Invited Speakers

Mohammad Khalil (on behalf of Martin Ebner)

Graz University of Technology, Styria, Austria

Martin Ebner is currently head of the Department for Educational Technology at Graz University of Technology and, therefore, responsible for all university wide e-learning activities. He holds an Assoc. Prof. on media informatics and works also at the Institute for Information System Computer Media as senior researcher. His research focuses strongly on e-learning, mobile learning, learning analytics, social media, MOOCs, and Open Educational Resources. Martin has given a number of lectures in this area as well as workshops and keynotes at international conferences. For publications as well as further research activities, please visit his website: http://martinebner.at/.

When Learning Analytics Meets MOOCs - a Review on iMooX Case Studies.ppsx

Marion Marschalek

G DATA Advanced Analytics, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Marion Marschalek is a Senior Malware Researcher at G DATA Advanced Analytics. Marion is focusing on the analysis of emerging threats and exploring novel methods of threat detection. Also she teaches malware analysis at University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten and writes articles for security magazines. She has spoken at international conferences around the globe, among others Blackhat Las Vegas, RSA San Francisco and SyScan Singapore. Marion came off as winner of the Female Reverse Engineering Challenge 2013, organized by RE professional Halvar Flake. She practices martial arts and has a vivid passion to take things apart. Preferably, other people's things.

The Relevance of Off-the-shelf Trojans in Targeted Attacks - Recent Developments and Future Obstacles in Defense.pdf

Srini Ramaswamy

ABB Inc., Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Srini Ramaswamy currently serves as the Technology Development Manager for the Power Generation Business Unit at ABB Inc., with responsibility for all of its software portfolios, including S+ Engineering. His research interests are on systems engineering, intelligent and flexible control, behavior modeling, analysis and simulation, empirical software systems research, software stability, and scalability; particularly in the design and development of complex software systems. He has a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

On the professional front, Dr. Ramaswamy is IEEE Computer Society representative director to the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB). He also serves as an executive committee member of the computing accreditation commission of ABET Inc. He is a senior member of both the IEEE and ACM, and a life member of the India Science Congress Association. He is also a committee member of the IEEE CS educational activities board's http://trycomputing.org.

Enriching Community Services - Making the Invisible ‘P’ Visible.pdf