Proceedings of the NIELIT's International Conference on Communication, Electronics and Digital Technology

Quality of Service (QoS)-driven Edge Computing and Smart Hospitals: A Vision, Architectural Elements and Future Directions.- Real Time Face Mask Detector with Multi-class Classification using Deep Neural Networks.- Data Correlation Analysis to Curb Road Accidents.- Speech Recognition via Machine Learning in Recording Studio.- Clustering-Based Filter Pruning Approach for Efficient ConvNets.- SMS and E-mail Spam Classification using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.- Detecting Malware in Windows Environment Using Machine Learning.- Fake News Detection using LSTM Based Deep Learning Approach and Word Embedding Feature Extraction.- Safe Distance Monitoring for COVID-19 Using YOLOv3 Object Recognition Paradigm.- Machine Learning Based Depth of Anesthesia Estimation using Spectral and Statistical Features of EEG.

Prof. Sri Niwas Singh is the director, Atal Bihari Bajpayee-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (ABV-IIITM), Gwalior (MP), India (on leave from Professor (HAG), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India). He was the vice-chancellor of MMM University of Technology Gorakhpur from April 2017 to July 2020. Dr. Singh received several awards including Young Engineer Award 2000 of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and Young Engineer Award of CBIP New Delhi (India), in 1996. He is also a recipient of INAE Outstanding Teacher Award 2016 and IEEE R10 region (Asia-Pacific) Outstanding Volunteer Award 2016. Dr. Sri Niwas Singh is appointed as IEEE Distinguish Lecturer of Power & Energy Society from 2019 and Industry Application Society for 2019-2021. He is also a recipient of NPSC 2020 Academic Excellence Award and 2021 IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) Outstanding Educator/Mentor Award. His research interests include power system restructuring, FACTS, power system optimization and control, security analysis, wind power, etc. Prof. Singh has published more than 550 papers (h-index = 59, Citation = 14k+) in international/national journals/conferences and supervised 41 Ph.Ds. (7 Ph.Ds. under progress). He has also written 30 chapters, 8 edited books, and 2 textbooks. Dr. Singh is a fellows of IEEE (USA), IET (UK), INAE, IE(I), and IETE.

Dr. Saurov Mahanta, Ph.D., is a resident of Guwahati, Assam, India, and working for the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Guwahati, under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India. Dr. Mahanta did his Master's in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology from Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, and he got the Ph.D. degree from Gauhati University, Assam, for his work on Computational Drug Discovery for Tuberculosis. Dr. Mahanta is actively involved in bioinformatics-based drug discovery works using combinatorial