Irc-Set 2022: Proceedings of the 8th IRC Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology, August 2022, Singapore

Dr. Huaqun Guo is Associate Professor of Singapore Institute of Technology, President of International Researchers Club, and Steering Committee Member for IRC Conference on Science Engineering and Technology (IRC-SET). Dr. Guo obtained her B.Eng and M.Eng from Tianjin University, and her M.Eng and PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS) respectively. She had worked as Senior Scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) for more than 16 years. Before joining I²R, she was a senior research staff at NUS and senior engineer at Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL). She has published 80+ referred papers in the international conferences, journals and books. Her research areas include network security, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) security, AI (artificial intelligence) for cyber security, blockchain, applied cryptography, vehicular networks and security, communications, and securityrisk analysis.

Professor Ian McLoughlin spent over 10 years working for the electronics R&D industry and 20 years in academia. He has worked and consulted in 5 countries on three continents and presented his work to government science ministers of UK, Russia, USA, Malaysia, Taiwan, New Zealand and to the President of Singapore. He became a Chartered Engineer (UK) in 1998, a Senior member of IEEE in 2004 a D'Ingenieur Europeen (EU) in 2008 and an IET Fellow in 2013. He has published over 250 refereed papers, four books and several book chapters in the fields of speech & audio, wireless communications and embedded systems. He is currently a Cluster Director in Singapore Institute of Technology.

Dr. Eyasu Getahun Chekole is currently a Research Fellow in Cybersecurity at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Previously, he was a Research Scientist in Cybersecurity at the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore, an Assistant Researcher in Cybersecurity at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Italy, a Software Engineer at Femar Consulting s.r.l in Italy, and a Software Engineer at the Information Network Security Assurance (INSA) in Ethiopia. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Singapore University of Technology and Design (in Singapore), an M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Trento (in Italy), and a B.Sc. in Computer Science & IT from Arba Minch University (in Ethiopia). His research interests include software and system security, memory safety, industrial control and cyber-physical systems security, IoT security, applied cryptography, and Blockchain.

Dr. Umayal Lakshmanan is a drug discovery scientist at Experimental Drug Development Centre, A*STAR (Agency for Science Technology and Research). She obtained her PhD from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. Her expertise is in Drug discovery projects in the fields of Oncology and Infectious diseases. She was project leader for several drug discovery collaboration projects with local and international Institutes and Universities. She started her career in drug discovery by leading an ASTAR-BMRC-DSTA grant project in collaboration with DSO to develop and establish a new technology platform for antimicrobial drug discovery, using a whole animal assay for high throughput screening. She was the project leader for the NMRC grant based TB drug discovery project responsible for target-based whole cell high throughput screen for inhibitors and activators of the mycobacterial caseinolytic protease (Clp) degradation complex. She was part of the highly successful SPRINT-TB international collaboration team and led the project for Theme-1 on whole cell High Throughput Screening for identification of novel anti-mycobacterial targets and later on for the NRF-grant based TOPNET program in collaboration with NTU and other international Universities. She also played important roles in various oncology drug discovery campaigns with diverse targets involving epigenetics, kinases and metabolic pathways. She has been an invited as well as selected speaker in various international conferences and symposiums on Drug discovery.
Dr. Weizhi Meng is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Prior to joining DTU, he worked as Research Scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research, A*Star, Singapore. He won the Outstanding Academic Performance Award during his doctoral study, and is a recipient of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers in both 2014 and 2017. He also received the IEEE ComSoc Best Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East, & Africa Region (EMEA) in 2020. His primary research interests are cyber security and artificial intelligence in security, including intrusion detection, IoT security, biometric authentication, trust management, and blockchain. He is currently directing the SPTAGE Lab at DTU
Dr Victor Wang is currently an Associate Professor in Singapore Institute of Technology. Dr Victor Wang graduated from Loughborough University with a First in Aeronautical Engineering (B.Eng, 2008) before reading his Doctorate in Aerodynamics, specialising in Computational Fluids Dynamics (2012). His current research interest is in Applied Aerodynamics, using both computational and experimental methods to capture complex but interesting flow behaviors that can be applied to a wide range of Engineering Applications. Dr Victor Wang is also a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society, UK.
Dr. Jiqiang Lu received a B.Sc. degree in Applied Mathematics from Yantai University (China) in 2000, a M.Eng. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Xidian University (China) in 2003, and a Ph.D. degree from Royal Holloway, University of London (UK) in 2008. From 2008 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and Ecole Normale Superieure (France), and a scientist at Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore). Currently, he is a professor at Behang University (China), and his research interests center on symmertic cryptology and its applications.

Dr. Huaqun Guo是新加坡科技学院的副教授，国际研究人员俱乐部的主席，以及IRC科学工程技术会议（IRC-SET）的指导委员会成员。Guo博士分别在天津大学获得了工学学士和硕士学位，并在新加坡国立大学（NUS）获得了硕士和博士学位。她曾在新加坡科学技术研究局（A*STAR）的信息通信研究所（I2R）担任高级科学家超过16年。在加入I2R之前，她曾是NUS的高级研究员和Kent Ridge数字实验室（KRDL）的高级工程师。她在国际会议、期刊和书籍上发表了80多篇论文。她的研究领域包括网络安全、工业物联网安全、人工智能在网络安全中的应用、区块链、应用密码学、车联网和安全、通信和安全风险分析。

Ian McLoughlin教授在电子研发行业工作了10多年，学术界工作了20多年。他在5个国家的3个大陆工作和咨询，并向英国、俄罗斯、美国、马来西亚、台湾、新西兰和新加坡总统等政府科学部长展示了他的工作。他于1998年成为英国特许工程师，2004年成为IEEE高级会员，2008年成为欧洲工程师，2013年成为IET会士。他在语音和音频、无线通信和嵌入式系统领域发表了250多篇经过同行评审的论文、四本书和几章书。他目前是新加坡科技学院的集群主任。

Dr. Eyasu Getahun Chekole目前是新加坡科技与设计大学的网络安全研究员。此前，他曾在新加坡科学技术研究局（A*STAR）担任网络安全研究科学家，在意大利的Fondazione Bruno Kessler（FBK）担任网络安全助理研究员，在意大利的Femar Consulting s.r.l担任软件工程师，在埃塞俄比亚的Information Network Security Assurance（INSA）担任软件工程师。他在新加坡科技与设计大学获得计算机科学博士学位，在意大利的特伦托大学获得计算机科学硕士学位，在埃塞俄比亚的Arba Minch大学获得计算机科学与信息技术学士学位。他的研究兴趣包括软件和系统安全、内存安全、工业控制和物联网安全、应用密码学和区块链。

Dr. Umayal Lakshmanan是新加坡科技与研究局（A*STAR）实验药物开发中心的药物发现科学家。她在新加坡国立大学的药学院获得博士学位。她在肿瘤学和传染病领域的药物发现项目方面拥有专业知识。她曾领导与本地和国际研究所和大学的多个药物发现合作项目。她通过领导ASTAR-BMRC-DSTA资助的项目与DSO合作，开发和建立了一种用于高通量筛选的整体动物试验技术平台，用于抗微生物药物发现。她是基于NMRC资助的结核病药物发现项目的项目负责人，负责基于靶向的整体细胞高通量筛选，用于寻找结核分解复合物（Clp）的抑制剂和激活剂。她是非常成功的SPRINT-TB国际合作团队的一员，并领导了整体细胞高通量筛选项目的主题1，以寻找新的抗结核病靶点，后来又与NTU和其他国际大学合作进行了基于NRF资助的TOPNET计划。她还在各种肿瘤学药物发现活动中扮演重要角色。