Prof. Dimitrios Pezaros (School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow)
Dimitrios Pezaros (M’04-SM’14) received the BSc and PhD degrees in computer science from Lancaster University in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He is (full) Professor of Computer Networks, founding Director of the Networked Systems Research Laboratory, and Director of the Cyberdefence Lab in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, where he holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Digital Resilience for Critical National Infrastructure. He has received significant funding for his research from various funding agencies and industry, and has published widely in the areas of computer communications, network and service management, and network resilience. He is a Chartered Engineer, a fellow of the BCS and IET, and a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. He has served as TPC chair of the Cloud & Fog Computing and Networking Track of IEEE CCNC 2019, and the Cloud Services and Networking Track of IEEE CCNC 2018, a member of the organising committee of IEEE INFOCOM 2025 (STG co-chair), and Distinguished Experts Panel co-chair at the 18th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) 2022.
Prof. David Flynn (James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow)
David joined the University of Glasgow in 2022 as a Professor of Cyber Physical Systems. David is the Head of Research Division for Autonomous Systems and Connectivity. He is a co-founder of the Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy, and supports the leadership of 3 National EPSRC Research Hubs as well as the EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training in Robotics and AI for Net Zero Infrastructure (RAINZ). Professor Flynn has published over 250 papers, holds several patents, established industrial innovation centres and created new companies. Professor Flynn is the recipient of several national and international awards for his research, including the Interface Knowledge Exchange Champion of the Year for 2020, Rushlight Innovation Award, and the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Leslie H Paddle prize. Professor Flynn is also the IET Information Technology Innovation of the Year 2019 and Global Innovation of the Year winner 2019. David is an Honorary Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Eminent Overseas Professor of Nagasaki University and the Chair of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Scotland. His degrees include a BEng (Hons), 1st Class in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2002), an MSc (Distinction) in Microsystems (2003) and a PhD in Microscale Magnetic Components (2007), from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Prof. Sokratis Katsikas (Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Prof. Sokratis K. Katsikas is the Director of the Norwegian Centre for Cybersecurity in Critical Sectors and Professor with the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In May-June 2023 he served as Minister of Digital Governance in the interim (caretaking) government of the Hellenic Republic. In 2023 and in 2024 he was listed in the Stanford University list of the top 2% most cited scientists worldwide and in 2024 he was listed in the ScholarGPS Top Scholars list of the top 0.5% of all scholars worldwide. In 2025 he received the IEEE SMC TC on Homeland Security Research and Innovation Award. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 journal papers, book chapters and conference proceedings papers. He is serving on the editorial board of several scientific journals, he has co-authored/edited 52 books and conference proceedings and has served on/chaired the technical programme committee of more than 1000 international scientific conferences. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the ESORICS Conference (chair 2017-2023) and of several other international conferences and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Security (Springer).
Prof Emil Lupu (Department of Computing, Imperial College London)
Prof. Emil Lupu is Professor of Computer Systems at Imperial College London. He leads the Resilient Information Systems Security Group (www.rissgroup.org), is co-Director of the NCSC funded Research Institute in Trustworthy Inter-Connected Cyber-Physical Systems (RITICS) www.ritics.org and a Security-Science Fellow of Imperial's Institute for Security Science and Technology. Previously he served as deputy director of the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for IoT systems cybersecurity (2016-2021) and lead for Imperial's Academic Centre of Excellence in Cybersecurity Research (2012 to 2024). He has made numerous contributions in computer security, network and systems management, IoT systems and software engineering. His current research interests are focussed on the security and resilience of cyber-physical systems including large scale infrastructures and embedded and autonomous systems.