Next Generation Computing and Information Systems: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Next Generation Computing and Information Systems (ICNGCIS 2023), December 18-19, 2023, Jammu, J&K, India

Prof. Ankur Gupta is the Director at the Model Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jammu (India), besides being a Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering. He has 25+ years of experience spanning industry and academia. Prior to joining MIET, he worked as a Team Leader at Hewlett-Packard, India at Bengaluru. He has 85 published research papers in international journals/conferences. Prof. Gupta holds B.E (Hons.) CS and MS degrees from BITS, Pilani and PhD from NIT, Hamirpur. He has 11 patents granted and 34 patents filed at the Indian Patents Office. He is the inventor of the Performance Insight 360, quality analytics framework for higher education which has received several accolades. He has received the DSFT-FIST Grant in 2012, first in the private sector in J&K and received competitive grants over Rs. 2.5 Crore from various funding agencies. He is a recipient of the AICTE Career Award, faculty awards from IBM, EMC and Rs. 2 crores in funding from Govt. agencies. He is also Senior member IEEE and ACM and founder of the International Journal of Next-Generation Computing. His research interests are in cloud computing, P2P networks, network management, artificial intelligence and metaverse.