Plenary Speakers
Prof. Eugene H Spafford
University of Nottingham
UK
Prof. Eugene H Spafford
University of NottinghamUK
Biography
Eugene H. Spafford is a distinguished professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue University, and an acknowledged leader in computing. He is also the founder and Executive Director Emeritus of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). He has worked in computing as a student, researcher, consultant, and professor for over 50 years. Some of his work forms the foundation of current security practices, including intrusion detection, incident response, firewalls, integrity management, and forensic investigation. His most recent work has focused on cybersecurity policy, the security of real-time systems, and future threats. He has also been a pioneer in education, having started and led the oldest graduate degree-granting cybersecurity program.
Dr. Spafford has been recognized with many significant honors for his work. These include being elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S), and the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); a Life Fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the (ISC)2; a Life Distinguished Fellow of the ISSA; and a member of the Cyber Security Hall of Fame — the only person to ever hold all these distinctions. In 2012, he was named one of Purdue's inaugural Morrill Professors — the university's highest award for the combination of scholarship, teaching, and service. In 2016, he received the State of Indiana's highest civilian honor by being named a Sagamore of the Wabash.
At Purdue, Spaf is also a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy appointment), Nuclear Engineering (courtesy), Philosophy (courtesy), Communication (courtesy), and Political Science (courtesy). He is an Honorary Professor of the University of Nottingham (UK).
Among many other activities, he is editor-in-chief of the journal Computers & Security, serves on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association (CRA), and is a member of the National Security Advisory Board for Sandia Laboratories.
His most recent book, co-authored with L. Metcalf and J. Dykstra, Cybersecurity Myths and Misconceptions, has been inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame.
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Prof. Tiancheng Li
Northwestern Polytechnical University
China
Prof. Tiancheng Li
Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChina
Biography
Tiancheng Li received two bachelor’s degrees, one in Engineering and the other in Management, respectively, both from Harbin Engineering University, China in 2008, the first PhD degree in Robotics and Control Engineering from London South Bank University, UK, in 2013 and the second Doctoral degree in Mechanics and Electronic Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), China, in 2015. He is currently a professor with the School of Automation, NPU. Prior to this, he had been a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Researcher with the University of Salamanca, Spain, from June 2014 to the fall of 2018, and a Visiting Scholar with the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in the summer of 2017 and in the fall of 2018.
His research is focused on reliable multi-sensor information fusion, and data-driven approaches to target detection and tracking. He has published more than 50 refereed papers in eminent journals such as IEEE SPM, TSP, TAES and Information Fusion. He has received the Best Paper award (2017) from the journal FITEE and from conferences such as IEEE ICSIDP 2024 and IET IRC 2025. He is the area editor of the prestigious journal Information Fusion and an associate editor of several other peer-reviewed journals, including FITEE, ADCAIJ, Journal of Radars, and Journal of Signal Processing. He is the General Chair of the 10th International Conference on Control, Automation and Information Sciences (ICCAIS 2021) and regular Session/Program Chair for FUSION, ICCAIS, DCAI since 2015. He was granted the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2024 and “Ye Qisun” Science Fund in 2025.
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From Target Tracking to Targeting Track: Trajectory Stochastic Process Modeling and Estimation
