Prof. P. V. Lakshmi is working with GITAM University, Andhra Pradesh, India. She is the professor and BOS chairman in the department of Information Technology and is a member of the Academic council. She has organized several conferences, workshops and seminars. She is the author of the book "Discrete Mathematical Structures". She has published peer-reviewed papers in reputed international journals and conferences. She is Principal Investigator of research project from Government. She is a life member of the cryptology society of India, computer society of India and also member of other professional bodies like IAENG, Bioinformatics.Org, IACSIT, IETE, IEEE etc. Her current research interest includes cryptography, bioinformatics, network security, data analytics and image processing.

Dr. Wengang Zhou is a research scientist and project manager at DuPont Pioneer since 2011. He led a team of scientists and software engineers to build multiple large-scale data analysis pipelines, data repositories, and visualization software used by the entire company. He is the nominee of many biotechnology   research awards in DuPont in the past several years, and collaborated with multiple academic institutions on gene discovery initiatives. He has over 20 conference and journal publications, as well as 4 patent applications by 2015. He was the principle investigator for a few university funded projects, and key members of multiple NSF funded projects. He is an editorial board member of International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, and JBR Journal of Translational Biomarkers & Diagnosis. He also serves as invited reviewers for a number of prestigious journals including BMC genomics, IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics. His current research interests include cancer diagnostics, data mining, machine learning, genomics, biomarker discovery, and bioinformatics.