Dr. Frank Breitinger

Associate Professor at University of Lausanne.

He received his B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Applied Sciences in Mannheim (2009, Germany), his M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (2011, Germany), and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Technical University Darmstadt (2014). He was self-employed for 5 years, a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to lead NIST SP 800-168 on Approximate Matching and interned as a software developer for the University of Maryland and the Sobedi GmbH (Mannheim, Germany). From 9/2014 to 8/2019 he was an Assistant Professor of computer science at the University of New Haven, CT before accepting an Assistant Professor position at the Hilti Chair for Data and Application Security at the University of Liechtenstein (6/2019-4/2021). He joined the University of Lausanne (CH) in April 2021 as a tenured Associate Professor.  His research focus is cybersecurity and digital forensics where he has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, chaired an international conference in Manhattan, and serves as a reviewer on several program committees and organizing committees. 

 

Dr. Parag Kulkarni

Associate Professor at United Arab Emirates University

He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer and Network Engineering, College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University. Before joining UAEU, he has spent a decade at the Toshiba’s Telecommunications Research Laboratory (TRL), Bristol, U.K., where he has led a team of researchers and was actively engaged in research, intellectual property generation, technology transfer, standardization, and outreach activities in wide ranging areas, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), machine to machine (M2M) communications, ICT for sustainability, smart cities, urban mobility, and next generation wireless systems. He is a co-recipient of the Toshiba Research and Development Center Award for his work on wireless mesh networks for smart metering which made its way into a product and for which he was also nominated to represent Toshiba Corporation along with the Chairman and the CEO of Toshiba at the inaugural edition of the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering event held at Buckingham Palace, London.