Dr. N. R. SUNITHA received B.E. degree from Gulbarga University, M.S. degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, and Ph.D. degree from Visveswaraya Technological University, Belgaum. She is currently Professor with Department of CS&E, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, India. She has published more than 65 peer-reviewed research articles in leading conferences and journals, such as ACM, Springer, the IEEE, and Elsevier. Her research interests include cryptography and network security, storage area networks, big data processing, industrial automation, and computer security and reliability. She was funded for her research projects from ABB GISL, AICTE, DRDO, IISc, and ICT Skill Development Society in India. She has acquired totally six patents in her research field. Dr. Sunitha possesses membership of personal bodies in Association of Computing Machinery, USA (ACM), Indian Society for Technical Education, India (ISTE)—Life Member, Computer Society of India (CSI), International Association of Engineers (IAENG), and Institution of Engineers (FIE). She received IBM Mentor Award, in 2014. She was a chairperson in international conferences, such as Conference on Information Science and Technology Management (CISTM 2007), Conference on Network Security and Applications (CSNA 2010), National Conference on Advances in Computer Applications (NCACA), and International Conference on Advances in Computing (ICAdC 2012). Her biodata included in Marquis Who’s Who in Science & Engineering 2010. She is a Reviewer of journals, such as Elsevier’s Computers and Security and International Journal of Network Security (IJNS)
