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Dr. Sandeep Joshi is a highly accomplished academician with extensive experience in teaching, research, and academic administration. He holds a B.E., M.Tech., and Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering and is presently heading Atal Incubation Centre at Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ), India. With over 24+ years of academic and administrative experience, Dr. Joshi has served in leadership roles, including Head of the Department and Deputy Director - Society Connect. He is actively involved in professional organizations as a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM. He has played a key role in organizing and chairing sessions at international conferences and has been instrumental in hosting the ICCT and SpacSec conference series.

Dr. Joshi’s research contributions include over 60 publications in reputed international journals and conferences. His research interests focus on security, networking, and cloud computing. He has served as a guest editor for IJCS (Scopus Indexed – Taylor & Francis) and has reviewed numerous research papers for high-impact journals and conferences.

A sought-after keynote speaker, Dr. Joshi has delivered lectures at prestigious events such as the International Conference on Information and Systems in Peru and the Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (GCAIA 2020) in India. He has presented research at global forums across the USA, Japan, Italy, Norway, Cyprus, Morocco, and Cambodia.

Beyond academia, Dr. Joshi is committed to societal development and environmental sustainability. He actively engages in initiatives aimed at improving education, fostering innovation, and promoting a greener environment. His contributions to research, education, and community service have made him a respected leader in the field of Computer Science & Engineering.

Professor Boris Sokolov, D.Sc. (Engineering) and Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, is a Chief Researcher at SPIIRAS (part of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and a two-time recipient of the Russian Federation Government Prize in Science and Technology. He is the founder of a new scientific field within the automation of control processes for complex technical systems; this field focuses on the comprehensive description and study of adaptive structural-functional synthesis and the management of the evolution of self-organizing information systems in critical applications. He is listed among the outstanding scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology on the international research portal Research.com (https://research.com/u/boris-sokolov); he has authored 5 textbooks, 7 monographs, and over 850 scientific articles, papers, and reports, and has supervised 16 Candidates of Technical Sciences and 5 Doctors of Technical Sciences.

Sergey A. Petrenko is a Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, and Group Leader at the Scientific Center for Information Technologies and Artificial Intelligence, Sirius University of Science and Technology (Sirius Federal Territory, Russia). He has designed numerous national information security systems for critical information infrastructure, including three national information security threat monitoring centers and two situation-crisis centers; three specialized information security service providers (MSSP and MDR) and two virtual trusted network operators (MVNO); over ten government and corporate segments of the System for Detection, Prevention, and Response to Computer Attacks (SOPKA); and five threat monitoring and incident response centers (CERT/CSIRT) for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT/IoT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS/SCADA). He heads the state-recognized scientific school "Mathematical and Software Support for Critical Infrastructure of the Russian Federation," serves as the scientific editor of the journal "Confident. Data Protection", and holds leadership positions in the Interregional Public Organization "Association of Information Security Heads" and the independent non-profit organization "Russian Union of IT Directors" (SODIT). He is the author or co-author of 17 monographs and over 750 articles on information security. In 2024, he received the "Big ZUBR" and "Golden ZUBR" awards for his contributions to implementing Russian national projects in the field of information security.

Sergey V. Bezzateev received the Diploma in Computer Science from Aerospace Instrumentation Institute of Leningrad, Soviet Union in 1980. In 1987 he received Ph.D. degree in Information Theory from the Aerospace Instrumentation Institute of Leningrad and in 2011 he received Doctor of science degree in Information Theory from the Saint-Petersburg University of Aerospace Instrumentation. From 1980 till 1993 he was employed by Aerospace Instrumentation Institute. He spent 1993-1995 as researcher at the Nagoya University, Japan, where he worked on Prof. Yoshihiro Iwadare Laboratory. From 1995 he was Associate Professor at Department of Information technologies and Information Security, State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI), Saint Petersburg, Russia. From 2004 till 2007 he was Project Leader in Joint Laboratory Samsung-SUAI on Information Security in Wireless Networks. From 2010, he was Professor and the head of Department of Information Security in SUAI. In 2013 he obtained the grant NordSecMobile 2013 and worked at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Tartu University. From 2017 he becomes the Professor and director of Laboratory of Cryptography Methods for Security in ITMO University too. In 2022 he become Honoured Worker of Education of the Russian Federation. His main research interests include information security, coding theory and cryptography.