Subhrajyoti Deb is an academic and researcher in cryptography, multimedia security, and IoT, currently serving as an assistant professor at IIIT Bhopal. He earned his PhD from NEHU Shillong and completed postdoctoral work at ISI Kolkata. A Visvesvaraya PhD Fellow, he has published 20 SCI-indexed papers, authored two books, and holds two patents. His research emphasizes lightweight encryption and secure systems. He has collaborated internationally, mentored many scholars, and actively reviews for top-tier journals.

Adnan Abdul-Aziz Gutub is a full professor in the Computer Engineering Department at the College of Computers and Information Systems, Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), Makkah, Saudi Arabia. where he specializes in information and computer security. His main research interests involve optimizing, modeling, simulating, and synthesizing of VLSI hardware for crypto and security computer arithmetic operations. He is working on designing efficient integrated circuits for the Montgomery inverse computation in different finite fields.

Aditya Kumar Sahu is an associate professor at the School of Computing, of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is working in the research areas of multimedia forensics, digital image watermarking, image tamper detection and localization, image steganography, reversible data hiding, and convolution neural network based data hiding. He has authored 50+ publications. He is an associate editor or editorial board member for various journals in his field.