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Haralambos (Haris) Mouratidis is Professor and Director of the Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS) at the University of Essex. He is also visiting professor at Stockholm University, Sweden and the Ionian University in Greece. Before, he was professor of secure software engineering and founding director of the Centre for Secure, Intelligent and Usable System (CSIUS) at the University of Brighton. He holds a B.Eng. (Hons) from the University of Wales, Swansea, and a M.Sc. and PhD from the University of Sheffield.
His research interests include cybersecurity data science (with focus on AI and machine learning and data analytics for cybersecurity risk management, threat modelling and data protection), intelligent data security engineering (with focus on the development of novel methodologies and techniques to improve privacy by design and security by design and AI-enabled model based security engineering), and Threat modelling and privacy protection for AI and data science (with focus on adversarial attacks on machine learning and machine learning facilitated adversarial mechanisms). He has published more than210 papers (h-index 39) and he has led and/or participated in projects of overall value of c.€30M, funded mostly by the UK and the EU.
He is Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and “Standards-maker” of the British Standards Institution for the “Privacy-By-Design” and “Software and Systems Engineering” national committees. He is elected Vice-Chair of the IFIP WG on Secure Engineering, Expert Fellow of the UK Digital Economy Network Plus, on the register of ENISA’s experts and was member of the ENISA WG on European Cybersecurity Skills Framework (ECSF), and member of working groups at ERCIM, IFIP, and the BCS.
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Andrew Adamatzky holds the position of Professor of Unconventional Computing and serves as the Director of the Unconventional Computing Laboratory within the Department of Computer Science at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. His research spans a diverse range of areas, including molecular computing, reaction-diffusion computing, collision-based computing, cellular automata, slime mould computing, massive parallel computation, applied mathematics, complexity, nature-inspired optimization, collective intelligence and robotics, bionics, computational psychology, nonlinear science, novel hardware, and future and emergent computation. Adamatzky has authored seven books, notably including ‘Reaction-Diffusion Computing,’ ‘Dynamics of Crow Minds,’ and ‘Physarum Machines.’ Additionally, he has edited 22 books in computing, with significant contributions to works such as ‘Collision Based Computing,’ ‘Game of Life Cellular Automata,’ and ‘Memristor Networks.’ In the realm of art, he has produced a series of influential artworks featured in the atlas ‘Silence of Slime Mould’ and `Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy’. Adamatzky holds key editorial roles as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of ‘J of Cellular Automata’ and ‘J of Unconventional Computing.’ Furthermore, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of `Parallel Processing Letters’ and ‘Int J Parallel, Emergent, Distributed Systems’.
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John MacIntyre is Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence at a number of universities around the world and was a senior leader at the University of Sunderland, from where he retired as Pro Vice Chancellor in 2023 after 30 years in Higher Education. He has published over 200 papers on applied artificial intelligence, engineering, computer science, management and leadership, and has supervised 12 PhDs and numerous postgraduate research masters projects. He was a Governor at East Durham College for eight years, and has served on numerous regional and national charities and other representative bodies, including several years as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Association of College and University Entrepreurs (NACUE) which promotes entrepreneurship including curriculum development and mentoring in both FE and HE institutions across the UK and in Europe. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Neural Computing & Applications, one of the world’s leading peer-reviewed journals in applied artificial intelligence, a role he has held since 1996, and is co-Editor-in-Chief for AI and Ethics, a peer-reviewed journal he established with his long-standing colleague Professor Larry Medsker of Geoge Washington University in the USA in 2020. AI and Ethics has rapidly become recognised as a leading publication for peer-review work on the ethical issues emerging from the developments in artificial intelligence and related technologies. John is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (FRSA), a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS), a member of the International Neural Network Society (MINNS), and a Chartered Engineeer (CEng).