B Ramachandra Reddy Editor

Sriramulu Bojjagani (Senior Member, IEEE) has a B.Tech. from JNTU Hyderabad, India, a M. Tech. in information technology from the Andhra University College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam, India, and a joint PhD from the School of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad, and the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (Established by the Reserve Bank of India), in 2019, with a focus on design, testing and formal verification of secure mobile payment protocols. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM University-AP, Amaravati, India. He has published in many SCI/SCIE-indexed journals and international conference proceedings and is an inventor of several Indian patents. He received a cash prize for the IDRBT Annual Awards 2019 for his research work on “A secure end-to-end proximity NFC-based mobile payment protocol”. He is a Reviewer for many reputed journals, such as IEEE Internet of Things, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, and IEEE Access. Since 2024, he has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of Discover Computing (Springer Nature). Since 2026, he has also been serving as an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) and Frontiers in Imaging. His research interests include the secure protocol design and formal verification of mobile payment applications, IoV, the IoT, and IoMT.

Banee Bandana Das is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SRM University, AP, Vijayawada. She has a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, with a specialization in biometric systems and multimodal person identification using EEG signals. She has over a decade of teaching and research experience, having served in reputed institutions across India. Her research interests include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Biometric Authentication, Wireless Sensor Networks, Compiler Design, and Theory of Computation.

Dr. Das has published extensively in high-impact international journals and conferences, holds multiple Indian patents, and has received prestigious awards including the IEEE Best Research Paper Award. She is an IEEE member and actively contributes to academic research, student mentoring, and innovative pedagogy.

B. Ramachandra Reddy has a B.Tech. from JNTU Hyderabad, the MTech from GGSIP University, Delhi, and a PhD in computer science and engineering from JPDPM IIITDMJ, Jabalpur, India, in 2017. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, India. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, software metrics, and software quality.