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 tenth 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.
Indrakshi Ray is Professor in the Computer Science Department at Colorado State University. She is Director of Colorado Center for Cyber Security at Colorado State University. She is also Site Director of NSF IUCRC Center for Cyber Security Analytics and Automation. She has been 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.
Dr. S. Ponnusamy is currently Chair Professor at IIT Madras and President of the Ramanujan Mathematical Society, India. His research interest includes complex analysis, special functions, and functions spaces. He served five years as Head of the Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai Centre. He is Chief Editor of the Journal of Analysis and serves as 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 Visiting Professor to a number of universities in abroad.
Rakesh M. Verma is currently 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 was the PC Co-chair of ACM CODASPY in 2021 and 2022 and the 2023 National Science Foundation-Fulbright Distinguished Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Iceland. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers of Big Data for the Cybersecurity Area and was ACM Distinguished Speaker. He received the Lifetime Mentoring Award from UH in 2013. His research papers have won several Best Paper Awards.
Dr. James Joshi is Professor of School of Computing and Information at the University of Pittsburgh, and Director/Founder LERSAIS at Pitt. From 2019 to August 31, 2023, he served as Program Director of the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program at the NSF and currently serves as "Expert" in TIP Directorate. He is IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Member, Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, Fellow of Society of Information Reuse and Integration, and 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.
