Keynote speakers

Prof. Dong-Seong Kim

Kumoh National Institute of Technology, South Korea

Dong-Seong Kim (Senior Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 2003. From 1994 to 2003, he worked as a full-time researcher at ERC-ACI at Seoul National University. From March 2003 to February 2005, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Wireless Network Laboratory in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, NY. Between 2007 and 2009, he was a visiting professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, CA. He served as Dean of IACF from 2019 to 2022. He is currently a Professor with the Department of IT Convergence Engineering, School of Electronic Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gumi, South Korea. He is also the director of the KIT Convergence Research Institute and the ICT Convergence Research Center (ITRC and NRF advanced research center program), supported by the Korean government at Kumoh National Institute of Technology, and the director of NSLab Co. Ltd. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM. His primary research interests include realtime IoT and smart platforms, industrial wireless control networks, networked embedded systems, Fieldbus, metaverse, and blockchain.

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. 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.