The Organizers

Email: monowar [@] cs.umu.se

Monowar Bhuyan (PhD, Senior Member, IEEE and WASP Fellow) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden. He earned his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from Tezpur University, Assam, India, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. Currently, he leads the Cyber Analytics and Learning Group and is a Senior Leader at The Autonomous Distributed Systems Lab. Prior to this, he worked at various academic institutions, including the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, Assam Kaziranga University in India, and Umeå University, Sweden, at different levels, from a Junior Scientist to an Associate Professor between January 2009 and December 2019. Dr. Bhuyan has an extensive publication record, with over 100 peer-reviewed papers in the leading international journals and conference proceedings and has written an advanced textbook with Springer. Among his accolades are the Senior Research Fellow (SRF) award from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, two Best Paper Awards (ACM ICACCI 2012 and ICONIP 2023), and the Best Faculty Award from Assam Kaziranga University, India. His experience leading and co-leading research projects attracted over $3.5 million USD from national (WASP, Kempe Foundation, STINT), European Commission (Horizon Europe, MSCA Doctoral Networks), and other international grant agencies. His research interests span machine learning, anomaly detection, systems and AI security, and distributed systems.

Email: xuan-son [dot] vu [@] cs.lth.se

Xuan-Son Vu (Ph.D.) is an Assistant  Prof. at Lund University of Technology, and a CTO at WASP Media and Language, Sweden, and the co-founder of DeepTensor AB. He received his Ph.D degree from the Umeå University. He obtained a M.Sc degree in Computer Science, Kyungpook National University in Korea, with focus on NLP and Machine Learning. His work has been primarily focused on knowledge - both acquiring knowledge from text, multimodal data, and using structured knowledge to power downstream applications. He is a reviewer for journals/conferences including TheWebConf, ECAI, ICDM, PAKDD, SSR, SC2, COSE (Computer & Security), IJCAI, ACL, TPAMI.

Email: hn [@] cs.ucc.ie

Harry D. Nguyen (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing Science, University College Cork, National University of Ireland. He holds a PhD in Information Systems and Analytics from the National University of Singapore. His research interests include health optimisation, big data analytics, deep learning and mobile human-computer interaction. His work has been published in the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Decision Systems, and Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. He regularly serves as a program board member and/or reviewer for international conferences and journals including the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) and Health Systems.