Invited Speakers

Professor Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Director, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India.

 

Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, FNAE and A.P.J. Abdul Kalam National Fellow, is the Director of IIT Patna (since 2015) and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Department IIT Bombay where he also held the Vijay and Sita Vashi Chair Professorship. He was raised in the picturesque town of shillong in Meghalaya where he was the state topper in both class 10th (1977) and class 12th (1979) examinations. He was educated in IIT Kharagpur (B.Tech, 1984; also chosen as its Distinguished Alumnus in 2018), IIT Kanpur (M.Tech, 1986) and IIT Bombay (PhD, 1994). He has been visiting scholar and faculty in MIT, Stanford, UT Houston and University Joseph Fouriere (France). Prof. Bhattacharyya’s research areas are Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and AI (NLP-ML-AI). His lab called "Center for Indian Language Technology" (CFILT) at IIT Bombay is known internationally for its contribution to NLP and ML. In IIT Patna too, the lab called "Center of Excellence in Natural Language Processing" is gaining visibility in the country and abroad.

 

Professor Muttukrishnan Rajarajan (Raj), Director, Institute for Cyber Security, Visiting Fellow BT Research Labs UK, School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, City, University of London, London EC 1V 0HB, United Kingdom

 

Raj received his BEng and PhD degrees from City University London in 1994 and 1999 respectively. From 1999 he worked at City University London as a Research Fellow. In August 2000 he moved to Logica as a Telecommunication Consultant. After a few years in the industry Raj is now a Professor of Security Engineering.  Raj leads the Information Security Group (ISG) at City University London which carries out research in the following domains: Authentication, Cloud Security & Trust, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Identity Management and Access Control

 

Professor Sankar K. Pal, INSA Distinguished Professor Chair, Distinguished Scientist and former Director, Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

 

Sankar K. Pal (www.isical.ac.in/~sankar) is a Distinguished Scientist and former Director of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). He founded the Machine Intelligence Unit and the Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility in ISI, Calcutta. He received a Ph.D. in Radio Physics and Electronics from Indian Statistical Institute/ University of Calcutta in 1979, and another Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering along with DIC from Imperial College, University of London in 1982. He joined his Institute (ISI) in 1975 as a CSIR Senior Research Fellow where he became a Full Professor in 1987, Distinguished Scientist in 1998 and the Director for the term 2005-2010. He is currently an INSA Distinguished Professor and ISI Emeritus Professor working at ISI, Calcutta. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence of IIT Jodhpur. Prof. Pal worked at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Maryland, College Park in 1986-87; the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas in 1990-92 & 1994; and in US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC in 2004. Since 1997 he has been a Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society (USA) for the Asia-Pacific Region, and held several visiting positions in Italy, Poland, Hong Kong and Australian universities.

 

Professor RK Shyamasundar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

R.K.Shyamasundar is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM, Distinguished ACM Speaker, a Distingusihed Alumnus of Indian Institute of Science, served as IEEE Distinguished Speaker, is currently JC  Bose National  Fellow, Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science, IIT Bombay where he is the Principal Investigator of the Information Security Research and Development Centre (ISRDC) from Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) from the Govt. of India. He was awarded the 2014 SN Mitra  award  for  excellence  in  research  by  the  Indian  National  Academy  of  Engineering.  Since  2015,  he  is  also  the  Scholar-in-Residence  at  IIT  Jodhpur.  He  is  the  founding  Dean  of  the  School  of  Technology  and  Computer Science  at  TIFR.    He  has  made  outstanding  contributions  to  Real Time  Distributed  Computing,  Logics  of  Programs, Network and Computer Security. His research interests include distributed real-time systems, Logics of  Programs,  Concurrent  and  Parallel  programming  Languages,  Formal  Methods,  Cyber  Security  etc.   

 

Professor Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Communications and Information Engineering (CIE) division, at The National University of Singapore, Singapore

           

Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Senior Member, IEEE & IEEE-CS, received the BSc degree in physics, from Madurai-Kamaraj University, India, in 1987, the Master’s degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science(IISc), Bangalore, India in 1991, and the PhD degree from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 1994. He received gold medals for his bachelor degree overall performance and for an outstanding PhD thesis (IISc, Bangalore India) in the years 1987 and 1994, respectively. He is currently with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Communications and Information Engineering (CIE) division, at The National University of Singapore, Singapore, as a tenured Associate Professor. His main stream research interests include cloud/grid/cluster computing (big data processing, analytics and resource allocation), scheduling in parallel and distributed systems, Cybersecurity, and multimedia computing. 

Professor Umesh Bellur, Department of Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

 

Umesh Bellur received the PhD degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University, New York, NY. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India. His research interests include cloud computing, virtualization and distributed systems such as those created by P2P overlays, sensor networks, and application networks, semantic matchmaking algorithms in service-oriented architectures, and autonomic computing. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.

 

Professor Alberto Sillitti, Institute of Information Systems, Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia

Alberto Sillitti received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2005. He has been involved in several EU funded projects related to open source software, services architectures, and agile methods in which he applies noninvasive measurement approaches. He is currently a Full Professor with the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Innopolis University, Russia, where he leads the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab and is also the Director of the Institute of Information Systems. He is also an Associate Dean for consulting activities. He has authored more than 200 papers published in international conferences and journals. His research interests include open source development, agile methods, empirical software engineering, noninvasive measurement, software quality, cyber-physical systems, and mobile and web services, with a focus on mobile and energy-aware software development and quality for cyber-physical systems. He has served as a member for the program committee of several international conferences, as a Program Chair for OSS in 2007 and 2019, XP in 2010 and 2011, SEDA in 2012, 2013, and 2014, and a General Chair for SEDA in 2018

 

Dr. Sriparna Saha, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India.

 

Dr. Sriparna Saha received the M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, Kolkata, India, in 2005 and 2011, respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. She is the author of a book published by Springer-Verlag. She has authored or coauthored more than 223 papers. Her current research interests include machine learning, information extraction, text mining, bioinformatics and multiobjective optimization. Her h-index is 23 and total citation count of her papers is 3407 (according to Google scholar). She is also a senior member of IEEE. She is the recipient of the Lt Rashi Roy Memorial Gold Medal from the Indian Statistical Institute for outstanding performance in MTech (computer science). She is the recipient of the Google India Women in Engineering Award, 2008, NASI YOUNG SCIENTIST PLATINUM JUBILEE AWARD 2016, BIRD Award 2016, IEI Young Engineers' Award 2016, SERB WOMEN IN EXCELLENCE AWARD 2018 and SERB Early Career Research Award 2018. She is the recipient of DUO-India fellowship 2020, Humboldt Research Fellowship, Indo-U.S. Fellowship for Women in STEMM (WISTEMM) Women Overseas Fellowship program 2018 and CNRS felloship. 

 

Prof. Raghu Krishnapuram, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012

 

Raghu received his B.Tech. degree from IIT Bombay in 1978, and his M.S. degree from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA, in 1984. After graduating with a PhD in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1987, he worked initially at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and later at Colorado School of Mines, Golden until the year 2000. Most recently, Raghu was Head, R&D and IP Cell, as well as Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, at Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore. Raghu spent 16 years in industry R&D. From 2000 to 2013, he held various leadership positions at IBM Research India. During the last 4 years of his tenure at IBM Research India, he served as Associate Director, where he led projects in the area of “Knowledge, Information, and Smarter Planet Solutions”, with a particular focus on emerging markets. He also served as a relationship manager for IBM’s services divisions such as IBM Global Process Services and IBM Business Services during this time. During 2014-15, Raghu worked at IBM T J Watson Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, where he was a technical leader for cognitive computing research. He was also Program Manager, Financial Services, Xerox Research Centre India, during 2015-16.