The "Essence" of Network Security: An End-to-End Panorama (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 163)

Mohuya Chakraborty presently holds the post of Dean (Faculty Development) and Professor of the department of Information Technology, Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM), Kolkata. She also holds the post of head of Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), IEM. Prior to this she held the position of head of the department of Information technology for tenure of 12 years. She is the Course Director of online learning platform - iCertifiedExpert.She has done B. Tech and M. Tech from the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, Calcutta University in the year 1994 and 2000 respectively and PhD (Engg.) in the field of Mobile Computing from Jadavpur University in 2007. She has Chartered Management Institute (CMI Level 5) certification in Leadership and Management from Dudley College, London, U.K, 2019. She is the topper of M. Tech and subsequently received prestigious Paresh Lal Dhar Bhowmik Award from Calcutta University. She is also the recipient of Rashtriya Gaurav Award in 2019. She has been awarded Certification of Appreciation as one of the Top 50 Distinguished HODs CSE/ IT Department in Higher Education Across India for the year 2019 by the Academic Council of uLektz in July 2020. She is a Certified Publons Academy Mentor. She is the member of editorial board of several International journals. She has published 4 patents and over 80 research papers in reputed International journals and conferences. She is the volume editor of Contributed Books; “Proceedings of International Ethical Hacking Conferences (eHaCON-2018 and eHaCON-2019)”, in Springer series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC volume 811)”, published by Springer. Her book entitled “Network Security: An End-To-End Panorama” will be published by Springer in August 2020 in their series “Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems”. She has handled many research projects worth Rs 35 Lakhs funded by the DST, AICTE, CSIR and NRDC, and has published a number of papers in high-impact journals. Her research areas include network security, cognitive radio, brain computer interface, parallel computing etc. She is a member of IEEE Communication Society and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society as well as the faculty adviser of IEEE Communication Society and IEEE Computational Intelligence Student Branch Chapters of IEM, Kolkata Section.

Dr. Moutushi Singh received her B.E. degree in Information Technology from The University of Burdwan and M.Tech degree from the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics, University of Calcutta, India. She did her Ph. D from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, India. She has authored several research papers in Technical Journals and referred conference proceedings. Few are also in pipeline. Her research interest includes security in Wireless Networks.

Valentina E. Balas is currently Full Professor in 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 Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is author of more than 350 research papers in refereed journals and International Conferences. Her research interests are in Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Soft Computing, Smart Sensors, Information Fusion, Modeling and Simulation.

Dr. Balas is the director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in AurelVlaicu University of Arad and Director of the Department of International Relations, Programs and Projects in the same university.

She served as General Chair of the International Workshop Soft Computing and Applications (SOFA) in eight editions 2005-2020 held in Romania and Hungary.

She is a member of EUSFLAT, SIAM and a Senior Member IEEE, member in TC – Fuzzy Systems (IEEE CIS), chair of the TF 14 in TC – Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), member in TC – Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS).

Dr. Balas was past Vice-president (Awards) of IFSA International Fuzzy Systems Association Council (2013-2015), is a Joint Secretary of the Governing Council of Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics (FIM), - A Multidisciplinary Academic Body, India and recipient of the "Tudor Tanasescu" Prize from the Romanian Academy for contributions in the field of soft computing methods (2019).

Dr. Indraneel Mukhopadhyay is the Professor of Information Technology & Management Department of the Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata. He is associated with the education profession for more than 16 years now, first in NIST (Berhampore) and then IEM, Kolkata. Prior to that, he has almost 4 and a half years of experience in the software industry. He has earned his Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.), in Computer Science & Engineering on “Network Security in Business Application”, from MAKAUT. He has done his B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering (Amravati University) and M.S. in Information Technology (Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA).  He also is certified as Mentor on “Tools for Growth” (London Business School, Goldman Sachs) and also as Entrepreneurship Educator (STVP, Stanford University, USA). He has been the recipient of various awards during studentand professional life. He has filed for a patent in 2016 at Indian Patent Office. He has numerous international (9) and national Journal Publications and International Conference publications (12).