Advisory Board and Editors Security & Privacy
Leandros Maglaras
Dr. Leandros A. Maglaras is a professor of cybersecurity in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. From September 2017 to November 2019, he was the Director of the National Cyber Security Authority of Greece. He obtained a B.Sc. (M.Sc. equivalent) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998, M.Sc. in Industrial Production and Management from the University of Thessaly in 2004, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly, in 2008 and 2014 respectively. In 2018 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Intrusion Detection in SCADA systems from the University of Huddersfield He is featured in Stanford University's list of the world’s Top 2% scientists. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is an author of more than 200 papers in scientific magazines and conferences
Gabriela E Nicolescu
Gabriela Nicolescu obtained her PhD Degree in 2002 from INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble) France, with the award for the Best Microelectronic Thesis of the year.
Her research interests are related to the design methodologies, programming models and security for advanced heterogeneous systems on chip integrating advanced technologies such as optical networks on chip or liquid cooling systems.
Jun Pang
Research interests: Formal methods, security and privacy, big data analytics, computational systems biology
Stefano Paraboschi
Born in Milan, Italy, Laurea degree in Ingegneria Elettronica in 1990, PhD in Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica in 1994, both at Politecnico di Milano. Assistant professor (March-1996-October 1998) and then associate professor (November 1998-October 2002) at Politecnico di Milano. Since November 2002, professor at the School of Engineering of Università di Bergamo, where he chairs the program in Ingegneria Informatica.
Mohammad Zavid Parvez
Mohammad Zavid Parvez is a scholar in computer science with over 16 years of academic and research experience spanning machine learning, biomedical signal processing, cybersecurity, and federated learning. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Charles Sturt University, Australia, where his research focused on epileptic seizure detection and prediction using EEG signals, and has since held research positions at Charles Sturt University and the ISI Foundation (Italy). He has published extensively in leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, and Neurocomputing. He also serves as Topic Editor for Frontiers in Medicine. His current research interests include cyber threat intelligence, privacy-preserving medical data analysis, and AI-driven healthcare solutions.
Michele Pasqua
Michele Pasqua is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona, Italy. His main research interests include abstract interpretation, program verification, static analysis, software testing, theoretical foundations of programming languages and software engineering, language-based security, and distributed systems.
He works actively in the software engineering and programming languages communities, being (co)author of more than 30 publications in international scientific journals and conference proceedings with peer review and regularly serving on international conferences and workshops program committees.
Radia Perlman
Inventor of innovations that make today's network protocols scalable, robust, and self-organizing. In particular, link state routing, spanning tree, and TRILL. Also, innovations in security including distributed algorithms resilient against malicious participants, assured expiration of data from storage, and PKI trust models.
Awards
- National Inventors Hall of Fame induction (2016)
- Internet Hall of Fame induction (2014)
- SIGCOMM Award (2010)
- USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (2006)
- Recipient of the first Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Innovation in 2005
- Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association Inventor of the year (2003)
- Honorary Doctorate, Royal Institute of Technology (June 28, 2000)
- Twice named as one of the 20 most influential people in the industry by Data Communications magazine: in the 20th anniversary issue (1992) and the 25th anniversary issue (1997). Perlman is the only person to be named in both issues.
- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, class of 2016
Shengchao Qin
Dr Shengchao Qin has been a Professor (Chair) of Computer Science since 2011.
He received his PhD in 2002 from Peking University. From July 2002 to December 2004, he was a Research Fellow under the Computer Science Programme in the Singapore-MIT Alliance, affiliated with National University of Singapore. He became a University lecturer in Durham University in January 2005. In June 2010, he joined Teesside University as a Reader and became a full Professor in June 2011. From August 2016 to September 2019, he also acted as the Associate Dean (Research & Innovation) for School of Computing, School of Computing, Media & the Arts, and then School of Computing & Digital Technologies.
Shengchao is a full member of the UK EPSRC Peer Review College and a member of the UKRI FLF (Future Leaders Fellowships) Peer Review College. He is also a senior member of IEEE and ACM.
Hemant Rathore
Hemant Rathore received his B.E. and M.E. in computer science from RGTU, India, and BITS Pilani, India, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He is currently associated to Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Pilani, India; and has strong academic and industry research experience in the field of security, and currently works in the domain of adversarial learning and explainability in malware detection models based on machine learning and deep learning.
Hemant has published many research papers in various reputed SCI journals and CORE-ranked (A*, A, and B) conferences. He also won the prestigious K Shankar Meritorious Paper Award 2021 in the journal category. Hemant was selected to present his work in the 11 IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium 2021, and he received multiple travel and registration grants from a number of reputed conferences such as NDSS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE PerCom, IEEE S & P, IACR Eurocrypt, etc. Hemant has also been invited to various venues (e.g. BDA, TENCON, etc.) for invited tutorials, talks, and seminars.
His teaching credentials include taught courses in the areas of Network Security, Advanced Data Mining, and Data Mining to undergraduate and postgraduate students; in addition to guiding and supervising numerous students in short-term projects.
Hemant is a member of the IEEE and ACM.
Rowayda A. Sadek
Prof Rowayda A. Sadek is Professor of Network Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. She received her Ph.D. in Communication and Electronics, and Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt. Prof. Sadek is the founder and the Director of the Hub of Creativity and Scientific Research, Helwan University. She is URSI senior member and also the General Secretary, URSI – Egypt, IEEE member. Her research interest focuses on Network Engineering, Network Security, Wireless and Mobile Networking and Communication, Multimedia (signal, image, speech, video) Processing, Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things.
Kübra Seyhan
Kübra Seyhan received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Karadeniz Technical University, in 2016, Trabzon, Turkey, M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Ondokuz Mayıs University in 2020, and Ph.D. degree in Computational Sciences from Ondokuz Mayıs University in 2024, in Samsun, Turkey.
She is currently employed as a research assistant at the Department of Computer Engineering, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun, Turkey since 2018. She worked as a short-term research assistant at the Chair of Security and Theoretical Computer Science, University of Tartu between March, 1, 2023 and August 31, 2023, in Tartu, Estonia.
Her research interests are in the areas of cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, algorithms, IoT security, and cyber security.
Syed Hassan Shah
Syed Hassan Shah is a Wi-Fi connectivity subject matter expert with the Qualcomm Inc. product management team, where he is involved in Consumer and Compute Wireless products with a focus on Mi-Fi, CPE, and UWB technologies. In addition to that, Dr. Shah is also an adjunct faculty member at California State University, Fullerton Campus, where he teaches computer science courses to graduate classes. Over the past decade, Dr. Shah held multiple industrial & academic roles such as a Product Specialist for Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), CBRS, Private LTE, Digital Electricity, and open RAN product lines. Dr. Shah was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia Southern University, USA followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. Before moving to the United States, he completed his BS with honors in CS from Kohat University of Science & Technology (KUST), Pakistan, and his Ph.D. Degree (combined with Masters) from the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Kyungpook National University (KNU), Republic of Korea (South Korea). During the summer of 2015, he was invited as a distinguished visiting researcher at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA to investigate MAC layer findings in IEEE 1609.4 protocol stacks. Overall, Dr. Shah has authored/co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed international publications including Journal articles, Conference Proceedings, Book Chapters, and 05 books. In 2016, his work on robust content retrieval in future vehicular networks won the Qualcomm Innovation Award at KNU, South Korea. Dr. Shah's research interests include Wireless and Ad hoc Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Cities, Connected Vehicles, and Future Internet architectures.
Furthermore, Dr. Shah is a Senior IEEE and ACM member, served as a TPC Member or Reviewer in over 100 International Conferences and Workshops including IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICNC, IEEE VTC, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CoNEXT, ACM MobiHoc, ACM SAC, and many more. Furthermore, he has been reviewing papers for over 50 different International Journals including IEEE Magazines on Wireless Communications, Networks, Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Sensors Letters, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and Vehicular Technologies, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Big Data, and Mobile Computing. Moreover, Dr. Shah has been an editorial member of more than 60 Special Issues with top-ranked journals in Communication Society and served as an editorial board member of KSII Transactions on Internet & Information Systems, Wiley's Internet Technology Letters, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, IEEE Newsletters on Internet Initiative, Future Directions, and Software Defined Networks. Dr. Shah has been an appointee of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society as liaison to IEEE Young Professionals society for the year 2018-2019. Since 2018, he is also an ACM Distinguished Speaker.