Advancements in Smart, Secure and Intelligent Computing (ASSIC) aims to highlight recent development research works in Information and Communication Technologies so as to create intelligent systems driven by automation capabilities thereby addressing prevailing concerns faced by humanity. It aims to integrate the capabilities of computer units, social media, security methods and communication networks together with smart devices, internet technologies, big data analytics, computational intelligence and intelligent systems to realize various innovative applications. ASSIC can provide a platform in not only designing smart computing systems but also in incorporating machine intelligence based hi-tech system models with advanced security measures. It provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in modern technologies like Internet-of-Things, edge computing, cloud computing, secure intelligent frameworks and ubiquitous computing.
Dr. Achyuta Samanta is an educationist, philanthropist, and social worker. He is the founder of Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), both educational institutions of global repute and recognition. KIIT is an Institution of Eminence and one of the most prominent universities in India and globe for professional education having more than 30,000 students from all over India and 65 other countries. KISS is a home for 60,000 indigenous children all absolutely free.
Besides Education and tribal upliftment, healthcare and rural development, Shri Samanta has contributed immensely to art, culture, literature, film, media, society and national integration. It is really incredible that the child who lost his father at the age of four, brought up amidst severe poverty and deprivation with seven siblings and a widow mother in a quaint village in Odisha has accomplished this monumental work without any favour or backing in such a short span of time for the society. He has converted the remote village ‘Kalarabanka’, Cuttack into a Smart Village and the entire Manpur Panchayat into a model Panchayat (cluster of villages).
He has been conferred with more than 50 International and National awards and over 200 state awards besides two highest Civilian Awards from Royal Kingdom of Bahrain and Mongolia. He has been conferred with 46 Honorary Doctorate awards from universities in India and abroad. He is the first Odia to be a member of both UGC and AICTE. He is currently the Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) from Kandhamal, Odisha and also the President of Volleyball Federation of India. Besides, he is the founder of Parliamentarians for Indigenous People and Designated President ( India) of Democracy without Borders.
