Keynote Speakers

Since 2013, Mamadou H. Diallo has worked as a scientist at the US Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC Pacific), focusing on science and technology activities in the area of cybersecurity. Diallo, who received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from UCI’s Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS), was recently recognized for his outstanding contributions in the area of Cyber and Science & Technology (C/S&T) with an NIWC Pacific Galileo Award. He is currently serving as Science Director at the US Office of Naval Research Global (ONR-G) in London.

Dr. Ibrahim (Abe) Baggili, LSU CSE Division Chair, Roger Richardson Professor. Chair of the Division of Computer Science and Engineering and Roger Richardson Professor at LSU. He is the founder of the BiT Lab and has published extensively in the domain of digital forensics and cybersecurity. Dr. Baggili has won numerous awards, including the CT Civil Medal of Merit, the Medal of Thor from the Military Cyber Professional Association, CT 40 under 40, and is a fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation. Previously he was the director of the Connecticut Institute of Technology and Elder Family Endowed Chair of Computer Science and Cybersecurity at the Tagliatela College of Engineering at the University of New Haven. He received his BSc, MSc and PhD all from Purdue University, where he worked as a researcher in CERIAS. Dr. Baggili’s work with his students has uncovered vulnerabilities that impact over a billion people worldwide and has been featured in news and TV outlets in over 20 languages. He has also published extensively in the domain of digital forensics.

Prof. Yu Chen is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Binghamton University - State University of New York (SUNY). He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2006. Leading the Ubiquitous Smart & Sustainable Computing (US2C) Lab, his research interest focuses on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Computer Networks, including Edge-Fog-Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and their applications in smart and connected environments. Prof. Chen's publications include over 200 papers in scholarly journals, conference proceedings, and books. His research has been funded by NSF, DoD, AFOSR, AFRL, New York State, and industrial partners. He has served as a reviewer for NSF panels, DoE Independent Review panel, and international journals, and on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of prestigious conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE (Computer Society & Communication Society) and SPIE, and a member of ACM and SIGMA XI.

Claudio Agostino Ardagna is Full Professor with the Università degli Studi di Milano, the Director of the CINI National Lab on Data Science, and co-founder of Moon Cloud srl. His research interests are in the areas of cloudedge security and assurance, distributed systems and ML/AI certification, and data science, where he published more than 150 contributions in international journals, conference/workshop proceedings, and chapters in international books. He is the winner of the ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) WG STM 2009 Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis on Security and Trust Management. He has been invited professor at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3. He has been visiting researcher at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Khalifa University, George Mason University. He is member of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, and secretary of the IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing. He has been Program Chair in several international conferences and workshops in the area of distributed systems, and security and privacy. https://ardagna.di.unimi.it/

Prof. Sherif Abdelwahed is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) where he teaches and conducts research in the area of computer engineering, with specific interests in autonomic computing, cyber-physical systems, formal verification and cyber-security. Before joining VCU in August 2017, he served as the associate director of the Distributed Analytics and Security Institute at Mississippi State University (MSU). He was also is also an Associate Professor in the ECE Department at MSU. He received his Ph.D in 2002 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining Mississippi State University, he was a research assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and senior research scientist at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University, from 2001-2007. From 2000-2001 he worked as a research scientist with the system diagnosis group at the Rockwell Scientific Company. Throughout his academic tenure, Prof. Abdelwahed pioneered work on model-based design of autonomic computing systems and self-managing systems using controltheoretic techniques and model-integrated computing concepts. His research interests also include Cyber security and model-based self-protection, design and analysis of cyber-physical systems, fault diagnosis, modeling and analysis of discrete-event and hybrid systems, and formal verification. Prof. Abdelwahed has chaired several international conferences and conference tracks, and has served as technical committee member at various national and international conferences. He received the StatePride Faculty award for 2010 and 2011, the Bagley College of Engineering Hearin Faculty Excellence award in 2010, and recently the 2016 Faculty Research Award from the Bagley College of Engineering at MSU. He has more than 180 publications and is a senior member of the IEEE.

Dr. Biswan Senapati is a Platinum-level ERP-SAP Consultant with 20+ years of industry experience in domain consulting, business consulting, and solution architecture for large-scale ERP systems design, development, implementation, rollout, support, and business process re-engineering capacity in supply chain, chemicals, hi-tech, CPG, pharmaceuticals, wholesale, fashion retail, health care, and manufacturing domains.