Naga Swetha Pasupuleti, PhD, is Associate Director of International Relations at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, India. She has over 15 years of leadership experience as an academician and administrator in academics, research, industry, and administration. She has worked in various parts of the world (USA, Africa, UAE, etc.). As a researcher, she specializes in sustainable transportation, transportation safety, ITS (intelligent transportation systems), and transportation planning (TAS). She has published nine books and several papers in reputed national and international journals. She is a member of the Institute of Transport Engineers, USA; Institution of Civil Engineers, UK; and American Society of Civil Engineers. After obtaining her master’s in Civil Engineering and PhD from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, Dr. Swetha did her Post-Doc at the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras), India.
T. Poongodi, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Computing Science and Engineering at the Galgotias University, Delhi, NCR, India. Her research interests include network security, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, Internet of Things (IoT), computer networks, and blockchain technology for emerging communication networks. She is CISCO, Oracle Academy certified, and teaches courses on networking and structured query language. Dr. Poongodi is the author of over 40 book chapters and over 30 papers in international journals and conferences. She has published over ten books in the areas of IoT, data analytics, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and healthcare informatics. She has received awards, namely the Research and Innovation Award (2019, 2020) and Excellence in the Area of Research & Innovation/Academic Excellence/Extension Activities (2018–19, 2019–20) from Galgotias University. Prof. Poongodi has also received invitations to address international conferences as a keynote speaker. She is a senior member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Women in Engineering, and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, the International Association of Engineers, the Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors, and the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology. She is a reviewer for international journals and conferences, and she holds four Indian patents as well.
Balamurugan Balusamy, PhD, is currently working as Professor in the School of Computing Sciences and Engineering at Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India, where he has been for the past 12 years, teaching and doing research on blockchain and IoT. His contributions focus on engineering education, blockchain and data sciences. His academic degrees and twelve years of experience working as a faculty in a global university such as VIT University, Vellore, have made him ]prominent in his domain. He has over 200 papers published in high-impact factor journals from Springer, Elsevier and IEEE. He has edited and authored over 50 books on various technologies and has collaborated with eminent professors across the world from top QS ranked universities. He serves on the advisory committees for several start-ups and forums and does consultancy work for industry on industrial IoT. He has given over 175 talks at various events and symposiums.
