Speakers
- Dr. Khairol Amali bin Ahmad
- Prof. MOHAMMAD S. OBAIDAT
- Dr. MOHAMMAD SUFIAN BADAR
- Prof. MUZAFER SARACEVIC
Keynote Speaker :
Dr. Khairol Amali bin Ahmad obtained a BSc in Electrical Engineering in 1992 from the United States Military Academy, West Point and an MSc in Military Electronic Systems Engineering in 1999 from Cranfield University. While serving in the Malaysian Army, he was positioned in various posts and units including those dealing with engineering maintenance and procurement consultation of equipment. He then joined the National Defence University of Malaysia (NDUM) and completed his PhD from ISAE-SUPAERO, France in 2015. Currently, he is the Dean of the Engineering Faculty and an associate to Centre for Tropicalization (CENTROP) and Centre of Defence Research and Technology (CODRAT) in NDUM. He serves as a Chairman of Malaysia Radar and Navigation Interest Group (MyRANig) of MySET. He is also a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Board of Engineer Malaysia (BEM) and Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT). He has served as Organizing Chair of several international conferences such as the DSTC and IntCET series. He co-edited a book entitled “Machine Learning and Big Data: Concepts, Algorithms, Tools and Applications”. He has also delivered an expert talk, guest lecturers in the conference and serving as a reviewer for several conferences and journals. Among his current research interests include signal processing related to signal propagation in Tropical area, mesh networks for IoT applications and Delay\Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN).
Abstract:
LoRa is one of the technologies that is being tested and evaluated for the wireless Low-Power-Wide-Area-Network (LPWAN) implementations to support the Internet of Things (IoT) communication networks. For propagation, LoRa signals are modulated using the unlicensed industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) radio bands. At the physical layer, LoRa uses Chirp Spread Spectrum (CSS) technique where each symbol is sent using a wide frequency band. In this technique, the signal is modulated by chirp pulses, i.e., frequency varying sinusoidal pulses. While this CSS modulation improves LoRa’s resilience and robustness against interference, Doppler effects and multipath, there are still environmental impacts on LoRa signal propagations. Its signals can still be attenuated over distances and by obstacles such as buildings and trees, and other radio signal sources may still cause some interference. As a way forward in the quest for effective IoT network applications in heavy foliaged tropical environment, wireless mesh networking is being studied as a potential solution for increasing communication range and packet delivery ratio without the need to install additional LoRa gateways. Hence, this talk shall highlight some of the state of the arts works and findings in relation to the mesh network implementation using LoRa.
Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat is an internationally known academic/researcher/scientist/ scholar. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He has received extensive research funding and published To Date (2019) about One Thousand (1,000) refereed technical articles-About half of them are journal articles, over 95 books, and 65 Book Chapters. He is Editor-in-Chief of 3 scholarly journals and an editor of many other international journals. He is the founding Editor-in Chief of Wiley Security and Privacy Journal. Moreover, he is founder or co-founder of 5 International Conferences.
Mohammad “Sufian” Badar, PhD served as a Teaching Faculty in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside, CA, USA. He took many courses in Computer Science, Engineering, and Computational Biology. He was also an Analytics Architect in CenturyLink for more than a year in Denver, CO, USA. He possesses an excellent academic record as well, having graduated with an MS degree in Molecular Science and Nanotechnology and Ph.D. in Engineering from Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA, USA, respectively. Before joining the Ph.D. program at Louisiana Tech University, he graduated with an MSc in Bioinformatics from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi, India. He also served as a Lecturer and Head of the Department of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology in different universities in India. Dr. Sufian has over 14 years of teaching, research, and industry experience. He taught courses in the area of Computer Science, Computational Biology, Bioengineering, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. He has published his research in conferences and highly reputed international journals. He has authored five chapters in books in Blockchain Technology, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning and Molecular Modeling. Currently, he is authoring a book with the name of "Beginning Machine Learning", which will be published by Apress, Springer, USA. He has developed an algorithm for Face Detection, Recognition, and Emotion Recognition. He has developed a device that, by using a Biosensor, can correlate the physiology of the human body with the emotion recognition algorithm, giving us an accurate measurement of skin conductivity, temperature, heart rate, oxygen concentration in the blood, and the amount of stress hormones in the body.
Presently, Dr. Sufian’s research group is designing a model using an algorithm developed using Machine Learning methods for ongoing research, “Prediction and Prognosis of Breast Cancer by Machine Learning”.
Professor Muzafer Saracevic, Associate Professor at the University of Novi Pazar, Serbia.
- Prof. K. P. YADAV
- Dr. Om Pal
- Dr. MUHAMMAD REZAL KAMEL ARIFFIN
- Prof. Bimal Kumar Roy
- Prof. Dilshodjon
- Dr. SK Pal
Dr. Om Pal received B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra, MBA in Operation Management from IGNOU, MS (Research) in field of Cryptography from IIT Bombay and Ph.D. in field of Cryptographic Key Management from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi under Visvesvaraya PhD fellowship Scheme of MeitY.
He has 15 years of Academic & Research experience in various areas of Computer Science. He is currently a Scientist-D at Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. He has evolved and worked on many research projects of national interest. His present role includes the drafting of R&D policies, monitoring the progress of R&D projects, screening/short listing/evaluation of new R&D proposals etc. Previously he has worked at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) as a Sr. Technical Officer and as an IT Resource Person in National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC). During tenure at C-DAC, he has taught various academic subjects along with research activities. He has filed patents on Conditional Access Systems and Cryptographic Systems. He has published many research papers in International Journals and International Conferences of repute. He has been nominated in the board of reviewers of various peer-reviewed and refereed Journals. His research interest includes Cryptography, Quantum Cryptography, Cyber Security, Blockchain Technology, Theoretical Computer Science and Cyber Laws.
MUHAMMAD REZAL KAMEL ARIFFIN received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia, in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and his Ph.D degree in mathematics from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia, in 2009. He is currently the Director of the Institute for Mathematical Research, UPM and an Associate Professor with the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, UPM. He has published more than 100 articles in international journals, conferences, and book chapters. In 2007, he pioneered the Malaysian Society for Cryptology Research (MSCR). He has been the Deputy President of MSCR since 2018. He has been on the Programme Committee for AfricaCrypt 2016-2020 and has chaired the bi-annual International Cryptology and Information Security Conference (CRYPTOLOGY) conference series between 2008 – 2020 (visit https://mscr.org.my). His research interests include cryptography specifically designing and analyzing number theoretic based cryptosystems, post-quantum cryptography, and chaos dynamical systems. He, with his dedicated research team, is looking forward to explore methods towards the development of post quantum cryptography for seamless drop-in replacement.
Prof. Bimal Kumar Roy
ISI, Kolkata
Head, R C Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security, Indian Statistical Institute. Ph.D. in Combinatorics from University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1982.
Awards and Honors
- Padma Shri Award, Government of India, 2015.
Teacher’s Award, Indian National Science Academy, 2014. - Fellow, Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, since 2014.
- Fellow, National Academy of Sciences, India, since 2010.
Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award, National Academy of Science, India, 2007. - IBM Faculty Award for research, teaching and initiative in Cryptology, 2007.
Primary research interest involves all aspects of Statistics and its applications. Currently he is working on Combinatorics, and application of Statistics in Cryptology and Design of Experiments.
Supervised thirteen (13) PhD theses in four different technical areas -- 3 in Statistics, 7 in Computer Science, 1 in Mathematics and 2 in Statistical Applications.
Dr. Saibal Kumar Pal is working as a Senior Research Scientist and Divisional Head at Defence Research & Development Organization, Scientific Analysis Group, Delhi. He has also contributed as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of DRDO.
Dr. Pal completed Post-graduation in Computer Science from University of Allahabad & PhD from University of Delhi in the area of Information Security. He also holds a doctoral degree in Brand Management. Dr. Pal has authored 2 books on Electronic Governance & has more than 250 research publications in peer-reviewed journals & international conference proceedings.
His areas of interest are Cryptography, Cyber Security, Computational Intelligence and Information Systems. He has contributed in a number of R&D projects and international collaborations.
Dr Pal is a recipient of Lab Scientist Award in 2010 and DRDO Scientist of the Year Award in 2012.
Dr. Nur Izura Udzir is an academic staff at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) since 1998. She received her Bachelor of Computer Science (1995) and Master of Science (1998) from UPM, and her PhD in Computer Science from the University of York, UK (2006). Her areas of specialization are computer security, intrusion detection systems, access control, secure operating systems, coordination models and languages, and distributed systems. She is currently the Director of the Co-curriculum and Student Development Centre UPM, and has served as the Head of Department of Computer Science (2013-2016) and Head of the Information Security Group (2008-2013) at the faculty. She is a member of IEEE Computer Society, Malaysian Society for Cryptology Research (MSCR), the Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC), and currently served as a Committee Member of the Information Security Professionals Association of Malaysia (ISPA.my). Dr. Nur Izura has supervised and co-supervised over 50 PhD students and over 15 Master (by research) students. She has written a book, “Pengenalan kepada Pengaturcaraan C++” (Introduction to C++ Programming) (2001), edited 3 books in information security topics, and has published over 120 articles in journals and as book chapters, and over 100 international conference proceedings, thus earning a H-index of 13 with 756 citations in Scopus (H-index 19 and 1745 citations in Google Scholar) as of October 2020. In addition, she has won various awards for her contributions in academic and research, including seven Best Paper Awards at international conferences, and the MIMOS Prestigious Award 2015 for the supervision of her student's doctoral thesis. She has also delivered keynote speeches and expert talks, and also as invited speaker at various international conferences. She has also been invited twice as a visiting lecturer/foreign scientist at the M. Auzeov South Kazakhstan State University, Kazakhstan in 2014 and 2019.
Prof. Alexey Nazarov, Russian citizen, born in 1957. Academic degree: doctor of technical Sciences. Academic title: Professor. He has more than 300 scientific papers, including 11 monographs and scientific publications on high technologies in the field of secure Infocommunications.
- Professor Gadadhar Misra
- Dr. P K Saxena
- Professor Zaheeruddin
- Prof. Geetam Singh Tomar
- Prof. Iyyanki V Murali Krishna
Professor GadadharMisra, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Gadadhar Misra after receiving his MSc from the Sambalpur University in the year 1979 completed his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook under the supervision of Professor R. G. Douglas in the year 1982. He was a Visiting Asst Professor at University of Georgia (Athens, 1982 - 84) and the University of California (Irvine, 1984 - 85). He joined the Indian Statistical Institute in the year 1985. He then moved to the Indian Institute of Science in 2007.
GadadharMisra was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1999, Indian National Science Academy in 2009 and National Science Academy, India in 2013. He was selected for the J C Bose Fellowship in the year 2008. He was awarded the S. S. Bhatnagar Prize (CSIR) in 2001 and Biju Patnaik Award for Scientific Excellence of the Odisha Bigyan Academy in 2013.
Ten students have completed their Ph.D. under the supervision of GadadharMisra and he has mentored several post-doctoral researchers. His research in operator theory involves finding curvature inequalities for operators in the Cowen-Douglas class, describing homogeneous vector bundles and study of Hilbert modules.
Dr. P K Saxena, Scientific Consultant (Cyber Security), Office of the PSA to GoI
Former Director, SAG DRDO (MoD), Delhi
Dr. P. K. Saxena had been an Outstanding Scientist and Director of one of the Premier Laboratories of DRDO – Scientific Analysis Group – engaged in R&D in the area of Cryptology and Secure Communication for more than Fifty Years. He is currently engaged with the office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to Govt of India as Scientific Consultant (Cyber Security). Dr Saxena did his M.Sc. (Mathematics) from Kanpur University in 1971 and Ph.D. (Algebra) from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1978.
There after he worked as Mathematics Lecturer for three years in Regional Engineering College ( now NIT), Silchar, Assam and National Defence Academy, Kharakwasla, Pune
He joined Scientific Analysis Group (SAG), DRDO, in 1981 as Scientist ‘C’ and became Scientist ‘G’ in 2002.He was appointed as Director of SAG in May 2003 and headed the Lab till his superannuation in July 2014. Dr. Saxena became Outstanding Scientist (Scientist ‘H’) in 2009.He held additional charges of ‘Director Security’ for Metcalfe House Complex of DRDO and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for DRDO (MoD) for more than three years (2010 2014)
His areas of interest include Algebra, Cryptology, Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Neural Networks, Information Security and Speech Technology. He has published 65 research papers in National & International Journals and Conference Proceedings. He has been Project Leader for some important Research and Development Projects of DRDO, guided many BE and ME projects apart from supervising Ph.D. work. Three of the Scientists have been awarded Ph,D from JadavpurUniv, Delhi Univ and IIT Delhi, all in the area of Information Security.
Dr. Saxena participated in around 150 Conferences/Seminars/Workshops delivering Key-note speeches and Invited talks. He also organized many such events including International conference INDOCRYPT three times. He has been instrumental in formation of Cryptology Research Society of India (CRSI) and its registration in the year 2001. He received Commendation Certificate for his significant contributions in the area of Fuzzy Logic. The book on Cryptography written by him in Hindi has been awarded first prize of DRDO.
Dr. Saxena has been Chairman/Member of several Govt Committees/Penal for review of Govt funded Projects and for evolving Policies/Procedures related to Information Security and Cryptology. He is Chairman of Working Group on Technology Development in Regional Languages (TDIL) under DeiTy.
Presently, he is working as a Scientific Consultant and advising Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) to Govt of India on matters related to Cyber Security. He is the Chairman of the Advisory Board (AB) and member of the Governing Council (GC) of SETS (Chennai), which an organization supported by Office of the PSA and engaged in R&D activities in the area of Cryptology and Cyber Security.
Professor Zaheeruddin
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Dr.Zaheeruddin is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi, India since 2003. He was Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering from 2011 to 2014. He joined the Department as a Lecturer from the very beginning of its establishment in 1986.
He attended Welex Engineers Development Course at Duncan, Oklahoma, U.S.A. from March 5, 1984 to May 25, 1984. He was Visiting Researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA in 2003. Prof. Zaheeruddin has published eighty (80) research papers in International Journals and Conferences in the areas of Soft Computing, Noise Pollution, Wireless Sensor Networks, Optimization Techniques, and Smart Grid. He is Reviewer of many International journals of IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, and ACTA Press etc. He organized a Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on “MATLAB and Soft computing” sponsored by ISTE/AICTE (Government of India) at JamiaMilliaIslamia in 2004. He also organized a two days “Workshop on Curriculum Revision for B. Tech. and M. Tech. Courses in Electrical Engineering” during December 3-4, 2012
His one of the great contribution in the Department of Electrical Engineering is for starting first QIP Programme in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology in 2016. This QIP Programme was approved on his proposal submitted to AICTE in 2011 as a Coordinator. Another highly appreciable contribution to the Department is to start a PG Programme leading to the award of the Degree of Master of Technology (M. Tech.) in “Control and Instrumentation Systems” in the year 2012 as a founder Coordinator. During his tenure as Head, he also took initiation to get approved five (5) BSR Scholarship of UGC for full time Ph.D. Scholars in the Department of Electrical Engineering in 2012.
He received Indian National Science Academy (INSA) Visiting Fellowship Award for the year 2004-05 to work with Prof. N. R. Pal in Computational Intelligence Lab. at Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India. Prof. Zaheeruddin is a Fellow of IETE (India) and Life Member of World Federation of Soft Computing (U.S.A.), The Institution of Engineers (IE, India), Computer Society of India (CSI), Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), The Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), and Indian Chapter of The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Indian Chapter of ICTP).
Prof. Geetam Singh Toma
/Member of Technical committee IEEE SMC and Industrial Electronics.
Associated with many boards and committees of Government.
Prof. Geetam Singh Tomar, received his UG, PG, and Ph. D. degrees in electronics engineering from The Institute of Engineers, Calcutta, REC Allahabad and State Technology Univ Bhopal, respectively and Post Doctoral Fellowship from University of Kent, Canterbury U.K. Currently Director of THDC Institute of Hydropower Engg & Technology, Tehri (Govt of Uttarakhand), India and Prior to this has worked as visiting Professor at School of Computing, University of Kent, UK, Faculty at University of west indies, Trinidad & Tobago. Apart from this, has served in IIITM Gwalior, MITS Gwalior and Private Institutes in India. He is BOG member of IIM Kashipur. He has worked in India Air Force for 17 Years prior to joining academics,having total experience of more than 35 years. Received International Pluto award for academic achievements in 2009 from IBC, Cambridge UK
He is IEEE Senior Member, Fellow IETE and IE (I) member CSI, ACM and ISTE. Chief editors of 4 International Journals and for 08 in past. Has published 04 patents more than 200 research papers in international journals/conferences. Has written 11 books from Springer, CRC, IGI and Indian publishers. Organized more than 35 IEEE International conferences in 07 countries and delivered more than 20 Keynotes abroad and regularly visiting 02 Universities abroad as Research Consultant. Completed 05 sponsored projects for DRDO and DST including two major projects. He is member of two IEEE/ISO Working group to finalise Standards for new protocols. Area of research is sensor networks and wireless networks
Professor Iyyanki V Murali Krishna
M Tech(IIT-Madras) PhD (IISc-Bangalore) FIE, FIS, FAPASc, FICDM, MIEEE, FIGU
Prof. Dr. Muralikrishna V Iyyanki, PhD from the Premier Institute -Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, is presently Dr Raja Ramanna Distinguished Fellow at the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), India, and the National Coordinator for Geospatial Public Health, which is National Networking Government of India Project. He is Professor and Founder Head of the Centre for Spatial Information Technology (CSIT) at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (1990-2005), and Director of Research and Development Centre (2005-2008). He has served as a guest scientist at German Space Research Institute (DLR) and GKSS Research Centre. His present research focuses are on hyperspectral remote sensing image classification and geospatial public health management and geospatial technology applications
Professor Le Hoang Son
Vietnam National University, Hanoi, VNU Information Technology Institute, Vietnam.
Dr. Le Hoang Son obtained the PhD degree on Mathematics – Informatics at VNU University of Science, Vietnam National University (VNU) in conjunction with the Politecnico di Milano University, Italy in 2013. He has been promoted to Associate Professor in Information Technology in Vietnam since 2017. Dr. Son worked as senior researcher and Vice Director at the Center for High Performance Computing, VNU University of Science, Vietnam National University during 2007 - 2018. From August 2018, he is Senior Researcher of Department of Multimedia and Virtual Reality, VNU Information Technology Institute, VNU. His major fields include Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Computing, Fuzzy Recommender Systems, and Geographic Information System. He is a member of International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, Vietnam Society for Applications of Mathematics, and Key Laboratory of Geotechnical Engineering and Artificial Intelligence in University of Transport Technology (Vietnam).
Dr. Son is an Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (SCIE), IEEE Access (SCIE), Neutrosophic Sets and Systems (ESCI), Vietnam Research and Development on Information and Communication Technology, VNU Journal of Science: Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. He serves as Editorial Board of Applied Soft Computing (SCIE), PLOS ONE (SCIE), International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (ESCI), and Vietnam Journal of Computer Science and Cybernetics. Recently, Dr. Son has been appointed as Consultant of Vietnam Government Office (http://vpcp.chinhphu.vn/). Dr. Son served as a reviewer for various international journals and conferences. He gave a number of invited talks at many conferences since 2015. Up to now, he has 159 publications in prestigious journals and conferences including 102 ISI papers (SCI: 19, SCIE: 76, ESCI: 7) and 01 SCOPUS paper and undertaken more than 20 major joint international and national research projects. He has published 6 books and book chapters. So far, he has awarded “2014 VNU Research Award for Young Scientists”, “2015 VNU Annual Research Award”, “2015 Vietnamese Mathematical Award”, and “2017 Vietnamese Mathematical Award”.
Dr. Ahmed Elsawy
Associate professor in computer science at Benha University
Dr. Ahmed Elsawy is working as Associate professor in computer science at Benha University since 2017. From 2017, He served as head of computer science in faculty of computers and informatics, Benha University, Egypt. He has received B.S. and M.S. from Cairo University in 2000 and 2003 respectively. He received Ph.D. in computer science from Suez Canal University in 2011. His researches interests are artificial intelligence in computer network, bioinformatics, chimoinformatics, optimization, and deep learning.
Dr. Walid Osamy
Assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, college of computers and informatics, Benha University, Egypt
Dr. Walid Osamy has been involved in the projects of Network Infrastructure, and Management information systems at Communication Information Technology Center (CITC), Zagazig University, Egypt. From December 2010 till now he has been working as assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, college of computers and informatics, Benha University, Egypt. From Feb. 2015 till now he is working as assistant professor at Qassim University, KSA. He has coauthored 21 works in journals and conferences relating with Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Distributing Computing and computational intelligence.
Dr. Dhananjoy Dey
Scientific Analysis Group, Defence R&D Organisation, Delhi
Dhananjoy Dey obtained his academic degrees B.Sc. (Maths (Hons)) in 1996 from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, M. Sc. (Pure Maths) in 1998 and PhD (Multivariate Polynomials and its Applications to Cryptology) in 2011 from the same university. He joined Scientific Analysis Group, Defence R&D Organisation, Delhi in 2000 as Scientist ‘B’ and presently he is working as Scientist ‘F’. He has more than 16 years of experience in the area of Design & Analysis of Block Ciphers, Design & Analysis of Cryptographic Hash Functions and Multivariate Public Key Cryptography. He has published 15 papers in the area of block ciphers and hash functions. He guided many B. Tech and M. Tech students for their projects and also guided one PhD students. Currently, he is guiding three PhD students from University of Delhi. His research interests cover areas of Design and Analysis of Block Ciphers, Hash Functions, Quantum and Post Quantum Cryptography.