Dr. Bishwajeet Pandey is a professor at GL Bajaj Institute of Technology and Management, Greater Noida, India. He has been a senior member of IEEE since 2019. He holds an MTech in Computer Science from the IIIT, Gwalior, India, and a PhD in Computer Science from the Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy. He has taught at esteemed institutions such as Chitkara University, Chandigarh; Jain University, Bangalore; Astana IT University, Kazakhstan; Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan (QS World Rank 321); Walsh College, USA; and UCSI University, Malaysia (QS World Rank 265). Dr. Pandey is a prolific researcher with over 30 published books and more than 220 research papers indexed in Scopus. He has garnered over 4200+ citations. His leadership roles include serving as the research head of the School of CSE at Jain University, Bangalore, from 2021 to 2023 and as the head of the International Global Academic Partnership Committee at Birla Institute of Applied Science, Bhimtal, from 2020 to 2021. In 2023, Dr. Pandey was honored with the prestigious Professor of the Year Award at Lord’s Cricket Ground by the London Organisation of Skills Development. Beyond his outstanding research output, his greatest strength lies in his global academic network. He has visited 49 countries, participated in 105 international conferences, and co-authored papers with 218 professors from 93 universities across 42 nations.
Advait Patel is a senior site reliability engineer at Broadcom with a master’s in computer science from DePaul University. He has held key roles at Flexera, Capital One, and Aspect Software, specializing in cloud infrastructure, security, and automation. His technical expertise spans AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Python. Advait has significantly reduced cloud costs and led initiatives in security compliance and disaster recovery. A Google and AWS certified engineer, he is also an IEEE senior member, AI 2030 fellow, and conference speaker. He has published extensively on AI and cloud security. Advait actively mentors professionals and contributes to global cybersecurity communities. He received the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICAIC 2025 for his research on securing cloud AI workloads. He also serves on the technical program committees of top conferences, such as ICML and IEEE S&P, and is an author and editor of four technical books with Apress, Springer, and Wiley.