CTFC 2021

Conference on “Technologies for Future Cities 2021”

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Speakers

Dr. R. K. Shevgaonkar, Chief Guest

Dr. R. K. Shevgaonkar had been a Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay since 1990 and is presently Professor (emeritus). He has a rich experience in science and technology and administration of institutes of higher education. He has worked as Vice Chancellor of University of Pune (2010- 2011), Director of IIT Delhi (2011-2015) and Vice Chancellor of Bennett University (2018-2021). He had been visiting professor in several universities in USA and Europe also. He is known world over for his scientific contributions.

Prof. Shevgaonkar’s teaching and research areas include Strategic Planning, Optical Communication, Image Processing and Computational Electromagnetics. He played a key role in commissioning one of the world’s largest Decameter Wave Telescopes at Indian Institute of Astrophysics and Raman Research Institute, Bangalore. At his alma mater IIT Bombay, he played a visionary role in setting up a Centre to generate and disseminate the video and web lectures from experts in IIT. He also helped found Centre for Distance Engineering Education.

Prof. Shevgaonkar’s has received several awards, including IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award (2011), Headline Today’s Education Leadership Award (2012) and Devang Mehta Business School Award (2010).

Dr. Pradipta Banerjee, Keynote Speaker

Dr. Pradipta Banerji has been a Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay since 1988. He is B.Tech. (Civil) from IIT Delhi and Ph.D. (Structural Engineering) from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, with a specialization in Earthquake Engineering. He has been till recently the Dean (Alumni & International Relations) at IIT Bombay. He has also played an important role in nurturing Centre for Urban Science and Engineering.

Prof. Banerji has been an expert consultant to many organizations in India and abroad, particularly in the fields of Earthquake Engineering, Vibration Control, Bridge Design and Structural Health Monitoring. He is a member of several professional societies and is a member of the executive council of the International Society for Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure. Furthermore, he is a member of the Committee for Capacity Building of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations under UNESCO, and a member of the African Science Committee under the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

Dr. Sanjay Oak,
Plenary Talk

Dr. Sanjay N. Oak assumed is Vice Chancellor of a reputed University (Padmashree Dr D Y Patil Vidyapeeth) in Navi Mumbai. Dr. Sanjay Oak is a surgeon having specialisation in the field of Paediatric Surgery and Laparoscopy. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences. He was dean of Seth G. S. Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He has also served as Director of Medical Education and Major Hospitals for Medical Colleges and Hospitals under Municipal Corporation of Mumbai. He was recently appointed as the Chairman of Task force for COVID-19 in Maharashtra.

Dr. Oak is prolific writer in Marathi and weekly columnist of great repute.

Dr. Milind Kulkarni, Plenary Talk

Dr. Milind Kulkarni is a Civil Engineer with a specialization is in Environmental Engineering. He has 31 years’ experience in teaching, research, consulting and administration of Engineering Colleges. His areas of interest are water & wastewater, air pollution, sustainable development & solid waste management. He has visited US, UK, Germany, Argentina, UAE and Australia to present research papers. He was awarded Nawab Zain Yar Jung Award for best paper in Environmental Engineering by Institution of Engineers, India.

Dr. Kulkarni is presently the Director, Prachi Services and is involved in design and construction of Wastewater Treatment Plant, Water Treatment Plant, and Sewerage System. National Board for Accreditation (NBA), All India Council for Technical Education has appointed him as an expert to help engineering colleges in achieving NBA standards.

Dr. P. Sekhar,
Plenary Talk

Dr. P. Sekhar is the Chairman Global Smart Cities Panel (MEDC), Unleasshing India & Micro Tech Global Foundation. He has spent quite some time in giving shape to his concept of “secured governance” and illustrating the effectiveness and enormous boost this could give to the Indian Economy He has written several books including the one entitled “Secured Techno-Economic Growth of India- A Global Perspective: Unleashing Hidden Growth Potential”. Some of his books deal with potential of growth -oriented sectors, such as Highways, Railways, Industry, Tourism, Sports, Agriculture, Education, Power, Healthcare in different states of India.

Dr. Sekhar is PhD from BARC/ Mumbai University. He owns a range of intellectual property rights and has been a leading campaigner to focus on access to technology as the key to social change. He is also assisting various industries to efficiently use innovative technologies along with various funding support so as to contribute to the new Smart Cities initiative.

Dr. Saurabh Mehta, Plenary Talk

Dr. Saurabh N. Mehta is Chief Academic Officer and Professor at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai. In addition to teaching and research, he is responsible for integrating academia – industry collaborations, research programs, planning, and educational training.

Dr. Saurabh N. Mehta has about 20 years’ experience in research and teaching. He obtained his B.E., M.S. and PhD. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University, Ajou University (South Korea) and Inha University (South Korea) in 2002, 2005, and 2011, respectively. His research interests are in the area of Wireless Networks, RFID / IoT / IoE Technology, Ubiquitous Computing, Game Theory, and Educational Technology. He is also working as an independent consultant in the area of Embedded System, wireless technology, education, and technical market research.

Dr. Korhan Cengiz, Plenary Talk

Dr. Korhan Cengiz (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Assistant Professor with the Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department, Trakya University, Edirne (Turkey). He received B.S. degree from Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, M.S. degree from Namik Kemal University, Tekirdag and the Ph.D. degree (Electronics Engineering) from Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Dr Korhan Cengiz has authored over 30 articles, five book chapters and one book in Turkish. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, wireless communications, statistical signal processing, indoor positioning systems, power electronics, and 5G. He serves several editorial positions in Springer, Elsevier and IEEE books and journals. He is Editor of the Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.

Dr. Veerle Vandeginste, Plenary Talk

Dr. Veerle Vandeginsteis she is Associate Professor in Materials Engineering at KU Leuven (Belgium), where she contributes teaching in chemistry and material science, engineering and technology, and research on physical chemistry and behaviour of material interfaces. She graduated as a geologist in 2001 and obtained her PhD degree in Geology from KU Leuven in 2006. Then, she conducted research at the Geological Survey of Belgium and subsequently, at CEREGE (Aix-en-Provence, France). She joined the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London in 2009, and in 2012, she started there her own Diagenesis research group as an independent research fellow. In 2015. She joined University of Nottingham as an Assistant Professor in 2015, where she established the Geochemistry research discipline in the School of Chemistry. She moved to present position in 2020.

Dr. Veerle Vandeginsteis received several institutional and international awards, e.g. Arthur Holmes Centenary Research Award, QCCRSC Best poster prize, the Stephen E. Laubach Research in Structural Diagenesis Award, the GDL Foundation Research Fellowship. She is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr. Padmaja Joshi,
Plenary Talk

Dr. Padmaja Joshi is a Senior Director at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Mumbai and is heading Software Engineering Division. She is B.E. from C.O.E. Pune, M.E. from VJTI and Ph.D. from IIT, Bombay. Her areas of interest include blockchain technology, e-authentication, e-governance, object-oriented technology, mobile cloud computing, data anonymization and cyber security.

Dr Joshi is a member of Maharashtra State Committee on Enterprise Architecture, Software systems and applications for E-Governance and EBusiness Infrastructure, Strategy and planning committee for Blockchain Technology, Data Anonymization subcommittee of e-Governance standards and IEEE subcommittee for “Digital Identity”. She is also involved in national level projects on Appstore, Unified Blockchain Framework, e-Pramaan: An authentication framework, and on projects like m-Voting.

International Advisory Committee

National Advisory Committee

Patrons

Convener

Dr. Sandeep M Joshi

Joint Secretaries

Dr. Avinash R Vaidya
Dr. Richa Agrawal
Dr. Satishkumar Varma

Secretary

Dr. P S Goyal

Treasurer

Dr. Sachin Wani
Prof. Deepti Nair

Organising Committee

Technical Program Committee

Important Dates

Award Information

Best Paper Awards are presented at CTFC conferences to authors whose work represents groundbreaking research in their respective areas.

The purpose of the Best Paper Award is to recognize and promote quality contributions to academic research and writing among scholars and students who present and publish papers which will be selected by the committee among the presented papers / posters presented in the CTFC conference.

Registration Fee

The procedure for registration and payment of fees would be made available on conference website. The applicable fee structure is tabulated below.

The registration fees include conference kit, Abstract Book, refreshments and lunch at the conference.
* There will be additional charges of Rs. 1,650/- (USD 22) for uploading the paper in IEEE Xplore.

Accommodation

Accommodation on request basis could be made available to registered participants on individual or sharing basis subject to availability. During registrations, participants are requested to opt for the need well in advance to enable us to make the necessary arrangements. For more details kindly refer the conference website.

For Accommodation related queries, please contact Prof. Yogesh Kene +91 8369129689

Venue

There are many direct trains to Pillai College of Engineering, New Panvel.

CSTM – Kurla – Vashi – Panvel
Thane – Nerul – Panvel
Diva – Kalamboli – Panvel
Vasai – Kopar – Kalamboli – Panvel
Karjat – Kalyan – Diva – Kalamboli – Panvel
Kasara – Kalyan – Diva – Kalamboli – Panvel

By air, the venue is approximately 1 hr from Domestic Departures – Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport or Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Santa Cruz, Mumbai.

Mumbai Airport Terminals are two:
Terminal 1.
Mumbai Airport Terminal 1, also known as the Domestic Terminal, is the oldest terminal and is divided into different areas.
Terminal 2.
Mumbai Airport Terminal 2 it is also known as the International Terminal even it also handles domestic flights.

Call for Papers

The manuscript should be submitted latest by 15th July, 2021. The guidelines for preparing manuscript and template are available on conference website. Authors are requested to adhere to the guidelines for smooth processing of the manuscript. Manuscripts will checked for plagiarism using turnitin and peer reviewed. The comments of the reviewers will be communicated to the authors by 10th September, 2021. Selected manuscripts will be published in IEEE Xplore, a digital library indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, etc and a separate abstract book of all the presented papers (with ISSN Number) will be published. However, it is mandatory that at least one of the authors registers and presents the paper at the conference

Manuscripts submission will be through Microsoft CMT. Click https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CTFC2021 to submit your manuscript. For further details please visit www.futurecities.mes.ac.in. Awards will be given to outstanding papers both in Poster and Oral category

Tracks And Sessions

Software Technologies

Hardware Technologies

Systems for Future Cities

Policies and Governance for Future Cities

Materials for Future Cities

Healthcare for Future Cities

Guidelines for Authors

Please read the guidelines carefully before submitting papers

A. Submission of Papers

B. Style of Submitted Papers

C. Copyright

Submit Research Paper

Create account or login on following link to submit the paper in CTFC 2021:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CTFC2021

Submit Camera Ready Paper

We are using Microsoft CMT platform to collect camera-ready papers and copyright forms. Please do not upload or mail your camera-ready papers or copyright forms on any other site. After the review process, authors will be informed to submit the final camera ready paper.

Please submit your camera-ready papers and copyright forms at the following link
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CTFC2021

Detail guidelines for the submission of the camera ready paper are available in below document
“Guidelines for Preparation of Camera Ready Paper for CTFC 2021”

Reviewers List for CTFC 2021

Online Payment of Fees

Pillai College of Engineering

Pillai College of Engineering (Erstwhile Pillai Institute of Information Technology until April 2016), established in 1999 under the patronage of Dr K M Vasudevan Pillai, is a reputed engineering college in Navi Mumbai. It is affiliated to the University of Mumbai, approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), New Delhi and is recognized by the Government of Maharashtra. PCE is an approved Research Centre of Mumbai University, which offers PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Information Technology. The institute is NAAC accredited with A+ grade by NAAC and three of its departments have been accredited by NBA. The institute strives to provide state of the art facilities conducive to effective teaching-learning, research and consultancy. It further takes every effort in inculcating in the minds of students the respect for the environment. The Faculty of PCE is very active in R & D and has completed projects for government agencies such as DST, BRNS, ICSSR and UGC. PCE has also undertaken and completed urbanization studies for UN office project on ‘Urban Expansion’ in collaboration with New York University and continues to provide consultancy in similar fields to Tata Consultancy Engineering (TCE) and CIDCO.

Address

Pillai College of Engineering (PCE)
Dr. K. M. Vasudevan Pillai Campus
Plot No. 10, Sector 16, New Panvel – 410 206
Maharashtra, India
E-mail: ctfc@mes.ac.in
Timing: 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Contact: 022 – 2748 1764

Review Process – CTFC 2021

This IEEE Conference’s Technical Program Chair has appointed a Technical Program Committee which collaborates to the process of review, monitor and discuss (if any) submitted papers using the conference submission link at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CTFC2021

Peer review is vital to the quality of published research. The 2021 Conference on Technologies for Future Cities (CTFC) – #53146 ensures that all conference papers go through the peer review process before publication.

Single-blind peer review of each technical paper is evaluated during a fixed window of time by a group of experts in the same field to make sure it meets the necessary standards for acceptance and publication. In single-blind, the names of the reviewers are not shared with the author but the reviewers are aware of the author’s identity. The single-blind peerreview model ensures that the reviewer can give an honest and impartial evaluation of the article.

To save valuable reviewer’s time and to prevent plagiarism from appearing in the publication and in Xplore, the review process is outline as follows:

1. Upload Submission: Authors submit a full-length scientific paper (not more than 6 pages) manuscript by the deadline to the conference submission link at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CTFC2021

2. Plagiarism check: Plagiarism check of all uploaded manuscripts will be done by the conference organizers. IEEE recommends a 30% similarity threshold to identify submissions that should be reviewed for possible problems.

3. Send to reviewers for comments: The paper is reviewed by three reviewers. Conference peer review occurs within a fixed window of time. All authors are notified of the peer review decision on their paper at the same time. Authors may receive one of three possible decisions:
a. Accept: Your paper will be published without edits. You may be asked to upload final camera-ready files or to sign a copyright form.
b. Accept with revision: Your paper will be accepted after you implement edits suggested by the reviewers. You will be asked to provide a revised version.
c. Reject: Your paper will not be presented at the conference or published in the conference proceedings. You may submit your paper to another IEEE publication.

4. Reviewers Expectation: It is important for authors to know what is important during peer review and what authors ensure to cover all the topics in this conference paper. During the peer review process, reviewers look for:
a. Scope: Is the paper appropriate for the scope of this conference?
b. Novelty: Is this original material distinct from previous publications?
c. Validity: Is the study well designed and executed?
d. Data: Are the data reported, analyzed, and interpreted correctly?
e. Clarity: Are the ideas expressed clearly, concisely, and logically?
f. Compliance: Are all ethical and publication requirements met?
g. Advancement: Is this a significant contribution to the field?

5. Final Camera Ready Paper Submission: Authors of accepted papers are invited to submit a final (proceedings) paper by a specified deadline, by editing all the revisions suggested by the reviewers. Please see the guideline for Final Camera Ready Paper Submission. https://www.futurecities.mes.ac.in/call-for-papers/submit-camera-ready-paper/

6. IEEE Xplore publication: The final manuscript selected (accepted and presented) will be published in the IEEE Xplore conference proceedings.