Panel Theme: CPS Security and Safety (16:00 - 17:30, May 29, 2017)
Moderator: Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USASajal K. Das is Chair of Computer Science and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair atMissouri University of Science and Technology. He served the NSF during 20082011 as a Program Director in Computer Networks and Systems division. His
research interests include wireless sensor networks, mobile and pervasive
computing, cyber-physical systems and smart environments, security, big data, IoT,
distributed and cloud computing, and social networks. Dr. Das has published extensively in theseareas (600+ papers, 4 books, 5 US patents) and has funded NSF projects on cyber-physical security.
His h-index is 75 with more than 24,500 citations. He is a recipient of 10 best paper awards and IEEE
Computer Society’s Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to sensor networks
and mobile computing. He serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile
Computing journal, and Associate Editor of several journals including IEEE Transactions on Mobile
Computing and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. He is (co-)founder of IEEE SMARTCOMP, IEEE
PerCom and IEEE WoWMoM conferences. Dr. Das is an IEEE Fellow.

Panelists:
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Jiannong Cao is currently a chair professor and head of the Department ofComputing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include
parallel and distributed computing, wireless networks and mobile computing, bigdata and cloud computing, pervasive computing, and fault tolerant computing. He
has co-authored 5 books, co-edited 9 books, and published over 500 papers inmajor international journals and conference proceedings. Dr. Cao is a fellow of the IEEE, a senior
member of China Computer Federation, and a member of ACM. He was the Chair of the TechnicalCommittee on Distributed Computing of IEEE Computer Society during 2012-2014. He has served asassociate editor of many journals, including ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions
on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems, IEEE Networks, and Pervasive and Mobile Computing. He is a (co-)founder of IEEE
SMARTCOMP and served on organizing/program committees for many international conferences.

Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Klara Nahrstedt is a Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor in Computer Science, andDirector of Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Her research interests include multimedia systems, tele-immersivesystems, trusted cyber-physical systems, QoS management in wired and wirelessnetworks, and distributed, and pervasive mobile systems. She is the recipient of theUniversity Scholar Award, the Humboldt Research Award, IEEE Computer Society TechnicalAchievement Award and ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow.
She is the member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina Society). She was the editor-inchief of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal; general co-chair of ACM Multimedia, ACM
NOSSDAV and IEEE PerCom; chair of ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia (2007-2013);
associate editor of ACM Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. She is amember of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) from 2014-2017, a subcommittee of CRA, andmember of the Illinois Governor’s Technology Advisory Board, subcommittee on data (2016).

Hayato Yamana, Waseda Univ, Japan
Hayato YAMANA received his Dr. Eng. degree at Waseda University in 1993. Hebegan his career at the Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL) of the former Ministry ofInternational Trade and Industry (MITI), and was seconded to MITI's Machineryand Information Industries Bureau for a year in 1996. He was subsequently
appointed as Associate Professor of Computer Science at Waseda University in
2000, and has been a professor since 2005. From 2003 to 2004, he was the chair of IEEE Computer
Society Japan Chapter. From 2015 to 2017, he is director of IPSJ (Information Processing Society ofJapan) and vice chairman of information and communication society of IEICE (the institute ofelectronics, information and communication engineers). At Waseda University, he has been deputy
Chief Information Officer and WasedaX project director since 2015. His research area is big data
analysis. Currently, his group engages in Japanese government funded project called “Secure Data
Sharing and Distribution Platform for Integrated Big Data Utilization - Handling all data withencryption.” For more information, please refer to http://www.yama.info.waseda.ac.jp/crest/.

Dario Bruneo, University of Messina, Italy
Dario Bruneo is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the Universityof Messina, Italy. The research activity of Dario Bruneo has been focused on thestudy of distributed systems with particular regards to the management ofadvanced service provisioning, to the system modeling and performanceevaluation. His current research topics include Cyber Physical Systems, Internet ofThings (and its application in Smart City scenarios), monitoring and evaluation of
Cloud computing systems, performance and reliability of complex systems. He has published over
100 papers in international journal and conferences and he is co-editor of the book "QuantitativeAssessments of Distributed Systems - Methodologies and Techniques" - Scrivener/Wiley. He has been
involved in several European projects and he is local coordinator of the "Embedded Systems & Smart
Manufacturing" CINI national Lab. He is co-founder of the startup SmartMe.io, a University spin-off
that develops innovative IoT solutions for smart environments.

Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA
Abhishek Dubey is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at Vanderbilt University, Senior Research Scientist at the Institute forSoftware-Integrated Systems and co-lead for the Vanderbilt Initiative for SmartCities Operations and Research (VISOR). He has over 15 years of experience in thearea of distributed systems engineering. His research interests including analysis,design and integration, and runtime management of geographically dispersed cyber-physicalapplication platforms. He is a senior member of the IEEE and has published over 100 peer-reviewed
articles. Abhishek received his PhD (2009) and MS (2005) degrees in Electrical Engineering fromVanderbilt University. He currently manages a number of projects in this area, such as Integration
Platform for Human Cyber-Physical Systems in Smart Cities, Social Computing Platform for MultiModal Transit, Integrated Safety Incident Forecasting, and Analysis, and Resilient Information
Architecture Platform for Smart Systems. His research is directed through SCOPE lab at Vanderbilt
University (scope.isis.vanderbilt.edu).