R. Vasanthi is an academic and researcher with over 22 years of teaching experience and one year of industrial experience. Currently serving as the Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at R P Sarathy Institute of Technology, Salem, she has made significant contributions to the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cloud Computing. Dr. Vasanthi has received numerous awards, including the Uttama Adyapika Award by Bharat Education Excellence Awards in 2022 and the Best Women Engineer Award by the Institution of Engineers (India) in 2018. Her research is widely recognized, with numerous publications in international journals and conferences, as well as several patents. She has authored multiple books on programming and software engineering, further improving her expertise. Dr. Vasanthi is also an active editorial board member for various prestigious journals and has guided numerous undergraduate and postgraduate projects, contributing significantly to academic development.
Ke-Lin Du received his PhD in electrical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1998. He has been a professor in Faculty of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan, China, since 2024. From 2011 to 2024, he served as an Affiliate Associate Professor and then an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University, where he was also on the research staff from 2001 to 2010. In the past, he held technical and research positions at Huawei Technologies, China Academy of Telecommunication Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Enjoyor Inc., and Xonlink Inc. Dr. Du has co-authored five books with M. N. S. Swamy, including Neural Networks in a Soft Computing Framework (Springer, London, 2006), Wireless Communication Systems (Cambridge University Press, New York, 2010), Neural Networks and Statistical Learning (Springer, London, 2014, and 2nd edition, 2019), and Search and Optimization by Metaheuristics (Springer, 2016). A forthcoming book titled Wireless Communication Systems 2nd Edition will be published by Springer Nature in the beginning of 2026. He has also coedited 13 books published by Springer between 2021 and 2022. Additionally, he has published 60 papers and holds six U.S. patents and more than 30 Chinese patents. His research interests include signal processing, wireless communications, and machine learning.
Kanthavel R, currently working as a Professor and Chair of Computer Engineering in the School of Electrical and Communication Engineering, PNG University of Technology, Papua New Guinea specialized in Computer Engineering and currently having 27 years of teaching and 21 years of research experience. He has published ten technical books, 25book chapters, 87 Scopus-indexed journals, 32 SCI-indexed journals, and guided and supervised 52 PG students (M.E/M.Tech) and 11 Ph.D. scholars. He published more than 100 papers at national and international reputed conferences. He held various academic and administrative positions like Professor, Head of the Department, Research Dean, Vice Principal, Principal (Head of the Institution) and Dean of School of Computing which all provide evidence to prove his capability for this post. He published technical books for engineering students in Computer Programming, Software Architecture, Multi-Core Architecture, and Embedded and Real-time Systems. As an academic, his field of interest’s are Computer Engineering, computer networking and security, high-performance communication networks, Internet of Things, Cognitive Radio, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, HCI, Computer Graphics, Big Data and Cloud Computing.
