Ict: Cyber Security and Applications, Proceedings of Ictcs 2023: Vol 3

Dr. Amit Joshi is currently the Director of Global Knowledge Research Foundation, also an Entrepreneur  Researcher who has completed his Masters and research in the areas of cloud computing and cryptography in medical imaging. Dr. Joshi has an experience of around 10 years in academic and industry in prestigious organizations. Dr. Joshi is an active member of ACM, IEEE, CSI, AMIE, IACSIT-Singapore, IDES, ACEEE, NPA and many other professional societies. Currently, Dr. Joshi is the International Chair of InterYIT at International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP, Austria), He has presented and published more than 50 papers in national and international journals/conferences of IEEE and ACM. Dr. Joshi has also edited more than 40 books which are published by Springer, ACM and other reputed publishers. Dr. Joshi has also organized more than 50national and international conferences and programs in association withACM, Springer, IEEE to name a few across different countries including India, UK, Europe, USA, Canada, Thailand, Egypt and many more.

Dr. Mufti Mahmud is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Computing at the Computer Science Department of Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK. He has been the recipient of the top 2% cited scientists worldwide in computer science (since 2020), the NTU VC Outstanding Research Award 2021, and the Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellowship. Dr Mahmud is a member of the university shadow executive team shadowing the pro-vice-chancellor (research and innovation), coordinator of the Computer Science and Informatics research excellence framework unit of assessment at NTU, the group leader of the cognitive computing & brain informatics research group and the deputy group leader of the Interactive Systems research group at NTU. His research portfolio consists of GBP 4.0 million grant capture with expertise that includes brain informatics, computational intelligence, applied data analysis, and big data technologies focusing on healthcare applications. In these fields, he has published over 320 peer-reviewed articles. Dr Mahmud has been the General Chair of the Brain Informatics Conference 2020, 2021, and 2022; founding chair of the Applied Intelligence and Informatics conference since 2021;  Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics 2022; International Symposium of Green Technologies and Applications 2023; chair of the IEEE CICARE symposium since 2017 and was the local organising chair of the IEEE WCCI 2020. He will serve as one of the General Chairs of the 31st edition of the ICONIP conference to be held in Auckland (NZ) in 2024. He is the Big Data Analytics Section Editor of Cognitive Computation, the Regional Editor (Europe) of the Brain Informatics journal, and an Associate Editor of the Frontiers in Neuroscience. He is the chief editor of the Applied Intelligence and Informatics (Springer-Nature) and Smart Healthcare Systems: From Data to Knowledge (CRC Press) book series. Currently, Dr Mahmud is serving as the Chair of the Intelligent System Application and Brain Informatics Technical Committees of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), a member of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Intelligence Systems for Health, the Publications Chair of the IEEE UK and Ireland Industry Applications Chapter, and the Project Liaison Officer of the IEEE UK and Ireland SIGHT Committee, and the Secretary of the IEEE UK and Ireland CIS Chapter.

Dr. Roshan Ragel is a full professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. He is a skilled university lecturer and researcher with a doctorate in computer science and engineering and a passion for teaching, research and administration. His research interest is in the areas of fault-tolerant and dependable computing, accelerated and high-performance computing, wearable computing and synthesis of secure and reliable embedded processors.Prof. Ragel received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2007 and his BSc in Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2001. He was appointed a Senior Lecturer in Computer Engineering at the University of Peradeniya December 2007 and a full professor since October 2017. Prof. Ragel has co-authored about 150 peer-reviewed articles in topics including Micro- Architectural Support for Reliability and Security in Embedded Processors (SoC), Internet of Things (IoT), Side-Channel Attacks and Countermeasures, Application Specific Processor Design, High-Performance Computing such as Hardware/Software Acceleration of Bioinformatics Algorithms, Wearable Computing, Format-Preserving Digitisation and OCR of Local Language Text, and Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs) in the Context of Mobile Applications. He has won several best paper awards in conference papers, the most prolific Sri Lankan author award from Elsevier Research in 2017 and the Presidential award for scientific publication in Sri Lanka in 2018. He was a visiting research scholar at the UNSW, Sydney a few times and UIUC, Illinois once. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.

Dr. S. Karthik is presently Professor & Dean in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, SNS College of Technology, affiliated to Anna University- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. He received the M.E and PhD degree from Anna University, Chennai. His research interests include network security, big data, cloud computing, web services and wireless systems. In particular, he is currently working in a research group developing new Internet security architectures and active defence systems against DDoS attacks. Dr. S.Karthik published more than 200 papers in refereed international journals and 125 papers in conferences and has been involved in many international conferences as Technical Chair and tutorial presenter.  He is an active member of IEEE, ISTE, IAENG, IACSIT and Indian Computer Society.