NCL Visit by Professor Ravi Iyer & Dr. Daisuke Mashima

 


Prof Ravishankar K. Iyer and Dr Daisuke Mashima visited National Cybersecurity R&D Lab (NCL) in Singapore to discuss about various topics including the trending cybersecurity landscape and potential research collaborations. They commended NCL's ongoing research works and discussed ways in which NCL's capabilities could be leveraged in potential areas of collaboration.

About our visitors:
Prof Iyer is George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Having a multidisciplinary focus on systems and machine learning, he is involved in defining new boundaries for the security of critical infrastructures and health analytics. His focus on real world applications bridges the gap between research and practical uses by having strong collaborations with industries, government agencies, and health providers.

Dr Daisuke is a principal research scientist at Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), a research centre affiliated with UIUC. His research direction is in the domain of smart home, smart energy, cyber physical systems by viewing these research area from both security and privacy perspectives. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at National University of Singapore.

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