIT Trichy.