Panel Discussion

November 19, 2020 | Thursday | 5 PM

ABSTRACT

The panel discussion of ISDAIOT 20202 would like to bring knowledge sharing between Academics and Industry professionals in a very challenging topic nowadays: IoT, Security, Privacy and AI. It is an interactive and open discussion by panel members to address related challenges and/or questions by participants. 

Panel Members

Panel Moderator: Alireza Jolfaei, Program Leader/Lecturer, Macquarie University, Sydney 

ALIREZA JOLFAEI received the Ph.D. degree in Applied Cryptography from Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. He is the Program Leader of Master of IT in Cyber Security at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His main research interests are in Cyber and Cyber-Physical Systems Security. He has participated in several projects involving different aspects of Cyber Security. Before Macquarie University, he worked as a Lecturer at Federation University Australia and as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He served as the Chairman of the Computational Intelligence Society in the IEEE Victoria Section and also as the Chairman of Professional and Career Activities for the IEEE Queensland Section. He has served as the associate editor of IEEE journals and transactions, including the IEEE IoT Journal and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence. He has served as a General co-Chair, a program co-Chair, a track Chair, a session Chair, and a Technical Program Committee member, for major conferences in Cyber Security, including IEEE TrustCom. He is the General Chair of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys 2020) in Fiji. He is a Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on the topic of Cyber Security and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). 

Panelist: Biplob Ray, Senior Lecturer, CQUniversity, Melbourne 

BIPLOB RAY is currently working as a senior lecturer at CQUniversity, with a background mix of research, academic, and industry experience. Dr. Ray is highly interested in multidisciplinary research with core interests in secure communication protocols of Cyber-Physical systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT). Dr. Ray has worked/is working in several Australia federal governments or industry-funded research projects. He has more than 36 international journal and conference publications, which has been recognized by peers and cited extensively. In 2019, he received CQU Vice-Chancellor‘s award for outstanding research. Dr. Ray has served as a guest editor, editorial board member, and reviewer in reputable journals. He has served as a keynote/plenary speaker, organising chair, PC member, and reviewer for several conferences since 2012. 

Panelist: Malka N. Halgamuge, Researcher and IoT Specialist in Blockchain and IoT, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne 

MALKA N HALGAMUGE is a Researcher in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne. She obtained her PhD from the same department in 2007. She was awarded the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship (2017), Incoming Leaders Fellowship from Australia India Institute @ Delhi (2016), Next Step Initiative Fellowship (2015), Australia-China Young Scientist Fellowship (2014), Dyason Fellowship at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, USA (2013), Early Career Researcher (ECR) Award from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2013) and Solander Fellowships at Lund University (2007 and 2008). She is the recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s Engagement Award (2010) and Vice-Chancellor’s Knowledge Transfer Award (2008) for her research at the University of Melbourne. She has published more than 120 peer-reviewed technical articles attracting over 1400 Citations (h-index = 21). She was the Keynote Speaker (EcoSSSoil’19 Seoul, South Korea, EPRF’18 Kerala, India) and Plenary Speaker (ICBET’18, Bali, Indonesia). In addition to her publications, her research has acquired significant attention, resulting in an invitation to present 48 invited/guest lectures at Universities and Industry including Oxford University, IBM Research, and the delivery of 8 IEEE talks.

Panelist: Sam Mokhtari, Data & Analytics Leader | Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Brisbane 

My main area of depth is Data Analytics. I did my Ph.D. in this field and enjoyed publishing more than 30 influential articles. I had the privilege to work at CSIRO as an aspiring scientist in where I developed several AI-enabled solutions to help senior people have a safe and independent living in their home. Before joining AWS, I was at Deloitte as a specialist lead, managing large-scale implementation projects focusing on emerging data & analytics technologies to deliver economic and safety value to customers in agile steps. I am an IEEE senior member and have also served as an associate editor for the IEEE access journal. 

Over the past ten years, working in different sectors & industries, I established a diverse skillset applying end-to-end data & analytics solutions in multidisciplinary domains across energy, mining, health, telecom and transport industries. 

Panelist: Vafa Shams, Head of APAC at Wirepas, Melbourne  

VAFA SHAMS has his professional background in Cellular technologies at Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs where he gained valuable global experience from leading major accounts such as Telstra, Vodafone and Softbank. Vafa has also been an active contributor to the innovation and start-up ecosystem in Australia as an angel investor, mentor, advisory board member and non-executive director in programs like CSIRO ON Innovation and Translational Research (TRaM) program at the University of Melbourne. Vafa holds an Electrical Engineering degree (Honours) from Monash University and an MBA from Macquarie and Sophia University in Japan. Currently, Vafa is Wirepas head of APAC. Wirepas is an industrial IoT start-up from Finland and a spin-off from the Technical University of Tampere after ten years of deep Tech research. 

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