Advisory board
Dr. Indrajit De
An academically oriented person having been in teaching profession for more than 18 years, Dr De is currently associated with MCKV Institute of Engineering in West Bengal. Dr. De is currently the elected Vice Chair of Internet Society Kolkata Chapter. He has graduated in Engineering from Calcutta University and subsequently completed his M.Tech in IT and Ph.D in CST from IIEST, Shibpur, India. Also he has many authored publications in major international journals and conferences and edited books. He has been reviewing some major journal articles in publications like Applied Soft Computing, Machine Vision and Applications, IEEE Access etc for many years. He has also contributed as one of the founder coordinators in IICB – a flagship Internet standards awareness building project in India funded by Internet Society and approved by MeitY(earlier DeitY), Govt, of India. He has visited as well actively participated in IETF 94, 103 and ISOC – APAC Chapter meetings many a times across different parts of the World.
Dr. Amlan Chakrabarti
Amlan Chakrabarti is a Full Professor in the A.K.Choudhury School of Information Technology at the University of Calcutta. He is an M.Tech. from University of Calcutta and did his Doctoral research at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He was a Post-Doctoral fellow at the School of Engineering, Princeton University, USA during 2011-2012. He has almost 20 years of experience in Engineering Education and Research. He is the recipient of prestigious DST BOYSCAST fellowship award in Engineering Science (2011), Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Visiting Faculty Fellowship (2014), JSPS Invitation Research Award (2016) from Japan, Erasmus Mundus Leaders Award from European Union (2017), Hamied Visiting Professorship from University of Cambridge, UK (2018) and Siksha Ratna Award by Dept. of Higher Education Govt. of West Bengal (2018). He has also served in various capacities in various higher education organizations both at national and international levels.
Dr. Monowar Bhuyan
Monowar Bhuyan is an Assistant Professor (biträdande lektor) in the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden since January 2020 and one of the research group leaders in Autonomous Distributed Systems Lab since September 2017. Prior to this, he was a Visiting Researcher in the Laboratory for Cyber Resilience led by Prof. Youki Kadobayashi at NAIST, Japan from April to December 2019 funded by NICT, Japan. Monowar worked as Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Assam Kaziranga University, Jorhat, India from November 2016 to September 2019. Before that, he has been served as Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the same Department from July 2013 to October 2016. He was a Researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tezpur University, India from January 2009 to June 2013. He primarily works in machine learning, anomaly detection, security and privacy, trustworthy AI, and distributed systems.