Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Communication Technologies and Smart Cities ICACS 2025

Dr. Trushit Upadhyaya has received his B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, and M.E. in Telecommunications from the Institute of Telecommunication Research, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia. He has completed his Ph.D. in Antenna System Design for Satellite Communication at Charotar University of Science and Technology, Changa, Gujarat, India. He was a visiting scientist at Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, in 2020. Dr. Trushit Upadhyaya was awarded Young Scientist Grant by Department of Science and Technology in 2017. He has carried out research and consultancy projects for Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australian Department of Defence, Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST), and other Private Consultants. He has published and presented 100+ research papers in India and abroad.
 
Dr. Mufti Mahmud serves as an associate professor of Cognitive Computing at the Computer Science Department of Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK. He received Ph.D. degree from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2011. He is a recipient of the vice-chancellors outstanding research award 2020 at NTU and Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Mahmud has over 15 years of academic experience and 170+ peer-reviewed publications. His expertise includes computational intelligence, applied data analysis, and big data technologies, focusing on healthcare applications. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM, a professional member of the British Computer Society, and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, in the UK.
 
Dr. Merih Palandoken completed M.S. degree study in Microelectronics and Microsystems Engineering at Technical University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, in 2005 through the awarded DAAD scholarship grant and received Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Electrical Engineering from Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 2012. He is currently working in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Izmir Katip Celebi University. His research interests are analytical/numerical design and modeling of active/passive wireless components in the micro/millimeter wave frequencies especially in the field of RF energy harvesting systems, compact microwave absorbers, machine learning based smart RF component and IoT compatible sensor design, microwave probe design, electrically small bioimplantable antennas and RFID systems. He is working as the vice head of two research and application centers entitled as Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Research and Application Center and Smart Factory Systems Research and Application Center at Izmir Katip Celebi University.