Biography:

Dr Erika Sanchez is a Deputy Head of School at Anglia Ruskin University. Her research interests focus on network security, including Software-Defined Networking, IoT and critical infrastructure. She has a keen interest in enhancing the cyber resilience of SMEs and supporting them in achieving this goal. She has participated in several training programs and projects, delivering advice to SMEs on preparing for the Cyber Essentials certification and understanding the technical requirements for compliance.

Biography:

Dr Raj Mani Shukla is a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. His research focuses on trustworthy and responsible AI, privacy-preserving machine learning, and the safety and security of AI applications in areas such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud/Edge computing, cybersecurity, healthcare, and smart cities. He has published in venues including IEEE TNSE, Elsevier IoT, and International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, as well as conferences such as IEEE IECON, IEEE TrustCom, IEEE Big Data, CCNC, and GLOBECOM. He has led the Innovate UK CyberASAP projects—including SIROCCO, ZEPHYR, p-CTI, and OTRAND (Co-Lead)—focused on developing trustworthy and resilient AI systems for cybersecurity.

Dr Shukla serves on IEEE CTSoc Technical Committees for IoT and Smart Cities, and as a Technical Program Committee member for multiple IEEE conferences, including CCNC, ICCE, and the UK-Ukraine Research Twinning Conference. He regularly reviews for journals such as IEEE TII, IEEE TETC, and Computer Networks (Elsevier).

Prior to joining ARU, Dr. Shukla worked as a KTP Associate – Data Scientist at the University of Bristol. He earned his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno, USA, served as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF) at IIT Kanpur, received his M.Tech. from NIT Kurukshetra, and completed his B.Tech. at BIET Jhansi.

Biography:

Dr Daniela Brauner, PhD in Computer Science at PUC-Rio, and Senior Research Engagement Manager at GÉANT, working in the New Services Development area. She is the AI coordinator for the GÉANT Project and chair of the Special Interest Group on AI for NRENs. 

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Karel Hynek, a Full PhD at FIT CTU in Prague, and a full-time researcher at CESNET a.l.e., the Czech national research and education network. He is very active in research areas concerning network security, focusing on high-speed network monitoring and ISP-level security protection. The outcomes of his research are network classifiers, detectors and data exporters which are deployed to protect production ISP monitoring infrastructure.

Biography:

Dr Hossein Abroshan is a Senior Lecturer; Director of Cyber Security, Networking, and Applications Research Group (CNA); and Director of MSc Cyber Security course at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU). Hossein’s research focus is various cybersecurity and AI areas including adversarial machine learning and applied AI for cyber defence. His recent work includes building AI poisoning-detection pipelines; developing AI-driven ransomware detection for OT; and AI-powered phishing detection using human factors. He has also developed AI and cybersecurity materials for CyBOK (ai4cs.uk and secai.uk). He held cyber security leadership roles in industries, like critical infrastructures, manufacturing, banking, telecom, and maritime, and has been leading/supervising several cybersecurity and AI projects in various sectors. Hossein’s interests include AI security and trustworthy AI, human factors in cyber security, and protection of critical infrastructures.