This book features selected papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Recent Innovations in Computing (ICRIC 2023), held on 26–27 October 2023 at the Central University of Jammu, India, and organized by the university’s Department of Computer Science and Information Technology. The book is divided into two volumes, and it includes the latest research in the areas of software engineering, cloud computing, computer networks and Internet technologies, artificial intelligence, information security, database and distributed computing, and digital India.
Dr. Yashwant Singh is Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at the Central University of Jammu where he has been a faculty member since 2017. Prior to this, he was at the Jaypee University of Information Technology for 10 Years. He completed his Ph.D. from Himachal Pradesh University Shimla, his postgraduate study from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh, and his undergraduate studies from SLIET Longowal. His research interests lie in the area of Internet of Things, Vulnerability Assessment of IoT and Embedded Devices, Wireless Sensor Networks, Secure and Energy Efficient Routing, and ICS/SCADA Cyber Security, ranging from theory to design to implementation. He currently serves as Coordinator of Kalam Centre for Science and Technology (KCST), Computational Systems Security Vertical at Central University of Jammu established by DRDO.
Dr. Paulo J. Sequeira Gonçalves is Professor of Electrotechnical and Industrial Engineering with the School of Technology in the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Portugal. He is also Senior Researcher at IDMEC, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was trained in Mechanical Engineering, achieving the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, 1998 and 2005, respectively. He presented more than 100 papers in renowned journals and conferences in robotics, vision, and computational intelligence. He served as Chair of the IEEE-CIS (computational Intelligence) Portuguese chapter and was Officer of the IEEE RAS working group who developed the first RAS standard and one of the first ontology-based IEEE standards. He received several scientific awards both national and international. He organized and chaired several international conferences and edited its proceedings.
Dr. Pradeep Kumar Singh is currently working as Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Central University of Jammu, India. He is Senior Member of Computer Society of India (CSI), IEEE, ACM, and Life Member. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD), Indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. He is also Associate Editor of International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC), IGI Global USA, Security and Privacy, Wiley. Recently, he has been nominated as Section Editor for Discover IoT, a Springer Journal.
Dr. Maheshkumar H. Kolekar is working as Associate Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2007. During 2008 to 2009, he was Post-doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. During May to July 2017, he worked as DAAD Fellow at Technical University Berlin where he worked in the research area of EEG signal analysis using machine learning. His research interests are in the area of Digital Signal, Image and Video Processing, Video surveillance, Biomedical Signal Processing, and Deep Learning. He has successfully completed R&D Project Sponsored by Principal Scientific Advisor to Govt of India on abnormal human activity recognition.
