Secure and Smart Cyber-Physical Systems
暫譯: 安全與智慧的網路物理系統

網路安全在物聯網 (IoT) 和網路物理系統 (CPS) 中是至關重要的，因為這些系統的互聯性和通常的關鍵性。安全與智慧的網路物理系統深入探討了在物聯網和網路物理系統背景下基於人工智慧/機器學習 (AI/ML) 的安全應用。

Uttam Ghosh joined Meharry Medical College as an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity in the School of Applied Computational Sciences in January 2022. Earlier, he worked as an Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, where he was awarded the 2018 - 2019 Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow (JFTF). Dr. Ghosh obtained his MS and PhD in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India in 2009 and 2013 respectively. He has post-doctoral experiences at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Fordham University, and Tennessee State University. He has received research funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), US National Security Agency (NSA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF). Dr. Ghosh has published over 120 papers at reputed international journals including IEEE Transactions, Elsevier, Springer, IET, and Wiley, and in top international conferences sponsored by IEEE, ACM, and Springer. He has coedited and published 7 books: Internet of Things and Secure Smart Environments, Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics for Sustainable Future Smart Cities, Intelligent Internet of Things for Healthcare and Industry, Efficient Data Handling for Massive Internet of Medical Things, Deep Learning for Internet of Things Infrastructure, How COVID-19 is Accelerating the Digital Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities, and Security and Risk Analysis for Intelligent Edge Computing. Dr. Ghosh is listed in the Stanford-Elsevier list of the world's most-cited scholars, placing him among the top two percent of cited scientists. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of ACM.

Fortune Mhlanga is a proven leader with a strong track record of developing and managing organizations in the academic, private, and public sectors with a specific focus on computing and technology. He joined Meharry Medical College in August 2020 as executive director of the Data Science Institute (DSI). In February 2021 he became the founding dean of the School of Applied Computational Sciences (SACS), the fourth school in Meharry's proud history, after leading the transition of the DSI to the school level. He also serves as founding senior vice president of the Enterprise Data and Analytics (EDA) division whose establishment, in March 2022, posited an advanced technology-driven enterprise data ecosystem that plays a critical role in achieving success in programs and initiatives across the entire Meharry enterprise as it caters for all data storage, harmonization, management, stewardship, and business intelligence in Meharry's clinical, research, academic, and business enterprises. Previously, Mhlanga served as founding dean of the College of Computing and Technology and professor of computer science, data science, and software engineering at Lipscomb University. His tenure at Lipscomb began in August 2011 as director of the then newly-established School of Computing and Informatics. He led the school through a period of growth that resulted in its transformation into the College of Computing and Technology in 2014, offering eleven bachelor's degrees and three master's degrees. Before his appointment at Lipscomb, Mhlanga was a professor of computer science in the School of IT & Computing (SITC) from August 2007 to July 2011. He also served as director of the SITC during his last year at ACU. From 2002-to 2007, he served as associate professor and subsequently professor and founding chair of the computer science department at Faulkner University. Mhlanga was the founding director of the Informatics and Electronics Institute at the Scientific and Industrial Research and Development Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe, from to 1998-2002. He was a senior lecturer in the computer science department at the University of Zimbabwe from 1993 to 1994 and subsequently served as chair of the department until December 1997. Mhlanga has published widely in computing, technology, and computational sciences including modeling and simulation. His experience also includes several domestic and internationally-based academic and research fellowships. In 2017, he received the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship through which he provided curriculum co-development and helped train and mentor the research and teaching of graduate students and faculty at Ebonyi State University in Abakaliki, Nigeria. He did similar work in 2010 for the University of Zimbabwe through a fellowship with the International Organization for Migration. In 2000 and 2001, he represented Zimbabwe in a Commonwealth Expert Group on IT which was established at the instance of the Commonwealth High-Level Review Group by Commonwealth Heads of State to examine the constraints preventing the wider adoption of ICT in developing countries and possible ways of overcoming them. Subsequently, he spearheaded Zimbabwe's Knowledge Economy initiative whose overall purpose is to promote and encourage Zimbabwe to invest in its national information infrastructures so that it can participate in knowledge-based development and experience the predicted social and economic benefits. Mhlanga earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from Harding University in 1984, and his master's and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1989 and 1993, respectively. His Ph.D. work focused on database systems and resulted in the conception of a Data Model and Query Algebra for Office Documents.

Danda B. Rawat is the Executive Director, Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy (RITA) - a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) of the US Department of Defense, Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies, a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS), Founding Director of the Howard University Data Science & Cybersecurity Center, Founding Director of DoD Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (CoE-AIML), Director of Cyber-security and Wireless Networking Innovations (CWiNs) Research Lab, Graduate Program Director of Howard CS Graduate Programs and Director of Graduate Cybersecurity Certificate Program at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA. Dr. Rawat is engaged in research and teaching in the areas of cybersecurity, machine learning, big data analytics and wireless networking for emerging networked systems including cyber-physical systems (eHealth, energy, transportation), Internet-of-Things, multi domain operations, smart cities, software defined systems and vehicular networks. He has secured over $110 million as a PI and over $18 million as a Co-PI in research funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US National Security Agency (NSA), US Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), National Institute of Health (NIH), DoD and DoD Research Labs, Industry (Microsoft, Intel, VMware, PayPal, Mastercard, Meta, BAE, Raytheon etc.) and private Foundations. Dr. Rawat is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award in 2016, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Scientific Leadership Award in 2017, Provost's Distinguished Service Award 2021, Researcher Exemplar Award 2019 and Graduate Faculty Exemplar Award 2019 from Howard University, the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Summer Faculty Visiting Fellowship 2017, Outstanding Research Faculty Award (Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activity) at GSU in 2015, the Best Paper Awards (IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICII, IEEE DroneCom and BWCA) and Outstanding PhD Researcher Award in 2009. He has delivered over 50 Keynotes and invited speeches at international conferences and workshops. Dr. Rawat has published over 300 scientific/technical articles and 11 books. He has been serving as an Editor/Guest Editor for over 100 international journals including the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Service Computing, Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Network Science and Engineering and Technical Editors of IEEE Network. He has been in Organizing Committees for several IEEE flagship conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE CNS, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM and so on. He served as a technical program committee (TPC) member for several international conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE CCNC, IEEE GreenCom, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC and IEEE VTC conferences. He served as a Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Savannah Section from 2013 to 2017. Dr. Rawat received the Ph.D. degree from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Rawat is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, a member of ASEE and AAAS, and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2021- 2023).

**烏塔姆·戈什**於2022年1月加入梅哈里醫學院，擔任應用計算科學學院的網路安全副教授。在此之前，他曾在范德堡大學的計算機科學系擔任實踐助理教授，並於2018-2019年獲得初級教學獎學金（JFTF）。戈什博士於2009年和2013年分別在印度理工學院（IIT）卡哈拉古爾獲得電子與電氣通信工程的碩士和博士學位。他在伊利諾伊大學香檳分校、福特漢姆大學和田納西州立大學擁有博士後經驗。他曾獲得美國國家科學基金會（NSF）、美國國家安全局（NSA）、美國國家航空暨太空總署（NASA）和瑟古德·馬歇爾學院基金（TMCF）的研究資助。戈什博士在包括IEEE Transactions、Elsevier、Springer、IET和Wiley等知名國際期刊上發表了超過120篇論文，並在IEEE、ACM和Springer贊助的頂級國際會議上發表。 他共同編輯並出版了7本書籍：《物聯網與安全智慧環境》、《可持續未來智慧城市的機器智能與數據分析》、《醫療與工業的智慧物聯網》、《大規模醫療物聯網的高效數據處理》、《物聯網基礎設施的深度學習》、《COVID-19如何加速數位革命：挑戰與機遇》和《智慧邊緣計算的安全與風險分析》。戈什博士被列入史丹佛-Elsevier全球最被引用學者名單，位居被引用科學家的前2%。他是IEEE的資深會員及ACM的會員。

**福琦·姆蘭加**是一位經驗豐富的領導者，在學術界、私營部門和公共部門發展和管理組織方面有著良好的記錄，特別專注於計算和技術。他於2020年8月加入梅哈里醫學院，擔任數據科學研究所（DSI）的執行董事。2021年2月，他成為應用計算科學學院（SACS）的創院院長，這是梅哈里驕傲歷史中的第四所學院，並在將DSI轉型為學院層級後擔任此職位。他還擔任企業數據與分析（EDA）部門的創始高級副總裁，該部門於2022年3月成立，建立了一個以先進技術驅動的企業數據生態系統，對於實現梅哈里整個企業的計劃和倡議的成功至關重要，涵蓋了梅哈里的臨床、研究、學術和商業企業的所有數據存儲、協調、管理、監管和商業智能。此前，姆蘭加曾擔任利普斯科姆大學計算與技術學院的創院院長及計算機科學、數據科學和軟體工程的教授。他於2011年8月開始在利普斯科姆任職，擔任當時新成立的計算與資訊學院的院長。他帶領學院經歷了一段增長期，最終於2014年轉型為計算與技術學院，提供11個學士學位和3個碩士學位。在利普斯科姆任職之前，姆蘭加於2007年8月至2011年7月在IT與計算學院擔任計算機科學教授，並在ACU的最後一年擔任該學院的院長。從2002年到2007年，他擔任福克納大學計算機科學系的副教授，隨後成為教授及創系主任。姆蘭加曾於1998年至2002年擔任津巴布韋哈拉雷科學與工業研究發展中心資訊學與電子學研究所的創始主任。他於1993年至1994年在津巴布韋大學計算機科學系擔任高級講師，並於1997年12月之前擔任該系主任。姆蘭加在計算、技術和計算科學領域發表了大量論文，包括建模和模擬。他的經驗還包括多個國內和國際的學術及研究獎學金。2017年，他獲得了卡內基非洲僑民獎學金，通過該獎學金，他協助共同開發課程並幫助培訓和指導尼日利亞阿巴卡利基的埃博尼州立大學的研究生和教職員。在2010年，他通過國際移民組織的獎學金為津巴布韋大學做了類似的工作。在2000年和2001年，他代表津巴布韋參加了英聯邦IT專家小組，該小組是由英聯邦國家元首召集的高級審查小組成立的，旨在檢查阻礙發展中國家廣泛採用ICT的限制及克服這些限制的可能方法。隨後，他主導了津巴布韋的知識經濟倡議，其總體目的是促進和鼓勵津巴布韋投資於其國家信息基礎設施，以便參與基於知識的發展並體驗預期的社會和經濟利益。姆蘭加於1984年獲得哈丁大學的計算機科學學士學位，並於1989年和1993年分別獲得新澤西理工學院的計算機科學碩士和博士學位。他的博士研究專注於數據庫系統，並導致了辦公文檔的數據模型和查詢代數的概念。

**丹達·B·拉瓦特**是戰術自主研究所（RITA）的執行主任，該所是美國國防部的大学附属研究中心（UARC），同時擔任研究與研究生學習的副院長，並在電氣工程與計算機科學系（EECS）擔任全職教授。他是霍華德大學數據科學與網路安全中心的創始主任，也是國防部人工智慧與機器學習卓越中心（CoE-AIML）的創始主任，並擔任網路安全與無線網路創新（CWiNs）研究實驗室的主任，還是霍華德大學計算機科學研究生項目的研究生項目主任及網路安全證書項目的主任。拉瓦特博士從事網路安全、機器學習、大數據分析和無線網路等新興網路系統（包括網路物理系統、電子健康、能源、交通）、物聯網、多域作戰、智慧城市、軟體定義系統和車輛網路的研究和教學。他作為首席研究員（PI）獲得了超過1.1億美元的研究資金，作為共同首席研究員（Co-PI）獲得了超過1800萬美元的資金，資助來源包括美國國家科學基金會（NSF）、美國國土安全部（DHS）、美國國家安全局（NSA）、美國能源部、國家核安全管理局（NNSA）、國家衛生研究院（NIH）、國防部及其研究實驗室、行業（微軟、英特爾、VMware、PayPal、萬事達卡、Meta、BAE、雷神等）和私人基金會。拉瓦特博士於2016年獲得NSF CAREER獎，2017年獲得國土安全部（DHS）科學領導獎，2021年獲得霍華德大學教務長卓越服務獎，2019年獲得研究者典範獎和研究生教職員典範獎，2017年獲得美國空軍研究實驗室（AFRL）夏季教職員訪問獎學金，2015年獲得喬治亞州立大學的傑出研究教職員獎（學術活動卓越獎），以及2009年獲得最佳論文獎（IEEE CCNC、IEEE ICII、IEEE DroneCom和BWCA）和傑出博士研究者獎。他在國際會議和研討會上發表了超過50次主題演講和受邀演講。拉瓦特博士發表了超過300篇科學/技術文章和11本書籍。他擔任了超過100本國際期刊的編輯/客座編輯，包括IEEE認知通信與網路交易的副編輯、IEEE服務計算交易的副編輯、IEEE物聯網期刊的編輯、IEEE網路科學與工程交易的副編輯以及IEEE網路的技術編輯。他參與了多個IEEE旗艦會議的組織委員會，如IEEE INFOCOM、IEEE CNS、IEEE ICC、IEEE GLOBECOM等。他曾擔任多個國際會議的技術程序委員會（TPC）成員，包括IEEE INFOCOM、IEEE GLOBECOM、IEEE CCNC、IEEE GreenCom、IEEE ICC、IEEE WCNC和IEEE VTC會議。他於2013年至2017年擔任IEEE薩凡納分會執行委員會的副主席。拉瓦特博士在維吉尼亞州諾福克的老多明尼加大學獲得博士學位。他是IEEE和ACM的資深會員，ASEE和AAAS的會員，以及工程與技術學會（IET）的院士。他是ACM的傑出演講者（2021-2023）。