
International Workshop on Collaborative
Security (CoSec)
http://www.cosec-workshop.info/

Dr.Bimal Roy, ISI, Kolkata
Title of the talk: Traitor Tracing
Dr. Bimal Roy is Professor-in-Charge of Applied Statistics Unit, Cryptography Research Group, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata. He received his B.Stat. (Hons) and M. Stat. from ISI Kolkata and PhD from University of Waterloo, Canada. His current research interests are combinatorics, design of experiments, optimization and cryptology. He has been a recipient of Reliance Platinum Jubilee Award for innovation in physical sciences and IBM faculty award for research, teaching and initiative in cryptology and security. He has been the general secretary of Cryptology Research Society of India and program chair for FSE 2004, Asiacrypt 2005 and Indocypt 2000 and 2009. He is also a member of UNESCO technical Advisory Committee for Asia-Pacific Region.
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Dr. Huzur Saran, IIT-Delhi
Title of the talk : Security Architectures and Challenges in the Virtualized World
Prof.
Saran is a professor of computer science at IIT Delhi and Heads, the Amar Nath
& Shashi Khosla School of Information Technology, at IIT Delhi. Prof
Saran, a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical
Engineering at the IIT, Delhi and a Ph. D in Computer Science from the
University of California, Berkeley, California has been a faculty member in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the IIT, Delhi since August
1990.
His research is in the areas of Computer Systems, Security and
Algorithms. Dr Saran has led many technology development efforts.
Most recently he has been a consultant to Solidcore Inc, a Systems Security
Startup. Solidcore's Dynamic Whitelisting technology, which was developed
in India under Prof Saran's Leadership has been widely appreciated.
Solidcore was recently purchased by Mcafee.
Prof Saran has been a leading advocate of
Broadband Wireless and has been actively working in using wireless access
technologies to enable ICT for masses. During 2000-2002 he was a Visiting
Professor at the Information Systems Lab, Stanford and and helped pioneer
MIMO-OFDM based 4G wireless systems. During 1993-1999 Dr Saran actively
consulted with Bell labs and carried out joint research in the field of Wireless
Quality of Service and Performance modeling and was regularly invited to spend
the summer at Bell Labs and AT&T Research.
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Dr. Sudhir Dixit, Director of HP Labs India
Sudhir
Dixit is Director of the Innovations for the Next Billion Customers Lab or HP
Labs India from June 2009 and is responsible for leading the research activities
focused on addressing the technology needs of customers in India?s rapidly
growing markets, and creating technologies to make IT relevant, affordable and
simple to consumers.
Prior to joining HP he held a joint appointment as a CTO
in the Center for Internet Excellence and a Research Manager at the Center for
Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu, Finland. Sudhir has also held
the distinguished role as Nokia Research Fellow and Senior Research Manager
working on various networking technologies. He held numerous positions at Nokia
over a 12 year tenure, most recently as the Head of Network Technology (USA) at
Nokia Siemens Networks. He has held various management or engineering positions
at Research In Motion (RIM), NYNEX Science & Technology and GTE (both now
Verizon Communications), Codex Motorola, Wang Laboratories, Harris, and STL (now
Nortel Ltd, U.K.).
International Workshop on Advances in Peer-to-Peer Technology
(IWAP2PT'09)

Title of the talk : "Services Computing: Data Quality Issues"
Dr. K. Chandra Sekaran, is a Professor of Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India, a premier institute of higher learning. He has more than 22 years of teaching and research experience. His research includes Computer Networks, distributed computing, autonomic computing and community informatics. He has published more than 100 papers in International and National proceedings and authored two books. He is a visiting professor in several universities. He was the Organizing Chair of 14th International Conference ADCOM 2006, and International Symposium on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing ISAHUC'06. He has co-organized several journal special issues, conferences, and workshops. He has served on many technical program committees and reviewed papers for several journals. He has supervised sponsored projects and IT consultant to some corporates in this region of India.
WS1 : International Workshop on Collaborative Security (CoSec)
For any other information regarding workshop (if not presented on above three links) please contact:
Dr. Subir Saha, Workshop Chair
Nokia Siemens Networks, Bangalore
Email: drsubirsaha@yahoo.com , subir.saha@nsn.com