Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya did his Bachelors in Physics, Bachelors in Optics and Optoelectronics and Masters in Optics and Optoelectronics from University of Calcutta, India in 1995, 1998 and 2000 respectively. He completed PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2008. He is the recipient of the University Gold Medal from the University of Calcutta for his Masters. He is the recipient of several coveted awards including the Distinguished HoD Award and Distinguished Professor Award conferred by Computer Society of India, Mumbai Chapter, India in 2017, the Honorary Doctorate Award (D. Litt.) from The University of South America and the South East Asian Regional Computing Confederation (SEARCC) International Digital Award ICT Educator of the Year in 2017. He has been appointed as the ACM Distinguished Speaker for the tenure 2018-2020. He has been inducted into the People of ACM hall of fame by ACM, USA in 2020.
He is currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Christ University, Bangalore. He served as the Principal of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India during 2017-2019. He has also served as a Senior Research Scientist in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic (2018-2019). Prior to this, he was the Professor of Information Technology of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. He served as the Head of the Department from March, 2014 to December, 2016. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Information Technology of RCC Institute of Information Technology, Kolkata, India from 2011-2014. Before that, he served as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Information Technology of University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan, India from 2005-2011. He was a Lecturer in Information Technology of Kalyani Government Engineering College, India during 2001-2005. He is a co-author of 5 books and the co-editor of 67 books and has more than 300 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got two PCTs to his credit. He has been the member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences. He is the founding Chair of ICCICN 2014, ICRCICN (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), ISSIP (2017, 2018) (Kolkata, India). He was the General Chair of several international conferences like WCNSSP 2016 (Chiang Mai, Thailand), ICACCP (2017, 2019) (Sikkim, India) and (ICICC 2018 (New Delhi, India) and ICICC 2019 (Ostrava, Czech Republic).
He is the Associate Editor of several reputed journals including Applied Soft Computing, IEEE Access, Evolutionary Intelligence and IET Quantum Communications. He is the editor of International Journal of Pattern Recognition Research and the founding Editor in Chief of International Journal of Hybrid Intelligence, Inderscience. He has guest edited several issues with several international journals. He is serving as the Series Editor of IGI Global Book Series Advances in Information Quality and Management (AIQM), De Gruyter Book Series Frontiers in Computational Intelligence (FCI), CRC Press Book Series(s) Computational Intelligence and Applications & Quantum Machine Intelligence, Wiley Book Series Intelligent Signal and Data Processing, Elsevier Book Series Hybrid Computational Intelligence for Pattern Analysis and Understanding and Springer Tracts on Human Centered Computing. His research interests include hybrid intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, social networks and quantum computing.
Dr. Bhattacharyya is a life fellow of Optical Society of India (OSI), India, life fellow of International Society of Research and Development (ISRD), UK, a fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, a fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India and a fellow of Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is also a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA. He is a life member of Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI), Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Indian Unit for Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IUPRAI), Center for Education Growth and Research (CEGR), Integrated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ICCI), and Association of Leaders and Industries (ALI). He is a member of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, International Rough Set Society, International Association for Engineers (IAENG), Hong Kong, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), USA, International Association of Academicians, Scholars, Scientists and Engineers (IAASSE), USA, Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists (IDES), India, The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) and The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). He is also a certified Chartered Engineer of Institution of Engineers (IEI), India. He is on the Board of Directors of International Institute of Engineering and Technology (IETI), Hong Kong.
Prof. Fungai Bhunu Shava is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and the leader of the Digital Forensics and Information Security Research Cluster at Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) (previously known as the Polytechnic of Namibia). She is the founding and current chairperson of the Namibia National Cyber Security Competition since 2015. She is responsible for the faculty postgraduate portfolio, supervising postgraduate and managing a number of research projects in the areas of Information Security and Digital Forensics. She has published a number of papers in reputable journal and conference proceedings.
Prof Bhunu Shava’s fields of specialisation are Human Computer Interaction, User Experience and Network Security, Information Security in under-serviced communities. Her work focuses on the secure use of ICTs as enabling tools for socio-economic development in developing economies and societies. She is a PhD IT alumni of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in SA. Her PhD work is in the fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information security. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of Zimbabwe (2005) specialising in network security. She is also an International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) alumni and an Application Security Specialist with IBM Security AppScan v8.7.
Prof Bhunu Shava joined the then Polytechnic of Namibia in 2009 and has been the head of department: Computer Systems and Networks (2013), deputy head of department: Computer Science (January to April 2014) and Acting Associate Dean (January 2014 to 31 August 2015). She is also responsible for other projects such as the Child Online Protection, Cisco Academy and Instructor Training Centre at NUST. She has reviewed conference and journal papers in her areas of specialisation.
She serves on the national cybersecurity stakeholder committees including the SADC Cyber-Infrastructure Technical Experts meetings. She has co-organised and spearheaded: Child Online Protection hackathons; WiSci STEAM Camp 2019 in collaboration with US Embassy and GirlUp; TechCamp Namibia: Cybersecurity for Everyone in collaboration with the USA government and Tech and Innovation Bazaars in collaboration with MTC. She participates in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland (Geneva Dialogue on Responsible Behaviour in Cyberspace) as well as United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDR) Cyber Stability Conferences. She actively contributes to Safety and Security Expo; Women in Computing Conferences, Google Developer’s Circle, Namibia Internet Governance Forum (NIGF), Child online Protection Taskforce, Namibia; IEEE and ACM chapters in Namibia.
Prior to joining NUST she has served as an IT Support technician, assistant network administrator, lecturer, department chairperson, consultant and teacher in various organisations in Zimbabwe and Namibia.