Conference Founding Chair
Dr. Prakash Ranganathan, Associate Professor
Director, Center for Cyber Security Research
University of North Dakota
C2SR Director's Message
Cybersecurity is one of the defining issues of our time. Can we keep our networks, devices, and critical systems open, safe, and secure while maintaining personal privacy?
Cutting-edge research activities at the universities and industry-supported social and technical activities - as well as education and workforce development programs - are needed to protect our nation and personal security. October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. We organize annual events such as CARS Symposium, C2SR Workshop, and Colloquia Series aims to familiarize ourselves with emerging cyber issues, cyber hygiene, and best practices to avoid exploitations of data or personal identities or asset protection. This is the perfect time of year for individuals, businesses, and other organizations to do their part to protect their networks, devices, and data from those threats. To conclude, Cyber Security is a shared responsibility, so let’s work together and form new partnerships!
Conference Co-Chairs
Dr. Jielun Zhang
Assistant Professor
University of North Dakota
Dr. Sicong Shao
Assistant Professor
University of North Dakota
Dr. Utku Kose,
Int’l Exchange Researcher,
University of North Dakota
Dr. Neena Goveas
Professor,
BITS Pilani K K Birla Goa
Dr. Tapadhir Das
Assistant Professor
University of the Pacific
Dr. Ryan Striker
Assistant Professor
University of North Dakota
Dr. Tingjun Lei
Assistant Professor
University of North Dakota
Technical Program Committee
Izzat Alsmadi, Ph.D.
Professor
Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Kanwalinderjit Kaur, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Arkansas State University
Massimiliano Albanese, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
George Mason University
Donghoon Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Arkansas State University
Kevin Jin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Arkansas
Chris Farnell, Ph.D.
Faculty
University of Arkansas
Paul Moriano, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
ORNL
Taesic Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Craig Reiger, Ph.D.
Scientist
Idaho National Laboratory
Laura J. Bottomley, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor
North Carolina State University
Prabuddha Chakraborty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Maine
Samah Saeed, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
City University of New York
Hossein Salehfar, Ph.D.
Professor
University of North Dakota
Tanushree Roy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Texas Tech University
Wei Qiu, Ph.D.
Lead Engineer
NERC
Timothy Hansen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
South Dakota State University
Zongjie Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Connecticut
Paul A. Kucera, Ph.D.
Scientist
UCAR
Thomas Stokke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of North Dakota
Diego Fregolent Mendes de Oliveira, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of North Dakota
Hassan Reza, Ph.D.
Professor
University of North Dakota
John Dirkman
VP Product Management
Resource Innovations
Kouhyar Tavakolian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of North Dakota
Debanjan Sadhukhan, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Game24x7
Sharan Kalwani
HPC Industry Specialist
Senior IEEE Member
Wen-Chen Hu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of North Dakota
Naima Kaabouch, Ph.D.
Professor
University of North Dakota
Kendal E. Nygard, Ph.D.
Director
Dakota Digital Academy
Dr. Farouk Zouari
Assistant Professor
University of Tunis El Manar
Luca Davoli, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Parma
Medha Pujari, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Western New England University
Ananth Ramaseri Chandra
Computer Science Instructor
Turtle Mountain College
Nagaraj V. Dhawrwadkar, Ph.D.
Lecturer
B.L.D.E.A’s College of Engg & Tech.
Hokeun Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
Sidd Kaza, Ph.D.
Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies
Towson University
Dr. Yuzhang Lin
Assistant Professor
New York University
Blair Taylor
Professor
Towson University
Nirupam Samanta
Lead Cybersecurity Engineer
Visa
Venkata Gopi Kolla
Lead Software Engineer
Salesforce Inc
Shalini Sudarsan
DevOps Engineering Manager
Kindercare Learning Companies
Vineeth Sai Narajala
Sr Security Engineer OWASP / AWS
Dr. M. Jaya Bharata Reddy
Professor,
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
Dipankar Saha
Principal Solutions Architect
RBC US Wealth Management
Surendra Narang Senior Manager of Cyber Security
Palo Alto Networks
Bhanu Prakash Reddy Rella
Senior Software Engineer
Walmart
Bapu S Bindumadhava
Center Head, POWERGRID Center of Excellence in Cyber Security
Gopi Krishna Maddali
Principal Architect
Optum
Swapnil Wawge
Senior Software Engineering Manager
Entrata
Sai Krishna Gunda
Software Engineer
Walmart Global Tech
Snahil Singh
Security Engineer
Shireesh Kumar Singh
Senior Software Engineer
IBM Cloud
Shivam Dhar
VP, Lead Security Engineer
JPMorganChase
Maunik Shah
Software Engineering Manager
Finance Chair
Jamison Jangula,
Cyber Security Analyst,
Center For Cyber Security Research, University of North Dakota
Award Chair
Craig Rieger, Threat Resilient Control System Innovator and Consultant, TRECS Consulting