SPEAKERs
Prof. Muhammad Khurram Khan
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Muhammad Khurram Khan is a global thought leader and influencer in cybersecurity. He is a Professor of Cybersecurity at the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is one of the founding members of CoEIA and has served as Manager R&D from March 2009 until March 2012. He, along with his team, developed and successfully managed the cybersecurity research program at CoEIA, which turned it into one of the best centers of excellence in the region. He is the founder and CEO of the “Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research”, an independent and non-partisan cybersecurity think-tank in Washington, D.C., USA. He has contributed to cyber policy work for the G20 (Saudi and Italian Presidencies) in shaping a safer cyberspace for children, protecting the masses and vulnerable populations in cyberspace, and empowering and enabling women in the cybersecurity profession. In 2019, he played an instrumental role as a cybersecurity subject expert for a USD 6 million series B investment in a South Korean startup, “SecuLetter,” which has received a corporate valuation of over USD 100 million (2023).
He is the Editor-in-Chief of a well-reputed international journal ‘Telecommunication Systems’, published by Springer-Nature for over 27 years, with a recent impact factor of 2.5 (JCR 2023). He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Cyber Insights Magazine.
Furthermore, he is the area editor (Network Security) of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, which has a 33.84 impact factor in JCR 2022. Moreover, he is on the editorial board of several journals, including, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Journal of Network & Computer Applications (Elsevier), IEEE Access, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, PLOS ONE, Electronic Commerce Research, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, Journal of Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, and International Journal of Biometrics, etc.
Prof. Feng Ding
Nanchang University, China
Prof. Feng Ding received his undergraduate degree from the School of Optoelectronics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), U.S.A., supported by a full scholarship. Following his Ph.D., he worked as a special researcher at Osaka University, Japan (2018–2019), and as a postdoctoral researcher at the State University of New York at Albany (2019–2020).
In 2021, Prof. Ding joined the Department of Cyberspace Security, School of Software, Nanchang University, China. In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious “Double Thousand Talents (Introduction Category)” grant by Jiangxi Province.
Prof. Ding’s research interests include digital forensics, information security, and pattern recognition. He has authored over 20 papers in SCI-indexed journals as the first or corresponding author, including two highly cited papers. His publications span top-tier journals such as IEEE T-CSVT, T-MM, T-ITS, T-FS, T-II, T-CYB, and T-NSE. Additionally, he has been an active contributor and reviewer for leading journals and conferences, including IEEE T-PAMI, T-MM, and T-IFS, further demonstrating his commitment to advancing the field of computer science.