Organizers
Special Session Chairs:
Special Session Chairs:
Farrukh Aslam Khan
Farrukh Aslam Khan
King Saud University, KSA
Farrukh Aslam Khan is currently working as a Professor with the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received the M.S. degree in Computer System Engineering from GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Jeju National University, South Korea, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He also received professional trainings from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, IBM, and other professional institutions. He is the Founding Director of the Wireless Networking and Security (WiNGS) Research Group at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has published more than 95 research articles in refereed international journals and conferences. He has supervised four Ph.D. students and sixteen M.S. thesis students. Several M.S. and Ph.D. students are currently working under his supervision. His research interests include cybersecurity, wireless sensor networks and e-health, bio-inspired and evolutionary computation, and the Internet of Things. He serves as an Associate Editor for prestigious international journals, including IEEE ACCESS, PLOS One, Neurocomputing (Elsevier), Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences (Springer), and Complex & Intelligent Systems (Springer). He is on the panel of reviewers of over 30 reputed international journals and numerous international conferences. He has co-organized several international conferences and workshops. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Amir Hussain
Amir Hussain
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Amir Hussain obtained his B.Eng. (with the highest 1st Class Honors) and Ph.D. (in novel neural network architectures and algorithms) from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, in 1992 and 1997 respectively. Following postdoctoral and academic positions at the University of West of Scotland (1996-98), University of Dundee (1998-2000), and University of Stirling (2000-2018), he joined Edinburgh Napier University, in Scotland, UK, in 2018, as Professor of Computing Science, and founding Director of the Cognitive Big Data and Cybersecurity (CogBiD) Research Laboratory. His research interests are cross-disciplinary and industry focused, and include secure and context-aware 5G-IoT driven AI, and multi-modal cognitive and sentic computing techniques and applications. He has published more than 400 papers, including over a dozen books and around 150 journal papers. He has led major national, European and international projects and supervised more than 30 PhD students, He is founding Editor-in-Chief of two leading journals: Cognitive Computation (Springer Nature), and BMC Big Data Analytics (BioMed Central); and Chief-Editor of the Springer Book Series on Socio-Affective Computing, and Cognitive Computation Trends. He has been appointed invited Associate Editor of several prestigious journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, and (Elsevier) Information Fusion. He is Vice-Chair of the Emergent Technologies Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), and Chapter Chair of the IEEE UK and RI Industry Applications Society. Amongst other distinguished, international conference chairing roles, he is the General Chair for IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2020).
Ali Kashif Bashir
Ali Kashif Bashir
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Ali Kashif Bashir received the B.S. degree from the University of Management and Technology, Pakistan, the M.S. degree from Ajou University, South Korea, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Korea University, South Korea. He is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Computing, Mathematics, and Digital Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K. He is a Distinguished Speaker of ACM. His past assignments include: Associate Professor of Information and Communication Technologies, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Faroe Islands, Denmark; Osaka University, Japan; Nara National College of Technology, Japan; the National Fusion Research Institute, South Korea; Southern Power Company Ltd., South Korea, and the Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea. He is author of over 80 peer-reviewed articles. He is supervising/co-supervising several graduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) students. His research interests include the Internet of Things, wireless networks, distributed systems, network/cyber security, cloud/network function virtualization, etc. He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE FUTURE DIRECTIONS NEWSLETTER. He is the Editor of several journals and also has served/serving as Guest Editor on several special issues in journals of IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer. He has served as the Chair (program, publicity, and track) and the Chair on several conferences and workshops. He has delivered several invited and keynote talks, and reviewed the technology leading articles for journals like IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, the IEEE Communication Magazine, the IEEE COMMUNICATION LETTERS, IEEE Internet of Things, and the IEICE journals, and conferences, such as the IEEE INFOCOM, the IEEE ICC, the IEEE Globecom, and the IEEE Cloud of Things.
Zahid Anwar
Zahid Anwar
Fontbonne University, USA
Zahid Anwar received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Sciences in 2008 and 2005 respectively from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He has worked as a software engineer and researcher at IBM, Intel, Motorola, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), xFlow Research and CERN on various projects related to information security, operating systems design and data analytics. Zahid holds post-doctorate experience from Concordia University. He has worked as a faculty member at the National University of Sciences and Technology and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is currently an Associate Professor at Fontbonne University, USA.