302 About the Contributors S. Geetha received the B.E. from the Madurai Kamaraj University, M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, in 2000, 2004 and 2011 respectively. She has 14+ years of teaching experience. Currently, she is a professor at School of Computing Science and Engineering at VIT-University, Chennai Campus. She has published more than 50 papers in reputed IEEE International Conferences and refereed Journals. She joins the review committee for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Springer Multimedia Tools and Security, Elsevier Information Sciences. She was an editor for the Indian Conference proceedings of ICCIIS 2007 and RISES-2013. Her research interests include multimedia security, intrusion detection systems, machine learning paradigms and information forensics. She is a recipient of University Rank and Academic Topper Award in B.E. and M.E. in 2000 and 2004 respectively. She is also a pride recipient of the Best Academic Researcher Award 2013 of ASDF Global Awards. Asnath Victy Phamila Y. holds M.E and Ph.D degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, India. Her research area includes Image Processing, Wireless Sensor Networks and Network Security. She has around 11 years of academic and 4 years of industry experience. She has around 20 research papers to her credit. She also serves as reviewer in reputed journals. * * * K. Adalarasu received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from University of Madras, Tamilnadu, India, in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in driver fatigue measurements from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, in 2010. At present, he is a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul, Tamilnadu, India. He has published his research work in number of national and international journals and conferences. His research interests include cognitive neuroscience, industrial human safety and ergonomics testing of vehicles. C. Chellappan is currently the principal of GKM College of Engineering & Technology. He was a senior Professor of Anna University Chennai, which is one among the Top Technological Universities in the world and the Top Technological University in India. He was the coordinator for Rupees One crore collaborative directed basic research project on Smart and Secure Environment sponsored by National Technology Research Organization, Govt. of India, New Delhi. He is also the project team member of Indo-Australian Joint Research Project on Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Denial of Service
Attacks: Tools, Technology and Policy sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. He is the unique person having more than 32 years of service with both strong technical, academic, managerial, industrial and research experience in implementation and management of IT systems. He has published 157 papers in reputed International Journals and Conferences. He is author of 3 books in the field of network security. His current research is on Computer networks and Network security. M. K. Kavitha Devi received her Under Graduate and Graduate Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and her Ph.D. Degree in Information and Communication Engineering in 1994, 2004 and 2011 respectively. Her research focuses on Recommender Systems, Information Security & Hiding, Cloud Computing, and Big data. She has received the Best Computer Science Faculty Award in 2014 from Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties (ASDF). She has published more than 20 refereed Journal and International Conference papers in these areas.she is the reviewer in referred Journals including IEEE Intelligent Systems and Springer - Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India): Series B. She organized Faculty Development Programs, Workshops and Conference. Under her guidance, 10 Ph.Dscholars from Anna University, Chennai are working in her area. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India. Uma N. Dulhare received her Ph.D from Osmania University Hyderabad. She has more than 20 years of academic experience. Currently, she is working as a professor, Department of Information Technology, Muff Kham Jah College of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad. She has published more than 20 research papers in reputed National & International Journals. Her research interests include Data Warehouse and Data Mining, Intrusion Detection systems, Information Retrieval System, Big Data Analytics. She is the member of various professional bodies like ISTE, IAENG UCAEE,CSTA, ISRD. She is also a pride recipient of the Best Computer Science Faculty 2013 & Best Academic Researcher 2015 of ASDF Global Awards. Suseela G. is a Ph.D Research scholar at School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. She holds B.E., and M.Tech degrees in Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to her full time research she was working as Assistant Professor at SRM University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. Her areas of research include Wireless Image Sensor Network, Image Processing and network security. R. Gayathri received her B.Tech (CSE) from Rajiv Gandhi College of engineering and technology and M.Tech from Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry. She is currently employed at VIT University Chennai campus as Assistant Professor in the department of Computer science. Her research interests include cloud computing, information security and network security. Geogen George is currently working as Assistant professor in the department of Information Technology, SRM University. He is the co-ordinator for the Post Graduate Programme Information and computer forensics of SRM University. He is a certified Malware expert. Mr. Geogen is a specialized person in Network Security, Security Policy Design, Troubleshooting, Infrastructure Design and Analysis, risk 303
assessment procedures, authentication technologies, policy formation, and security attack pathologies. He is also an expert in Designing and implementing Various Cisco Networks. He holds an M.Tech degree in Information Security and Computer Forensics after completing B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He has published many papers in national and international conferences related to Malware and information Security. Hemalatha J. received the B.E. and M.E., degrees in Computer Science and Engineering in 2007 and 2011, respectively, from the Anna University of Chennai, India. In July 2013, she joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at P.S.R Engineering College, Sivakasi, India. Currently she is working towards the Ph.D degree from Anna University at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India. She has published more papers in reputed IEEE International Conferences and refereed Journals. Her research interests include Steganography, Steganalysis, Image Processing and Machine Learning paradigms. M. Jagannath is an Associate Professor in the School of Electronics Engineering at VIT University, Chennai, India. Prior to joining VIT University, he was heading the Department of Biomedical Engineering at SMK Fomra Institute of Technology, Chennai, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from IIT Madras, Chennai in the year 2012. He has served the position of Senior Project Officer at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. He has taught at Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai; Madras Medical Mission, Chennai; Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. He received IndiraGandhi Sadbhavna Gold Medal Award for Individual Achievement and Service to the Nation from Global Economic Progress and Research Association, India, 2014. He received Technical Icon of the Year 2012 from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Young Professional Society (Chennai Network), UK. He has more than 50 research articles published in various reputed conferences and journals. His research interests are ergonomics, biomedical instrumentation systems, biomechanics, control systems, mechatronic systems and robotics. S. Jeeva is currently working as Research Associate in the School of Computing Science and Engineering at VIT University. He has served in academics sector for more than four years. L. Kavisankar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in SRM University. He was the Research Associate for Rupees One crore collaborative directed basic research project on Smart and Secure Environment sponsored by National Technology Research Organization, Govt. of India, New Delhi. He received Public Servicing Awards - 2014 (Technology Category), from Working Journalists Union of Tamilnadu, 2014. He was also a Senior Research Fellow in the UGC-BSR Fellowship. His Ph.D research work is under the Intrusion Detection & Prevention and his title of research is an efficient mitigation framework to detect and defend against multi-vector DDOS attacks. He has published 7 papers in reputed International Journals and Conferences. His current research is on NLP (Natural Language processing) and Network security. T. S. Pradeep Kumar received B.E. degree from Madras University and M.E. degree from Anna University, Chennai. Currently pursuing Ph.D. degree from VIT University, Vellore. Currently he is a full time faculty in School of Computing sciences and Engineering at VIT University, Chennai. His research interests are Wireless Sensor Networks, Embedded Systems, Open Source Programming, etc. 304
R. Menaka completed her Masters in Applied Electronics from Anna University. She received her Doctoral degree from Anna University. She is currently working as an Associate Professor in the School of Electronics Engineering, VIT University, Chennai. She has published several papers in reputed Journals and Conferences. Her areas of interest are image processing, neural networks and fuzzy logic. S. Muthuramalingam received his PhD degree under the faculty of Information & Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai.His research interests include Mobile Communications and Internet of Things. He is currently working as an Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. E. Poovammal is currently working as a Professor in SRM University and she is the Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She has more than 20 years of academic experience and 4 years of Industry experience. She is a Certified Adjunct Faculty for the two bridge courses Computer Science for Practicing Engineers and Hardware for Software Engineers, by Institute of software Research, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. She is a recipient of Woman Engineer Award-2013, from IET-YP-CLN. She is a member of various professional bodies like IEEE, IET, ACM, etc. She has published more than 20 papers in reputed International Journals and Conferences. Her current research is on Security in Cloud and data mining. P. Punithavathi received Bachelor of Eng. in Computer Science from Anna University, Chennai, and M. Tech in Computer Science from Bharath University, Chennai. She has achieved University Rank for M. Tech. She has served as Senior Editor in Scientific Publishing Services (Part of Springer Science + Business Media) for four years. She also has four years of teaching experience. She is pursuing Ph. D. at VIT University, Chennai, presently. Shaik Rasool received the Master of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in 2011. He is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology at M.J.C.E.T., Hyderabad, India. He has published six research papers in the feild of Computer Science in various International Journals. His research interest includes Network Security, Biometrics, Data Mining and Information Security. Nimisha Singh holds a degree of Bachelor in Applied Science from Delhi University and MCA from SNDT University, Mumbai. Currently she is pursuing FPM. Prior to joining BIMTECH, she worked at TCS as Software Programmer and WSI, USA as web developer later on moving to internet marketing. Nimisha s teaching and research interest are in the area of Software Project Management, ERP and Cyber Security. She has published and presented papers in national and international conferences. She has conducted training programs for information management and social media marketing. M. Sivabalakrishnan is currently working as Associate Professor in the School of Computing Science and Engineering at VIT University. He has served in academics sector for more than ten years. He received his Doctoral degree in image processing from Anna University. He has presented and published over 25 research papers in various national and international journals & conferences. His areas of interest are image processing, video analytics, database, neural networks and fuzzy logic. 305
S. Sridhar received his B.Tech - Information Technology degree under the faculty of Information & Communication Engineering from Thiagarajar college of Engineering, Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai.His research interests include Cloud Security and Network Security. He is currently pursuing his M.E. Computer Sciennce and Information Security degree under the Department of Information Technology, Thiagarajar college of Engineering, Madurai. M. Thangavel is a PhD candidate under the faculty of Information & Communication Engineering (Cloud Security) at Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai. He holds an ME in Computer Science from J.J College of Engineering, Tiruchirappalli.He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. His research interests include Cryptography Network security, Compiler Design and Data Structures. P. Vetrivelan received the M.E. degree in Embedded System Technologies from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Tamilnadu, India, in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Tamilnadu, India, in 2014. At present, he is an Associate Professor in the School of Electronics Engineering Engineering at VIT University Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. He has published his research work in number of national and international journals and conferences. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, wireless communication and embedded systems. 306