International Conference on Cloud Computing and Data Engineering | ICCD-2025.
Committee Chairs
Honorary Chair
Professor George A. Tsihrintzis,
Department of Informatics
University of Piraeus
Short Profile
GEORGE A. TSIHRINTZIS received the Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (with honors) and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is currently a Professor in The University of Piraeus, Greece and, during 2016-2020, he served as Head of its Department of Informatics. From 2008 to 2022, he served as the Director of the Graduate Program of Study in “Advanced Computing and Informatics Systems” of the Department. During the period 2016-2020, he was a member of the first Administration Council of the University of Piraeus. Currently, he is serving again as a Member of the Administration Council of the University of Piraeus for a four-year term (2022-2026). His current research interests include Artificial and Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Decision Theory, and Statistical Signal Processing and their applications in Internet-of-Things Technologies, Multimedia Interactive Services, User Modeling, Knowledge-based Software Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Retrieval. He has authored or co-authored over 350 research publications in these areas, which have appeared in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has served as the principal investigator or co-investigator in several R&D projects. Since 2018, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Intelligent Decision Technologies Journal (IOS Press). During 2012-2022, he was the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies (Inderscience). He has been the editor-in-chief of the Engineering Section of SpringerPlus. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems book series (Springer 2019-) and the Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Software and Systems Engineering book series (Springer 2022-). He has organized and chaired 42 international conferences. He has received best paper awards from several international conferences, and he has been a keynote speaker of several international conferences. He has supervised 15 doctoral students who have received their doctoral degrees and is currently supervising an additional 5 students. He is ranked among the top 2% of the most influential scientists worldwide of Scientists List at Stanford University ranking in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, both career-wise and single year, for 2023 and for 2024.General Chair
Professor Rajkumar Buyya,
Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director Of The Cloud Computing And Distributed Systems (Clouds) Laboratory
University Of Melbourne, Australia.
Short Profile
Prof. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also the founding CEO of Manjrasoft Pty Ltd., a spin-off company commercializing cloud computing innovations. Prof. Buyya's extensive academic career includes notable positions as an Honorary or Visiting Professor at elite institutions such as Imperial College London, the University of Birmingham, and Tsinghua University. A highly cited author in computer science, with over 141,800 citations and a significant impact on cloud and distributed systems, he has received numerous accolades including the IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing, multiple "Research Excellence Awards" from the University of Melbourne, and international recognition for his pioneering contributions. His work has shaped the landscape of Grid and Cloud Computing technologies, influencing academic institutions and commercial enterprises worldwide. Prof. Buyya has authored over 850 publications, co-authored five textbooks, and co-founded five IEEE/ACM international conferences, marking his significant contributions to the field.General Co-Chair
Professor Dr. Maria Virvou,
Dean of the School of Information and Communications Technologies
Short Profile
MARIA VIRVOU was born in Athens, Greece. She received a B.Sc. Degree in Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, a M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science from the University College London (UCL), U.K. and a Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex, U.K. funded by a scholarship obtained from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation.She is currently a DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES and FULL PROFESSOR, DIRECTOR OF POST-GRADUATE STUDIES and DIRECTOR OF THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING LAB in the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece. She is AUTHOR/CO-AUTHOR of over 350 research papers published in international journals, books and conference proceedings and of 7 books and monographs in Computer Science published by Springer and other publishers. She is currently EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of the Springer book series “Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems”. She has been EDITOR of over 20 collections of papers in conference proceedings or books, published by major academic publishers, such as IEEE, Springer and IOS Press. She has also been EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of the SpringerPlus Journal (Springer) for the whole area of Computer Science. Additionally, she has been an ASSOCIATE EDITOR of many other journals. She was GENERAL CO-CHAIR of the yearly conference series of International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013), technically-sponsored by IEEE, which aims at promoting research in the area of interactive multimedia and major applications. She has been the GENERAL CHAIR / PROGRAM CHAIR of over twenty (20) International Conferences. She has been the PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR or CO-INVESTIGATOR of numerous national / international research projects. She has supervised 12 Ph.D. alumni and many of them currently hold academic positions in Universities. She has been teaching under-graduate and post-graduate courses in Educational Software, Software Engineering and Mobile Software, Human Computer Interaction, Programming Languages and Compilers, Software Personalization Technologies, User Modeling, Adaptive Tutoring Systems.
Prof.(Dr.) Virvou has been a recipient of many best paper awards in international conferences. She has been an invited keynote speaker for many international conferences. She has received an honorary award by UNESCO in honour and recognition of her outstanding scholarly achievements and contributions to the field of Computer Science. She received the 1st Research Award from the Research Centre of the University of Piraeus for high quality international journal publications among Faculty Members of the University of Piraeus for the years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 respectively. According to Microsoft Academic Search exploring entity analytics of 262,751,231 Authors she has been ranked as top 1st author in the Computer Science area of EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE regarding citations and 2nd regarding publications. In addition, she has been ranked as top 1st author in publications in the Computer Science areas of MOBILE AUTHORING TOOLS, ADAPTIVE TUTORING, BI-MODAL AFFECTIVE COMPUTING, INTELLIGENT HELP, AUTOMATIC REASONING HELP, EDUCATIONAL GAME SOFTWARE, VIRTUAL REALITY EDUCATIONAL GAME, RUP LIFE CYCLE SOFTWARE. She has been ranked as 2nd top author regarding publications in the areas of SOFTWARE PERSONALIZATION STUDENT MODELING, INTELLIGENT HELP SYSTEMS FOR UNIX USERS, KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING AFFECTIVE SYSTEMS, top 4th author in the area of UML INTELLIGENT COLLABORATIVE LEARNING and top 5th in the whole area of USER MODELING. Moreover, she has been ranked among the top 40 researchers worldwide in publications for the Computer Science area of MULTIMEDIA (out of 979.432 publications, 8.626.011 citations, 1.600.000 authors), among the top 50 authors in the area of USER INTERFACE (out of 176.156 publications, 3.462.738 citations) and among the top 65 authors in HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (out of 538.396 publications, 6.497.244 citations). She is among the top 2% of the most influential scientists worldwide in the area of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, according to Ioannidis, J. P., Boyack, K. W., & Baas, J. (2020) “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”, PLoS Biology, 18(10), e3000918.
Program Chair
Prof. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik,
Director, I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Short Profile
Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is Director 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 Convegence 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.Publication Chair
Prof. (Dr) Debashish Jena,
IIIT Bhubaneswar, India
Short Profile
Dr. Debasish Jena is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering with over 30 years of experience in teaching, research, and consultancy across esteemed institutions under Utkal University, BPUT, and IIT. He currently serves as the Registrar at IIIT Bhubaneswar, a position he has held since December 2021, while continuing his role as an Associate Professor since 2012. His professional career also includes serving as an IT Consultant for various projects with the Government of Odisha. Dr. Jena holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, with research interests in Information Security, Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, and Network Security. He has authored over 50 publications and book chapters, and his teaching areas include Networking and Information Security. As a Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator, he has worked on several significant government projects, including third-party evaluations of paddy procurement and targeted distribution systems for the Government of Odisha. He is also a Certified Ethical Hacker and holds professional memberships with IEEE, ACM, ISTE, and other notable organizations. Dr. Jena has supervised four Ph.D. candidates and 24 MTech students, contributing significantly to academia and industry alike.Finance Chair
Sunil Kumar Mishra,
M. Tech.(CSE), MCA, PhD(Continuing),
IIMT Bhubaneswar.
Short Profile
Mr. Sunil Kumar Mishra is currently working as an Assistant Professor. He has more than two decades of teaching experience. He has completed his MCA from Odisha Computer Academy under Utkal University, Bhubaneswar and M.Tech in Computer Science from F.M. University, Balasore, Odisha. His areas of interest are IOT, Cloud Computing, DBMS. He has presented and published research articles in SCOPUS and UGC care-indexed journals. His area of research is ERP and presently doing his Ph.D. at Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam University, Indore.Technical Chair
Dhananjaya Sarangi,
CTO, World Skill Center
Short Profile
Dhananjaya Sarangi is a Professor of Computer Science and Applications of Interscience Institute of Management and Technology (IIMT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha since April 2019. He received his MCA degree from NIT, Rourkela in 1989. He is having 30 years of rich experience as Head of IT in various reputed MNCs both in India & abroad. Professor Sarangi was Head of IT of Hindalco Industries, a Aditya Birla Group company located at Hirakud, Odisha for both its Smelter & Power plant and then relocated to Malaysia as Head of IT for its Palm Oil Edible Oil and Oleo Chemical division. Subsequently professor Sarangi moved to Singapore as Head of Business Information System of Palm Oil Business of RGE Pte Ltd Singapore. Professor Sarangi has vast experience mainly focused on IT Strategy, IT Project Management, IT Planning & Governance, IT Infrastructure Management, Business Transformation, Change Management, People Management, IT Policy & Security, Vendor Management, ERP implementation etc. He has undergone various training& seminars from reputed institute like NTU-Singapore, IIM-Kolkata, NITIE-Mumbai, Human Synergistic International- Bangalore, NityoInfotech-Singapore. Currently Professor Sarangi is continuing his PhD from Birla Global University (BGU), Bhubaneswar, and Odisha. Professor Sarangi has travelled various countries like Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam & Australia.International Advisory Chair
Dr. Sourabh Sharma,
Dean (Business Development) & Professor
International Management Institute (IMI), Bhubaneswar
Short Profile
Dr. Sourabh Sharma is the Dean of Business Development and a Professor in Information Management and Analytics at the International Management Institute (IMI), Bhubaneswar, India. With over two decades of experience as a management consultant, professional practitioner, trainer, academician, and educationist counsellor, Dr. Sharma has made significant contributions to both management education and industrial practice. As Dean, he oversees the admissions strategy for IMI Bhubaneswar's three flagship programs, including the AICTE-approved PGDM, which is accredited by AMBA, NBA, and NAAC, along with the PGDM (Online) and FPM programs. From 2018 to 2021, he also served as the Programme Chairperson (Dean-Programme) at the institute. Dr. Sharma has organized nine international conferences as a convener at IMI Bhubaneswar in collaboration with EGADE Business School, Mexico, and has participated in international conferences at SASS, Chengdu, China, and B&ESI, Vienna, Austria. His expertise spans a wide range of areas, including Management Information Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning, Business Analytics, Digital Marketing, Software Project Management, and Data Warehousing & Mining. He is also proficient in advanced Excel, VBA, and various programming languages.Our Sponsor
IIMT Bhubaneswar, India
