Evolving Landscapes of Research and Development: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

Vishal Jain is presently working as Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University, Greater Noida, U. P. India. Before that, he has worked for several years as an Associate Professor at Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi. He has more than 14 years of experience in the academics. He obtained Ph.D (CSE), M.Tech (CSE), MBA (HR), MCA, MCP and CCNA. He has authored more than 90 research papers in reputed conferences and journals, including Web of Science and Scopus. He has authored and edited more than 30 books with various reputed publishers, including Elsevier, Springer, Apple Academic Press, CRC, Taylor and Francis Group, Scrivener, Wiley, Emerald, NOVA Science and IGI-Global. His research areas include information retrieval, semantic web, ontology engineering, data mining, ad hoc networks, and sensor networks. He received a Young Active Member Award for the year 2012–13 from the Computer Society of India, Best Faculty Award for the year 2017 and Best Researcher Award for the year 2019 from BVICAM, New Delhi.

Biplab Halder is the Vice-Chancellor of ICFAI University Tripura. He is an accomplished leader and expert in the areas of Education and Higher Education Institution domain. He completed B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and PhD in Management from ICFAI University Dehradun. He is also Fellow of the Institution of Engineers(I)-FIE. He worked in the top leadership positions in the various multinational and multicultural environments across India and abroad in the software, steel, and cement sector in his earlier career and thereafter, he moved to the higher education sector. He has comprehensive experience and expertise in negotiation, interaction, building relationships, strategy and policy framing with Govt & Institution and capacity building in the new knowledge economy. He has the expertise in institution building, establishing Universities and Business Schools across the country. He is a domain expert in creating, nurturing & establishing the brand, start-up, overall turning around of the organisation and operating as a profitable organization. The diverse fields of his working areas includes: • Higher Educational Institution building & development • IT & Software development • Marketing & Business Development • Operations and Execution Management • People Management • Strategic Management Major work in the Higher Educational sector includes: • Academic development • Knowledge management • Institution building • Higher Education Institution development • Academic Brand building • Academic Operation & Execution management • Human Resource Management • Mentoring Few of his remarkable contributions in the Higher Education sector: • Currently serving as a Member of the Board of ICFAI University at Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Jharkhand, Raipur, Jaipur and Dehradun. • Established 6 (Six) Universities in various states such as Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Rajasthan, and Jharkhand during the stint as a Member in the New Initiatives Group of ICFAI, Hyderabad. • Established and headed as the founder Director of 7 (Seven) Business Schools at Ahmedabad, Baroda, Pune, Aurangabad, Nashik, Indore & Jaipur offering MBA program. He has written several articles and also co-authored a book with the title “Services Marketing Concepts & Practices” published by Tata McGraw-Hill.

Uttiyo Raychaudhuri , Ph.D., is the Vice Provost for Internationalization at the University of Denver and faculty in the Department of Geography and Environment. He served before this at Cornell University as the first executive director in the Office of Global Learning. Prior to that, he worked at Clemson University and the University of Georgia. Raychaudhuri was elected to the Forum on Education Abroad Council in 2016 for two consecutive three year terms. Dr. Raychaudhuri’s leadership has been recognized twice (2012 & 2014) with the Institute of International Education’s Andrew Heiskell Award for Best Practices and Innovation in International Education. He has successfully advocated for high-impact, evidence-based academic and global engagement as a key foundation of the universities strategic plan. Through his research work and presentations, Raychaudhuri has actively promoted global engagement and international education to advance and advocate the cause of global citizenry including key notions of sustainability and ‘dignity for life’ by nurturing love and respect for the peoples and environments of our world.

Suman Kumar received the degree in electronics and communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) BHU Varanasi, India, and the Ph.D. degree from Louisiana State University. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Computer Science Department, Troy University. He leads the Trojan Advanced Computer Knowledge and Networking Group (TrACKNet). Over the years, he has published numerous research papers on varied topics, such as opto-electronics devices, travelling wave tubes, high speed networks, data center networks, future internet architecture, health informatics, cloud computing, and intelligent transportation systems. His current research interests include all aspect of computer communications and networking, intelligent systems, and cyber security. [Editor]