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Meet Ponnurangam Kumaraguru (“PK”), a Visiting Scientist at the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Government of India, and serves as the President of ACM India. He was inducted as an ACM Distinguished Member in 2021 and is a TEDx Speaker, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and ACM India Eminent Speaker.

PK received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His Ph.D. thesis work on anti-phishing research at CMU contributed in creating an award-winning startup - Wombat Security Technologies. He has co-authored research papers in the field of Computational Social Science, Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Cyber Security, Social Computing, Data Science for Social Good. PK's current research focus is on responsible & safe AI, and applied machine learning & NLP.

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Meet Stjepan Picek, a Full Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), Croatia. He has published more than 200 refereed papers and delivered more than 80 invited talks, keynotes, tutorials, and short courses internationally. His research has received several distinctions, including the NDSS 2023 Distinguished Paper Award, the EuroGP 2025 Best Paper Award, the Croatian National Award for Science, and the Outstanding Scientific Paper Award of the Croatian Institute for Cyber Security. He has also been included in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientist rankings.

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Meet Athina Markopoulou, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Irvine. Her background is in computer networks and her research interests include privacy-enhancing technologies, AI safety and tech policy, in a range of application domains including social networks, web, mobile, virtual and augmented reality, voice assistants and AI agents.

She has published over 120 papers, several of which with distinctions (including the best student paper in ACM IMC 2024, the best paper in ACM IMC 2023, the Caspar-Bowden PET Runner-Up Award 2024, the PETS 2018 Andreas Pfitzmann best student paper award). 

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Meet Fernando Koch, an AI architect and researcher working on how AI-driven organizations can operate as unified intelligences that combine human and artificial reasoning. His research turns frontier AI into enterprise reality and helps organizations become AI-first, translating what is newly possible into strategy, architecture, and deployed platforms. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Utrecht University, has authored more than 90 scientific publications, and holds over 100 patents.

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