Speakers
Prof. Dennis Akos (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Dennis Akos earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University’s Avionics Engineering Center. He developed the first software-defined radio for GPS/GNSS and co-founded NordNav Technologies, later acquired by CSR/Qualcomm, where his work helped advance GPS/GNSS receivers for mobile devices. He has held academic positions at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden and at Stanford University. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the Institute of Navigation (ION). His research focuses on GPS/GNSS, software-defined radio (SDR), digital signal processing, and radio-frequency (RF) system design. Since 2005, he has been a faculty member in the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he continues to contribute to research and education while maintaining a visiting appointment at Stanford University.
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Prof. John Baras (University of Maryland, USA)
John S. Baras is a Distinguished University Professor, holding the Lockheed Martin Chair in Systems Engineering, in the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) and the ECE Department at the University of Maryland College Park (UMD). He received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, in 1973, and he has been with UMD since then. From 1985 to 1991, he was the Founding Director of the ISR. Since 1992, he has been the Director of the Maryland Center for Hybrid Networks (HYNET), which he co-founded. He is a Fellow of IEEE (Life), SIAM, AAAS, NAI, IFAC, AMS, AIAA, Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). Major honors and awards include the 1980 George Axelby Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society, the 2006 Leonard Abraham Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, the 2017 IEEE Simon Ramo Medal, the 2017 AACC Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, and the 2018 AIAA Aerospace Communications Award. In 2016 he was inducted in the University of Maryland A. J. Clark School of Engineering Innovation Hall of Fame. In June 2018 he was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by his alma mater the National Technical University of Athens. His research interests include systems, control, optimization, autonomy, machine learning, artificial intelligence, communication networks, applied mathematics, signal processing and understanding, robotics, computing architectures, formal methods, network security and trust, systems biology, healthcare management, model-based systems engineering, risk sensitive decision making and robustness. He has educated 105 PhD and 170 MS students and mentored 70 postdoctoral fellows, who have gone to excellent careers in industry, academia, government. He has been awarded twenty patents and honored with many awards as innovator and leader of economic development.
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Prof. Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
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Prof. Jean Camp (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
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Prof. Alexandra Dmitrienko (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Alexandra Dmitrienko is a Full Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany, where she holds the Chair of Trustworthy Systems at the Faculty of Computer Science, Department of Software Engineering. She has over 17 years of experience in academia and research, having worked at leading institutions including Ruhr University Bochum, the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, ETH Zurich, and the University of Würzburg. She received her PhD in Security and Information Technology from TU Darmstadt (defended with distinction). Her work has been recognized with the ERCIM STM WG Award and an Intel Doctoral Student Honor Award. Her research focuses on software security, IoT security, and the intersection of AI and security, including the use of AI for security and the security of AI systems.
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Prof. Amir Herzberg (University of Connecticut, USA)
Dr. Herzberg's is the Comcast professor for Cybersecurity Innovation in the school of computing of the University of Connecticut. His research areas include internet security, applied cryptography, privacy and anonymity, human-centered security, security for cyber-physical systems, and social, economic and legal aspects of security.
Dr. Herzberg earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1991 from the Technion in Israel. He then worked in IBM research, in the T.J. Watson research center and then in the Haifa research lab, until 2000. From 2002 to 2017, he was a professor in Bar Ilan University (Israel). Since 2017, he is professor at University of Connecticut.
Dr. Herzberg is the author of numerous papers and patents in different areas of cybersecurity, as well as the textbook 'Applied Introduction to Cybersecurity and Cryptography'.
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Dr. Beatrice Motella (European Commission, Joint Research Center, Italy)
Beatrice Motella is a Project Officer in the Space, Connectivity and Economic Security Unit at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. She earned a Ph D in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Politecnico di Torino. Her work spans various aspects of radio navigation, with a particular emphasis on Galileo signal authentication and advanced signal‑processing techniques.
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Prof. Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, France)
Catuscia Palamidessi is Director of Research at Inria Saclay (since 2002), where she leads the team COMETE. She has been Full Professor at the University of Genova, Italy (1994-1997) and at Penn State University, USA (1998-2002). Palamidessi's research interests include Privacy, Machine Learning, Fairness, Secure Information Flow, Formal Methods, and Concurrency. Her past achievements include the proof of expressiveness gaps between various concurrent calculi, and the development of a probabilistic version of the asynchronous pi-calculus. More recently, she has contributed to establish the foundations of probabilistic secure information flow, she has proposed an extension of differential privacy, and geo-indistinguishability, an approach to location privacy. In 2019 she has obtained an ERC advanced grant to conduct research on Privacy and Machine Learning. In 2022, she received the Grand Prix of the French Academy of Science. She is coauthor of more than 250 scientific publications, and she has been PC chair of various conferences including Logics in Computer Science and Computer Communication Security (track on Anonymity and Privacy), and PC member of more than 130 international conferences. She is/has been in the Editorial Board of several journals, including the IEEE Transactions in Dependable and Secure Computing, the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, the Journal of Computer Security, Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Methods in Programming, and Acta Informatica. She is chair of the Executive Committee of ACM SIGLOG (Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation), and member of the Executive Committees of CONCUR, and CSL (Computer Science Logic). She is/has been member of the scientific advising committee of the ANSII (the French National Cybersecurity Agency), the advisory boards of CISPA (the Helmholtz Center for Information Security), GSSI (the Gran Sasso Science Institute) and IMDEA (the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Software Development Technologies). In 2021, she has been member of the CORE committee for the classification of conferences in the areas of security and privacy.
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Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi is a Professor of Computer Science and head of the System Security Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. He led the university’s Cybersecurity Center from 2020 to 2023 and has directed multiple Intel Collaborative Research Labs since 2012.
He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Saarland, Germany, as well as degrees in Industrial and Electrical Engineering. Before joining academia, he worked in R&D at leading IT companies, including Ericsson Telecommunications. His research spans security, privacy, and system design, with lasting impact across academia and industry.
Prof. Sadeghi served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine and on the editorial boards of ACM TODAES, ACM TIOT, and ACM DTRAP. He is a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and the ACM Europe Council.
His achievements have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the German Karl Heinz Beckurts Award for advancing Trusted Computing, the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award (2018), the Intel Academic Leadership Award (2021), the European Research Council Advanced Grant (2022), the DAC (Design Automation Conference) Service Award (2024), and the Synopsys Academic Award (2025).
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Prof. Serge Vaudenay (EPFL, Switzerland)
Serge Vaudenay is a Professor at EPFL, where he leads the Security and Cryptography Laboratory. He graduated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris with a major in mathematics and received his PhD in computer science from University of Paris 7 - Denis Diderot.
He works on cryptography and the security of digital information. Most of his recent works focus on formal security analysis of cryptographic algorithms and protocols, specifically in secure communication, post-quantum cryptography, digital identity, and on proving their security. He is a board member of GlobalID, a Swiss-based startup, where he helps developing applications based on biometry which are secure and privacy-preserving. He also works with CIMA Science, another startup, which develops solutions for economic inclusion based on smart contracts.
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Prof. Ingrid Verbauwhede (KU Leuven, Belgium)
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