Abstract of Talk:

Our entire world has changed in recent years – through the pandemic, wars, and amazing advances in technology. The pandemic encouraged us to develop better communication methods, saw the development of apps to advance healthcare, sustainable delivery, and many others. Technological advancements are often based on the availability of smartphones, and apps that provide us cheap (or even) free apps, in return for the use of data about where we are, what we’re doing, what we’re buying, eating, etc. In recent years, AI, and specifically large language models have brought about amazing advances that can, like most technology, be used for great good or great harm. The “smart economy” is based on exploiting these technological advancements for the betterment of society and humanity, and the wise use of limited resources safely, and with as little damage as possible to the environment. All of this innovation is based on software, with software being impossible to avoid in just about any area of life.

Brief Profile:

Professor Mike Hinchey is Professor of Software Engineering at University of Limerick, Ireland, where he was previously Head of Department of Computer Science and Information Systems and Director of Lero-the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, a national research centre headquartered at University of Limerick. He is Past President of IFIP, the International Federation for Information Processing (www.ifip.org) and Past Chair of the IEEE UK & Ireland Section. He is Director-elect of IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Middle East, Africa) and serves on IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors. Prior to joining University of Limerick, Professor Hinchey was the Director of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory. In 2009, he was awarded NASA’s Kerley Award as Innovator of the Year and is one of only 36 people recognized in the NASA Inventors Hall of Fame. Professor Hinchey holds a B.Sc. in Computer Systems from University of Limerick, an M.Sc. in Computation (Mathematics) from University of Oxford and a PhD in Computer Science from University of Cambridge. Professor Hinchey is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Engineering Professional, Chartered Mathematician and Chartered Information Technology Professional, as well as a Fellow of the IET, British Computer Society, Engineers Ireland, and Irish Computer Society, of which he is also Past President. He is Editor-in-Chief of Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: a NASA Journal and Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. In 2018, he became an Honorary Fellow of the Computer Society of India and was the SEARCC Global ICT Professional of the Year 2018. . He received the first ever service award of the Brazilian Computer Society in 2023, and the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core in 2024.

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As the demand for clean and reliable energy grows, need for the sustainable development is increasing. This keynote explores how renewable energy technologies—such as solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, wind turbines, hydropower, and emerging solutions like green hydrogen—are transforming the landscape of future energy sources. From generation to transmission and distribution, the shift to renewable sources introduces both challenges and opportunities. In future, focus must be on grid integration, energy storage, power electronics, and smart systems to ensure stable and efficient operation. The increasing role of decentralized energy systems, such as microgrids and rooftop solar with battery backups, requires innovative approaches in control systems, load forecasting, and real-time monitoring. This talk highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in building energy systems that are not only technically robust but also cost-effective and environmental friendly. Main emphasis will be on how world can lead the transition toward net-zero emissions by leveraging cutting-edge tools like AI, IoT, and digital twins. Its high time to bridge the gap between clean energy goals and real-world implementation for a sustainable tomorrow.

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Dr. Narayana Prasad Padhy, Chairperson (I/C), Board of Governors MNIT Jaipur, Director, MNIT Jaipur and Director, IIIT Kota, Chair Professor IIT Palakkad Technology IHub Foundation (IPTIF), is a Professor (HAG) of Electrical Engineering and has served as Dean of Academic Affairs, IIT Roorkee, Founder Head Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Professor In-Charge Training and Placement, NEEPCO and Institute Chair Professor at IIT Roorkee. Dr. Padhy is a prolific researcher in the area of Power Systems Engineering and Smart Grid, and has authored over 300 high quality papers with over 60 IEEE Transactions, with an overall citation of 10000 plus, h-index of 50, and i-index of 143. He has contributed significantly to the domain by way of securing 13 international/national research grants with a funding of over INR 200 million, successfully supervised 23 research scholars and currently supervising 21 research scholars, publishing research articles, writing six books, securing patents, laboratory development and developing online NPTEL courses. Dr. Padhy has held visiting positions at eminent international universities, and established research engagements and institutional tie-ups with universities from the US, UK, Denmark, Italy and Canada. He has collaborated with top industries and government agencies for research, laboratory development, and as a knowledge partner. He is well recognised in international and national professional bodies being Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK, Institution of Engineers, India, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, and has actively contributed in various capacities towards their growth. He also represents the country at various international research platforms. Dr. Padhy is a well awarded and honoured scholarly professional at the national and international levels, including Alexander von Humboldt Experienced Research Fellowship, Samanta Chandra Sekhar Award, IEEE Smart City Jury Award, IEEE PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award from IEEE Power & Energy Society, USA, and BOYSCAST Research Fellow Award for Young Scientist.

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Metaverse term has different aspects and concepts for the readers. The easy understanding of a reader’s metaverse is a new way of hue cyberspace. Metaverse does not refer to any specific technology but several cutting-edge technologies and how those will be used under specific conditions. Mainly it focuses on social networks in 3D virtual reality mode. It creates a virtual space by the combination of virtually enhanced physical and digital reality. This virtual world provides a lot within its virtual cyberspace, including digital currency, digital and virtual economy, and multiple owners can own it. Users can be able to buy and sell their goods and properties, and even users can sell and purchase other livelihood items including cars, clothes, and other living items. Metaverse claims even more at the next level to use the NFTs technology for digital assets. We expect many opportunities from Metaverse and its related technologies in the near future. Besides of these opportunities, the expected cybersecurity challenges are there as well, some of them such as NFTs, Darkverse, Financial fraud, Privacy issues, Cyber-physical threats, Virtual/augmented/mixed/extended reality threats, social engineering, and other related threats.

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Professor Dr. Noor Zaman Jhanjhi, often referred to as N.Z. Jhanjhi, holds the esteemed position of Professor in Computer Science with specializations in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. He currently serves as the Program Director for Postgraduate Research Degree Programmes in Computer Science and Director of the Center for Smart Society (CSS5) at Taylor’s University, Malaysia. Recognized as one of the world’s top 2% research scientists for consecutive years in 2022 and 2023, he is esteemed as one of Malaysia's top three computer science researchers. Notably, he was honored as an Outstanding Faculty Member by MDEC Malaysia in 2022.

Prof. Jhanjhi boasts a prolific publication record with numerous highly indexed works in WoS/ISI/SCI/SCIE/Scopus, accumulating a collective research impact factor exceeding 1000 points. His Google Scholar H-index stands at an impressive 65, with an I-10 Index approaching 291, and a Scopus H-index of 42. With over 600 publications to his credit, including several international patents in Australia, Germany, the UK, and Japan, Prof. Jhanjhi has significantly contributed to the academic discourse.

An accomplished editor and author, he has curated over 50 research books published by esteemed publishers such as Springer, IGI Global USA, Taylor & Francis, IET, Elsevier, Wiley, Bentham, and Intech Open. Prof. Jhanjhi excels in mentoring postgraduate scholars, with over 38 scholars graduating under his tutelage. He also serves as Associate Editor and Editorial Assistant Board member for reputable journals and has received accolades such as the Outstanding Associate Editor award for IEEE ACCESS.

Renowned as a top-tier reviewer by Publons (Web of Science), Prof. Jhanjhi has evaluated over 60 theses as an external Ph.D./Master thesis examiner for universities worldwide. His extensive academic qualifications span 10 years and encompass accreditation bodies such as ABET, NCAAA, and NCEAC. Prof. Jhanjhi's diverse research interests encompass Cybersecurity, AI, IoT Security, Wireless Security, Data Science, Software Engineering, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Additionally, he has been invited as a keynote speaker for over 60 international conferences and has chaired numerous international conference sessions.

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With the global burden of chronic and neurological disorders expected to rise, future healthcare systems will increasingly rely on innovative technological solutions to improve service delivery and enhance quality of life. This talk will explore how cognitive computing and artificial intelligence (AI) transform diagnostics, personalised care, and preventive healthcare. It will outline how diverse data sources—such as neuroimages, brain and body signals, clinical records, and sensor data—can be responsibly used to detect and manage complex conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, autism spectrum disorder, and depression. It will emphasise the role of explainable and privacy-preserving AI to support the development of trustworthy, transparent, and patient-centric solutions. Finally, the potential of generative AI-driven brain imaging in developing future diagnostic systems will be discussed.

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Dr Mufti Mahmud is a Professor in the Information and Computer Science Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. Dr Mahmud holds a PhD in Information Engineering (Bioengineering Curriculum) from the University of Padova, Italy. He received a First Class BSc in Computer Science from the University of Madras (India) and an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Mysore (India) with Distinction. He then pursued an MS in Nano and Micro Electromechanical Systems (NEMS/MEMS) at the University of Trento, Italy. With over 20 years of experience in academia and industry in the UK, Italy, Belgium, Bangladesh, and India, Dr Mahmud has held several leadership positions, including a member of the University Shadow Executive Team at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK, Coordinator of the Computer Science and Informatics (B11) Unit of Assessment for the Research Excellence Framework at NTU, research group leader of the Cognitive Computing and Brain Informatics research group, and deputy research group leader of the Interactive Systems Research Group at NTU, fellow of the Medical Technologies Innovation Facility at NTU, and a member of the NTU Distance Learning Governance, Operation, and Steering Committee, as well as the International Mobility Committee. Dr Mahmud has (co-)authored over 350 peer-reviewed research outputs in journals, conferences, and books. According to Scopus (as of 28 Oct. 2024), he is the topmost academic in the East Midlands region of the UK in terms of the number of publications. His research has garnered significant attention, with over 10,400 citations. For his contributions, he has been listed among the top 2% of cited scientists in computer science globally since 2021, received the Vice-Chancellor’s Outstanding Researcher Award in 2021 at NTU, and won several best paper awards in leading conferences. Mahmud's research focuses on developing safe and trustworthy AI systems for mission-critical areas, such as healthcare, education, secure communication, etc.  Dr Mahmud has secured research grants totalling approximately £4 million in these areas from prestigious funders like the European Union and the British Council.

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Smart contracts are utilized widely in developing safe, secure, and efficient decentralized applications. Smart contracts hold a significant amount of cryptocurrencies, and upgrading or changing them after deployment on the blockchain is difficult. Therefore, it is essential to analyze the integrity of contracts to design secure contracts before deploying them. As a result, the effective detection of various class vulnerabilities in smart contracts is a significant concern. While human specialists are still necessary for vulnerability detection methods that utilize machine learning and deep learning, these approaches often miss numerous vulnerabilities, leading to a significant false-negative rate. Hence there is a need for methods that significantly improve Ethereum smart contracts to circumvent these limitations. The best way to do this is using Deep learning. This talk explores about the role and future of DL in achieving it.

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Dr. Meenakshi Tripathi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from MNIT and brings over two decades of teaching and research experience in the fields of computer science and information security. Dr. Tripathi has authored more than 150 research papers published in reputed journals, conference proceedings, and edited volumes, including IEEE Transactions, International Journal of Computer Science, Computer Networks, and Journal of Supercomputing, among others. She has successfully supervised four Ph.D. scholars and is currently guiding five more. Dr. Tripathi actively contributes to several government-sponsored research projects funded by agencies such as DST, MEITY, DSIR, and DST Rajasthan, among others. She also holds two patents in her name: "A Bluetooth-Based Anti-Theft System" and "Blockchain-Integrated Device for Network Security." In addition to her academic contributions, she holds several prominent professional roles, including Dean at Vishwakarma Skill University, Jaipur; Board of Studies (BoS) member at the University of Kota and the Central University of Rajasthan; and former Chairperson of the CSI Jaipur Chapter. She was honored with the Active Participation Woman Award for Research by CSI-India in 2018. She has served as the Organizing Chair for numerous national and international conferences, faculty development programs (FDPs), and workshops, such as ICCIS 2023, ANTS 2023, ETNCC 2023 & 2024 (Namibia), ICDLAIR 2019, the ATAL FDP on "Cyber Security", as well as FDPs on "Software Defined Networks" and "Technical Writing: Tools and Techniques". She has also received funding from IEEE CIS to organize Summer Schools in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Dr. Tripathi is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of ACM, and a life member of CSI. Her research interests include Cybersecurity & Adversarial Learning, Blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) & Edge Security, Wireless Sensor Netwokrs, AI-generated Content and Deepfakes , Drone Swarms and their issues.

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Today, Smartphones have quality high resolution cameras, and taking a photo or video and sharing it has never been easier, resulting in the incredible growth of modern social networks like Facebook and Instagram. YouTube might be the second largest search engine and hundreds of hours of video are uploaded every minute and billions of videos are watched every day. The internet is comprised of text and images. It is relatively straightforward to index and search text, but in order to index and search images, algorithms need to know what the images contain. To get the most out of image and video data, we need computers to “see” an image and understand the content. In this talk, we introduce Computer vision with a brief about some machine learning processes. Then, we will discuss “Amazon Rekognition” for images and video of AWS and the algorithms for searchable image and video libraries. We also discuss some cases of Image moderation and sentiment analysis

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Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra has received M.Tech. degree in Computer Science from DAVV, Indore in 1994 and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 2008. Presently, he has been working as a Director and Professor SCSIT, Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences, Indore. He was founder Director, Microsoft Innovation Centre at SAIT, Indore, India. He is associated with Namibia University of Science and Technology as the Program Advisory Committee for Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science (NQF level 10). Ex-visiting faculty at IIT-Indore. He has 30 years of teaching and 15 years of research experience with a good number of citations with h-index and i-index. He has four patents granted and twelve published jointly with Ph.D. students and more than 100 papers in refereed journals and conferences in his research field. His Ph.D. is in Secure Multi-Party Computation for Preserving Privacy. He has organized a number of IEEE, ACM, and Springer conferences in the capacity of conference General Chair and editor of conference proceedings. He is a Sr Member of IEEE, ACM, and CSI and held many positions like Chairman, IEEE Computer Society Madhya Pradesh Section(2022 to 2023),IEEE MP-Subsection (2011-2012), and Chairman IEEE Computer Society Bombay Chapter (2009-2010). Chairman CSI Division IV Communication at National Level (2014-2018). National Treasurer Computer Society of India (2019-2021). At Present he is the Chairman IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section and Chairman of ACM Indore Chapter. Dr. Mishra visited and delivered his invited talk in Taiwan, Bangladesh, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the USA, UK, and France. He has authored two books on “Database Management Systems” and “Programming in C and C++”. He edited 12 international books of Springer publication in his domain of Computer Science. He has been a consultant to industries and government organizations like the sales tax and labor department of the government of Madhya Pradesh, India. He has been awarded the “Paper Presenter award at International Level” by the Computer Society of India. He visited MIT Boston and presented his presentation on Security and Privacy he has also Chaired a panel on “Digital Monozukuri” at “Norbert Winner in 21st century” at BOSTON. He became a Member of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Govt of India for the Information Security domain. Recently, Microsoft invited him for his felicitation and to deliver his Innovation at Xi’an China. He has the recipient of many awards from the largest professional society CSI. Recently VDGOOD Society India, Awarded him as International Scientist Award for Engineering, Science, and Medicine.