COVID-19: Prediction, Decision-Making, and its Impacts / Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies Bd.60 (PDF)

Dr. KC Santosh (IEEE Senior Member) is the Chair and an Associate Professor for the Department of Computer Science at the University of South Dakota. Before joining USD, Dr. Santosh worked as a Research Fellow at the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the LORIA Research Centre, Universite de Lorraine, in direct collaboration with ITESOFT, France. He also served as a Research Scientist at the INRIA Nancy Grand Est Research Centre, France, where he has received his Ph.D. diploma in Computer Science. Dr. Santosh has published more than 70 peer-reviewed research articles, 100 conference proceedings, and 11 book chapters. He has authored 4 books and edited 3 books, 14 journal issues, and 6 conference proceedings. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of IJSIP and an Associate Editor for several journals, such as International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics and IEEE Access. He has also chaired more than 10 international conference events. His research projects have been funded by multiple agencies, including the SDCRGP, Department of Education (DOE), and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Santosh is the proud recipient of the Presidents Research Excellence Award (USD, 2019) and an award from the Department of Health & Human Services (2014).



Dr. Amit Joshi is currently the Director of Global Knowledge Research Foundation and also an Entrepreneur & Researcher who has completed his master's and research in the areas of cloud computing and cryptography in medical imaging. Dr. Joshi has an experience of around 10 years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations. Dr. Joshi is an active member of ACM, IEEE, CSI, AMIE, IACSIT, Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA, and many other professional societies. Currently, Dr. Joshi is the International Chair of InterYIT at International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP, Austria). He has