The Digital Twin Paradigm for Smarter Systems and Environments The Industry Use Cases

Pethuru Raj PhD works as chief architect and vice president of site reliability engineering (SRE) division of Reliance Jio Infocomm. Ltd. Bangalore. Previously he worked as a cloud infrastructure architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), Bangalore. He worked as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) Division and as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, India. He has gained more than 18 years of IT industry experience.
He finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree in Anna University, Chennai and continued the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. He has authored and edited 18 books thus far and he focuses on some of the emerging technologies such as Containerized Clouds; Big, Fast, and Streaming Data Analytics; Microservices architecture (MSA); Machine and Deep Learning Algorithms; Blockchain Technology; The Internet of Things; and Edge Computing. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, Inderscience, etc.

Dr. Preetha Evangeline David is currently working as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department in the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Chennai Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. She holds a PhD from Anna University, Chennai in the area of Cloud Computing. She has published many research papers and Patents focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twin Technology, High Performance Computing, Computational Intelligence and Data Structures. She is currently working on Multi-disciplinary areas in collaboration with other technologies to solve socially relevant challenges and provide solutions to human problems.