Big Data Processing Using Spark in Cloud

Valentina E. Balas, Ph.D. , is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 270 research papers in refereed journals and for international conferences. Her research interests are in intelligent systems, fuzzy control, soft computing, smart sensors, information fusion, modeling and simulation. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), serves on the Editorial Board of several national and international journals, and as an evaluator expert for national and international projects. She was General Chair of the International Workshop on Soft Computing and Applications held in Romania and Hungary (2005-2016).

Lalit Mohan Goyal, Ph.D. , received his B.Tech (Honors) in Computer Science & Engineering from Kurukshetra University, his M.Tech (Honors) in Information Technology from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, and his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has 14 years of teaching experience in the areas of parallel and random algorithms and theory of computation. Presently, he is working at Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi.

Raghvendra Kumar, Ph.D. , is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, LNCT College, Jabalpur, and at Jodhpur National University, Rajasthan, India. He completed his Bachelor of Technology at SRM University, Chennai and his Master of Technology at KIIT University, Odisha. His research interests include graph theory, discrete mathematics, robotics, cloud computing and algorithms. He also works as a reviewer, and an editorial and technical board member for various journals.