Dr. Praneel Chand is currently a Senior Lecturer at Sydney International School of Technology and Commerce in Sydney, Australia. He has worked at various higher education institutions across Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji. Dr. Chand completed his PhD in Electronics and Computer Systems Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in 2011. He has over 20 years of experience in engineering education, research, and project work. His work mainly focuses on the design and development of electronic and computer systems for control, automation, mechatronics, and robotics. Some specific problems he is currently working on include visual classification of objects, IoT applications for indoor air quality control, mobile robot navigation and control, applications and control of robotic arms, and remote laboratory systems. Dr. Chand has over 50 peer-reviewed research outputs, including journal papers, book chapters, conference papers, and books.

Dr. Mansour Assaf joined the University of the South Pacific (USP) in 2010. Before joining USP, he was associated with the Centre for Information and Communications Technology at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). Prior to that, he served as a Research Scholar and Lecturer in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa (UOO) in Ottawa, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UOO, where he also received his M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and B.A.Sc. in Telecommunications. Dr. Assaf’s research interests span computer architecture, mixed-signal analysis, hardware/software co-design and testing, fault-tolerant computing, sensor networks, image processing, and RFID technology. He has published over 82 refereed journal articles and conference papers, 42 of which are in high-impact factor journals. He also authored one book. Dr. Assaf is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a professional member of Engineers New Zealand, and a professional member of Engineers Fiji. In 2003, he was awarded the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award.