Helge JANICKE, Professor of Cyber Security in the ECU School of
Science; also Deputy CEO and Research Director of the Cyber Security
Cooperative Research Centre, Australia. He holds a visiting Professorship in
Cyber Security at De Montfort University, UK. He established DMU’s Cyber
Technology Institute and its Airbus Centre of Excellence in SCADA Cyber
Security and Forensics Research. He was the Head of the School of Computer
Science at De Montfort University UK, before taking up his current position as
Research Director for the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre. He founded
the International Symposium on Industrial Control System Cyber Security
Research (ICS-CSR). His research interests are in the area of cyber security;
in particular, with applications in critical infrastructures using
cyber-physical systems, SCADA and Industrial Control Systems. His current
research investigates the application of Agile Techniques to Cyber Incident
Response in Critical Infrastructure, Managing Human Errors that lead to Cyber
Incidents, and research on Cyber warfare & Cyber peacekeeping.
Prof. Leandros A. Maglaras is a professor of cybersecurity in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. From September 2017 to November 2019, he was the Director of the National Cyber Security Authority of Greece. He obtained a B.Sc. (M.Sc. equivalent) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998, M.Sc. in Industrial Production and Management from the University of Thessaly in 2004, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly, in 2008 and 2014, respectively. In 2018 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Intrusion Detection in SCADA systems from the University of Huddersfield He is featured in Stanford University's list of the world’s Top 2% scientists. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is an author of more than 300 papers in scientific magazines and conferences.
Iqbal H. Sarker received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia in 2018. Now he is working as a
Research Fellow of the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) in association with the Centre for Securing Digital Futures, Edith Cowan University
(ECU), Australia. His research interests include Cybersecurity, AI/XAI and Machine Learning Algorithms, Data Science and Behavioral Analytics, Trustworthy LLMs, Knowledge and Rule Mining, Digital Twin, Critical Infrastructures, Industry Applications. He has published 100+ journal and conference papers in various reputed venues published by Elsevier,
Springer Nature, IEEE, ACM, Oxford University Press, etc. Moreover, he is a lead author of the books "Context-Aware Machine Learning and Mobile Data
Analytics", and “AI-driven Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence”, published by Springer Nature, Switzerland. He has also been listed in the world’s top 2\% of
most-cited scientists, published by Elsevier \& Stanford University, USA. In addition to research work and publications, Dr. Sarker is also involved in a number of research engagement and leadership roles such as Journal editorial, international conference program committee (PC), student supervision, visiting scholar
and national/international collaboration. He is a member of IEEE, ACM and Australian Information Security Association.
