Security and Resilience of Cyber Physical Systems

Dr. Krishan Kumar has done Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur in 1995. He finished his Masters in Software Systems from BITS Pilani in 2001. He completed his Ph. D. from Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2008. Currently, he is working as Professor in Information Technology department at U.I.E.T, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. His general research Interests are in the areas of Information Security and Computer Networks. He has published around 200 + research papers in different International Journals and Conferences of Repute including more than 1500 citations. Dr. Sunny Behal has done Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of Engineering and Technology, Ferozepur, Punjab, India in 2002. He completed his Masters in Computer Science and Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India in 2010. He completed his PhD in May 2018 from IKG PTU, Kapurthala, India. His Research interests include Botnets, DDoS attacks, Information and Network Security. Currently, He is working as Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering department at Shaheed Bhagat Singh State University, Ferozepur, Punjab, India and have published more than 70 Research papers in different International Journals and Conferences of repute. Dr. Abhinav Bhandari has done B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from G.T.B.K.I.E.T, Malout in 2001. He has completed his M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from D.A.V.I.E.T. Jalandhar in 2008 and Ph.D. from Dr. B.R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar in 2017. He has worked as a Head of Department in Lala Lajpat Rai Institute of Engineering and Technology Moga from 2006 to 2010. Dr. Bhandari is currently working as an Assistant Professor Department of Computer Engineering Punjabi University Patiala since 2012. His area of interest is computer networks and network security. He has guided more than 20 M.Tech students for their dissertation work. He has published more than 50 research papers in reputed journals and national/international conferences. He has acted as a guest editor for special issue of Scopus Indexed journal for International Conference on Applications on AI and Machine Learning ICAML-2020 and ICAML-2021 organized at Department of CSE, Punjabi University, Patiala, India. Dr. Sajal Bhatia is an Assistant Professor (Cybersecurity) and Director of Cybersecurity programs within the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Sacred Heart University. His primary research interest revolves around Network Security, in particular areas such as Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, synthetic traffic generation, critical infrastructure security, and intrusion detection. More recently he has been interested in exploring industrial control system security, cyber-physical system security, and cybersecurity education. Dr. Bhatia’s teaching interests include network security, intrusion detection, capstone and senior projects, network penetration testing, and computer networks. Prior to joining Sacred Heart in 2017, Dr. Bhatia worked as Postdoctoral Faculty and Visiting Assistant Professor at Fordham University and as Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Vanderbilt University where he was exploring the area of secure and resilient cyber-physical systems. Sajal obtained his PhD from the Information Security Research Institute at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia in 2013. Sajal holds bachelor’s degree in Communication and Computer Engineering awarded by the LNM Institute of Information Technology, India in 2008. Prior to starting his doctoral studies, he worked as a Project Associate at IIT Kanpur.