Proceedings of International Conference on Paradigms of Communication, Computing and Data Analytics PCCDA 2026, Volume 1

Dr. Ashish Kumar Tripathi (Member, IEEE) received his M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India, in 2013 and 2019 respectively. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Malviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, India. His research interests include big data analytics, social media analytics, soft computing, image analysis, and natural language processing. Dr. Tripathi has published several papers in international journals and conferences including IEEE transactions. He is an active reviewer for several journals of repute.

Dr. Lewis Nkenyereye is an Associate Professor and director of CIoT Lab (Cybersecurity and Internet of Things Lab) at the Department of Computer and information security, Sejong University, Seoul, South Korea. Before joining Sejong University in 2018, he was a Research Fellow at Creative Human Resource Development Program for IT Convergence, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea. He also holds a Ph.D. in Information Security from Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea. He was a visiting scholar at Thompson Rivers University, BC, Canada and Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA. His research spans across a wide range of security and privacy-related techniques with a particular interest in theInternet of Things (specifically Internet of Vehicles). Since 2018, he is involved in privacy preservation technique projects for BlockChain based applications; Interoperability challenges in IoT and M2M standards (with a special focus on oneM2M). He is actively involved in IoT / M2M ventures, data interoperability initiatives and security / privacy-related projects.

Dr Lim is a faculty in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is holding a concurrent appointment as a Deputy Director for the M.Sc in Financial Engineering and the Centre for Financial Engineering, anchored at the Nanyang Business School. He is a versatile researcher with diverse interests, with research focus in the areas of computational intelligence, evolvable hardware, finance, algorithms for UAVs and memetic computing. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Memetic Computing published by Springer. He is also the Series Editor of the book series by Springer titled "Studies in Evolutionary Learning and Optimization".