Bal Virdee

Prof. Bal Virdee graduated with a BSc (Engineering) Honours in Communication Engineering and MPhil from Leeds University, UK. He obtained his PhD from the University of North London, UK. He worked as an academic at Open University and Leeds University. Prior to this, he was a research and development Electronic Engineer in the Future Products Dept. at Teledyne Defence (formerly Filtronic Components Ltd., Shipley, West Yorkshire), and at PYE TVT (Philips) in Cambridge. He has held numerous duties and responsibilities at the university, i.e., Health and Safety Officer, Postgraduate Tutor, Examination’s Officer, Admission’s Tutor, Short Course Organiser, Course Leader for MSc/MEng Satellite Communications, BSc Communications Systems and BSc Electronics.

Prof. Sérgio D. Correia received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2000, the master’s degree in Industrial Control and Maintenance Systems from Beira Interior University, Covilhã, Portugal, in 2010, and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2020. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Portalegre Polytechnic University, Portugal. He is also a Researcher at COPELABS - Cognitive and People-centric Computing Research Center, Lusofona University of Humanities and Technologies, Lisbon, Portugal, and VALORIZA - Research Center for Endogenous Resource Valorization, Portalegre Polytechnic University, Portalegre, Portugal, and has worked with several private companies for more than 20 years.

Prof. (Dr.) Abhishek Swaroop completed his B.Tech. (CSE) from GBP University of Agriculture & Technology, MTech. from Punjabi University Patiala, and Ph.D. from NIT Kurukshetra. He has Industrial experience of 8 years in organizations like Usha Rectifier Corporations and Envirotech Instruments Pvt. Limited. He has 22 years of teaching experience. He is actively engaged in research. He has more than 60 quality publications out of which 8 are SCI and 16 Scopus. Two of his Ph.D. Scholars have completed his Ph.D. from NIT Kurukshetra and IIT Dhanbad. He is currently supervising a Ph.D. student from AKTU Lucknow.

Dr. Narina Thakur completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2019, with a focus on Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. She earned a Gold Medal for her Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science & Engineering from Himachal Pradesh University and holds a Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Information Technology from Punjab Technical University, India. Currently, Dr. Thakur serves as the Head of the Research and Innovation Committee and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing at the University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE. With 23 years of teaching experience and an H-index -14, Dr. Thakur has published 5 SCI-SCIE indexed and more than 75 research papers in peer reviewed Scopus Indexed International Journals, ACM SIGARCH, Elsevier, IEEE, and International Conferences. She has authored several books on Algorithms, Programming, and Operating Systems. Her research areas include Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and IoT.

Dr. Sujala D. Shetty is an Associate Professor and Head in the department of Computer Science. She is working with BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus since September 2002. She has wide academic and research experience. She has handled significant administrative responsibilities. She has handled classes for both undergraduate, postgraduate and distance education students. Her research areas are Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Web Services, NLP. She completed her bachelor’s from Bangalore Institute of Technology in 1994, her master’s from Manipal Institute of Technology in 2004 and her PhD from BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus in 2010, respectively.