Marwan Omar, Ph.D.

Dr. Omar's Academic career has consistently focused on applied, industry-relevant cyber security, Data Analytics, machine learning, application of AI to cyber security and digital forensics research and education that delivers real-world results. He brings a unique combination of industry experience as well as teaching experience gained from teaching across different cultures and parts of the world. He has an established self-supporting program in machine learning application to cyber security. He has established a respectable research record in AI and cyber security exemplified in the dozens of published papers and book chapters that have gained recognition among researchers and practitioners (more than 272 Google scholar citations thus far). He is actively involved in graduate as well as undergraduate machine learning education including curriculum development and assessment. Dr. Omar has recently published two books with Springer on Machine Learning and Cyber Security and has also published research with IEEE conference on Sematic Computing. Additionally, Dr. Omar hold numerous industry certifications including Comptia Sec+, ISACA CDPSE, EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker, and SANS Advanced Smartphone Forensics Analyst. Dr. Omar has been very active academia and the industry and he is currently serving as an associate professor of cyber security at Illinois Institute of Technology.

Title of Speech: Text-Defend: Detecting Adversarial Examples using Marwan Omar Local Outlier Factor

Roman Bauer, Ph.D.

Roman received his Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zuerich, Switzerland. Afterwards, he did his doctoral studies at the Institute for Neuroinformatics (INI) at ETH Zürich and University of Zürich, working on simulations of cortical development. He then joined Newcastle University in September 2013 as a postdoctoral research associate and afterwards started his MRC fellowship project in September 2016 as an independent principal investigator. In June 2018 he took up an EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship at the School of Computing and a joint affiliation with the Institute of Genetic Medicine, both at Newcastle University. In August 2020 he then became a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey.

Title of Speech: Computational Analysis and Modelling of Neurological Conditions: Combining Mechanistic with Data-driven Methods

Michael Harre, Ph.D.

Dr. Harre's research combines the psychology of decision theory with artificial intelligence to understand complex social dynamics. Currently he's working on how to replicate a 'theory of mind' for AI and how AI communities co-create knowledge and can cooperate with humans. More generally Dr. Harre is interested in the psychology of AI: how can we use what we know of the mesoscopic scale of human cognition to advance our understanding of machine intelligence, i.e. beyond what is being done at the micro-scale of modelling neurons. He also has extensive experience in agent based modelling, economics, big data analytics, and game non-linear dynamics.

Title of Speech: Game Theory and the Free Energy Principle for Artificial Intelligence

Achintya Haldar, Ph.D.

Dr. Achintya Haldar is active in the related areas of this presentation for over four decades and has published extensively. He taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, and now at the University of Arizona. He was a Guest Professor at the University of Tokyo, Visiting Professor at the IISc -Bangalore, IIT - Kanpur, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, Honorary Distinguished Visiting Professor at BESU. He also worked Engineers India Ltd, New Delhi and Bechtel Power Corp, Los Angeles. Dr. Haldar has published over 640 technical articles (Google Scholar), including 12 books (edited included), and 38 book chapters. Dr. Haldar is a Distinguished Member of ASCE and a Fellow of SEI. He also received Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Reliability and Safety and an Honorable Diploma from the Czech Society for Mechanics. He received the highest teaching award from the University of Arizona and inducted in to Teaching Excellence Award Wall, Georgia Tech. He received many research awards including from President Reagan, ASCE's Huber Civil Engineering Research prize, and John C. Park Outstanding Civil Engineer Award. He received Excellence in Research Journal Award, IGI Global; Certificate of Recognition from Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia; Polis University, Albania; EuroSciCon, France; Euro Congress, London; Certificate of Appreciation, Taishan Academic Forum on Structural Safety and Reliability Assessment, China; and Honorable Recognition Award from ASME.

Title of Speech: Computing Innovation in the Reliability Analyses of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems in the Metaverse Era - REDSET

Emanuel Indrei, Ph.D.

Emanuel Indrei is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013 under the direction of Alessio Figalli. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University, a Huneke Postdoctoral Scholar at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, and a PIRE Postdoctoral Associate at Carnegie Mellon University. The main themes in his research are nonlinear PDEs, free boundary problems, and geometric & functional inequalities. In the last few years, he solved the non-transversal intersection conjecture, Almgren's problem in two dimensions, and he made progress towards the Polya-Szego conjecture.

Title of Speech: On the First Eigenvalue of the Laplacian for Polygons

Bhupesh Kumar, Ph.D.

Bhupesh Kumar is currently working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Physics and Astronomy, at the University of St-Andrews, Scotland, UK. He completed his first postdoctoral studies in May 2020 as a PBC Postdoctoral fellow at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where he played a leading role in the development of a complex experiment set up to study active control of 1D disorder gain media (Random laser), Impact of Non-Hermiticity and Nonlinear Interactions on Disordered-Induced Localized Modes, 1D and 2D solid-state tunable random laser. He has expertise in the subject of light localization, disorder photonics (1D, 2D), wave propagation in disorder media, and adaptive optics. He has completed his Ph.D. from IISER, Mohali, India, where he worked on large angle twist properties of spider silks using optical diffraction technique and Raman spectroscopy.

Title of Speech: Controlling Random Lasers to Investigate Localization

Bismark Singh, Ph.D.

Bismark Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Operational Research group within the School of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK. He received his habilitation in mathematics (2023), from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany in 2023 where he worked from 2019 to 2022. He received his PhD and MS degrees in operations research from The University of Texas at Austin, US in 2016 and 2013, respectively, and a BTech degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. From 2016 to 2019, he worked at the Discrete Math & Optimization group at Sandia National Laboratories, US, as a postdoctoral appointee. In 2017, he was a postdoc in the Institute of Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. Bismark's work has been funded as a PI on grants by several agencies, including the US Department of Energy's Laboratory Directed Research & Development program, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the European Open Science Cloud by the Horizon 2020 program, and the Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).

Title of Speech: Optimization Models for Improving Access for Target Populations during Pandemics

Abdullahi Arabo, Ph.D.

Dr. Arabo is a highly accomplished Senior Lecturer in Computer Networks and Mobile Technology at the University of the West of England. He has received numerous accolades, including the "Most Dedicated Cyber Professional Development Educator (UK)" award from the AI 2020 cyber-Security Awards, induction into the UWE Black Hall of Fame, and the UWE winner of the NFT awards 2022. Dr. Arabo has an extensive background in research and development, teaching, and consultancy roles within the field of Network Security, Security of System-of-Systems composition, Mobile ad-hoc networks, ubiquitous computing, Cyber Security, Smart Device Security, and Identity Management. He has successfully led the development of an MSc Cyber Security program that has been certified by the National Cyber Security Centre UK (NCSC) and generated an income of over £2M per year. He has a sustained record of both internal and external funding for providing solutions for effective teaching and learning totalling over £1M. Additionally, he strategically led the three main pieces of evidence UWE recognition as a Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security, the Cyber Security Research Unit (CSRU), and UnlockCyber. Dr. Arabo is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

Title of Speech: The use AI (ChatGPT) for Offensive Cyber Security

Selda Kapan Ulusoy, Ph.D.

Dr. Selda Kapan Ulusoy is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Erciyes University, Türkiye. She has also served as the Vise Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and as the department coordinator of the ERASMUS program. She obtained her BSc in Statistics (1993) from Mimar Sinan University, Turkey, and her MS (1997) and DSc (2004) in Operations Research from The George Washington University, USA. Dr. Kapan Ulusoy has been engaged research in the area of reliability and risk analysis for over twenty years. She gave lectures on reliability at Second Air Supply Maintenance Center Command as invited lecturer. She worked on reliability analysis of production lines. Her current research interests are repairable system reliability analysis, predictive maintenance and application of data mining models to production goods and services.

Title of Speech: Aircraft Propeller Reliability Analysis

Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D.

Sanjay Ranka is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Information Science and Engineering at University of Florida. From 1999-2002, as the Chief Technology Officer at Paramark (Sunnyvale, CA), he developed a real-time optimization service called PILOT for marketing campaigns. Sanjay has also held positions as a tenured faculty member at Syracuse University, academic visitor at IBM and summer researcher at Hitachi America Limited. He is a fellow of the IEEE, AAAS and AAIA (Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association) and a past member of IFIP Committee on System Modeling and Optimization. He won the 2020 Research Impact Award from IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing. He is an associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and an associate editor for ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Sustainable Computing: Systems and Informatics, Knowledge and Information Systems, and International Journal of Computing. Additionally, he is a book series editor for CRC Press for Bigdata. He has coauthored one book, four monographs, 300+ journal and refereed conference articles. His work has received 14,500+ citations with an h-index of 61 (based on Google Scholar). He has consulted for several startups and Fortune 500 companies.

The focus of his current research is the development of efficient computational methods and data analysis techniques to model scientific phenomenon, and practical applications of focus are improvements to the quality of healthcare and the reduction of traffic accidents. A core aspiration of his research is to develop novel algorithms and software that make an impact on the application domain, exploiting the interdependence between theory and practice of computer science.

Title of Speech: Edge Based AI for Smart Transportation

Tommaso Cremaschi, Ph.D.

Tommaso Cremaschi is an Assistant Professor (RTPC) of Mathematics in Department of Mathematics at University of Southern California. He was a Viterbi Post-Doc at MSRI at the program: Random and Arithmetic Structures in Topology. Before that he got the PhD at Boston College. He is interested in low dimensional topology. In particular he has been studying hyperbolic 3-manifolds with non-finitely generated fundamental group. He is also interested in higher Teichmüller Theory and counting problems on surfaces.

Title of Speech: Volume of Random Geodesic Complements