Niranjan Suri is the Associate for Research in the Military Information Sciences Division at the US Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and an Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC). He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of West Florida and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Lancaster University. His research interests include Internet of Things, Network and Communication Protocols, Distributed Systems, and Information Management. He has authored or co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed papers, holds multiple patents, and has co-edited two books.
Konrad Wrona is a Principal Scientist at the NATO Cyber Security Centre in The Hague, Netherlands, where he leads the Research, Policy, and Innovation (RPI) team. He also holds a research position at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. Konrad has more than 20 years of experience in both industrial (Ericsson Research and SAP Research) and academic (RWTH Aachen University, Media Lab Europe, and Rutgers University) research and development environments. He earned his M.Eng. in
Telecommunications from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 2005. He is an author and co-author of over a hundred publications and holds several patents. His professional interests include a wide range of security issues in information systems, communication networks, wireless and mobile applications, distributed systems, and the Internet of Things. Konrad Wrona is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Senior Member of the ACM, and a member of IACR.
Zbigniew Zielinski received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1988 and his D.Sc. (habilitation) from Military University of Technology (MUT) in 2014. He currently holds a professor position at the MUT in Warsaw. He is an author and a co-author of over ninety papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings. His current research interests include computer systems dependability and security, fault-tolerant systems, Internet of Things, as well formal methods for ICT systems modeling and validation. He participated both as a team member and a project leader in several R&D projects concerned embedded real-time computer systems, dependability and cybersecurity of CPS systems. Currently he is an expert of the Polish Accreditation Committee and a Member of the IEEE.