Symposium Chairs

Dr. Gurpreet Dhillon is the G. Brint Ryan Endowed Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics (UK). In 2019 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Örebro University (Sweden). Gurpreet has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles in some of the top-tier outlets, including FT50 journals. Gurpreet is also an author of over a dozen books, all related to information technology and cybersecurity. His research and teaching interests lie in the interface between technology and organizations. In particular, his focus has been on managing information security in organizations and ensuring the integrity of business operations. Gurpreet has advised over two dozen doctoral students. His expert comments have appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, Business Week, CNN, NBC News, NPR, TEDx, among others.

Dr Dipak P Pravin is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Information Technology and Decision Sciences Department with the G Brint Ryan College of Business at UNT. He graduated with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. In February 2022, he was designated Fulbright Specialist in Cybersecurity for a 4-year term. He is also an alumnus of Dallas FBI's Citizens Academy and a member of FBI's Infragard group. After a career spanning over 25 years in Software Engineering and Software Engineering Management he joined UNT to teach and conduct research in the areas of Cybersecurity, Databases and Networking. Since then, he has published research at The Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) and received research grants from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Jogen Pathak is teaches at the Information Technology and Decision Sciences Department. After spending fifteen years in large corporations such as Intel and Nortel Networks, Jogen started three different startups, one inside Nortel, one venture capital funded with over thirty million dollars, and the last one bootstrapped to profitability.

Jogen has been active in the research community providing resources, guidance, ideas and solutions. He has published in journals, contributed a chapter in book and have over fourteen (14) patents with several researchers, academia and an IETF officer.

He hopes to thrive on creativity, challenge, and diversity of experiences at UNT teaching business of Cyber security, cloud and AI technologies.