Applied Assistive Technologies and Informatics for Students with Disabilities

Dr. Rajesh Kaluri
is familiar with emerging fields like Computer vision, Machine learning, and Big Data analytics. He has completed Ph.D. in Computer Vision and is currently working on multi-disciplinary projects. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science Engineering and Information Systems, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore India. He has 12+ years of teaching experience. He was a visiting professor at Guangdong University of Technology, China in 2015 and 2016. Dr. Rajesh Kaluri is an academic journal editor and has published 40+ research papers in various reputed international journals.

Dr Mufti Mahmud
is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Computing at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK, where he is also a member of the University Shadow Executive Team. He is listed among the top 2% cited scientists worldwide in computer science (since 2020) and a recipient of the NTU VC Outstanding Researcher Award 2021 and the Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is the coordinator of the Computer Science REF Assessment Unit and the deputy head of the ISRG and CCIS research groups. His research portfolio consists of over 4 million GBP grant capture with the publication of over 225 research outputs in fields that include brain informatics, computational intelligence, applied data analysis, and big data technologies focusing on healthcare applications. He is a section editor of the
Cognitive Computation
journal, a regional editor (Europe) of the
Brain Informatics
journal, and an Associate Editor of the
Frontiers in Neuroscience
journal. Dr Mahmud holds active volunteer roles in BCS, IEEE (CIS and EMBS), ACM, APNNS, and INNS as a (senior) member. He is also actively involved in the organization of leading conferences in the field (e.g., WCCI, IJCNN, SSCI, ICONIP, BI, AII).

Dr. Thippa Reddy Gadekallu
is currently working as an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science Engineering and Information Systems, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He has been listed among the world’s top 2% cited scientists since 2020. He has more than 100 international/national publications in reputed journals and conferences.

Dr. Dharmendra Singh Rajput
has been working as a Professor in the Department of Software and Systems Engineering, School of Computer Science Engineering and Information Systems, VIT, Vellore, since June 2014. He has received various awards from the Indian Government, including DST-SERB, CSIR Travel Grant, and MPCST Young Scientist Fellowship. For academic purposes, he has visited various countries such as UK, France, Singapore, UAE, China, and Malaysia.

Dr. Kuruva Lakshmanna
is currently working as an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science Engineering and Information Systems, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He has 12 years of experience in teaching and has published around 60 papers in various reputed international journals. He has been listed among the world’s top 2% cited scientists for 2023.