Keynote Speakers

Prof Sridevan Parameswaran

The University of Sydney

Bio: Sri Parameswaran is a Professor and the Head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Sydney. Prior this, he was a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, and has also held the position of Acting Head of School at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales from 2019 to 2020. He has also served as the Program Director for Computer Engineering and Post Graduate Research Coordinator at the University of New South Wales, and was previously an academic at the University of Queensland. Sri Parameswaran has held visiting academic positions at Kyushu University in Japan and the University of California, Irvine, worked as a consultant at NEC Research Labs in Princeton and the Asian Development Bank, and served as a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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Prof Sandeep Shukla

International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)

Bio: Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla is currently serving as Director and full professor at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad. Prof. Shukla headed the department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur between 2017 and 2020 and served as the Poonam & Prabhu Goel Chair Professor from 2016 to 2019. He also acted as a joint coordinator of the National Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security & Cyber Defense of Critical Infrastructures (C3i Center) at IIT Kanpur which he also founded and as a joint coordinator of the National Blockchain Project funded by the National Security Council Secretariat. He served as a project director of the C3i Hub—a Technology Innovation Hub on Cyber Security created by the DST, Government of India until March 2025. In August 2025, he moved from IIT Kanpur to IIIT Hyderabad. He worked at GTE Labs as a Principal Member of Technical Staff, as Senior Staff Design Engineer at Intel Corporation, as research faculty at the University of California, Irvine, and as a Professor of Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. His major research areas are cybersecurity, cyber-resilient system design, risk assessment, critical infrastructure security, and blockchain technology. Prof. Shukla had published over 300 peer-reviewed conference papers, journal articles, and book chapters, authored 12 books, and served as editor for several noted journals and technical publications.

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