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	Udaya Parampalli (aka Parampalli Udaya) Udaya Parampalli (aka Parampalli Udaya) is an Associate Professor and reader in the Department of Computing and Information Systems, the University of Melbourne. He obtained his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T), Kanpur, in 1993. From 1992 to July 1996, he worked in industry as a Member Research Staff at Central Research Laboratory, Bharat Electronics, Bangalore. From 1997 to 2000, he was an ARC research associate at the Department of Mathematics, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. In the second half of 2008, he was a Visiting Professor in Department of Computer Science at University of Calgary, Canada. In 2016, he has been appointed as Visiting professor at the Department of Electrical Engineerig, I.I.T Kanpur. Udaya is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has served as program committee member in various conferences and workshops in the area of sequences, Cryptography and Security. He is the general chair of SETA 2014, a premier international conference in Sequences and Their Applications. Udaya's research interests are in the area of cryptography and sequences over finite fields and rings for communications and information security.
	Aaron Harood Aaron Harwood is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Melbourne. Dr Harwood is well known internationally for his contributions in the areas of Peer-to-Peer Computing and High Performance Interconnection Networks. He is especially well known for his work on peer-to-peer algorithms, decentralized protocols and large scale, high performance systems. His research publications include top ranked computer science journals such as ACM/IEEE Transactions and the VLDB Journal, achieving a H-Index of 16 and a G-Index of 25 (as of Feb/2016). Harwood's peer-to-peer software developments have been presented at numerous prestigious international venues, including the ACM Middleware Conference (Grenoble, France) and CodeCon (San Francisco, US): P2P Middleware for Massively Multi-Player Online Games;Localhost, a shared, world-wide file system through your web browser; and MPICH-OPeN on the PlanetLab Infrastructure, for deploying MPI programs over a decentralized system . Harwood has collaborated with National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence since 2004 as a seconded staff member from the University of Melbourne. During that time he proposed and successfully developed a NICTA research project in the area of P2P Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming, that is currently forming an Australian based soft spin-out company, Scalify Pty Ltd, and he is a co-inventor of a patent covering the basis of this technology. Harwood has, over 10 years, gained extensive professional experience in local/international conference technical/program committees, organization, journal/conference paper reviewing, editing, presentations and seminars.
	Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi Ajit received his Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is a recipient of Distinguished Teacher's award from IIT Kanpur and Tan Chin Tuan fellowship from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. His research interests are in the areas of communications theory and systems, mobile communications, and spread spectrum systems. He has over ten years of experience teaching courses on wireless communications and has published extensively in reputed journals and conferences.
	Adrish Banerjee Adrish received his Bachelors degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Masters and Ph.D. degree from University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has been a visiting faculty to National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan and Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea. Under Erasmus-Mundus program he was a visiting faculty in Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is a recipient of Microsoft Research India young faculty award, Institute of Engineers India young engineer award, and IETE-Prof. Sreenivasan Memorial Award-2016. His research interests are in the physical layer aspects of wireless communications, particularly error control coding, cognitive radio and green communications.