Keynote Speakers

Prof. Ali Kashif Bashir

Professor of Computer Networks and Cybersecurity, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Talk Title: Artificial Intelligence to achieve predictive analysis for the transformation of Industry 4.0

Prof. Ali holds the position of Professor of Computer Networks and Cybersecurity at the Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. Additionally, he serves as the leader of the Future Networks lab. Throughout his career, Ali has presented more than 45 keynote speeches at international conferences, produced over 300 research articles, and successfully overseen multimillion-dollar projects worldwide. His students have won best paper awards, best PhD thesis awards, and several other recognitions. His research interests include internet of things/cyber physical systems, smart infrastructures, cybersecurity, and AI algorithms to solve interdisciplinary problems of networks and security. Ali is member of Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), UK;  an expert reviewer of EPSRC, UK, Irish Research Council, Ireland, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada, MITACS, Accelerate, Canada, Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), and Commonwealth, UK. He enjoys 7 honorary and adjunct professor positions across the globe. He was listed as IEEE Featured Author in 2021, highly cited 2% researchers by Stanford University 2021 and 2022, shortlisted for Clarivate Highly Cited award 2023. He is AE of over 10 international ISI indexed journals including two IEEE Transactions, and Scientific Reports, Nature, and EIC of IEEE Technology, Policy and Ethics, and Journal of Autonomous Intelligence.

Prof. Ahmed G. Radwan

Vice-President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, Nile University, Egypt.

Talk Title: Learning Noise: Neural Architectures for Pseudo-Random Number Generation in Security Applications

Prof. Ahmed G. Radwan (SMIEEE, Fellow-AAS) is the Vice-President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, Nile University, Egypt. Previously he was Center Director of NISC, the Nanoelectronics Integrated Systems Center (Nile University), Acting Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (Nile University), Director of TCCD center (Cairo University), Counselor (IEEE-NUSB), Postdoc Fellow (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) Visiting Professor (McMaster Univ., Canada). He is the Founder of NILES International Conference https://www.nilesconf.org, and Undergraduate Research Forum (UGRF) https://ugrf.nu.edu.eg/. He has more than 480 indexed publications, +12000 citations and 56 H-index according to Scopus. He is Co-inventor of 6 US patents, author/co-author of 13 international books and 26 book chapters in the highly ranked publishers. Prof. Radwan is one of the leading professors in the fractional-order (T.21555) and chaotic circuits tracks worldwide. He is an associate editor in 4 prestigious Scopus-indexed journals. Some of his prestigious Awards: The State Encouragement Award (2012), The State Excellence Award (2018), Abdul Hameed Shoman Award (2015), Scopus Award in Engineering and Technology (2019), Prof. Tarek Khalil Award for Distinguished Leadership from Nile university (2022) and many more. He was a member of many international/national scientific committees/councils (MC Observer to COST Action CA15225 (COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)). He is selected as a member in national applied research council (ASRT-Egypt), and national committee of mathematics (ASRT-Egypt), Technical Committee member in nonlinear circuits & systems (IEEE-CAS), Egyptian mathematical society, and fractional calculus and applications group. He was selected as one out of 15-top researchers in national-level in all disciplines for the first councils of Egyptian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS) and one from 40 experts in the Egyptian Center for the Advancement of Science, Technology and Innovation (ECASTI). He managed funded projects with budgets of over 1M$ and supervised more than 55 (MSc & PhD) students where 11 received the best thesis from their universities in different research tracks. Last year, he was nominated and participated as Africa Representative in the International Olympiad Committee in Engineering Sciences, Greece 2023, He has been included in the Stanford 2% list for both the single/whole career in the last 7 consecutive years (2019–2024).

Prof. Huseyin Seker

Chair of the Information Systems Department, University of Sharjah, UAE

Talk Title: The Power of Data and The Things It Empowers

Prof. Huseyin Seker is a research-oriented and enterprise-focused academic and manager with both academic and industry experiences in data-driven digital transformation, data science, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and emerging & disruptive technologies & systems. He completed his PhD in Biomedical Computing at Coventry University (UK) in 2005 (fully funded by Coventry University in the UK). He has published well over 100 peer-reviewed articles, and developed and deployed several data-driven AI/ML tools in academia and industry, and has been involved with a portfolio of collaborative research, enterprise and teaching & learning projects of over £25M as PI, Co-I and international researcher in collaboration with universities and companies in the UK and abroad. He is recognised among the top 1% of global researchers in Bioinformatics for productivity by ScolarGPS. He was one of the founding members of the UK’s flagship project “The Institute of Coding”, under which the activities (e.g., “Teach the Nation to Code”, “Data Science for Everyone”) he developed and organised led to the successful training program for the next generation of digital transformation leaders, and were supported, attended, and highly commented by several organisations, including Members of Parliament in the UK. In the United Kingdom, in addition to his successful research & knowledge exchange and teaching & learning activities, he has had an extensive successful leadership career in the UK Higher Education sector, serving as the Head of Enterprise and Engagement, the Faculty Head of Research Operations & Research Students and Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise at several UK-based institutes. Under his leadership, he has established several strategic partnerships with institutes and companies around the world, which have resulted in increased income and notable impacts on the economy, society, and environment. Professor Seker has actively got involved with enterprise organisations, contributing to regional and national developments as an advisory board member. He has also served as a member of the judging panel for industry excellence awards in digitech. He is currently a member of UK-based AI Forge’s AI start-up selection committee. He has also co-founded BuboAI, an AI Startup with a focus on fintech in the UK. Professor Seker has recently joined the University of Sharjah (UAE) working as a Professor and Head of the Department of Information Systems of the College of Computing and Informatics.