11–12 September 2026  |  UPES Dehradun, Uttarakhand
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ICACSDF 2026
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ICACSDF 2026 · School of Computer Science, UPES Dehradun

Speakers & Guests

Distinguished dignitaries, researchers, and industry leaders joining ICACSDF 2026.

Chief Guest

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Chief Guest
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Guest of Honor

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Guest of Honor
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Keynote Speakers

Distinguished researchers sharing insights on the future of cybersecurity and digital forensics.

Prof. Steven Galbraith
Prof. Steven Galbraith
Head of Department & Professor, Mathematics Department,
Cyber Security Foundry, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Author, Math. of Public Key Cryptography Post-Quantum Cryptography Elliptic Curve Cryptography Computational Number Theory

Prof. Steven Galbraith is Head of the Mathematics Department and a member of the Cyber Security Foundry at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research spans computational number theory, public key cryptography, and computational algebraic geometry, with a particular focus on elliptic curves over finite fields and post-quantum public key cryptography...

Prof. Edoardo Serra
Prof. Edoardo Serra
Associate Professor & Co-Director, Computing Ph.D. Program,
Department of Computer Science, Boise State University, USA
Co-Director, Computing Ph.D. UCLA Visiting Researcher Univ. of Maryland

Prof. Edoardo Serra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Boise State University, USA, where he has served as Co-Director of the Computing Ph.D. Program since January 2023. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 2012. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA) from October 2010 to July 2011...

Prof. Raja Datta
Prof. Raja Datta
Professor, Dept. of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur
Fellow, IETE Fellow, IE (India) Senior Member, IEEE 5G & Network Security

Raja Datta is a Professor in the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering (E & ECE) at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has served as the Head of Computer and Informatics Centre from March 2021 to December 2025 and also as Head of G. S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications from April 2018 till June 2021, both at IIT Kharagpur...

Prof. Sipra Das Bit
Prof. Sipra Das Bit
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology,
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur
Senior Member, IEEE AICTE Career Award Wireless Sensor Networks Delay Tolerant Networks

Prof. Sipra Das Bit is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, with more than three decades of teaching and research experience. She earned her Ph.D. (Engineering) from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in 1997. She is a Senior Member of IEEE and a recipient of the Career Award for Young Teachers from the All-India Council of Technical Education (AICTE)...

Prof. Goutam Paul
Prof. Goutam Paul
Professor, Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU),
Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata
Humboldt Fellow NASI Young Scientist Award Cryptology Quantum Cryptography

Prof. Goutam Paul is currently a Professor at the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, and also serves as Visiting Professor at the Centre for Quantum Engineering, Research and Education (CQuERE), TCG CREST, Kolkata...

Prof. Sanjeev Kumar
Prof. Sanjeev Kumar
Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee
Bal Krishna Outstanding Teacher Award Quantum Imaging Mathematical Image Processing Machine Learning

Prof. Sanjeev Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, where he also serves as Head of the Institute Computer Centre. His research spans Mathematical Image Processing — including computational algorithms for image restoration, image encryption and secret sharing, quantum imaging, and 3D reconstruction — as well as Machine Learning, particularly neural networks and tree-based classifiers and their applications in image processing...

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Invited & Industrial Track

Invited Talk and Industry leaders sharing perspectives from the front lines of applied AI, ML, and security engineering.

Prof. Abhishek Das
Prof. Abhishek Das
Professor & Former Head, Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engineering,
Aliah University, Kolkata
Fellow, IETE Fellow, SAIARD Medical Image Processing Machine Learning

Prof. Abhishek Das is a Professor and former Head in the Dept. of Computer Sc. & Engineering at Aliah University, Kolkata. His Research Area is in Medical Image Processing, Machine Learning, Data Science and IoT. He has received a Post Doctoral Research position from University of West Scotland, UK by a Fellowship received from the European Commission. He has also worked as Associate Professor and Head of the Department for two Terms (2017-2019, 2023-2025) at Aliah University, Kolkata and as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Information Technology, Tripura University (A Central University), India...

Mr. Harsh Verma
Mr. Harsh Verma
Principal Software Engineer – AI/ML, Palo Alto Networks,
San Jose, California, USA
Stanford GSB Exec. Program Generative AI Network Security AI Big Data & ML Systems

Harsh Verma is a Principal Software Engineer – AI/ML at Palo Alto Networks, San Jose, California, where he builds multi-agent, LLM-based Generative AI copilots — including a security policy optimization copilot that detects and resolves network configuration issues — using RAG pipelines and microservice-oriented deployment across multi-modal, distributed data on Google Cloud Platform...

Mr. Satyam Rastogi
Mr. Satyam Rastogi
Director of Information Security & DevOps, BAMKO;
Director of Red Team, Superior Group of Companies (SGC)
Red Team Operations Cloud Security AI-Driven Security DevSecOps

Satyam Rastogi is a cybersecurity leader with 14+ years of global experience, currently Director of Information Security & DevOps at BAMKO and Director of Red Team at Superior Group of Companies (SGC). A CISO-level offensive-security leader, he specializes in enterprise security, Red Team operations, DevSecOps automation, cloud security architecture, and AI-driven security...

More Industrial Speakers
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