Dr. Patra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at CURAJ. He holds an M.A., M.Phil., and a Ph.D. in Economics from Pondicherry University. His core expertise spans across Economic Growth, Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Energy Economics, and Public Finance. He has several years of teaching and research experience and has published multiple peer-reviewed research papers in esteemed international economic journals. He also spearheads major research initiatives, including an active project evaluating the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) funded by the ICSSR.
Dr. Sonia BEN REJEB Associate Professor of Telecommunications at ISI/University of Tunis El Manar (UTM). Graduated DEA from ENIT in 1999. She got a these of SUPCOM and UBO France in 28 Februrary 2006. She got a HDR of SUPCOM in 7 May 2022. Currently a member in the research laboratory MEDIATRON at SUPCOM. Her reasearch interests are in the field of performance analysis, design and optimization of wireless mobile 5/6/7G and IoT networks, resources allocation, mobility and QoS management, edge networking and cloud native, network virtualization, softwarization and slicing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, intelligent autonomous systems, smart cities, quantum communications, blockchain, digital twin and cybersecurity.
She is the author and coauthor of 70 papers. She has served on the TPC of 40 international conferences and workshops. She currently serves as a chair of IWCMC 2025 and streeing committees of ICWMC 2025/2026, AICT 2025/2026 and Internet 2025/2026, the editorial board of International research journal IRJIET and a Elected IARIA Chair in Open Access Special Advertising and Publicity Board (2023–2026). She served as a ADVANCE’s 2018 organizing committee, She served as publicity chair of ADVANCE’s 2024/2025/2026, industrial and demo chair of CloT 2021, workshop chair of SmartNets 2019 and chair of IWCMC 2018. She received the Best Research Paper Award at SoftCom 2015. She received the Excellent record of viewers at Journal JNCA 2014. She also received the IBM Blockchain Developer Mastery Award in 2019, Practioners Instructor in 2023 and IBM Artificial Intelligence Fundamentals certificate in 2024. She received the Best Research Paper Award at IWCMC 2025.