Dr. Ramesh Ramadoss

Dr. Ramesh Ramadoss is the Technical Director at the InterWork Alliance. He is a co-chair of the IEEE Blockchain Initiative. He leads the IEEE Blockchain Standards Committee.

He received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA in 2003. Between 2003 and 2007, he was employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University, Alabama, USA.

In 2008, he moved to Silicon Valley and has over a decade of industrial experience in technology companies. He has conducted R&D projects for DARPA, NASA, US Army, US Air Force, Sandia National Labs, and Motorola Labs.

Ramesh is the author or co-author of 1 book, 3 book chapters and 55 research papers (Google Scholar Citations: 900). He has delivered talks at over 90 international conferences in 40 countries.

Prof. Martin Jaatun

Martin Gilje Jaatun is a Senior Scientist at SINTEF Digital in Trondheim, Norway and Adjunct Professor at the University of Stavanger. Formerly, he was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Secure Software Engineering (IJSSE). Previous positions include scientist at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), and Senior Lecturer in information security at the Bodø Graduate School of Business. His research interests include software security, security in cloud computing, and security of critical information infrastructures.

Martin received an MSc in telematics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology. He’s vice chairman of the Cloud Computing Association and a senior member of IEEE.

His research interests include security in cloud computing and security of critical information infrastructures (power, water, oil, …) — Most of his papers are (eventually) available at: http://jaatun.no/papers — ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7127-6694

Selected Publications

• What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Smart Grid Misuse Case Scenarios
  Inger Anne Tøndel, Ravishankar Borgaonkar, Martin Gilje Jaatun and Christian Frøystad
• An Empirical Study of CERT Capacity in the North Sea
  Martin Gilje Jaatun, Lars Bodsberg, Tor Olav Grøtan and Marie Elisabeth Gaup Moe
• Federated Identity Management – We Built It; Why Won’t They Come?
  Jostein Jensen and Martin Gilje Jaatun
• Towards Strong Accountability for Cloud Service Providers
  Martin Gilje Jaatun, Siani Pearson, Frederic Gittler and Ronald E. Leenes

Dr. Annabel Latham

Dr Annabel Latham is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing and Mathematics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the Chair of the IEEE UK & Ireland Women in Engineering Affinity Group, and also, Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Graduate Student Research Grants Committee and a host of other associations.

Annabel is the Unit Leader of Information Systems Strategy (Level 6), her teaching engagements include both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and she has supervised many PhD students.

Annabel is a recipient of the Outstanding Peer Reviewer Award, Elsevier: Computers & Education: Awarded Apr-18 (award dated Dec 2016) for begin in the top 10th percentile of reviewers for Computers and Education journal. She has also taken part in expert reviewing of external funding bodies, including the National Foundation of Science and Technology Development of Vietnam (NAFOSTED), and National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development, Croatia.

Her research expertise is in Artificial Intelligence in Education, particularly learner profiling, natural language tutoring and adaptive systems. She has also worked in the following areas:

• Computational Intelligence
• Conversational Agents
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Agent Intelligence
• Knowledge Engineering
• Intelligent Systems
• Affective Computing
• Semantic Clustering of Social Media Text (Twitter)
• Information Systems Strategy: Strategic Use of Social Media
• Ethics and Trust of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Annabel is widely published and some of her featured publications can be found here https://www.mmu.ac.uk/computing-and-maths/staff/profile/index.php?id=2382

Prof. Ross Anderson

Ross Anderson is Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University. He was one of the founders of the discipline of security economics, and leads the Cambridge Cybercrime Centre, which collects and analyses data about online wickedness. He was one of the designers of the international standards for prepayment electricity metering and powerline communications; he was also a pioneer of peer-to-peer systems, hardware tamper-resistance and API security. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Physics, and a winner of the Lovelace Medal – the UK's top award in computing. He is well known as the author of the textbook "Security Engineering – A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems".