One of the highlights of the upcoming TIOTC 2025 conference is the lineup of esteemed keynote speakers who will be sharing their insights and experiences on the latest trends and developments in the field. These experts are at the forefront of their respective areas, and their presentations will provide attendees with valuable information and inspiration. Among the keynote speakers at the conference, you can expect to hear from..
Prof. Dr Panos Liatsis , Department of Computer Science, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Email: panos.liatsis@ku.ac.ae
Title for Talk : A Robust AI perspective on securing IoT systems
Dr. Panos Liatsis is a Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Khalifa University Prior to joining Khalifa University, he was Professor of Image Processing and Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at City University of London.
Dr. Liatsis’ research interests include machine learning, pattern recognition, and computer vision, with applications in biomedical image and signal processing, security, and intelligent transportation systems. He published over 200 research contributions in high-impact factor journals, books and international conference proceedings. He is on the editorial boards of international journals and a member of the International Program Committees of international conferences in the fields of image processing, machine learning and intelligent systems.
Assoc. Prof. Dr Dr. Alexei Lisitsa, Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK
Email: A.Lisitsa@liverpool.ac.uk
Title for Talk Privacy-preserving data processing: past, present, future.
Dr Alexei Lisitsa has graduated in Mathematics from Moscow State University (1987). In 1987-1999 he has been a researcher in a Program Systems Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. His PhD thesis (Russian Academy of Science, 1997) was on descriptive complexity and definability in AI and Database Theory. In 1999-2000 Alexei was a postdoc researcher in Computer Laboratory, Cambridge and since 2001 he is affiliated with the University of Liverpool.
Currently Dr. Alexei Lisitsa is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and the Head of Verification group. His research concerned with three interrelated areas: methods for automated verification, specifically for infinite state and parameterized systems, automated reasoning with applications to verification and mathematics, computer security.
He has published more than 100 research papers. Alexei is a founding chair and member of Steering committee of the VPT workshop series on Verification and Program Transformation, seven editions of which have been held annually affiliated either with CAV, ETAPS or <Programming> conferences. 8th edition of VPT will be at ETAPS 2020, Dublin, Ireland, April 2020. Alexei was Invited Expert to SC^2, 2017-2018, Satisfiability Checking and Symbolic Computation Project (Horizon 2020), and is Principal Investigator for recently secured KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) project on secure data processing and blockchain based technologies.
Prof. Dr Abir Hussain Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Email: abir.hussain@sharjah.ac.ae
Title for Talk: Towards Autonomous Machine Learning: Evolution of AutoML, Roles of Humans, and Related Topics
Abir Hussain is a professor of Biomedical Science and a member of the Applied Computing Research Group at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology.
She completed her PhD study at The University of Manchester (UMIST), UK in 2000 with a thesis title Polynomial Neural Networks for Image and Signal Processing. Prof. Dr. Abir Hussain has published numerous referred research papers in conferences and Journal in the research areas of Neural Networks, Signal Prediction, Telecommunication Fraud Detection and Image Compression.
Prof. Dr. Abir Hussain has worked with higher order and recurrent neural networks and their applications to e-health and medical image compression techniques. She has developed with her research students a number of recurrent neural network architectures. Her research has been published in a number of high esteemed and high impact journals such as the Expert Systems with Applications, PloS ONE, Electronic Letters, Neurocomputing, and Neural Networks and Applications. Prof. Dr. Abir Hussain is one of the initiators and chairs of the Development in e-Systems Engineering (DeSE) series, most notably illustrated by the IEEE technically sponsored DeSE International Conference Series