Prof. David
Yau
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
David Yau obtained the B.Sc. from the Chinese University of Hong
Kong, and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, all in
computer science. Since 2013, he has been Professor in the Information
Systems Technology and Design pillar of the Singapore University of
Technology and Design. During 2010-2022, he was Distinguished Scientist at
the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore, where he was also
Cybersecurity Program Director. Prior to Singapore, he was Assistant
Professor and then Associate Professor of Computer Science at Purdue
University (West Lafayette). His research interests are in networked
computer systems, including the security and privacy of cyber-physical
systems. His papers have been selected as Best Paper winners (e.g., IEEE/ACM
IPSN 2017) or finalists in several conferences. He has served as TPC
co-chair or in the organizing committees of several international
conferences in computer networks. He is currently an Associate Editor for
ACM Trans. Sensor Networks. He was previously on the editorial boards of
IEEE Trans. Network Science and Engineering (awarded Excellent Editor in
2022), IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, and IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, Special
Section on Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Security. He has served in the
Management Committee of the Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium (SCC) and
chaired the SCC’s SIG in IoT and CPS security.
Prof Dr Abdullah Gani
University of Malaya, Malaysia
He obtains all his degrees from UK universities and works in various type of
educational institutions locally and overseas. His works were mainly on
Computer Networking and Artificial Intelligence with specific research areas
include Reinforcement Learning, Big Data Analytics, Mobile Cloud Computing,
cryptocurrencies and lately on Quantum Networking. He has published more
than 280 highly quality papers in highly reputable Tier 1 journals and
receiving a big number of citations. He was awarded as Highly Cited
Researcher by Elsevier for several years and was recognized as top 2% World
Scientist in Computer Science by Stanford University, and for several years.
At the national level, he serves as Fellow of Academy Science, Malaysia.