Speakers

Naga Sujitha Vummaneni is a cloud security architect with over ten years of experience designing enterprise-scale security automation across AWS, Azure and GCP. She has led security engineering for high-growth technology companies, building Zero Trust frameworks, WAF automation and PKI management platforms. Her work has cut incident response times by 95% and automated remediation of 85% of vulnerabilities. She is co-author of "CI/CD as a Control System: Designing Cloud, DevOps, and DevSecOps Platforms for Scale, Stability, and Autonomous Delivery" (Apress, 2026). She holds an MBA from Cornell University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Toledo, and her certifications include AWS Certified Security and CISM. Her current work focuses on AI-enhanced security automation and securing autonomous AI systems.

Priyam Biswas is a Security Research Scientist at Intel, where she leads efforts to bring Generative AI into security assurance and shape the next generation of security mechanisms. Her work sits at the intersection of secure system development and vulnerability research, translating early-stage ideas into practices that teams can actually use. Priyam earned her PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University, with a research background in compiler-based security and applied cryptography.

Dr. Syed Badruddoja is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Sacramento. He is also the Center Director for Center of Information Assurance and Security at Sacramento State. Dr. Badruddoja is a cybersecurity researcher, instructor and practitioner, investigating the latest trends and applications in computer security and promote cybersecurity community development.  Additionally, his research focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) security and AI for Cybersecurity practices. Moreover,  he has more than 17 years of professional experience in academia and industry, working in computer networks, cybersecurity, blockchain and artificial intelligence.