Keynote Speakers
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Prof. Ali Ismail Awad
United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Prof.Kathleen Aviso
De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
Prof. Sudip Misra
Institute Chair Professor & Faculty In-charge, SWAN Lab, IIT Kharagpur
Prof. Ali Ismail Awad
United Arab Emirates University, UAE
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Ali Ismail Awad, Ph.D., is a Professor at the College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence at United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), where he previously coordinated the Information Security master’s program (2022–2025). Over his academic career, he has held appointments as an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham (2023–2025), a Visiting Researcher at the University of Plymouth (2018–2023), and an Associate Professor (Docent) and Master’s Coordinator at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, where he was named a Recognized University Teacher in 2021. Ranked among the top 2% of influential scientists globally from 2021 to 2025, Dr. Awad’s research focuses on cybersecurity, network and IoT security, AI for cybersecurity, biometrics, and medical imaging. An IEEE Senior Member and ACM Professional Member, he has published and edited numerous books and papers and serves on the editorial boards of top journals, including IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Computers & Security, and Future Generation Computer Systems.
Prof. Kathleen Aviso
De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines
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Kathleen B. Aviso, Ph.D., is a University Fellow, Professor of Chemical Engineering, and the Dean of the Gokongwei College of Engineering at De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila, Philippines. She earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines Diliman, followed by an MS in Environmental Engineering and Management and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from DLSU. Her research focuses on developing decision support tools for environmental decision-making, an area in which she has authored over 300 Scopus-indexed publications and the book Input-Output Models for Sustainable Industrial Systems. An accomplished scholar recognized with multiple national scientific awards, Dr. Aviso serves as Executive Editor for the Journal of Cleaner Production, Associate Editor for Digital Chemical Engineering and the South African Journal of Chemical Engineering, and as an editorial board member for several major international journals.
Prof. Sudip Misra
Institute Chair Professor & Faculty In-charge, SWAN Lab, IIT Kharagpur
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Dr. Sudip Misra is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Prior to this he was associated with Cornell University (USA), Yale University (USA), Nortel Networks (Canada) and the Government of Ontario (Canada). He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. He has several years of experience working in the academia, government, and the private sectors in research, teaching, consulting, project management, architecture, software design and product engineering roles.His current research interests includes Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Software Defined Networks, Cloud Computing, Big Data Networking, Computer Networks, Learning Systems, and algorithm design for emerging communication networks. Dr. Misra is the author of over 260 scholarly research papers, including 150+ reputed journal papers. Dr. Misra has published 9 books in the areas of wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, communication networks and distributed systems, network reliability and fault tolerance, and information and coding theory, published by reputed publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Springer, Wiley, and World Scientific.
Tarlochan Sidhu
BE, MSc, PhD (Saskatchewan), PEng, CEng
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Prof. Tarlochan S. Sidhu received a B.E (Hons.) degree from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has worked for the Regional Computer Center, Chandigarh, India, Punjab State Electricity Board, India and Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, ON, Canada. From July 1990 to June 2002, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, where he served as Professor and Graduate Chairman of the Department. From 2002-2011, he was Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. He also held the NSERC/Hydro One Networks Senior Industrial Research Chair in Power Systems Engineering. Effective January 2012, Dr. Sidhu joined the University of Ontario Institute Of Technology (now known as Ontario Tech University), Canada and served as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science till Feb 2020 where he currently holds the rank of Professor.
He has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals and conferences, has delivered many invited talks, short courses, tutorials around the world and has regularly provided consulting to power industries in Canada and abroad. Dr. Sidhu is a well-known international expert in the area of smart grid, substation automation and protection, and microgrids. He has supervised the work to completion of 25 Ph.D., 30 Master’s and 14 post-doctoral fellows. Dr. Sidhu has provided technical leadership as Chair or Member of working groups or sub- committees for international professional organizations such as IEEE Power System Relaying Committee(PSRC) and CIGRE (France). He has been involved in development of international standards and guides in the general area of smart grid and specifically in substation automation. A number of these works have won awards from these organizations and he was given the Distinguished Service Award of IEEE PSRC in 2011. Dr. Sidhu is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems published by De Gruyter(Germany).
He has served as Editor, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (2001-2012), Member of Editorial Board, Electric Power Components and Systems (published by Taylor and Francis), Member of Editorial Board, Electric Power Systems Research (published by Elsevier) and as Member of Editorial Board, IEEE Power Engineering Letters. Dr. Sidhu is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (U.K), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA) and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario and a Chartered Engineer in the U.K.