Dr. Sri Devi Ravana received the bachelor’s degree in information technology from the National University of Malaysia, in 2000, the master’s degree in software engineering from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia, in 2012. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems, University of Malaya. Her research interests include information retrieval heuristics, text indexing and data analytics. She received a couple of best paper awards in international conferences within the area of information retrieval. She is also the recipient of the competitive AUA Scholars Award 2019-2020 - Host Institution is The National University of Singapore. Dr. Sri Devi Ravana actively collaborated with researchers from many countries including the University of Auckland, University of Melbourne, University of Leeds, The University of Hong Kong and National University of Singapore. She also serves as Editorial Board Member in a few journals. She is also an active organizing committee member and reviewer for many conferences

Qin Xin graduated with his Ph.D (1st Oct. 2002 – 30th Sep. 2004) in Department of Computer Science at University of Liverpool, UK in December 2004. Currently, he is working as a FULL professor of Computer Science and Faculty Research Leader in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the Faroe Islands (UoFI), Faroe Islands. Prior to joining UoFI, he had held variant research positions in world leading universities and research laboratory including Senior Research Fellowship at Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Research Scientist/Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Simula Research Laboratory, Norway and Postdoctoral Research Fellowship atUniversity of Bergen, Norway. His main research focus is on design and analysis of sequential, parallel and distributed algorithms for various communication and optimization problems in wireless communication networks, as well as cryptography and digital currencies including quantum money. Moreover, he also investigates the combinatorial optimization problems with applications in Bioinformatics, Data Mining and Space Research. Currently, Prof. Dr. Xin is serving on Management Committee Board of Denmark for several EU ICT projects. Prof.Dr. Xin has produced more than 111 peer reviewed scientific papers. His works have been published in leading international conferences and journals, such as ICALP, ACM PODC, SWAT, IEEE MASS, ISAAC, SIROCCO, IEEE ICC, Algorithmica, Theoretical Computer Science,  Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, and Advances in Space Research. He has been very actively involved in the services for the community in terms of acting (or acted) on various positions (e.g., Session Chair, Member of Technical Program Committee, Symposium Organizer and Local Organization Co-chair) for numerous international leading conferences in the fields of distributed computing, wireless communications and ubiquitous intelligence and computing, including IEEE MASS, IEEE LCN, ACM SAC, IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE WCNC, IEEE VTC, IFIP NPC, IEEE Sarnoff and so on. He is the Organizing Committee Chair for the 17th and 18th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2020 and SWAT 2022, Torshavn, Faroe Islands). Currently, he also serves on the editorial board for more than ten international journals.