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Contributors
Katpadi Varadarajan Arulalan is a primary care pediatrician. His work follows the prin-
ciple of primary health care, inter-sectoral coordination, where members of the medical
community work in association with other members of the society. This includes the acad-
emy council members of the Local Arts and Science College, child welfare organization,
education of children of HIV-positive parents, and community-based rehabilitation. He
has 32 years of experience in low-cost pediatric health care. His areas of research include
prevention of hospital visits, use of mobile phones as personal health records, and health-
care cost reduction through rational pediatric practice.
Kaliyaperumal Ganesan completed his PhD in 1993. Subsequently, he spent 3.5 years at
Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. He headed the
NIIT Computer Centre for about 3 years upon his arrival in India in 1998. He has visited
nearly 15 countries. Recently he visited US Universities of repute, including UC Berkeley,
California Institute of Technology, Santa Clara University, UC Fresno, University of
Southern California, and UC-Irvine. He worked as professor and head of the Department
of Information Technology at Arunai Engineering College, Tiruvannamalai, India, for
about 3 years. He joined as head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
in 2002 at VIT University, Vellore. Since 2005, he has been working as the Director of
TIFAC-CORE in the Automotive Infotronics Centre. In 2014, he was acting as the dean
of the School of Information Technology and Engineering at VIT University for about
14months. He was instrumental in helping the school obtain ABET accreditation dur-
ing this period. He has published 100+ international journals cum conference papers.
His rst PhD student received the “Best PhD Thesis of the Country” award in 2012.
The cash award was awarded by the President of India. Dr. K. Ganesan has led 24
patents, which includes one US patent. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Cell
at VIT University. He has conducted nearly 335 training programs for students/facul-
ties/startups in cutting edge technology areas such as embedded systems, sensors, IoT,
mobile computing, and big data analytics. He has completed 25 consultancy projects
from industries such as Renault-Nissan, Continental, Amaron Batteries, and Delphi TCI.
He has received generous grants from various organizations such as IBM and Motorola,
in cash Dr. Ganesan has also obtained sponsored research project grants from DRDO,
DST, AICTE, TePP, and TIFAC.
Neha Golani is a student pursuing a BTech in computer science and engineering (with
specialization in bioinformatics) at VIT University, Vellore. She is currently working on
real-time systems and design models based on the internet of things. She has worked on
android development that involves efcacious patrolling of crime-prone areas. Her other
interests include machine learning and social media mining.
Ezz El-Din Hemdan received his BS and MSc degrees in Computer Science and
Engineering from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoa University, Egypt,
in 2009 and 2013, respectively. Currently, he is working toward his PhD degree in the
Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, Mangalore, India. His research