Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for Digital Healthcare Communications Technologies for Epidemic Models

This book explores current research and development in the area of digital healthcare using recent technologies such as data science and artificial intelligence. The authors discuss how data science, AI, and mobile technologies provide the fundamental backbone to digital healthcare, presenting each technology separately as well covering integrated solutions. The book also focuses on the integration of different multi-disciplinary approaches along with examples and case studies. In order to identify the challenges with security and privacy issues, relevant block chain technologies are identified and discussed. Social aspects related to digital solutions and platforms for healthcare are also discussed and analyzed. The book aims to present high quality, technical contributions in the field of mobile digital healthcare using technologies such as AI, deep learning, IoT and distributed cloud computing.

Dr. Pradeep Kumar Singh is currently working as an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Central University of Jammu, J&K, India. Dr. Singh is a Senior member of Computer Society of India (CSI), IEEE, ACM and Life Member. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD), Indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. He is also associate editor of International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC), IGI Global USA, Security and Privacy, Wiley. He has received three sponsored research projects grant from Govt. of India and Govt. of HP worth Rs 25 Lakhs. He has edited a total 24 books from Springer and Elsevier. He has Google scholar citations 3100, H-index 30 and i-10 Index 70. His recently published book titled Handbook of Wireless Sensor Networks: Issues and Challenges in Current Scenario's from Springer has reached more than 27000 downloads in last few months. Recently, Dr. Singh has been nominated as a Section Editor for Discover IoT, a Springer Journal. He has total eight patents to his credit, and supervised six PhD scholars as PhD Supervisor or Co-Supervisor.

Prof. Marcello Trovati obtained his PhD in Mathematics at the University of Exeter in 2007, specialising in theoretical dynamical systems with singularities, after which he accepted a position as algorithm tester and research specialist at a medium sized software development company. His main responsibility was to create, test and documents state-of-the-art statistical algorithms to analyse big datasets. He then moved to the newly created Dublin IBM Research Lab to carry out research mainly in the field of knowledge discovery, text mining, and mathematical modelling, where he gained valuable business and research experience through collaboration with several scientists both at IBM, and at academic institutions. He was involved in a number of research projects in collaboration with other IBM Research Centres and academic institutions. He then joined Coventry University to take up a position as Teaching Fellow, and subsequently the University of Derby as a lecturer, during which he was involved various multi-disciplinary projects focussing on mathematical modelling, algorithm design, and big data analytics. In 2016 Marcello joined the Computer Science Department at Edge Hill University as a senior lecturer and he was recently awarded a Professorship in Computer Science. He is involved in several research themes and projects. He is co-leading the STEM Data Research centre and is actively involved in the Productivity and Innovation Lab, aiming to collaborate and support SMEs in Lancashire. Marcello's main interests include: Mathematical Modelling, Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Network Theory, Machine Learning, Data and Text Mining.

Prof. Fionn Murtagh has a strong track record in research with industrially-relevant consequences, and in teaching and learning. For over 35 years he has been a global leader in research, and applications, of clustering and data analysis, computational statistics, and also modelling and statistical analysis in image and signal processing. Fionn is editor-in-chief of Computer Journal, the British Computer Society's flagship journal. He has a leading role in classification societies International Association for Statistical Computing and the British Computer Society, and has been president of both the Classification Society of North America and the British Classification Society. He is an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea.

Dr. Mohammed Atiquzzaman obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Electronics from the University of Manchester (UK) and B.S. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He currently holds the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential professorship and the Hitachi Chair in the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma, and is a senior member of IEEE. Dr. Atiquzzaman is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, founding Editor-in-Chief of Vehicular Communications and has served/serving on the editorial boards of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, International Journal on Wireless and Optical Communications, Real Time Imaging journal, Journal of Communication Systems, Communication Networks and Distributed Systems and Journal of Sensor Networks. He also guest edited many special issues in various journals. He has served many international conferences as the general chair. He serves on the review panels of funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation and National Research Council (Canada) and Australian Research Council (Australia). In recognition of his contribution to NASA research, he received the NASA Group Achievement Award for "outstanding work to further NASA Glenn Research Center's effort in the area of Advanced Communications/Air Traffic Management's Fiber Optic Signal Distribution for Aeronautical Communications" project. Mohammed received from IEEE the 2018 Satellite and Space Communications Technical Recognition Award for valuable contributions to the Satellite and Space Communications scientific community., the 2017 Distinguished Technical Achievement Award from IEEE Communications Society in recognition of outstanding technical contributions and services in the area of communications switching and routing, and the 2023 Internet of Things, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Achievement Award for "valuable contributions to the Internet of Things, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks scientific community". He is the co-author of the book "Performance of TCP/IP over ATM networks" and has over 400 refereed publications, which are accessible at www.cs.ou.edu/ atiq.His research interests are in communications switching, vehicular communications, wireless and mobile networks, ad hoc networks, satellite networks, quality of service, and optical communications. His research has been funded by National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), US Air Force, Cisco, Honeywell, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, and Oklahoma Highway Safety Office through grants totaling over $10M.

Professor Mohsen Farid received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Queen's University Belfast, UK. His Ph.D. thesis was on modeling eye movements employing various modeling tools such as wavelet transforms and non-linear dynamics. His work contributed to advances in surgery planning and remote surgery. It also allowed the creation of interface modalities for patients diagnosed with Locked-in syndrome (LIS). Dr Farid received his BSc in Physics and Mathematics with Distinction from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, MS, and Ph.D. and in Theoretical Physics from Polytechnic Institute of New York University. Dr Farid is a fellow of several prestigious international scientific organizations, such as the Institute of Mathematics and Its Application, the International Statistical Institute, the Royal Statistical Society, and the Royal Society for the Arts. He is also an Associate Member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research - ALICE Experiment (CERN), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Dr Farid also has extensive industrial experience in software development and management of Information Technology in multinational organizations such as IBM, Microsoft, MIDOR, and Mitutoyo Tools and Instruments. Professor Farid has served on the faculty of several universities, City University of New York, University of Connecticut, University of Bridgeport, and wasthe department head of Computer Science and Mathematics at Paul Quinn College. Dr. Farid was also an advisor to UNESCO. Dr Farid also held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at New Mansoura University, Egypt. He is now with the Department of Computing and Mathematics and a Fellow of the Data Science Research Center at the University of Derby. He is the Director of the MSc program in Big Data Analytics, UK. He also holds an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield. His research interests include the application of AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare and Mental Health, Information Theory, Language Engineering, and Particle Identification at CERN. He has published extensively in Human-Computer Interaction, Data Science, Healthcare Informatics, and Computational Linguistics. He supervised many students at the Ph.D., MS, and BS levels. As a teacher, he has consistently scored 85% or above in students' feedback. Dr Farid has received an honorable mention from the US Army for work related to breast cancer. He is also a member of the IEEE P2957 Big Data Governance and Metadata Management Standards Group and co-authored the white paper under the same title.