Invited Speakers

Title of Talk: Accelerating ADAS Development: Integrating Testing, Validation, and Simulation with MATLAB

Short Bio: Dogu Cagdas ATILLA received Ph. D. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2017 from Istanbul University and was employed as an instructor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department and on number of Scientific Research Projects in Istanbul University between 2009-2018. Also he worked as a full-time teaching assistant in Isik University between 2012-2017. His main fields of interest are electromagnetics, wide-band antenna design, power transfer networks, ADAS and electrical vehicles. He is employed as an associate professor at Altinbas University started in 2017, Dean of Institute of Graduate Studies, head of Data Analytics Department. Atilla is currently holding six patents, conducted more than ten national and international research projects as leader/researcher, published more than fifty international research papers and conference proceedings and two book chapters. He is also founder of Qalmuq Engineering and conducting services since 2023.

Title of Talk: Intelligent Security: Navigating the Cyber Landscape with AI

Short Bio: Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry is working as a Professor of Cybersecurity Engineering in the College of Engineering at Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates. Dr. Chaudhry received the Master’s and Ph.D. degrees (with Distinction) from the International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2009 and 2016, respectively. He was a recipient of the Gold Medal for achieving a 4.0/4.0 CGPA in his Master’s. Prior to joining ADU, he served as an associate professor at Istanbul Gelisim University, Istanbul, Turkey, University of Sialkot, Pakistan, and as an assistant professor at International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He has authored over 180 scientific publications in different international journals and proceedings, including more than 155 publications in Web of Science journals with an H-index of 53, an I-10 index of 135, and an accumulated impact factor of more than 600, his work has been cited around 8000 times. He has also supervised over 40 graduate students in their research. His current research interests include lightweight cryptography, elliptic curve cryptography, multimedia security, E-payment systems, MANETs, SIP authentication, Smart Grid security, IoT and Cloud infrastructure security, and next-generation networks. He delivered several keynote speeches and holds several awards for best research papers. Considering his research, the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology granted him the Prestigious Research Productivity Award while affirming him among the Top Productive Computer Scientists in Pakistan. For the consecutive five years (i.e., 2020 to 2025), he has been listed among the top 2% of computer scientists across the world in Stanford University’s report.