Research Fellow (Psychology), Victoria University Stefan Sambol is an academic in the field of psychology, with a specialised focus on cognitive psychology. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics including higher order cognition, emotional intelligence, personality traits, and executive function. Stefan has also conducted studies into implicit bias, particularly in relation to sports and deviant behaviors such as fire lighting. Currently, they are investigating the dynamics of conspiracy beliefs and adolescent misuse of fire, contributing valuable insights into these complex areas.
Professor of Economics, University of Sussex Sambit Bhattacharyya is a Professor of Economics and Head of Department of Economics at University of Sussex. His research interests are in the areas of development economics, macroeconomics, and economic history. His latest book is 'A History of Global Capitalism: Feuding Elites and Imperial Expansion'. He also published widely and advised numerous PhD Dissertations in the abovementioned areas. He is an Associate Editor of the Review of Development Economics. For a full list of downloadable papers, see his personal page using the following link: https://sites.google.com/site/sambitbha/
Professor of Computing and Information Science, Florida International University Dr. Selcuk Uluagac is currently an Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Science at Florida International University, leading the Cyber-Physical Systems Security Lab with an additional courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. Before, he was a Senior Researcher at Georgia Tech and Symantec. He holds a PhD from Georgia Tech and MS from Carnegie Mellon University in cybersecurity. He is an expert in the areas of cybersecurity and privacy with an emphasis on their practical aspects (focusing on systems security topics, malware, ransomware, forensics, IoT, CPS, smart systems) and teaches classes in these areas. He has hundreds of papers/studies/publications in the most reputable venues such as NDSS, USENIX Security, IEEE TIFS. He received US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2015), US Air Force Office of Sponsored Research’s Summer Faculty Fellowship (2015), University of Padova (Italy)’s Faculty Fellowship (2016), Google’s ASPIRE Research award in security and privacy (2021), Faculty Fellowship from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (2022), FIU Provost Office Top Scholar Award in Established Faculty with Significant Grants (STEM Category), (2023), FIU Provost Office Top Scholar Award in Faculty with Notable Gains in Student Learning and Success (Sciences Category) (2021), FIU College of Engineering and Computing Faculty Award in Excellence in Research and Creative Activities (2021), FIU Eminent Scholar Chaired Associate Professor in the College of Engineering and Computing (2020), among others. His research has been funded by numerous government agencies and industry, e.g., NSF, Dept. of Energy, Air Force Research Lab, Dept. of Labor, Cyber Florida, Google, Microsoft, Trend Micro, and Cisco, inter alia. He is very entrepreneurial and visionary with his research. Many of his research ideas have resulted in patents (10+). He is chairing/serving on the of top-tier security conferences, e.g., NDSS, USENIX Security, ACM CCS, IEEE SP. In 2023, he was the TPC Chair of Security and ML Track of ACM CCS 2023 and was the General Chair of ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec) in 2019. In 2018, he co-chaired the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Annual Expo and Conference. In 2022, he was the TPC Co-Chair of IEEE CNS Conference. He currently serves as the deputy editor in-chief of IEEE TIFS and associate editors of IEEE TMC and Elsevier COMNET journals.
Research Associate, Childhood Dementia Research Group, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University Siti is a PhD graduate from Flinders University, College of Medicine and Public Health. She has been involved in molecular medicine research for over 10 years. She joined Childhood Dementia Research Group (CDRG) over 3 years ago whose research commitment is to improve lives of children affected with dementia. She is currently working on establishing new cell model of Sanfilippo syndrome to test and repurpose already approved drugs with the goal of fast-tracking research to clinical trial and providing more accessible treatment to the patients.
Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Arizona State University Sarah Florini is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English and the Associate Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. She holds a doctorate in Communication and Culture from Indiana University. She researches the intersection of race and technology, and her work has appeared in New Media and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Television and New Media, and Transformative Works and Cultures. Her book Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks is available through NYU Press.
Senior Research Officer, University of Essex Dr Sean Irving works on the intellectual history of ‘competition’. He is particularly interested in market competition, having published work on FA Hayek, ordoliberalism, and the Virginia School. He is exploring how the ranking and rating of companies and states has enabled competition to become a principle of global order.
