General Chair
Brij B. Gupta, Ph.D
Senior Member, IEEE, ACM
Member-in-Large, Board of Governors, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (2022-2024)
Director, International Center for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations & Professor of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) Asia University, Taiwan.
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Prof Brij B. Gupta received the PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India (One of the oldest technical institutes in Asia). In more than 17 years of his professional experience, he published over 500 papers in journals/conferences including 30 books and 10 Patents with over 20,000 citations. He has received numerous national and international awards including Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (2009), Govt. of Canada, Visvesvaraya Faculty Research Fellowship Award (2017), MeitY, Govt of India, IEEE GCCE outstanding and WIE best paper awards and Best Faculty Award (2018 & 2019), NIT KKR, India respectively. Prof Gupta is also serving as Distinguished Research Scientist with Login Radius Inc., USA which is one of leading cyber security companies in the world, especially in the field of customer identity and access management (CIAM). He is also selected in the 2021 and 2020 Stanford University’s ranking of the world’s top 2% scientists. He is also a visiting/adjunct professor with several universities (i.e. Temple University, Macquarie University, Yamaguchi University, University of Murcia, Deakin University, Staffordshire University, Swinburne University of Technology, etc) worldwide. He is also an IEEE Senior Member (2017) and also selected as 2021 Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE CTSoc. Dr Gupta is also serving as Member-in-Large, Board of Governors, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (2022-2024).Prof. Gupta is also leading IJSWIS, IJSSCI and IJCAC, IGI Global, as Editor-in-Chief. Moreover, he is also serving as lead-editor of Book Series with CRC, World Scientific and IET press. He also served as TPC members and organized/special session chairs in ICCE 2021, GCCE 2014-2021 and TPC Chair in 2018 INFOCOM:CCSNA Workshop, Publicity Co-chair in 2020 ICCCN, etc. Dr Gupta is also serving/served as Associate/Guest Editor of IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IoT, IEEE Big Data, ASOC, FGCS, etc. At present, Prof. Gupta is working as Director, International Center for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations, and Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Asia University, Taiwan. His research interests include cyber security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, intrusion detection, blockchain technologies, cyber physical systems, social media and networking.
General Co-Chair
Prof. Dr. Ammar Almomani,
Skyline University College, Sharjah, UAE
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Dr.Ammar Almomanihad received his Ph.D. Degree from Universiti Sains Malaysia(USM) in 2013, USM ranked #142 in the QS World University Rankings 2021, Computer Science / THE RESEARCH FIELD: INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURES SECURITY, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Information Systems, he had published 90 + articles most of them Scopus Q1, Q2, and WOS, included five German and India patents were published. 15 articles under revision in 2023, with many international awards, supervisor on many Ph.D. students from UK and Malaysia.Currently, he is managing AI and cybersecurity projects with international teams from top universities and top researchers in Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. He had published more than 70 articles on cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and information system, experience in bridging links with industry and the community. He had 19 years of teaching more than 41 different subjects in computer science, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, cybersecurity, computer science, networks, and programming language, many international certificates, and participation in dozens of projects.Currently, he is an Associate Professor Head of the research and innovation department and an academic staff Member of IT College at Skyline University College-Sharjah-UAE, with 4 years of management experience with a UAE Golden Visa. The main objective is to improve educational institutes. Able to integrate with diverse faculty members from different backgrounds. He is Contributing to the development of courses and programs (both at the undergraduate levels) offered by the College of Computing and Informatics) and accreditation especially ABET Accreditation and CAA of UAE, The establishment of many specializations in Jordan and UAE.
Programme Chair
Prof. Dr. Srikanta Patnaik,
Director, Interscience Institute of Management and Technology (IIMT) Bhubaneswar- 752024 , India.
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Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is Director of Interscience Institute of Management and Technology (IIMT), Bhubaneswar, India. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering with a focus on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India, in 1999 and has supervised 12 Ph.D. dissertations and more than 30 M. Tech theses in the areas of Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published around 60 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is the author of 2 textbooks and has edited 12 books and a few invited book chapters, published by leading international publishers such as Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc. Dr. Patnaik was the Principal Investigator of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)-sponsored TAPTEC project “Building Cognition for Intelligent Robot” and University Grants Commission (UGC)-sponsored Major Research Project “Machine Learning and Perception using Cognition Methods”. He is one of the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England, and also one of the Editors-in-Chief of the book series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published by Springer, Germany.
Programme Co-Chair
Dr. Kwok Tai Chui,
Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong
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Dr. Kwok Tai Chui received the B.Eng. degree in electronic and communication engineering - Business Intelligence Minor and Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong. He had industry experience as Senior Data Scientist in Internet of Things (IoT) company. He is with the Department of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, School of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Metropolitan University as Assistant Professor.He was the recipient of 2nd Prize Award (Postgraduate Category) of 2014 IEEE Region 10 Student Paper Contest. Also, he received Best Paper Award in IEEE The International Conference on Consumer Electronics-China, in both 2014 and 2015. He has published more than 100 research works including edited books, book chapters, journal papers, and conference papers.He has served as various editorial position in ESCI/SCIE-listed journals including Managing Editor of International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, Topic Editor of Sensors, Associate Editor of International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management and International Journal of Energy Optimization and Engineering, Guest Editors of Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, Sustainability, Sensors, Energies, Applied Sciences and Journal of Internet Technology. His research interests include computational intelligence, data science, energy monitoring and management, intelligent transportation, smart metering, healthcare, machine learning algorithms and optimization.
Publication Chair
Dr. Priyanka Chaurasia,
School of Computing, Eng & Intel. Sys
University of Ulster, United Kingdom
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Dr Priyanka Chaurasia is a Lecturer in Data Analytics, with a B. Tech in Information Technology from the Harcourt Butler Technical University, India, in 2006 and a PhD in Computing and Information Engineering from Ulster University, UK, in 2013. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK and is a recipient of the Early Career Educator Excellence Award from Ulster University 2022. Before her PhD, she was with IBM India Software Labs, India, for three years as a staff software engineer. She has patents granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in the area of signature verification and is a recipient of the IBM Invention Achievement Award in 2008. Post PhD, she has worked in different research associate positions at Ulster University for five years, including a three-year post at the Northern Ireland Connected Health Innovation Centre (CHIC). In July, 20218, she was appointed as a Lecturer at the School of Computing & Intelligent Systems, at Ulster University within the Human Centred Computing research group. She was the PI of the GCRF pump priming fund from the Department of Economy, Northern Ireland, and Co-PIs on a number of Interreg Europe projects. She is a member of UK & Ireland Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Society and the Indian Society for Lead Awareness && Research (InSLAR). She has published over 40 papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals. Her paper, A duration-based online reminder system” published in the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications has been selected by the journal’s editorial team as a Highly Commended Paper of 2014. The International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications Editorial Team was asked to nominate an Outstanding Paper and up to three Highly Commended Papers. “A duration-based online reminder system” was chosen as a Highly Commended Paper as it is one of the most impressive pieces of work the team have seen throughout 2014. Her main research areas are assistive technology for measuring and motivating healthy behaviours, supporting ageing in place, digital health, data analytics, big data, and toxicology.
Technical Committee Chair
Prof. (Dr.) Sushanta Kumar Panigrahi,
Principal, Interscience Institute of Management and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India.
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He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering & Information Technology) on Artificial Intelligence & Soft Computing from Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, Odisha, India in 2016 and supervised more than 25 Master Thesis in the area of Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr.Panigrahi is well acclaimed for his stints in teaching at various institutions of state importance such as Revenshaw University, SailabalaWomens College, IMIT Cuttack, IGNOU, ABA, Balasore.etc. His academic career spans over more than one decade in which he has earned the reputation of an admirable teacher in areas of Optimization, Database Management, Soft-computing and Data Science. Dr.Panigrahi has published more than 38 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has attended and presented papers in a number of high-profile IEEE, Elsevier and Springer conferences. Dr.Panigrahi is also an active reviewer of a number of journals of IEEE, Elsevier, Inderscience and Springer in the discipline of Computer Science and Engineering.
