International Conference on Cloud and Internet Computing | ICCIC-2026.
Committee Chairs
Honorary Chair
Professor Florin Popentiu Vlãdicescu,
City University, UNESCO Chair in Information and Communication Engineering, London
Short Profile
Dr. Florin Popentiu Vlădicescu is a highly accomplished academic and researcher with a strong background in Information and Communication Engineering, specifically in the area of software reliability. He has held various academic positions and made significant contributions to the field of Information and Communication Engineering. Dr. Florin Popentiu Vlădicescu is currently a Ph.D. supervisor at the Military Technical Academy "Ferdinand I" and an associated professor in the Department of Control Engineering and Industrial Informatics at the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest. In 1998, he founded the first UNESCO Chair in Information and Communication Engineering at City, University of London, demonstrating his commitment to promoting education and research in the field. He has held visiting professor positions at several prestigious institutions worldwide, including Telecom Paris, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines Paris, ETH Zurich, and many more. Dr. Popentiu Vlădicescu has been an active member of program committees for various international conferences and symposia related to his field, held in different countries around the world. He has published over 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and is the author or co-author of multiple books and book chapters published by Springer. He served as Co-Director of two NATO research projects, which involved collaboration with partner institutions across Europe. These projects likely focused on software reliability and related areas. Dr. Popentiu Vlădicescu has been involved in editorial and reviewer roles for various international journals, including ACM Computing Reviews, Neural Computing and Applications, and more. He is a member of organizations like ENBIS and IEEE Reliability Society, holding the title of IEEE Senior Member (SMIEEE). He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Romanian Scientists in 2008, recognizing his significant contributions to the field of engineering and computer science. Dr. Popentiu Vlădicescu has served as an expert for the European Union's H2020 program and the Quality Agency for Higher Education. He has also been nominated as a UNESCO Expert in the field of Higher Education, Research, and Knowledge. He has delivered keynote addresses at various international conferences and has been an invited speaker at multiple academic events in different countries.General Chair
Prof. Dr. Andrew W. H. Ip,
University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Short Profile
Prof. Andrew W. H. Ip received his PhD from Loughborough University (U.K.), MBA from Brunel University (U.K.), MSc in Industrial Engineering from Cranfield University (U.K.), and LLB (Hons) from the University of Wolverhampton (U.K.). Dr Ip was awarded in 2015 “Gold Medal with the Congratulations of Jury” and “Thailand Award for Best International Invention” in the 43rd International Exhibition of Geneva, and he was awarded the “Natural Science Award ” in 2013 Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards by the Ministry of Education of Mainland China. Dr. Ip is distinguished and visiting professor of various China mainland universities, and Honorary Industrial Fellow of the University of Warwick, Warwick Manufacturing Group. He is Professor Emeritus and adjunct professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan and senior research fellow of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a chartered engineer, senior member of IEEE and member of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and members of various professional bodies in mechanical and electrical engineering. He is Editor in Chief of the journal of Enterprise Information System (SCI index), Taylor & Francis; Founder & Editor in Chief of International Journal of Engineering Business Management (ESCI & SCOPUS index), SAGE; International journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence, IGI Global.General Co-Chair
Professor Brij B. Gupta,
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4929-4698
Director, International Centre for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations (CCRI)
Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Asia University, Taiwan
Short Profile
Prof. Brij Bhooshan Gupta is a Distinguished Professor at Asia University, Taiwan, and Director of the International Centre for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations (CCRI). With more than 20 years of teaching and research experience, his work spans Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, the Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, and Digital Forensics. He has published over 500 research papers in reputed journals and conferences, several of which are in top-tier Q1 journals (IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, etc.). He has received numerous national and international awards including Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (2009), Faculty Research Fellowship Award (2017), MeitY, GoI, IEEE GCCE outstanding and WIE paper awards and Best Faculty Award (2018 & 2019), respectively. Prof. Gupta has been recognized as a Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (top 0.1% globally) in Computer Science for both 2022 and 2023.Additionally, he has been ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University for four consecutive years (2020-2024). He is also an IEEE Senior Member (2017) and also selected as 2021 Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE CTSoc. Dr Gupta is also serving as Member-in-Large, Board of Governors, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (2022-2024). He also served as TPC members in more than 200 international conferences also serving/ served as Associate/Guest Editor of various journals and transactions IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE TCE, IEEE Big Data, IEEE CEM, IEEE IoTM, FGCS, ASoC. Prof. Gupta has also led and collaborated on major research projects funded by agencies and institutions worldwide. His research group actively works on building secure and intelligent systems that contribute to a trustworthy digital ecosystem.
Program Chair
Prof. (Dr.) Srikanta Patnaik,
Chairman I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Short Profile
Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is Chairman of I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999. He has supervised more than 30 Ph. D. Theses and 100 Master theses in the area of Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published around 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and 55 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like IEEE, Elsevier, Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England and, Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering and Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), which are all Scopus Index journals. He is also Editors-in-Chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany and Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE) and Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice (AMTCP), published by IGI Global, USA. He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also Fellow of IETE, Life Member of ISTE, and CSI. Dr. Patnaik has visited more than 20 countries across the globe and visiting professors to some of the universities.Program Co-Chair
Prof. (Dr.) Jayadev Kar,
Director, I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Short Profile
Prof. Jayadev Kar holds a B.Sc. Engg. (Hons.) in Electronics & Telecommunication from UCE Burla (now VSSUT) and an M. Tech in Computer Science (Image Processing) along with a Ph.D. from Utkal University. With over 37 years of experience in academics, administration, and curriculum development, he has served as Professor, Dean, and Technical Head at leading institutions, including Pathani Samanta Planetarium. He has guided many Ph.D. scholars and co-authored nine books in vocational education. Prof. Kar is passionate about student-centred1 curriculum design and currently serves as Director of Interscience Institute of Management & Technology.Organising Chair
Dr. Umaranjan Jena,
Head & Professor Computer Sciences & Engineering (Cyber Security) I.I.M.T, Bhubaneswar, India
Short Profile
Dr. Umaranjan Jena is a distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Cyber Security) with over 35 years of experience. Holding a Ph.D. in Engineering, his specialization lies in Cyber Law & Policy. He has contributed extensively to academia, authoring 58 papers in international journals and presenting 106 papers in international and national conferences. His research involvement includes undertaking two R&D projects. His work reflects a commitment to advancing cybersecurity policies and legal frameworks.Publication Chair
Prof. (Dr.) Rutuparna Panda,
Professor for B.Tech (AI&ML) and Dean Research, IIMT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Short Profile
Rutuparna Panda (Member IEEE) was born in 1963. He received B.Sc Engg. (Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering) and M. Sc. Engg. (Communication Systems Engineering) Degrees from UCE Burla in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He obtained Ph.D. (Engg) degree from IIT, KGP in 1998. He is a former Professor in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, VSS University of Technology, Burla. He was the former HOD ECE Dept., HOD CSE Dept., DEAN, Academic Affairs, DEAN, SRIC, and DEAN Continuing Education Programme. He has guided 38 M.Tech. Theses and 10 Ph.D. Theses. He has over 200 papers in International/National Journals and conferences. Dr. Panda has more than 4000 academic citations with h-index of 35 and i10-index of 70 as per google scholar. He is the co-author of two books titled “AI Techniques for Biomedical Engineering Applications” and “Region based Approaches for Image Fusion”. He is the co-author of 8 Book Chapters. Currently, Dr. Panda is serving as an associate editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI). He is a member of IEEE and a Fellow of IETE(India). He is the reviewer of many reputed international Journals like IEEE Transactions and Elsevier Journals. He received ‘Highly Cited Research Award’ in Dec. 2016 from Swarm and Evolutionary Computation Journal, Elsevier. He received ‘Certificate of Appreciation Award’ for quality research Journal Publications for the year 2020 from VSS University of Technology, Burla. His one article is found in top ten popular articles of IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. His area of research interests includes – Digital signal/image processing, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, VLSI Signal Processing, Soft Computing, Machine intelligence and AI.Convenor
Mrs. Soma Mitra,
Associate Dean (Research and Publication), I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Short Profile
Mrs. Soma Mitra is an Associate Dean (Research and Publication) cum Assistant Professor in Human Resource and Communication at IIMT, Bhubaneswar, with a rich background in HR and finance, holding a Master’s in Business Administration with a focus on HR and Finance, along with an M.A in English from Utkal University, Odisha. With a career spanning Communicative English, Soft Skills, and Life Skills, Mrs. Mitra's professional journey is marked by significant contributions. As the Associate Dean (Research and Publication), she plays an important role in providing outreach research publications, particularly in STEM fields Her academic interests and contributions are extensive, particularly in the field of Behavioral Science. Mrs. Soma Mitra has made notable contributions to various areas including Effect of IoT in Recruitment and Selection, Social, Ethical & Legal aspect of RWA (Resident Welfare Association) Management, Metro Report: Building Urban Rail Infrastructure, and the emerging field of the Human Resource and Analytics. Her dedication to research is evident through her numerous publications in these domains. As an Assistant Professor in the department of Human Resource Management and Communication at IIMT, Bhubaneswar, Mrs. Soma Mitra continues to share her expertise and knowledge with students while furthering her research endeavors in the realm of Behavioral Science. With a keen interest in Communicative English, Soft Skills, and Human Resource Development, she continually seeks to enhance her professional skills through relevant courses, demonstrating her commitment to staying abreast of industry trends. Mrs. Mitra's leadership qualities, coupled with her dedication to excellence, position her as a valuable asset in both academic and professional spheres, where she persistently works towards achieving optimal outcomes.Our Sponsor
IIMT Bhubaneswar, India
