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.
Dr. C. Krishna Mohan is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad), where he has been a faculty member since 2009. He has served as Dean of Public and Corporate Relations (2020–2022) and Head of the CSE Department (2010–2014). Prior to IIT Hyderabad, he was a senior faculty member at NIT Karnataka (NITK Surathkal). He earned his M.Tech from NITK Surathkal and Ph.D. from IIT Madras. He has held visiting positions at Nihon University, Japan; Carnegie Mellon University, USA (2007); University of California, Irvine, USA (2013); and Kennesaw State University, USA (2025). At IIT Hyderabad, he heads the Visual Learning and Intelligence Lab (VIGIL), focusing on video content analysis, representation learning, and AI/ML.
Prof. Mohan has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers and guided more than 20 Ph.D., 75 Masters, and 56 Undergraduate students. He is a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award (2018, 2021), Faculty Research Excellence Award (2024), and the Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Fellowship (2023–2024). He has served on the Boards of Governors of IIT Hyderabad, IIIT Kottayam, and IIT Tirupati, and as Director/Member of i-TIC and IIT Hyderabad Technology Research Park. He is a Fellow of IEI, IETE, TAS, Senior Member of IEEE, and member of ACM and AAAI.
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