Keynote

Title: Securing Cyber-Physical and IoT Systems in Smart Living Environments

Speaker: Dr. Sajal Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Abstract: We live in an era in which our physical and personal environments are becoming increasingly smarter due to pervasive sensing and actuation, wireless networking, and ubiquitous computing capabilities. In future, our daily lives will depend on a wide variety of smart cyber-physical infrastructures, such as smart cities and buildings, smart energy, smart transportation, smart healthcare, etc. Alongside the availability of IoTs and sensor-enabled rich mobile devices (e.g., smartphones) are also empowering humans with fine-grained information and opinion collection through crowdsensing about events of interest, resulting in actionable inferences and decisions. This synergy has led to cyber-physical-social (CPS) convergence with human in the loop that exhibits complex interactions, interdependencies and adaptations among engineered/natural systems with a goal to improve quality of life in what we call smart living. However, due to the scale, heterogeneity, big data, and resource limitations in context recognition and situation awareness, the IoTs and CPS networks. are extremely vulnerable to failures, attacks and security threats. This talk will highlight unique research challenges in securing CPS and IoT systems, followed by novel security frameworks. The proposed solutions will be based on a rich set of theoretical and practical design principles, such as context-aware data collection and fusion, uncertainty reasoning, information theory, and trust models. The talk will be concluded with directions for future research.

Biography: Dr. Sajal K. Das is an IEEE Fellow and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair Professor of Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla where he was the Chair of Computer Science Department during 2013-2017. He also served the NSF as a Program Director in the Division of Computer Networks and Systems during 2008-2011. Prior to 2013 he was a University Distinguished Scholar Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and founding director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research interests include wireless and sensor networks, mobile and pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems and smart environments including smart grid and smart healthcare, distributed and cloud computing, security and privacy, biological and social networks. He has published over 600 research articles in high quality journals and conferences, 52 book chapters, and 5 US patents. He coauthored four books – “Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols, and Applications” (John Wiley, 2005); “Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure: Foundations and Challenges” (Morgan Kaufman, 2012); “Mobile Agents in Distributed Computing and Networking” (Wiley, 2012); and “Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach” (Cambridge University Press, 2017). According to DBLP Dr. Das is one of the most prolific authors in computer science. His h-index is 78 with more than 24,000 citations according to Google Scholar. He is a recipient of 10 Best Paper Awards in prestigious conferences (e.g., ACM MobiCom and IEEE PerCom) and numerous awards for research, teaching, mentoring and professional services, including IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to sensor networks and mobile computing. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal and serves as Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. A founder of IEEE PerCom, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE SMARTCOMP, and ICDCN conferences, he has served on numerous conference committees as General Chair, Technical Program Chair, or Program Committee member.