Partha Roop is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (http://www.ece.auckland.ac.nz/) at the University of Auckland (http://www.auckland.ac.nz/). He is currently the Associate Dean (International) for the Faculty of Engineering. He completed his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, a M.Tech at Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India and a BE degree at Anna University (College of Engineering), Madras, India. Partha had visiting positions in Kiel University, Germany, French National Laboratory of Informatics and Control and Iowa State University. He collaborates with University of California, Berkeley in the PRET project (http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pret/). His research interests are in Digital Health, Formal Methods for Safety-Critical applications of AI and Machine Learning, and Real-Time Systems. He co-founded APIMatic, a cloud services company for automatic SDK generation using the model-driven approach.
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (“PK”) is a Professor of Computer Science at IIIT-Hyderabad. He is an Associate Researcher at Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science & AI – IIT Madras, and an Adjunct faculty at IIIT Delhi. PK was inducted an ACM Distinguished Member in 2021. PK is an ACM India Council Member, and Chair of the Research Facilitation Committee of ACM India. He is also a TEDx speaker and both an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an ACM India Eminent Speaker. PK received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His Ph.D. thesis work on anti-phishing research at CMU contributed in creating an award-winning startup – Wombat Security Technologies, wombatsecurity.com. Wombat was acquired in March 2018 for USD 225 Million. He founded PreCog, a research group at IIIT-Hyderabad. His interests lie in the areas of Computational Social Science, Social Computing, Privacy, Security, Online Social Networks.
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