Keynote Speakers

Dr. G.R.Sinha

Dr. G.R.Sinha is Professor (Electronics & Tele.) & Associate Director in Faculty of Engineering and Technology of Shri Shankaracharya Group of Institutions (Technical Campus) Bhilai, India. He obtained his B.E. (Electronics) and M.Tech. (Computer Technology) from Govt. Engineering College (Now National Institute of Technology, Raipur. He received Gold Medal for obtaining first position in the University. He received his Ph.D. in Electronics & Telecommunication from Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, India. His research interest includes Digital Image Processing and it applications in biometric security, forensic science, pattern recognition, early detection of breast cancer, content retrieval of underwater imaging, neuro‐fuzzy based Vehicle license plate recognition, multimodal biometrics etc.

Dr. Kasi Periyasamy

Dr. Kasi Periyasamy graduated with B.Eng (Hons) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from University of Madras, India in 1981, M.Eng from Anna University, India in 1983, M.Comp.Sci in 1987 and Ph.D. in 1991 both from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He joined the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada in 1991 and moved to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA in 1999 where he is currently a Full professor. He is the Program Director for the Master of Software Engineering program at UW-La Crosse. He taught several courses at the graduate level both at the University of Manitoba and at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, including Formal Methods in Software Development, Software Verification and Validation, User Interface Design, and Software Metrics and Software Reuse.

Dr. Maode MA

Dr. Maode Ma received his BE degree from Tsinghua University in 1982, his ME degree from Tianjin University in 1991 and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Now, Dr. Ma is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has extensive research interests including wireless networking and wireless network security. He has led and/or participated in around 20 research projects funded by government, industry, military and universities in various countries. He has been a member of the technical program committees for more than 100 international conferences. He has been a general chair, technical symposium chair, tutorial chair, publication chair, publicity chair and session chair for more than 50 international conferences. Dr. Ma has more than 200 international academic publications including more than 70 journal papers, more than 140 conference papers and/or book chapters, and 3 academic books. Dr. Ma is the Editor-in-Chief of International journal of Electronic Transport and Topic Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of the Advancements in Computing Technology. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an Associate Editor for International Journal of Network and Computer Applications, International Journal of Security and Communication Networks, and International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. Dr. Ma is a senior member of IEEE Communication Society and IEEE Education Society and a member of a few technical committees in the IEEE Communication Society.