Advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Technology, and IoT in Higher Education (ePub)

Sujoy Kumar Jana, PhD, is Associate Professor of the GIS section in the Department of Surveying and Land Studies at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology. He has more than 17 years of experience in research, teaching, training, and administration in the university system. He also consults on disaster risk governance, hazard and risk assessment, geo-statistics, land use/land cover, river/coastal geomorphology, and urban planning. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed journal papers, conference papers, and books.

Srikanth Bathula, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Papua New Guinea. He has been involved in teaching for over 13 years. He has secured many collaborative research projects in and around the Pacific Islands with the University of South Pacific and the University of Auckland. He had published many international peer-reviewed research papers and has delivered keynote speeches at many international and national seminars. He received many best paper presentations and other awards for his research contributions in speciation studies on ligand-complex formations and their relevance to biological importance.

Golam Sarwar Khan, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology. Prior to that, Dr. Khan has taught mainstream sociology and related social science subjects for over 40 years at universities in Australia, New Zealand, and Bangladesh. Professor Khan has presented over 20 research papers in refereed international conferences such as the World Congress in Sociology. He has reviewed and edited research manuscripts for prestigious journals, including the Journal of Population Ageing, University of Oxford; Women's Studies International Forum, Elsevier; and Journal of Sociology, SAGE Publications and Sage Open Publication, USA. Professor Khan has published books and high-quality research articles in peer-reviewed/refereed international journals of repute, including one in Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis, U.K. His areas of research include international migration, political economy of development, health sociology, research methodology (qualitative), and family dynamics.