Dr Sudip Misra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Prior to this he was associated with Cornell University (USA), Yale University (USA), Nortel Networks (Canada), and the Government of Ontario (Canada). He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees, respectively, from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Dr Misra has several years of experience working in academia, government, and the private sector in research, teaching, consulting, project management, software design, and product engineering roles.

His current research interests include mobile ad hoc and sensor networks, the Internet of Things (IoT), computer networks, and learning systems. Dr Misra is the author of over 260 scholarly research papers, of which over 150 have been published in distinguished journals. He has won nine research paper awards in different international conferences. He was awarded 3rd Prize in the Samsung Innovation Award (2014) at IIT, Kharagpur, and also the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, Anaheim, California, USA. He is also the recipient of several academic awards and fellowships, such as the Young Scientist Award (National Academy of Sciences, India), the Young Systems Scientist Award (Systems Society of India), the Young Engineers Award (Institution of Engineers, India), the (Canadian) Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal at Carleton University, the University Outstanding Graduate Student Award at Doctoral Level at Carleton University, and the National Academy of Sciences, India – Swarna Jayanti Puraskar (Golden Jubilee Award). He was also awarded the Canadian Government’s prestigious NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Humboldt Research Fellowship in Germany.

Dr Misra is the Editor‐in‐Chief of the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), Inderscience, UK. He has also served (is serving) as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Telecommunication Systems Journal (Springer), Security and Communication Networks Journal (Wiley), International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), and EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking. He is also an Editor/Editorial Board Member/Editorial Review Board Member of the IET Communications Journal, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, and Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal (Elsevier).

Dr Misra has published ten books in the areas of opportunistic networks, wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, communication networks and distributed systems, network reliability and fault tolerance, and information and coding theory, published by reputed publishers such as Wiley, Springer, Cambridge University Press, and World Scientific.

He has been invited to chair several international conference/workshop programs and sessions. He has served on the program committees of several international conferences. Dr Misra has also been invited to deliver keynote/invited lectures in over 30 international conferences in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

Dr Sumit Goswami is a scientist with the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, Government of India. He has worked in the field of information security, wide area networks, website hosting, network management, and information extraction. He gained his PhD degree and Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication, a Bachelor’s Degree in Library and Information Science, and a BTech Degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

He has made significant research contributions in the area of public key infrastructure, mobile ad hoc and sensor networks, stylometric analysis, the Internet of Things, and machine learning. He has published more than 70 papers/chapters in various journals, books, data competitions, conferences, and seminars. He also has experience in Engineering Design and Technology Development related to mailing services, website security, webcasting, and intranets. For excellence of work, he has twice been awarded the DRDO’s Medal and Commendation Certificate. He also has expertise in techno‐managerial analysis and monitoring of projects. He was a member of the Team award by the Defence Minister for Best Techno‐Managerial Services – 2012.

Prior to joining DRDO, he worked with CMC Limited, New Delhi, as Engineer – System Integration. At CMC Limited he worked on a range of network products and technologies, some of which were legacy networks while others were contemporary. He has experience of designing and managing networks based on full duplex fast Ethernet and ATM on local area networks and satellite, microwave, ISDN, MPLS, and STM link‐based wide area networks.

To promote computer science among the masses, he writes general computer science articles in magazines and has contributed to more than 15 such topics. He is also a prolific instructor and has been the guest lecturer in various engineering colleges, as well as a regular speaker in a number of courses within his organization. He has also served on the program committees of several international conferences. He is a life member of the Computer Society of India. He is presently appointed as Counsellor (Defence Technology) in the Embassy of India, Washington D.C., USA.