Information Technology and Applied Mathematics

Dr. Debasis Giri is Dean of the School of Electronics, Computer Science and Informatics and a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology, India. He completed his M.Tech. and M.Sc. at IIT Kharagpur, India and also his doctorate at IIT Kharagpur, India. He was ranked tenth in the country in the India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering in 1999. He has published over 50 papers in international journals/conferences. His current research interests include cryptography, information security, e-commerce security and design & analysis of algorithms. He is an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous international journals. He is also a program committee member for various international conferences. He is a life member of the Cryptology Research Society of India and the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC).

Prof. Peeyush Chandra is a retired professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India and past president of the Indian Mathematical Society and Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at IIT Kanpur, India and B.Sc. at Meerut College, Meerut University, India. His research interests include bio-fluid mechanics, fluid mechanics (low Reynolds number flow) lubrication theory, magnetic fluids, ecological modeling and mathematical epidemiology. Prof. Chandra has published over 100 articles in refereed journals and proceedings of leading national and international conferences. Dr. Chandra has over 35 years of teaching and over 45 years of research experience.

Dr. Fagen Li is a professor at the School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, P.R. China. He received his Ph.D. in Cryptography from Xidian University, Xi'an, in 2007 and from 2008 to 2009, he was