Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dong-Seong Kim

Kumoh National Institute of Technology, South Korea

Dong-Seong Kim is the CEO/CTO of NSLab Inc. and a full professor of the School of Electronic Engineering, KIT Kumoh National Institute of Technology (KIT) in South Korea. He is also the ICT-Convergence Research Center director at KIT. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 2003. From March 2003 to February 2005, he worked as a visiting scholar and researcher at the Wireless Network Laboratory in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University in NY, USA. From 2007 to 2009, he was a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.

Professor Kim has held several leadership positions, including Dean of the Industrial Academic Cooperation Foundation (2019–2022), Director of the KIT Convergence Technology Institute (2015–2019), and Director of the Military System Research Institute (2015, 2021–2022). He currently leads the Networked Systems Lab. He is also Vice President of the Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS) and President of the Military and Civil IT Convergence Society under KICS. He has contributed extensively to national R&D policy, serving as a National Research Council of Science and Technology committee member and as a planning lead for Defense ICT initiatives at NRF and IITP. As a life member of prominent organizations including ACM, AFCEA, IEIE, KICS, and KSII, Prof. Kim continues to advise key defense and technology bodies such as the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Science and ICT, and the Naval Ship Technology Research Institute.

His research interests include Industrial IoT and Blockchain technology, Real-time Embedded systems, and Industrial and military networks.

Further information: https://sites.google.com/view/profdskim 

Prof. David R. C. Hill

University of Clermont Auvergne, France

David R. C. Hill is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Clermont Auvergne (UCA), conducting his research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the LIMOS laboratory (UMR 6158). He earned his Ph.D. in 1993 and his Research Director Habilitation in 2000, both from Blaise Pascal University, where he later served as Vice President (2008-2012). He is also a former Director of the French Regional Computing Center (CRRI) (2008-2010) and has twice been appointed Deputy Director of the ISIMA Engineering Institute of Computer Science (2005-2007; 2018-2021) – ISIMA is part of Clermont Auvergne INP, the #1 Technology Hub in Central France. He currently serves as the Director of an international graduate track at Clermont Auvergne INP, overseeing four different Master’s programs. Prof. Hill has authored or co-authored more than 280 papers and has published several scientific books. He recently supervised research at CERN in High-Performance Computing.

Further information: https://isima.fr/~hill/ 

​Prof. Kosuke Takano

Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT), Japan

Kosuke Takano is a distinguished faculty member at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT), serving as a professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences. He specializes in data science and digital intellectual activity management. His research interest include search engine for multimedia data, filtering and rcommender systems, web search and data mining, human information interaction and personalized search, and database application in education, commerce, social network.

Prof. Amang Sudarsono

Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya

Amang Sudarsono received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering, telecommunication and multimedia program from the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Indonesia, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in communication network engineering from Okayama University, Japan, in 2011.

From 1997 to 2002, he was at the Network Engineering Division, Metro Cellular Nusantara, Ltd., Indonesia. He joined as a Lecturer with the Division of Telecommunication Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya (Electronics Engineering Polytechnic Institute of Surabaya), Indonesia, in 2002. His research interests include privacy-enhancing authentications (group signatures), network and information security, and cryptography.