General Chair Message
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Professor (Dr) Krishnaraj Madhavjee Sunjiv Soyjaudah, Senior Member of IEEE was the General Chair and the TPC Chair of AFRICON 2013. He received his BSc (Hons) degree in Physics from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1982 as a recipient of the UK commonwealth scholarship, MSc degree in Digital Electronics from King’s college, University of London in 1991 again as a recipient of the UK Commonwealth Scholarship, PhD degree and Gold Medal for pure research from University of Mauritius in 1998. He then pursued legal studies and obtained a LLB (Hons) from University of London in 2007, Post Graduate Diploma in legal studies at the Bar from Manchester law school in 2015 as a recipient of the Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship and called to the degree of the Utter Bar of the Honourable Society of Middle Temple Inn in November 2015. As a Professor of Communication Engineering, he has served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Mauritius. Professor Soyjaudah has also held senior management positions in regulatory authorities namely as Executive Director of the Tertiary Education Commission and Executive Director of the Information and Communications Technologies Authority. As an academic researcher, Professor Soyjaudah has published over 240 refereed International Journal and Conference Research papers and has successfully supervised two post-doctoral fellows and 17 PhDs. He is currently supervising 12 PhD students. His expertise is also solicited by foreign universities and he examined several PhDs from South African and Indian Universities. Professor Soyjaudah was the Chairman of the Mauritius Qualifications Authority from 2002 to 2005, Board Director of the Multicarrier Mauritius Limited (MCML) from 2001 to 2016 and chaired MCML’s staff and finance and procurement committees. He served as Board Member, in the capacity of a technical expert, in the Energy Efficient Management Office from 2011 to 2015. |
Welcome to the official portal of the Mauricon 2020: The International Conference on Intelligent and Innovative Computing Applications. It will be held on the 24th and 25th of September 2020 at the Holiday Inn Mauritius Mon Tresor, in the paradise island of Mauritius. This conference is being organised by the Society of Information Technologists and Entrepreneurs in order to provide an opportunity to academic researchers, industry professional, government delegates and students to interact and share their experiences and knowledge on cutting-edge developments in the fields of Cloud Computing, Internet-of-Things, Networked Systems, Data Communications, Computer Security, Computer Vision, Intelligent Computing, Robotics, Machine Vision, Signal Processing and ICT4D. Our main objective is to promote scientific and educational activities towards the advancement of knowledge by improving the theory and practice of various disciplines and areas of ICT Engineering.
Papers are invited for Mauricon 2020 on topics lying within the scope of the conference. All contributions must be of high quality, original, and must not have been previously published elsewhere or intended for publication elsewhere.
All papers will be reviewed by members of the International Programme Committee and depending on their degree of innovativeness and quality of presentation, may be selected for oral presentation and publication in the conference proceedings. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers by following a double-blind review process.
We look forward to welcoming you to Mauritius in September 2020 so that you can experience the Mauritian hospitality, culture and atmosphere.
However the event may held as virtual conference in case of travel restrictions due to Covid-19.