Edge/Fog Computing Paradigm: The Concept, Platforms and Applications.

Pethuru Raj PhD works as chief architect and vice president of site reliability engineering (SRE) division of Reliance Jio Infocomm. Ltd. Bangalore. Previously he worked as a cloud infrastructure architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), Bangalore. He worked as a TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) Division and as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, India. He has gained more than 18 years of IT industry experience. He finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree in Anna University, Chennai and continued the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. He has authored and edited 18 books thus far and he focuses on some of the emerging technologies such as Containerized Clouds; Big, Fast, and Streaming Data Analytics; Microservices architecture (MSA); Machine and Deep Learning Algorithms; Blockchain Technology; The Internet of Things; and Edge Computing. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, Inderscience, etc.

Prof. Kavita Saini is an Experienced Program Chair with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. She is skilled in Blockchain, Data Structure, Database management System, E-Learning,C and C++, and Editing. She is a strong engineering professional with a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Computer Science from Banasthali Vidyapeeth.

Prof. Chellammal Surianarayanan is currently serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Bharathidasan University Constituent Arts & Science. She is a competent professional having 21 years of total experience, with 12 years of experience in Research & Development and 9 years of experience as academician. She has served for India Comnet International Chennai (Tellabs USA Client) and at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Department of Atomic Energy Government of India as Scientific Officer/E. With the work experience, she has gained expertise in development of specific need based embedded systems, semantic web services, data minging, big data.