Program/Keynotes
Workshop Keynotes
Keynote 1
Keynote Speech #1: Prof. Nitin Auluck, Ph.D.
Short Biography
Prof. Nitin Auluck is a distinguished academic and researcher currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India. With over two decades of experience in academia, Prof. Auluck’s research is focused on distributed systems, particularly in the areas of scheduling and resource allocation algorithms for fog and edge computing. His group is actively exploring real-life applications that can benefit from these emerging technologies.
Prof. Auluck earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, USA, and his B.Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Poojya Dodappa Appa College of Engineering, Gulbarga, India. Prior to his promotion to Professor, he served as an Associate Professor at IIT Ropar from 2015 to 2024. He has also held academic positions in the USA, including as an Assistant Professor at Quincy University.
Prof. Auluck’s work has been recognized with numerous accolades, including a Best Paper Award at the 25th IEEE IRI Conference (2024) and various visiting faculty positions at esteemed institutions such as Aalto University, Dalhousie University, and Cardiff University.
In addition to his research contributions, Prof. Auluck is an active member of the academic community, serving on several conference committees and editorial boards, including as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing and an Editor for Wiley's Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. He has a strong commitment to mentoring graduate students and fostering high-quality research.
Prof. Nitin Auluck, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India
Keynote 2
Keynote Speech #2: Prof. Brij Bhooshan Gupta
Short Biography
Prof Brij B. Gupta received the PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India (One of the oldest technical institutes in Asia). In more than 17 years of his professional experience, he published over 500 papers in journals/conferences including 30 books and 10 Patents with over 20,000 citations. He has received numerous national and international awards including Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (2009), Govt. of Canada, Visvesvaraya Faculty Research Fellowship Award (2017), MeitY, Govt of India, IEEE GCCE outstanding and WIE best paper awards and Best Faculty Award (2018 & 2019), NIT KKR, India respectively. Prof Gupta is also serving as Distinguished Research Scientist with LoginRadius Inc., USA which is one of leading cybersecurity companies in the world, especially in the field of customer identity and access management (CIAM). He is also selected in the 2021 and 2020 Stanford University’s ranking of the world’s top 2% scientists. He is also a visiting/adjunct professor with several universities (i.e. Temple University, Macquarie University, Yamaguchi University, University of Murcia, Deakin University, Staffordshire University, Swinburne University of Technology, etc) worldwide. He is also an IEEE Senior Member (2017) and also selected as 2021 Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE CTSoc. Dr Gupta is also serving as Member-in-Large, Board of Governors, IEEE Consumer Technology Society (2022-2024). Prof. Gupta is also leading IJSWIS, IJSSCI and IJCAC, IGI Global, as Editor-in-Chief. Moreover, he is also serving as lead-editor of Book Series with CRC, World Scientific and IET press. He also served as TPC members and organized/special session chairs in ICCE 2021, GCCE 2014-2021 and TPC Chair in 2018 INFOCOM: CCSNA Workshop, Publicity Co-chair in 2020 ICCCN, etc. Dr Gupta is also serving/served as Associate/Guest Editor of IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IoT, IEEE Big Data, ASOC, FGCS, etc. At present, Prof. Gupta is working as Director, International Centre for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations, and Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Asia University, Taiwan. His research interests include cyber security, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, intrusion detection, blockchain technologies, cyber physical systems, social media and networking.
Prof. Brij Bhooshan Gupta, Ph.D., Director, International Centre for AI and Cyber Security Research and Innovations, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Asia University, Taiwan