Dr. Debasis Giri is at present Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (Formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology), West Bengal, India prior to Professor (in Computer Science and Engineering) and Dean (in School of Electronics, Computer Science and Informatics) of Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India. He did his masters (M.Tech and M.Sc) both from IIT Kharagpur, India, and also completed his Ph.D from IIT Kharagpur, India . He is ten-th all India rank holder in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering in 1999. He has published more than 100 papers in international journal/ conference. His current research interests include Cryptography, Information Security, Blockchain Technology, E-commerce security and Design & Analysis of Algorithms. He is Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of many International Journals. He is also Program Committee Member of International Conferences. He is a life member of Cryptology Research Society of India, Computer Society of India, the International Society for Analysis, its Applications and Computation (ISAAC) and IEEE annual member.
Indrakshi Ray is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Colorado State University. She is the Director of Colorado Center for Cyber Security at Colorado State University. She is also the Site Director of NSF IUCRC Center for Cyber Security Analytics and Automation. She has been a visiting faculty at Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, and at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France. She obtained her Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University. Dr. Ray's research interests include software assurance, data analytics and security. She has published over two hundred and fifty technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings with the support from agencies including Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Institute of Health, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Agriculture, and industries from the US, Norway, and Japan. Dr. Ray is on the editorial board of International Journal of Information Security, Computer Standards and Interfaces, and Associate Editor of IEEE Security & Privacy. She was a member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. Dr. Ray is associated with the program committees of various conferences including ACM CCS, ACM CODASPY, ACM SACMAT, DBSec, EDBT, ESORICS, ICDE, VLDB, and WWW. She is a senior member of the IEEE and a senior member of the ACM. She was awarded Professor Laureate from the College of Natural Sciences at Colorado State University.
Dr. S. Ponnusamy is currently the Chair Professor at IIT Madras, and the President of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, India. His research interest includes complex analysis, special functions, and functions spaces. He served five years as a Head of the Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai Centre. He is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Analysis and serves as a Editorial member for many peer-reviewed international journals. He has written five text books and has edited several volumes, and international conference proceedings. He has solved several long standing open problems and conjectures, and published more than 300 research articles in reputed international journals. He has been a Visiting Professor to a number of universities in abroad (e.g. Hengyang Normal University, Hunan First Normal University and Hunan Normal University; Kazan Federal University and Petrozavodsk State University; University Sains Malaysia; University of Aalto, University of Turku, and University of Helsinki; University of South Australia; Texas Tech University). Currently, he is also a Leader of the group on the geometric theory of functions at the Laboratory ``Multidimensional Approximation and Applications" of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow Center for Fundamental and Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia. He is also a Chair Professor ``Furong Scholars Award Program'', of Hunan First Normal University, China.
Rakesh M. Verma is currently a professor of computer science with the University of Houston (UH). He is the coauthor of Cybersecurity Analytics (CRC Press, 2019), which discusses key data analysis techniques for cybersecurity challenges. He has co-organized the 1st Anti-phishing Shared Task, in 2018 with proceedings in the CEUR workshop series. Since 2015, he has been co-organizing the ACM International Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics. He is/was the program committee co-chair of many conferences including: the 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2025), ACM Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2021) and ACM CODASPY 2022. He was the National Science Foundation-Fulbright Distinguished Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Iceland in 2023 and an ONR Sabbatical Program Faculty Fellow (2024-25). He is an Associate Editor of Frontiers of Big Data for the Cybersecurity Area, and was an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2011-2018). He received the Lifetime Mentoring Award from UH in 2013. His research papers have won several Best Paper Awards and his laboratory has won prizes at many international shared tasks/competitions.
Dr. James Joshi is a professor of School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh, and the director/founder LERSAIS at Pitt. From 2019 - Feb, 2025, he served at the NSF - first as a Program Director of the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, and then as an "Expert" in TIP Directorate. He is an IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, ACM Distinguished Member, Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, Fellow of Society of Information Reuse and Integration, and an IEEE CS Golden Core member. His research is focused broadly on cybersecurity and privacy areas. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2006. He has served as a program co-chair of several conferences/workshop, including as the founding Steering Committee chair of the following co-located conferences: IEEE CIC; IEEE TPS, and IEEE CogMI. He had earlier served as the EiC of IEEE TSC. He has published over 150 articles as book chapters and papers in journals, conferences and workshops, and has served as a special issue editor of several journals including IEEE TSC, Elsevier Computer & Security, ACM TOPS, Springer MONET, IJCIS, and Information Systems Frontiers. His research has been supported by NSF, NSA/DoD, and Cisco.
