Amit Kumar Tyagi is an assistant professor and senior researcher at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. His research focuses on machine learning with big data, blockchain technology, data science, cyber physical systems, smart & secure computing and privacy. He has contributed to several projects such as "AARIN" and "P3-Block" addressing open issues related to the privacy breaches in vehicular applications and medical cyber physical systems.

Ajith Abraham is the director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), Australia. MIR Labs are a not-for-profit scientific network for innovation and research excellence connecting industry and academia. His research focuses on real world problems in the fields of machine intelligence, cyber-physical systems, Internet of things, network security, sensor networks, web intelligence, web services, and data mining. He is the Chair of the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing.

Farookh Khadeer Hussain is an associate professor with the School of Software, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is also an associate member of the Advanced Analytics Institute and a core member of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence. His research interests include trust-based computing, cloud of things, blockchains, and machine learning. He has published widely in these areas in top journals, such as FGCS, the Computer Journal, JCSS, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

Arturas Kaklauskas is a professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania. His areas of interest include affective computing, Internet of Things, big data and text analytics, intelligent event prediction, opinion mining, intelligent decision support systems, neuro-marketing, intelligent tutoring systems, massive open online courses (MOOCS), smart built environment, energy and resilience management. He is editor in chief of the Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, and editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

R. Jagadeesh Kannan is a professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. His research focuses on semantic web, network security, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. He is an active member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Computer Society of India (CSI), Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN), International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Association of Computer Electronics & Electrical & Engineers (ACEEE), amongst others.