Neeraj Gupta received the BTech Degree in Computer Engineering and M.Tech in Computer Science from Kurukshetra University and JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth (Deemed University) in 1999 and 2006 respectively, and the PhD degree from University School of Information, Communication & Technology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delh in 2016. From October 1999 to July 2014 he worked as Assistant Professor in Computer Science Engineering in Hindu College of Engineering, Sonepat, India. He is working as Associate Professor with School of Engineering and Technology at K.R. Mangalam University, Gurugram, India since July 2014. He has successfully guided three PhD scholars. He is Professional Member of ACM and life member of Computer Science of India. His research interests are in area of Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Software Defined Networks, Blockchains, Sensor Networks and Performance Modeling and Analysis of networks.

Asha Sohal received the BTech Degree in Computer Engineering and MTech in Information Technology from Kurukshetra University and Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi(GGSIPU) in 2003 and 2011 respectively, and pursuing PhD degree from Department of Computer Science and Applications, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. From August 2003 to July 2007 she worked as senior lecturer in Computer Science Engineering in reputed colleges of engineering, India. From August 2008 to July 2011 and July 2011 to July 2013 she worked as Assistant Professor in Computer Science Engineering in KIIT, Gurgaon and Amity University, Gurgaon respectively. She is working as Assistant Professor with the School of Engineering and Technology at K.R. Mangalam University, Gurugram, India since July 2013. Her research interests are in area of Cloud Computing, Fog Computing, Wireless Sensor Networks and MANETs.

Chapter 2

Ruchi Bhatnagar is a dynamic and prominent research scholar and academic having 15+ years of experience in teaching and study at IIMT University, Meerut. Her primary research fields are Networking and Algorithm, ranging from theory to design to implementation. She has published her research in several international and national journals and organized and served international conferences program committees at IIMT University, Meerut.

Paramjeet Rawat is Professor at the IIMT Engineering College, Meerut. She is a reviewer on several reputed international journals at Elsevier, Inderscience, IJAIS, IJARCSEE, TIJCSA and has published her research in more than 25 reputed and referred journals. She had also presented a curriculum on ethical education in Amherst College, USA; where she represented team India and received a letter of appreciation from MLI, USA for her excellent work. She has good analytical and problem solving skills and guided of many PhD scholars.

Dr. Amit Garg is a dynamic and vibrant academic having 19 years of experience. Currently he is working as HoD, Department of CSE, IIMT Engineering College, Meerut. He is a life-time member of CSI, IANEG and ISRD. He is an eminent scholar with his international publications including SCOPUS and ESCI Journals. Throughout his carrer he has also worked as SPOC for IBM, WIPRO, TCS, and SAP.

Chapter 3

Arish Pitchai is working as Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be university), Bengaluru, India. He is also associated as Quantum Scientist, Quantum Machine Learning Lab, BosonQ Psi Pvt. Ltd, Bhilai, India. After completing his PhD in quantum game theory, Arish Pitchai worked for a while as an associate consultant in Atos, Quantum R&D. Then he joined CHRIST (Deemed to be University) as an Assistant Professor.

Thiruselvan Subramanian works as Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Presidency University, Bengaluru, India. He pursued his PhD in cloud computing technology and his research interests include computer vision and quantum computing.

Chapter 4

Vandana Niranjan is working as Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University Delhi, India. She graduated in the year 2000 and received her BE degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Government Engineering College (now University Institute of Technology of Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya) Bhopal. In the year 2002, she received her MTech degree from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T) Roorkee with VLSI Design as specialization. In the year 2015, she was awarded her PhD degree in the area of Low Voltage VLSI Design from University School of Engineering & Technology, GGSIP University, Delhi. She has 20 years’ teaching and research experience at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University, Delhi. Her areas of interest includes MOSFET body bias techniques and low-voltage low-power analog CMOS circuit design. She has several publications to her credit in various international journals and conferences and book chapters.

Anukriti has recently completed her Masters in technology in the area of VLSI and Chip design at Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University, Delhi, India. She graduated in the year 2017 and received her BTech degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. She is currently working as a Research Intern under the Openlabs Programme at CERN, Geneva where she is pursing her research career in Quantum Machine Learning and Computing. She is an aspiring researcher and scientist and has published in indexed international conferences when her main area of focus was Machine Learning, Deep learning, Dark Matter Physics and Applied Cosmology.

Chapter 5

Renata Wong received her MA degree in Sinology, as well as BSc. and MSc. degrees in Computer Science from Leipzig University, Germany, in 2008, 2011, and 2013, respectively. She holds a PhD in Computer Science (Quantum Computing) from Nanjing University, PRC, and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences in Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C, working in quantum computation and information. Her main research fields are quantum computation and information (especially quantum algorithms), protein structure prediction, foundations of physics, and linguistics. Up to date, she has published over two dozen journal papers, conference papers and book chapters in English, Chinese and German. Within the field of quantum computing, she has, among others, developed and successfully simulated two quantum algorithms for protein structure prediction. In the area of physics, her contributions are in the research on the logical consistency of physics theories, with focus on the special and the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. In addition to English and her native Polish, she is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, German, and Russian. The current affiliation is: Physics Division, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan.

Tanya Garg is a student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics with a minor in Computer Science and Engineering. Interested in the fundamental of physics and computer science, she intends to pursue the field of quantum computing and the related areas of quantum communication and quantum algorithms due to their interdisciplinary nature and the technological potential they propose. She has conducted undergraduate research at renowned laboratories and is the recipient of some prestigious scholarships, namely the DAAD WISE scholarship and the Charpak Lab Scholarship.

Ritu Thombre completed her BTech from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. She recently joined CITI India as Technology Analyst. Her primary interests are Cryptography, Machine Learning, Quantum Mechanics and Astrophysics. She likes to design new machine learning algorithms to solve various problems that have real world applications. She is deeply fascinated by applications of Quantum Computing in Cryptography and Deep Learning. Currently we live in a “vacuum-tube” era of Quantum Computers and hopes to contribute to the advancement of Quantum Computing to achieve “quantum-supercomputer” era someday.

Alberto Maldonado Romo is a PhD student in Computer Science at the Center for Computing Research, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico, where he has collaborated with the Fermilab and CERN research centres on the GeantV project, and did his Master’s thesis on quantum image processing. He a technical reviewer of the book Quantum Computing with Silq Programming. Alberto is an administrator for the non-for-profit company Quantum Universal Education, he has conducted workshops and webinars on introduction to quantum computing, designed comics introducing beginning quantum computing concepts, and created tutorials in five different quantum programming languages.

Niranjan PN, a current Master’s student of Physics at the University of Cologne, is also a quantum developer in a promising startup - BosonQ Psi Pvt.Ltd in India. He has more than two years of experience in the field of quantum computing. His area of interest lies in fault-tolerant quantum hardware and variational quantum algorithms. He is currently working on different projects one of which is covid detection using quantum machine learning. He has presented two lectures; one in Kongunadu Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, India on quantum computing as a beginner and one at the Government College of Engineering, Thanjavur under the Faculty Development Program on Quantum Computing organized by AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy. He is also a freelance consultant on how to start one’s career in quantum computing.

Pinaki Sen is a final year Electrical Engineering undergrad at National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India. His interest lies primarily in the domain of Quantum Computing and Machine Learning. He has research experience in Quantum Machine Learning, Quantum Error Correction, Quantum-dot Cellular Automata and related fields. He has previously worked as a research intern at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India.

Mandeep Kaur Saggi is presently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. She is working on multilevel ensemble modelling for predicting the Reference Evapotranspiration (ETo) and Crop Evapotranspiration for Crop Water Requirement, Irrigation Water Requirement, and Irrigation Scheduling using Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning techniques. She completed her MTech in Computer Science Engineering at D.A.V University, Jalandhar. She completed her BTech in Computer Science & Engineering from Punjab Technical University. Her area of interest lies in Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, Quantum Computing, & Cloud Computing.

Amandeep Singh Bhatia is working as a Postdoc in Institute of Theoretical Physics at University of Tubingen, Germany. He is developing quantum computational models and quantum algorithms with new artificial intelligence methods for physics, and novel quantum machine learning techniques. He completed his PhD degree in the realm of Quantum Computation and Information at the Computer Science & Engineering Department at Thapar University in July 2020. He has more than six years of work experience in quantum computing and technologies. He contributed to the progress of quantum automata theory and developed quantum computational models for Biology, Chemistry and Tensor network theory. Presently, he is contributing to the progress of quantum machine learning. He received his BTech and MTech degrees in Computer Science & Engineering in 2010 and 2013, respectively. Up to date, he has published over two dozen journal papers, conference papers and book chapters on several aspects of quantum computation and information.

Chapter 6

Anil B. Gavade is a Associate Professor at the KLS Gogte Institute of Technology, Belagavi, Karnataka, India, in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. He received a BE degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Karnataka University, Dharwad, an MTech in Digital Electronics and PhD in Electri-cal and Electronics Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi. His main research interests include Computer Vision and Machine Learning Applications to Biomedical Imagery and Satellite Imagery.

Rajendra B. Nerli is a Professor and Head, Department of Urology, JN Medical College, KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research (Deemed-to-be-University), Belagavi. Dr Nerli has published over 300 research articles in peer-reviewed indexed journals. He has carried out clinical experimental and field research in the areas of urology, artificial intelligence and medical sciences. As a research mentor, he has guided a number of students leading to MCh and PhD Degrees. He is the Director of Clinical service at KLES Dr Prabhakar Kore Hospital & MRC, Belagavi.

Dr Ashwin S. Patil is presently Professor and Head, Department of Radio-diagnosis, JNMC Belagavi. He completed his Medical School (MBBS) in 1994 and MD-Radiology in 1997 from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belagavi and Karnataka University, Dharwad. He has over 27 years of teaching experience and has mentored and guided over 50 postgraduates. He has authored over 17 publications, four of which are published in leading international journals and has presented over 66 presentations (paper, e-poster). He also holds and has held several posts, prominent among them being Board of Studies Member for KAHER since 2014 and BLDE University (2016–2019), Affiliation Inquiry Committee member for Goa University (2016–2017) and Life members of IRIA (Indian Radiology and Imaging Association) and IMA (Indian Medical Association). His subspecialty interests include CT and MRI reporting. He is currently involved in research activities on Artficial Intelligence and tuberculosis in collaboration with Thomas Jefferson University, USA.

Shridhar Ghagane is currently working as Research Scientist (R&D) at Urinary Biomarkers Research Centre, KLES Dr. Prabhakar Kore Hospital & Medical Research Centre, Belagavi, India. His area of expertise is in Medical Biotechnology, Urologic-oncology, Cancer Biomarkers and Artificial Intelligence. He has published over 150 research articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals. Currently, he is supervising two PhD candidates at the KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research, Belagavi.

Venkata Siva Prasad Bhagavatula is working as Principal Systems Engineer with Medtronic Innovation and Engineering center, Hyderabad, India. He completed his BE degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Karnataka University, Dharwad and completed his Master of Science (Online) in Data science from Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He holds a patent, launched three new products in various roles in Research and Development in the Healthcare industry. He has 18 years of experience in the areas of hardware and systems engineering. His main area of work is in systems engineering. His main interests include medical devices, data science and machine learning applications to medical imaging.

Chapter 7

Hari Prabhat Gupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India. Previously, he was a Technical Lead at Samsung R&D Bangalore, India. He received his PhD and MTech degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in 2014 and 2010 respectively; and his BE degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Govt. Engineering College Ajmer, India. His research interests include the Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Dr. Gupta has received various awards such as Samsung Spot Award for outstanding contribution in research, IBM GMC project competition, and TCS Research Fellowship. He has guided three PhD thesis and five MTech dissertations. He has completed two sponsored projects and has published three patients and more than 100 IEEE journal and conference papers.

Swati Chopade received her MTech Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from VJTI, Mumbai, India. Presently, she is pursuing a PhD at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. Her research interests include machine learning, sensor networks, and cloud computing.

Tanima Dutta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India. Previously, she was a researcher in TCS Research & Innovation, Bangalore, India. She received a PhD from the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati in 2014. Her PhD was supported by TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) Research Fellowship and she received SAIL (Steel Authority of India Limited) Undergraduate Scholarship for perusing her BTech degree. Her research interests include (major) Deep Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Image Forensics and (minor) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Intelligent Internet of Things (IIoT).

Chapter 8

Jaydip Sen has around 28 years of experience in the field of networking, communication and security and machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Currently, he is associated with Praxis Business School as Professor and the Head of the School of Computing and Analytics. He is also a visiting Professor to XLRI Jamshedpur and also an IBM ICE (Innovation Center for Education) Subject Matter Expert (SME). His research areas include security in wired and wireless networks, intrusion detection systems, secure routing protocols in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, privacy issues in ubiquitous and pervasive communication, machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence. He has more than 200 publications in reputed international journals and refereed conference proceedings, and 22 book chapters in books published by internationally renowned publishing houses, like Springer, CRC press, IGI-Global, etc., and four books published by reputed internal publishing house. He is a member of ACM and IEEE. He has been listed among the top 2% most cited scientists in the world as per a study conducted by Stanford University which has been published in a paper in PLOS ONE journal in September 2020.

Sidra Mehtab has completed her BS with honors in Physics from Calcutta University, India in 2018. She has an MS in Data Science and Analytics from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (MAKAUT), Kolkata, India in 2020. Her research areas include Econometrics, Time Series Analysis, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Ms. Mehtab has published ten papers in reputed international conferences and two papers in prestigious international journal. She has won the best paper awards in two international conferences – BAICONF 2019, and ICADCML 2021, organized at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India in December 2019, and SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India in January 2021. Besides, Ms. Mehtab has also published two book chapters in two books published by IntechOpen, London, UK. Seven of her book chapters have been published in the December 2021 volume by Cambridge Scholars’ Press, UK. Currently, she is working as a Data Scientist with an MNC in Bangalore, India.

Chapter 9

Pavel Loskot joined the ZJU-UIUC Institute in Haining, China, in January 2021 as the Associate Professor after spending 14 years at Swansea University in the UK. He received his PhD degree in Wireless Communications from the University of Alberta in Canada, and the MSc and BSc degrees in Radioelectronics and Biomedical Electronics, respectively, from the Czech Technical University of Prague in the Czech Republic. He is the Senior Member of the IEEE, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, and the Recognized Research Supervisor of the UK Council for Graduate Education. He has been involved in numerous telecommunication engineering projects since 1996. His current research interests focus on the problems involving statistical signal processing and importing methods from Telecommunication Engineering and Computer Science to other disciplines in order to improve the efficiency and information power of system modeling and analysis.

Chapter 10

Richa Sharma completed her MTech (Computer Science & Engineering), MS, and BSc from Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar. Ms. Sharma has 4+ years of teaching experience. She has expertise in CS subjects like Computer Networks, Data Structures and Algorithms and has taught these subjects to engineering students. Currently, she is pursuing her doctoral degree in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks. Also, she is a keen researcher and up to 2020 has published 17 research papers. She has presented her research work at international level in IEEE conferences and has had her work published in SCI, SCIE and Scopus Indexed International Journals. She has also contributed voluntarily as a reviewer for reputed International Journals and IEEE Conferences. Her primary areas of interests include the Wireless Sensor Networks and Evolutionary Techniques.

Chapter 11

Sheetal Zalte is assistant professor in Computer Science Department at Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India. She pursued her a BSc from Pune University, India and MSc from Pune, India. She earned her PhD in Mobile Adhoc Network at Shivaji University. She has 14 years of teaching experience in computer science. She has published 20+ research papers in reputed international journals and conferences including IEEE (also available online). She has also authored book chapters with Springer, CRC. Her research areas are MANET, VANET, Blockchain Security.

Vijay Ram Ghorpade has completed PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Shri Guru Govindsinghji Institute of Engineering and Technology (An Autonomous Institute of Govt. of Maharashtra), Nanded in 2008. He has more than 30 years of teaching experience at different levels. Presently he is working as the Principal, Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering, Kolhapur. His area of interest is in Internet Security, Mobile Ad hoc Networks, Authentication, Cloud Security, Block Chain, etc. So far he has published more than 76 papers in peer reviewed national and international journals of repute. He has presented more than 69 papers in national and international conferences organized by IEEE, ACM, CSI. He is a member of various professional bodies such as, ACM, IEEE Computer Society, ISTE, CSI, CRSI, ISACA. He received ‘Best Engineering Principal Award’ from ISTE-Maharashtra-Goa Section in 2015. He has filed five patents, and two of which have been published in the public domain.

Rajanish K. Kamat is currently holding the position of Dean, Faculty of Science & Technology in addition to Professor in Electronics and Head of the Department of Computer Science at Shivaji University, Kolhapur a NAAC A++ accredited HEI. He is also Member of Management Council, Academic Council and Senate of the University. Until recently he also served as Director, IQAC (2014–2020) and Director, Innovation, Incubation & Linkages (2018–2020). He has to his credit 200+ publications in journals from reputed publishing houses such as IEEE, Elsevier, Springer in addition to 16 reference books from reputed international publishers such as Springer, UK and River Publishers, Netherlands and exemplary articles on ICT for Encyclopedia published by IGI. He is a Young Scientist awardee of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India under Fast Track Scheme. Dr. Kamat is also currently working as an Adjunct Professor in Computer Science for the reputed Victorian Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.

Chapter 12

Ashish Seth is an author, consultant, researcher and teacher. He is a Professor at School of Global Convergence Studies, Inha University, South Korea and is deputed at Inha University Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He is PhD (Computer Science) in the area of Information Systems from Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India and holds MPhil(CS) and MCA degree. He worked at various universities in India and abroad holding different positions and responsibilities. He is senior member IEEE, life member CSI and an active member of International societies like ACM, IACSIT, IAENG, etc. He has delivered many invited talks and also serving as ACM-Distinguished speaker under ACM-DSP program. He has been a consultant with many projects and associated with project granted by Indian government and European Union. His research interests include Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud Computing and Blockchain Technologies. He finds interest in reading and writing articles on emerging technologies.

Kirti Seth is researcher and academic. She has a PhD (Computer Science and Engineering) in the area of Component Based Systems from Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, from AKTU, Lucknow, India and an MTech (Computer Science) from Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Banasthali, Rajasthan, india. She also holds an MSc (CS) degree and has been into research and academia for the last 16 years. She is presently working as Associate Professor at Inha University in Tashkent, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She has published more than 40 research papers in reputed journals like ACM, Springer and Elsevier and authored four books. She has been participating and organizing seminar, conferences, workshops, expert lecturers and technical events to share knowledge among academics, researchers and to promote opportunities for new researchers. She has provided training programs for students and faculties on various areas of computer science including Google’s techmaker event-2018. She has given keynote talks at many international conferences. Her current research interests include Service Oriented Architecture, Bio Inspired Optimizations, Neural Networks and Component Based Systems. She has been awarded “Young Scientist in Software Engineering-2017” in ARM 2017. She also received “Most Promising Women Educationist” of the year award in India Excellence Summit 2017, on 19th August 2017.

Himanshu Gupta is working as an Associate Professor in the reputed international university Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida in India. He completed all his academic as well as professional education from the reputed Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), India. He has visited Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Macau, China and United Arab Emirates for his academic and research work. He has delivered many Technical Sessions on “Network Security & Cryptography” in the field of Information Technology in various reputed International Conferences, World Summit and other foreign universities as an Invited Speaker. He has more than 75 research papers and articles in the field of Information Technology, which have been published in various reputed Scopus and other indexed conference proceedings and journals. He has written a number of books in the area of Information Security, Network Security and Cryptography as a main author published by reputed national and international publishers.

He has successfully filed a number of patents in the area of Network Security and Cryptography as an Inventor, which have been published in the “International Journal of Patents” by Patent Department, Govt. of India. He has delivered Online IT Lectures as an Invited Speaker to students of 16 African Countries under the e-Pan African Project sponsored by Govt. of India at Amity University, Noida.

Chapter 13

Snehlata Barde is working as Professor at MAT’S University, Raipur, (C.G.). She received her PhD in Information Technology and Computer Applications in 2015 from Dr. C. V. Raman University Bilaspur, (C.G.). She obtained her MCA from Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla University, Raipur, (C.G.) and MSc (Mathematics) from Devi Ahilya University Indore, (M.P.). Her research interest includes Digital Image Processing and its Applications in Biometric Security, Forensic Science, Pattern Recognition, Segmentation, Simulation and Modulation, Multimodal Biometric, Soft Computing Techniques, cyber crime, IoT. She has published 61 research papers in various international and national journals and conferences. She has attended 36 seminars, workshop and training programs, she has published six book chapters. She has 22-years’ teaching experience from GEC Raipur, NIT Raipur, SSGI Bhilai. She has reviewed the translated files of the course Cloud Computing offered by IIT Kharagpur in Marathi language.

Chapter 14

Parag H. Rughani obtained his Master’s Degree in Computer Applications and PhD in computer science from Saurashtra University. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in Digital Forensics at the National Forensic Sciences University, India. He has more than 16 years of experience in academia and has published more than 16 research articles in reputed international journals. He has delivered more than 34 Expert Talks at various levels. His research interests are broadly in the area of Cyber Security and Digital Forensics. He is currently working on Machine Learning, Memory Forensics, Malware Analysis and IoT Security and Forensics.