Invited Speakers
Prof. Naresh Agarwal
Simmons University, USA
Naresh Agarwal is a Professor and Director of the
Information Science & Technology Concentration at
the School of Library & Information Science at
Simmons University, Boston, Massachusetts. Naresh’s
research area is information behavior and knowledge
management. His first book ‘Exploring Context in
Information Behavior: Seeker, situation,
surroundings, and shared identities’ was published
by Morgan & Claypool in 2018. His second book was
published in 2021 as 'Engineering to Ikigai: 25
Journeys towards Purpose' in South Asia and 'You
know the glory, not the story: 25 Journeys towards
Ikigai' internationally. He has been a
keynote/invited speaker at workshops and conferences
in Bangladesh, France, India, Iran, Japan, Pakistan,
South Africa, and the US. Naresh is the
Immediate-Past President of the Association for
Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). At
ASIS&T, he has held various leadership positions,
including co-chairing its Annual Meeting in 2017 and
founding the South Asia Chapter. In 2012, he was
awarded the ASIS&T James M. Cretsos Leadership
Award. You can learn more about Naresh at
nareshagarwal.com and projectonenessworld.com.
Prof.
Kazumasa Oida
Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Kazumasa Oida received Bachelor of Information
Science from the University of Tsukuba in 1983 and
Doctor of Informatics from Kyoto University in 2002.
He worked for the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corporation for twenty years, where he engaged in
the development of high-performance network systems.
He is currently a professor at the Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, Fukuoka Institute
of Technology, Japan.
Collaborations with researchers around the world are
always welcome. His research interests include
neural network attack countermeasures, malware
analysis, IoT security, blockchain applications,
social network analysis, and complex networks. His
recent work is at
https://www.fit.ac.jp/~oida/kadai/work2022.html. He
is currently working with the Fukuoka Prefectural
Police for smishing malware analysis, phishing sites
detection, and malicious Tor traffic detection.
Assoc. Prof. Hazura Zulzalil
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Hazura Zulzalil received Bachelor of Computer
Science in 1995, Master of Science in 1998 and PhD
in Software Engineering in 2011 from Universiti
Putra Malaysia (UPM). Hazura Zulzalil joined UPM as
a tutor in 1995 and was appointed as a lecturer in
1998. She was promoted to a senior lecturer in 2008
and currently she is an associate professor at the
Department of Software Engineering and Information
System. She has successfully supervised and
co-supervised 14 PhD students, 4 master by research
students and 24 master by coursework students. Her
research interests include software requirement
engineering, software measurement, software quality
and multi-criteria evaluation. To date she has
successfully secured 13 research grants as the
principal investigator and co-researcher and has
published 77 journal and 39 conference articles.
Currently, she is appointed as a committee member of
the Board of Studies and external examiners for
Software Engineering Program in a few higher
Malaysian institutions. She is also a committee
member of Malaysian Standard for NSC 07/TC 11,
member of Malaysian Software Engineering Interest
Group (MySEIG) and associate member of the National
Council of Professor.
Assoc. Prof.
Norjihan Abdul Ghani
Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Norjihan is currently an Associate Professor in
Department of Information Systems, FCSIT, Universiti
Malaya. Her PhD in Computer Science from Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia (2013), and her Master in
Information Technology (2000) from Universiti
Kebangsaan Malaysia and she obtained her Bachelor
Degree in Information Technolgy from Universiti
Utara Malaysia (2000). Currently, she is the Head of
Department for Information Systems since 7 October
2019. Her research interest is in the areas of
information security which she focuses more on
information privacy, data security and data
protection where it has been applied in several
domains such as smart transportation, smart health
and many more soon. She has interest and welcome any
collaborations with other researchers from any
universities in the same field domains.
Assoc. Prof. Sabrina Ahmad
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Dr. Sabrina Ahmad is an Associate Professor in
Software Engineering at the Faculty of Information
and Communication Technology, Universiti Teknikal
Malaysia Melaka. She obtained her PhD in Computer
Science from The University of Western Australia in
2012 under the supervision of Professor Mark
Reynolds and Professor Terry Woodings. Throughout
her career, she has experiences as Head of Software
Engineering Department, Coordinator for Centre of
Excellence (Centre for Advanced Computing
Technology), and Deputy Dean (Research &
Postgraduate Studies). She endeavours to maintain
the bridge between academia and practitioners and
therefore, while being an academic, she also applies
the knowledge through consultation projects with
various industries. She is also a Certified
Professional Requirements Engineer, a Certified
Tester and a Certified Professional IT Architect.
Asst. Prof. Stefan Nastic
Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Stefan Nastic is an Assistant
Professor on a tenure track at TU Wien, Institute of
Information Systems Engineering, Distributed Systems
Group (DSG). He joined DSG in August 2022 and
started the tenure track in November 2022. Since
2021 Stefan is also a co-founding member and a
Technical Steering Committee member in Linux
Foundation’s Project Centaurus. He is also a founder
and Managing Director of IntelliEdge GmbH. Stefan
earned a Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) summa cum laude
(“mit Auszeichnung”) in 2016 from TU Wien, with a
thesis: “Programming, Provisioning, and Governing
IoT Cloud Applications”.
During the last decade, Stefan has been involved in
a number of large research and commercial projects
related to Edge Computing, Cloud Computing,
Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet of Things,
such as a multi-million Pacific Controls Cloud
Computing Lab (PC3L), H2020 U-Test, Urban Europe
SMART-FI, and Futurewei Polaris Cloud. The main
results of his research have been published in 35+
scholarly publications and 1 book, leading to the h
index of 20 as tracked by Google Scholar.
Asst. Prof. Chao Wang
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Chao Wang is an assistant professor in the
Department of Computer Science and Information
Engineering at National Taiwan Normal University. He
is interested in studying cyber-physical systems
(CPS), an informed integration between computing
system and the environment within which the system
operates. Chao received his Ph.D. in Computer
Science at Washington University in St. Louis in
2019, and his M.S. in Computer and Communication
Engineering in 2010 and B.S. in Electrical
Engineering in 2009, both from National Cheng Kung
University in Taiwan. He is a member of ACM and
IEEE.
Dr. Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed
Newcastle University, UK
Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed is a Senior Lecturer in
computing at the Newcastle University, UK. His
research interests are in the security of
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), the Internet of Things
(IoT), Communication Systems, and Critical
Infrastructures. Earleir he served as a lecture in
the University of Strathclyde from 2020-2023. Before
joining the University of Strathclyde he was a
research fellow at the National Satellite of
Excellence for Secure Critical Infrastructure in
Singapore University of Technology and Design
(SUTD). He was a Presidential Graduate Fellow for
the Ph.D. program at the SUTD. Mujeeb has been a
visiting fellow at the EECS department at the
Georgia Institute of Technology. His work has been
awarded the best paper award at ACM CPSS 2020, and
the best research project SoilBuild award at FIRST
2020 and Kulicke and Soffa award 2018. Mujeeb has
been a delegate at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum
(HLF 2019). Mujeeb has been PC chair of the
CYBERSECURITY OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING AND SMART
GRID RESOURCES (SECEVC2022) in conjunction with IEEE
SmartGridComm, PC chair of the 2nd and 3rd
International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence
and Industrial Internet-of-Things Security
(AIoTS2020/2021) in conjunction with ACNS. Mujeeb
has delivered invited talks at 7th International
Conference on Networks, Communications, Wireless and
Mobile Computing (NCWMC 2022) in London and at the
Workshop on Data Mining and Machine Learning Applied
to Cyber Physical Systems in Singapore.
Dr. Lars Nagel
Loughborough University, UK
Lars Nagel received his Diploma in Computer Science
from the Technical University of Munich in Germany
in 2006 before he worked as a software developer for
Siemens and Trium Analysis Online in Munich. In 2011
he received his PhD from Durham University, UK,
where he studied randomised load balancing
processes. At Paderborn University and Mainz
University in Germany he continued these studies and
developed algorithms for distributed systems and
storage systems as a postdoctoral researcher. Since
2017 he is a lecturer at Loughborough University,
UK. His main research areas are the development and
analysis of algorithms for distributed systems,
networks and storage systems.
Dr. S. M. Emdad Hossain
University of Nizwa, Sultanate of Oman
Dr. S.M. Emdad Hossain, Assistant Professor and the
Head of the Department of Information Systems,
University of Nizwa, Oman. He has received his PhD
degree in Information Science and Engineering from
University of Canberra, Australia, followed by
Post-Doc from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University,
Florida, USA. He has diverse educational and
teaching experience from a number of countries
around the world. He is in the technical review
committees and regular reviewer for several IEEE,
Elsevier, ISI, and IET journals/conferences. His
research interest includes multi-modal systems,
computer vision, pattern recognition, data mining,
medical image computing and mobile banking. He is
holding a long-list of fully refereed
Journal/Conference/Book Chapter publications with
TWO (2) Intellectual PATENTS in pattern recognition
and mobile banking. He established one of largest
biometric gait-database named “UCMG-Database” which
is open for world research community. However, he is
highly interested in seeking wide and
interdisciplinary collaborations in teaching and
research.
Speech Title: Security of Biometric-based
Security Systems
Abstract: Biometric security systems are well
established and advanced-technological solutions.
Those solutions are; no-longer in question-mark in
terms of applicability and viability. Government to
private, small to medium, tech-based to non-tech
based; almost all organizations are noble clients of
biometric based security systems. Robustness in
authentication are in place. Similarly,
comfortability of both client and users are in an
excellent stage. Therefore, the systems are in
practice without hesitation. However, sensitivity of
input of these kind of systems are very high. It is
because of personal (physical or behavioral trait)
information which is the key of a distinct system.
In case of minimal data leakage; might cause huge
impact of an individual’s life, sometime it can be
life threatening too. Hence, security issues of
biometric based security systems will be presented
along with potential mitigation approaches.
Furthermore, experimental results and effectiveness
of a number of securing tools will be in focus.
Dr. Saminda Premaratne
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Samidna Premaratne is currently a Senior Lecturer in
the Department of Information Technology, Faculty of
Information Technology, University of Moratuwa. He
obtained his PhD in Informatics from Malaysia
University of Science and Technology, Malaysia, and
achieved an M.Phil from University of Colombo, Sri
Lanka. He received his B.Sc. Degree in Computer
Science from American University of Asia. Throughout
his career, he has completed his tenure as the Head
of the Department of Information Technology,
Director of Undergraduate Studies, and a coordinator
for the postgraduate programs. He has successfully
supervised more than 55 postgraduate students till
2022. His research interests are Multimedia systems,
Data mining, and Multimedia Information Retrieval.
He has published several research papers in
international journals and conferences. Various
organizations awarded him several national and
international awards during the last five years.
Throughout the last twelve years, he was involved in
several consultancy projects by applying his
knowledge to practice. He is interested in
interdisciplinary collaborations with other
researchers and universities in similar research
areas and teaching.