Babak Akhgar - Emerging Trends in ICT Security

Babak Akhgar

Hamid R. Arabnia

Ben Brewster

Richard Hill

Hamid Jahankhani

Kayleigh Johnson

Eleanor Lockley

Reza Nasserzadeh

Simon Polovina

Jawed Siddiqi

Andrew Staniforth

Babak Akhgar

Babak Akhgar is Professor of Informatics and Director of the Centre of excellence in terrorism, resilience, intelligence & organised crime research (CENTRIC) at Sheffield Hallam University, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. Professor Akhgar graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in Software Engineering. After gaining considerable commercial experience as a Strategy Analyst and Methodology Director for several companies, he consolidated this experience by obtaining a masters degree (with distinction) in Information Systems in Management and a PhD in Information Systems. He has more than 100 referred publications in international journals and conference proceedings. He is on the editorial boards of three international journals, and is chair and programme committee member of several international conferences. He has extensive hands-on experience in development, management, and execution of large international KM and security initiatives (e.g., combating terrorism and organized crime, cybersecurity, public order, and cross-cultural ideology polarization). He also has an established network of collaborators in various academic and law enforcement agencies locally, nationally, and internationally. The impact of his research on e-security, manifested in a multi-lingual portal for business crime reduction, and his research on combating organized crime and terrorism led to an international research project with partners such as Europol and a number of LEAs (with a project value of 3.2 M Euro). He has recently written and edited a number of books on intelligence management and national security.

Hamid R. Arabnia

Hamid R. Arabnia received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Kent (Canterbury, England) in 1987 and since October of that year has been a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Georgia (Georgia, USA). Professor Arabnias research interests include parallel and distributed processing techniques and algorithms, supercomputing, interconnection networks, and applications. He is is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Supercomputing (one of the oldest journals in computer science), published by Springer, and has been Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (20082011). He is also on the editorial and advisory boards of over 35 other journals. Professor Arabnia is the founding chair of the annual World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP), and editor of Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (Springer), and Transactions on Computer Science and Applied Computing (Elsevier). Prof. Arabnia has edited/co-edited over 100 books; his most recent co-edited book (Software Tools and Algorithms for Biological Systems) is among the top 25 percent most downloaded Springer e-books. Prof. Arabnia has published extensively in journals and refereed conference proceedings. He has over 350 publications (journals, proceedings, editorships) in his area of research. He has been a PI/Co-PI on approximately $7.5 M worth of externally funded projects/initiatives. During his tenure as Graduate Coordinator/Director of Computer Science (20022009), Dr. Arabnia secured the largest level of funding in the history of the department for supporting graduate students (PhD, MS).