Dr. Rabi Mahapatra is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He was a faculty at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur prior to his joining at Texas A&M University in 1995. He has also held visiting faculty position at IBM T.J Watson Research Center during 2001. Dr. Mahapatra received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in 1992. He directs the Embedded System Research Group at Texas A&M University since 2002. He is an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing and Intl. Journal of ICT. He is one of the cofounders of Orissa Information Technology Society (OITS) and founder of International Conference on Information Technology in 1998. Dr. Mahapatra was the Steering Committee Chair of ICIT during 2004 – 2005, and the Program Chair of IEEE Workshop on Embedded System Code sign. He served in the technical program committee of ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) during 2005-2007; IEEE Intl Workshop on Large-scale Real-time Embedded Systems (2005, 2006), International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Systems (ICPADS) in 2004; International Conference on Parallel Processing (2004), Intl Workshop on System on Chip, and many other International events. He served as the Chairman of IEEE Kharagpur Section during 1994-95.

Dr. Mahapatra’s principal areas of research are Embedded Systems, System on Chip, Network Router Architectures, Low-power Design, and Cyber Physical Systems. He has published two books and more than 150 research articles in the refereed International Journals and Conference Proceedings. He has supervised 10 PhD dissertations, 30 MS thesis and currently supervising 10 more graduate students at Texas A&M University. His research has been supported by several federal agencies such as National Science Foundation, NASA, Department of Federal Aviation Agency (DoT), and industries like IBM, Boeing, BAE, Lockheed Martin, GE, Honeywell, Rockwell Collins and Xilinx Corp. Dr. Rabi Mahapatra is Ford Fellow, BOYS-CAST Fellow, Senior-Member IEEE Computer Society, and a Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society. Dr. Mahapatra served as ABET coordinator of Computer Science. He is serving the Committee on Academic Freedom, Responsibility, Tenure and Promotion (CAFRT) and is a Faculty Senator at Texas A&M University. He is also a member of Graduate Admission Committee in Computer Science and Engineering Department. Dr. Mahapatra received Undergraduate Teaching Excellence award in 2010.

Dr. Laxmi Narayan Bhuyan is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside since January 2001. Prior to that, he was a professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University (1989-2000) and Program Director of the Computer System Architecture Program at the National Science Foundation (1998-2000). He has also worked as a consultant to Intel and HP labs.

Dr. Bhuyan received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University in 1982. His current research interests are in the areas of network computing, multiprocessor architectures, router and web server architectures, parallel and distributed processing, and performance evaluation. He has published more than 150 papers in these areas in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), and many refereed conference proceedings. Dr. Bhuyan currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). He is a past Editor of the IEEE TC, JPDC, and Parallel Computing Journal. He was the founding Program Committee Chairman of the HPCA in 1995, Program Chair of the IPDPS in 1996, General Chair of ADCOM-2001, and General Chair of HPCA-9 (2003). He was elected Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (1995-1998).

Dr. Bhuyan is a Fellow of the IEEE, the ACM, the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and the WIF (World Innovation Foundation). He has also been named as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science. He has received other awards such as Halliburton Professorship at Texas A&M University, and Senior Fellow of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station. He was also awarded the IEEE CS Outstanding Contribution Award in 1997.

Dr. Prasant Mohapatra is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis. In the past, he was on the faculty at Iowa State University and Michigan State University. He has also held Visiting Scientist positions at Intel Corporation, Panasonic Technologies, Institute of Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore, and National ICT Australia (NICTA). Dr. Mohapatra received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1993. He was/is on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on computers, ACM WINET, and Ad Hoc Networks. He has been on the program/organizational committees of several international conferences. He was the Program Vice-Chair of INFOCOM 2004, and the Program Co-Chair of the First IEEE International Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2004), Program Chair of QSHINE International Conference (2006), and a Guest Editor for IEEE Network, IEEE Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the IEEE Computer.

Dr. Mohapatra's research interests are in the areas of wireless networks, sensor networks, Internet protocols and QoS. Dr. Mohapatra's research has been funded through grants from the National Science Foundation, Intel Corporation, Siemens, Panasonic Technologies, Hewlett Packard, and EMC Corporation. On the administrative side, Dr. Mohapatra served as the CTO of Polyphasic Corporation from 2001-2003, and has been serving the Chair of Graduate Group in Computer Science at UC Davis since 2003.

Sri Pradipta Kumar Mohapatra is a senior Civil Servant of the State from the Indian Administrative Service cadre. Besides serving in the Govt of India on important assignments, he also served as Commissioner-cum-Secretary of the Higher Education Department, Govt. of Orissa and as Collector of several Districts in the State. He currently holds additional charge as the Secretary, Science and Technology Department, Govt. of Orissa.

As the Secretary IT, in the last assignment, he has been instrumental in rolling out of a large number of e-Governance applications throughout the State and in furthering investment promotion into the IT & ITES sectors.

He has widely travelled across the globe including countries like US, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Japan and Singapore.

Mr. Mohapatra has a very bright academic career. He is a M.Tech from the Indian School of Mines and holds a Management degree from the Queensland University, Australia.

Mr. Rabindra Gaan graduated from IIT-BHU with B.Tech degree in Electronics & Communication during 1985 and obtained his Master Degree from PII, Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 1990. During 1985-89, Mr. Gaan worked with Bharat Electronics, at Bangalore on design, development and testing of VHF wireless .equipment for Indian Defense Forces. He was also responsible for development of encryption equipments for Indian Army on wireless communications. Subsequently, he joined with Punwire Wireless Communications and worked on Digital Multi Access Radio Telephone (DMART) for Indian Defense Forces (Army) as Principal Engineer during 1990 to 1992. Mr. Gaan was working with Shyam Telecom during 1992-1998 where he was a General Manager (R&D). He was instrumental in success of projects like MART (Multi Access Rural Telephony wireless), Optical Multiplexer, ATE (Automatic Test Equipment) and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) technologies.

Since 1999, Mr. Gaan has been working with Bell Labs at Murray Hill, New Jersey as a consultant with expertise on Satellite Radio Broadcast Systems. He has more than 21 years of experience in field of Communication Engineering and Technology that includes several innovations to his credits.

Mr. Binoy Dash is currently a Software Engineer in Cisco Systems at San Jose, USA. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 2006. Before joining Cisco Systems, he worked as an Engineering Intern in wireless technology giant Qualcomm Inc. for several months, where he worked in WCDMA Physical layer Software, specifically the Cell Searcher algorithm implementation on the wireless chipset. In academics, he was the scholarship recipient from Foundation for Excellence Inc., USA and Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP) in Texas A&M University.

In his role as a Software Engineer in Cisco Systems, he is involved in the Design and Development of different applications and protocols that provides routing and switching infrastructure in IOS-XR Microkernel operating system, which drives the high end routers.

Dr. Manoranjan Satpathy obtained his Ph.D in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in 1997. He has done his B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore in 1985 and his Post graduation in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1987.

His research interests include Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Programming Languages. Specifically Software Engineering with software/model based testing and model based development, Formal methods for Systematic development of control systems and distributed controller design, and Programming Languages with Register allocation, Program analysis and Memory management. He has guided more than 10 students in M.Tech and supervised 2 Ph.D scholars. He has more than 47 publications in different international journals and conferences. He has also filed 3 patents.

He has professional experience of more than 18 years at organizations of repute. As Staff researcher at Indian Science Lab., General Motors Global R&D, Bangalore; Senior Researcher at Abo Akademi University, Finland; Post Doctoral researcher at University of Reading, England for 6 years. He has also worked as a an Asst. Professor at IIT Guwahati.