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About the Contributors 329 About the Contributors Zameer Gulzar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Ap- plication, BSAR Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. The edi- tor’s areas of interest are e-learning, ontology, recommender systems, multimedia. Semantic Web, etc. * * * Santhanavijayan A. obtained his Bachelor’s degree in In- formation Technol- ogy from Madurai Kamaraj University. Then he obtained his Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University. He holds a Ph.D from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli in Semantic Web. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India. His specializations include E- Learning and Assessment Technologies in E-Learning. His current research interests are E-Learning, Web Technologies, Semantic Web, Ontology and Infor- mation Retrieval. Tamil Arasan is an Assistant Professor in the department of English and foreign languages at SRM University. He holds a doctorate in African American Literature. His research interest include English for specific purposes and Computer Aided Instruction. He has presented various papers on International Conferences and has five publications. https://www.srmist.edu.in/faculty/ptamilarasan Mahir Arzoky is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Brunel University London. Prior to this he was working on AQUATIC - EPSRC: EP/ M024083/1, and was also a core member of the FIAR-NET - EPSRC: EP/N011627/1, where he promoted collaborations between industry and academic research in soft- ware engineering. Prior to this, he was a Research Associate in Machine Learning at the Cognitive Digital System Engineering Centre, Birmingham City University, where he worked on a collaborative Data-driven Smart City project that aimed to About the Contributors simplify complex decision making, informing policy and strategic service develop- ments. Dr Arzoky obtained his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Brunel University London in 2015. His research interest lies in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Data Analysis, Data Mining and Software Engineering, in specific Search Based Software Engineering. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay is currently the Director of NIT Silchar and also Pro- fessor in Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University (currently on- lien). He has completed 4 international research and development projects as the Principal Investigator in the area of Sentiment Analysis, Question Answering, and Textual Entailment. He was the Chief Investigator of 8 National level consortium mode projects in the areas of Machine Translation - English to Indian languages and Indian language to Indian languages, cross lingual information access, devel- opment of treebank for Indian languages among others. Currently, he is executing three international projects funded by SPARC (MHRD) with Germany, ASEAN (DST) with Indonesia and Malaysia, DST and CNRS with France. He is regularly organizing the workshop series “Sentiment Analysis where AI meets Psychology (SAAIP)”. He was the Program Chair of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2017). He has started the International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and Applications (BigDML-2019) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NIT Silchar. His areas of interest include language technology with focus on computer processing of Indian languages, da- tabase and Machine Translation. Pushpa C. N. has completed Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangalore University, Master of Technology in VLSI Design and Embedded Systemsf rom Visvesvaraya Technological University and PhD in Com- puter Science and Engineering from Bangalore University. Presently she is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore. She has 20 years of teaching experience. She has presented and published 30+ research papers in the International Conferences and Journals. Her research interest includes Web mining, Personalized Web Search, Semantic Web and Data Analytics. Gerard Deepak holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Anna University, Chennai and a Masters in Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering with a specialization in Web Technologies from University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University, Bangalore. He is a University Level Gold Medalist for his Post Graduate degree and has also qualified the prestigious state-level eligibility examination K-SET for Assistant Professorship. He has worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science 330 About the Contributors and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Christ University, Bangalore. His area of Interests includes Web Mining, Semantic Web, Web Warehousing and Web Data Analytics. Currently, he is a full-time Research Scholar in the Department of Com- puter Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. He has published and presented his papers in renowned conferences and journals in the country and has won the best paper award 5 times. He also has reviewed many papers in the International Journal of Computer Science and Business Informatics and is a Life Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG). Thriveni J. has completed Bachelor of Engineering, Masters of Engineering and Doctoral Degree in Computer Science and Engineering. She has 4 ears of industrial experience and 24 years of teaching experience. Currently she is Professor in the Dept. of CSE, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore. She has over 100 research papers to her credit. She has produced five doctorate students and guiding 6 Ph.D students. Her research interests include Networks, Web Mining, IOT, Cloud Computing and Security. Venugopal K. R. received the Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), the Master’s degree in Computer Science and Automation from the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, and the Ph.D. degree in economics from Bangalore University and in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He is currently the Vice Chan- cellor, Bangalore University, Bangalore. He has served as the Principal with the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore University, Bengaluru for more than one decade. He has a distinguished academic career and has degrees in Electronics, Economics, Law, Business Finance, Public Relations, Communica- tions, Industrial Relations, Computer Science, and Journalism. He has authored and edited 72 books on Computer Science and Economics, which include Petrodollar and the World Economy, C Aptitude, Mastering C, Microprocessor Programming, Mastering C++, and Digital Circuits and Systems. He has filed 101 patents. During his three decades of service at UVCE he has over 800 research papers to his credit. His research interests include computer networks, wireless sensor networks, and distributed systems, digital signal processing, and data mining. He is a Fellow of IEEE and an ACM Distinguished Educator. Ayush Kumar A. is a B.Tech student of Chemical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. His research interests includes Chemin- formatics, Bio-Informatics, Ontology Modelling, and Petroinformatics. He is a young researcher and is publishing papers in newer domains and has contributed in Engineering Ontologies both methodologically and quantitatively. 331 About the Contributors Juliana M. Namada is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at United States International University- Africa, School of Business. She holds a PhD and Masters in Business Administration specializing in Strategic Management from the University of Nairobi, School of Business. She teaches and supervises students in Business Administration at undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral levels in the university. She has published in refereed journals both locally and internationally. She has published four book chapters. Her research interests are in strategic man- agement with a bias in strategic planning. Dr. Juliana is a member of the Academy of Management and Africa Academy of Management. In terms of service to the profession, she is an editorial member of two peer reviewed journals and reviews for several refereed journals. Partha Pakray is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India since August, 2018. He worked as an Assistant Professor at National Institute of Technology, Mizoram, India from 2015 to 2018. Besides, he was a researcher at CIC-IPN, Mexico, funded by DST-CONACYT (Govt. of India) and guest researcher at University of Bremen, Germany, funded by DST-DAAD (Govt. of India). He received his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College, West Bengal, India in 2004 while he received M.E. (CSE) and Ph.D. (Engg.) de- gree from Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India in 2007 and 2013 respectively. He received dual post-doctoral fellow, one from Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Norway, funded by ERCIM (European Union) and an- other from Masaryk University (MU), Czech Republic, funded by ERCIM & MU (European Union). His area of research interest and specialization include Natural Language
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