Dr. S.G. Shaila is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu for a thesis on Multimedia Information Retrieval in Distributed Systems. She brings with her years of teaching and research experience. Her main areas of interest are Information Retrieval, Image Processing, Cognitive Science and Pattern Recognition.
Dr. A. Vadivel received his Master’s in Science from the National Institute of Technology Trichy (NITT) before completing a Master’s in Technology (MTech) and PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. He has 12 years of technical experience as a Network & Instrumentation Engineer at the IIT-Kharagpur, and twelve years of teaching experience at Bharathidhasan University and NITT. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at SRM University Amaravathi, AP. He has published papersin more than 90 international journals and conference proceedings. His research areas are Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval, Multimedia Information Retrieval from Distributed Environments, Medical Image Analysis, Object Tracking in Motion Video, and Cognitive Science. He received the Young Scientist Award from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India in 2007, the Indo-US Research Fellow Award from the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum in 2008, and the Obama-Singh Knowledge Initiative Award in 2013.