Speakers

Ninghui Li is a Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University in 2000. His research interests are in security and privacy, and he has published over 200 referred papers in these areas. His 2007 paper ``t-Closeness: Privacy Beyond k-Anonymity and l-Diversity'' received the ICDE 2017 Influential Paper award.

He is Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions On Privacy and Security since October 2020, and has served as Program Chair for several leading conferences in the field, including ACM CCS, ESORICS, ACM ASIACCS, ACM SACMAT, and IFIP TM. He served as Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) from 2017 to 2021, and Vice Chair from 2013 to 2017. He is ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.

Prof. Li's research has been supported by multiple NSF grants, including an NSF CAREER award in 2005. His research has also been supported by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Army Research Office (ARO), National Security Agency (NSA), IBM Research, Google, and Samsung. He collaborated with Dr. Bertino on NSF and AFOSR funded projects.

Tom Jacobs is an enthusiastic and curious computer science engineer and Vlerick graduate, driven by solving exceptionally difficult (technical) challenges. Interested in expanding his knowledge from the scientific to the business world. Open minded, lived in Italy for 7 years, and intrigued by other cultures and countries. Tries to stay up with newest developments, with special focus on the new opportunities the IT world enables.

Miao Wang is currently working as Senior Staff Associate in Center for AI in Business Analytics & FinTech at Columbia University, and I have dedicated the past three years to conducting research in the field of AI applications within finance. My Research interests in Generative AI, graph models and climate finance.