Keynote Speakers
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| Prof.David Keyes |
| Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and Director of Extreme Computing Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| Short Biography: David Keyes directs the Extreme Computing Research Center at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He works at the interface between parallel computing and the numerical analysis of PDEs, with a focus on scalable implicit solvers. Newton-Krylov-Schwarz (NKS) and Additive Schwarz Preconditioned Inexact Newton (ASPIN) are methods he helped name and is helping to popularize. Before joining KAUST as a founding dean in 2009, he led multi-institutional scalable solver software projects in the SciDAC and ASCI programs of the US DOE, ran university collaboration programs at LLNL’s ISCR and NASA’s ICASE, and taught at Columbia, Old Dominion, and Yale Universities. He is a Fellow of SIAM, AMS, and AAAS, and has been awarded the ACM Gordon Bell Prize, the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award, and the SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession. He earned a BSE in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton in 1978 and a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard in 1984 |
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| Prof.Mohamed-Slim Alouini |
| Associate Dean and Professor of Electrical Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| Short Biography: Mohamed-Slim Alouini was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1998. He served as a faculty member in various universities such as University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, in Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar. Then he appointed as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia in 2009. His current research interests include the Design and Performance Analysis of Diversity Combining Techniques, MIMO Techniques, Multi-hop/Cooperative Communications Systems, Optical Wireless Communication Systems, Cognitive Radio Systems, and multi-resolution, hierarchical and Adaptive Modulation Schemes. |
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| Prof.Muhammad Khurram Khan |
| Professor of Cybersecurity, Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| Short Biography: Prof. Muhammad Khurram Khan is currently at the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is the founder and CEO of the ‘Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research’ (http://www.gfcyber.org), which is an independent, non-profit, and non-partisan cybersecurity think tank based in Washington D.C. He is the Editor-in-Chief of a well-reputed International journal ‘Telecommunication Systems’ published by Springer with its recent impact factor of 1.542 (JCR 2017). Furthermore, he is the editor of several international journals, including, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE Access, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Journal of Network & Computer Applications, PLOS ONE, Electronic Commerce Research, and IET Wireless Sensor Systems. Prof. Khurram is the recipient of King Saud University Award for Scientific Excellence (Research Productivity) in May 2015. He is also a recipient of King Saud University Award for Scientific Excellence (Inventions, Innovations, and Technology Licensing) in May 2016. He has published more than 350 papers in the journals and conferences of international repute. In addition, he is an inventor of 10 US/PCT patents. His research areas of interest are Cybersecurity, digital authentication, biometrics, IoT security, and technological innovation management. He is a fellow of the IET (UK), fellow of the BCS (UK), fellow of the FTRA (Korea), senior member of the IEEE (USA), member of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, member of the IEEE Communications Society, member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Security & Privacy, member of the IEEE IoT Community, and member of the IEEE Cybersecurity Community. He is also the Vice Chair of IEEE Communications Society Saudi Chapter. He is a distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE. His detailed profile can be visited at www.professorkhurram.com |
