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2019
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On November 25th, 2019 - The University of Memphis Research Foundation (UMRF) has signed an agreement to license a U.S. patent with i2Chain, a San Francisco area cybersecurity startup, for an Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication (A-MFA) System invented and developed by a team led by Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta. This news was also featured at Daily Memphian.
- The August,2019 issue of FedTech magazine (which is widely circulated among federal agencies) interviewed Dr. Dasgupta as an expert in the field and mentioned in an article (on 7th paragraph) for DOD’s use of latest Technologies and implementation of CMFA (Continuous Multi-Factor Authentication).
- Dr. Dasgupta will organize symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) in Xiamen, China from Dec 6 - 9, 2019. Click here for more details.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talks on Online Social Networks and Privacy Issues and engaged in discussion on research collaboration, curriculum, student visits, etc. at Lancaster University (https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/events/acm-distinguished-talk-on-online-social-networks-and-privacy-issues ) on June 11,2019.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on their patented research (A-MFA) at Oxford University (http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/2225.html) on June 7,2019.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talks on Cyber Security to establish a cross university Institute for Cyber Security research at City University of London on June 5,2019.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave CAST Training on Cyber security at FedEx Institute of Technology on May 2, 2019.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a talk on “data privacy in research” at Research & Networking Breakfast Series at FedEx Institute of Technology, April 24, 2019
- Dr. Dasgupta gave NEDTalk on “Hashtag & emoji in social media” at University of Memphis McWherter Library on April 18, 2019.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave Keynote ICSC-2019 at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida (INDIA) on March 9, 2019.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave ACM Distinguish Speaker Program (DSP) lecture on "Genetic and Evolutionary Computation in Defense, Security and Risk Management" at ABES Engineering College, March 8, 2019, Ghaziabad, India.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave ACM-DSP Keynote Speech on Puzzle-based learning in Cyber Security Education at Second International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP 2019) (http://www.icaccpa.in/) at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), February 25 - 28, 2019, Sikkim, India.
2018
- Dr. Dasgupta has participated in a project meeting entitled "Smart, Secure, Scalable, Resilient and Adaptive Cyber-Physical Power System" at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India on Dec 17, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta has given a seminar on Machine Learning-Based User Identity Management at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India on Nov 27, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta has organized Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) in Bengaluru, India from November 18-21, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta has given several lectures (webinar) to the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India on Nov 15 - 17, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta has given an ACM Distinguished lecture and talk on Social Media security and Privacy issues at Bhopal, India on Oct 26 - 27, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta was Stationed at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for two months (Oct 20 - Dec 22, 2018) as an International Visiting Professor and offered a micro-credit course on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security. The course received a lot of attention among students.
- Dr. Dasgupta has given a series of lectures at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland on Advances in User Authentication and Immunological Computation on October 1, 2018; He has also given an ACM Distinguished Speaker talk on October 4, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta has hosted two Cybersecurity Professional workshops on August 3rd and another on October 12, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta has helped (in finding the speakers and some logistics) hosting the Cyber Summit in October 5, 2018.
- The Center for Information Assurance (CfIA) hosted Raymond James team and engaged in day-long activities/meetings to explore collaboration; Prof. Dasgupta led the discussion where cybersecurity faculty and students participated and gave brief presentation of their research works at the FedEx Institute of Technology (FIT) on Sept 14, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta has given an invited talk on "Advances in User Authentication" at Memphis chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Crescent Club, Memphis on Sept 12, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta has visited University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. He has given several lectures on Computational Intelligence in Cybersecurity (as part of a short course), participated in research discussion and explored collaboration from Sept 3rd - 7th, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta has given an invited talk on An Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (A-MFA) System at Oslo University on Aug 31, 2018. Norway's security seminar series AFSecurity and participants from several IT companies attended along with university faculty and students.
- Dr. Dasgupta has received College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) Designation of William Hill Professor in Cybersecurity on August 22, 2018
- Dr. Dasgupta, director of the Center for Information Assurance, was interviewed on WMC Action News 5 about the upcoming Cyber Ambassadors Tech Camp. Click here for more details.
- Dr. Dasgupta recently featured in news "TNReady testing troubles over, for now" on News3 Channel Memphis, TN. Click here for more details.
- Dr. Dasgupta served as a Panelist at the 2018 SEC Academic Conference at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama from Aril 8-10, 2018. Click here for more details. CfIA Students Team won 2018 DOE Cyber Defense competition. Click here to read more.
- Dr. Dasgupta took part as a Program Committee Member at The 12th Annual Cyber & Information Security Research (CISR) Conference at Oak Ridge, TN on April 04-06, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta has received the US Patent approved for Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication System (No. 9,912,657) on March 6, 2018.
- Dr. Dasgupta's Patent (#9,912,657) on Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication has been approved by United States Patent and Trademark Office.
- Dr. Dasgupta has submitted another patent application on Multi-user Permission Strategy to Access Sensitive Information, PCT/US18/026782, US App. 15/949,111
- Dr. Dasgupta is working on corporate engagements with three companies on research. One among them is Raymond James for which a visit has been organized by him to UofM Campus.
- Dr. Dasgupta is helping to form university-wide team to propose NSF ERC Center of Excellence.
- Dr. Dasgupta is working on a Multi-University DHS proposal with MIT (Pre-proposal under submission).
- Dr. Dasgupta has been engaged in two university-level Committees: UM Corporate Strategy Council and University Research Council.
2017
- Dr. Dasgupta participated as a Program Committee Member at 6th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC) 2017 at Prague, Czech Republic on Dec 18-20, 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta has organized IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2017) at Hawaii, USA from Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2017.
- Dr Dasgupta has received the Best Paper Award for a collaborative paper (Privacy-Preserving Proxy Re-encryption with Fine-Grained Access Control) at the International Conference on Information Systems Security, Bombay, India, December 16-18, 2017.
- Dr Dasgupta has given a talk at an International seminar on International Seminal on Intelligent Computing (ISIC 2017)" organized by the Department of Information Technology, Jadavpur University, India on December 16, 2017.
- Dr Dasgupta has given a plenary talk at International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models (ICC3) at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, December 15, 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta participated as a Program Committee Member at 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence 2017 at Kolkata, India on Dec 05-08, 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta organized(serve as a session chair, will give tutorial and will present a paper) IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2017) at Hawaii, USA from Nov 27-Dec 01, 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave the keynote talk at the 7th International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security(MMM-ACNS) in Warsaw, Poland on Aug 28-30, 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta offered a session on Online Social Networks and Privacy issues for School Students at Lausanne Summer Conference organized for teachers for Middle School STEM program under Engaging Students in Technology Enhanced Project-Based Learning LLI 17 1:1 NEXT CONFERENCE at Memphis, TN on July 17, 2017 (Host: Dr. Stephanie S. Ivy).
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on Adaptive Multi-Factor System at Applied Cyber Security Seminar, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 20, 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta attended National Cyber Preparedness Consortium (NCPC) core members meeting at Washington DC on June 19, 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta organized and hosted week-long GenCyber Bootcamps (for Middle and High School students) at the University of Memphis during June 11-16 and June 19-23, 2017 respectively.
- Dr. Dasgupta attended National Cyber Security Summit (NCS) on 07-08 June 2017, Huntsville, AL.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on Cyber Security initiatives at the University of Memphis Brief atThe 2017 Cybersecurity Conference on June 6, 2017 at the Cook Convention Center, Memphis, TN.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on Internet Safety and Privacy at Tigers Tech Expedition Camp for Middle School Students on April 22, 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an ACM Distinguished Speaker Talk on An Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (A-MFA) Methodology at Computer Science and Engineering Department of IIT Gandhinagar, India on April 11, 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at Summer School on Cyber Physical Systems at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India on April 10, 2017.
- Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta attended and gave demo of PBL Project at ACM SIGCSE, Seattle, WA on March 8-11, 2017.
- Article on the cyber security concentration at Study International second editorial launch - University of Memphis on March 3, 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta co-hosted CAST (Cluster to Advance Cyber Security and Testing) Lightning talk at FIT on February 28 at 5-7 pm.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a Talk on Cyber security integration into PAL3 at Navy Visit to Institute of Intelligent Systems (IIS) at FIT 405, February 27, 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a talk on A-MFA patent at IP Parade as the inventor at Memphis Scipreneur Challenge at Memphis Bioworks, February 23, 2017.
- Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta gave a presentation to the TN Senate Education Committee on the University of Memphis Cyber Security Initiatives at Nashville, Feb 15, 2017.
- Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta was recently featured in an interview with Dr. David Fogel, former president of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and current co-general chair of IEEE SSCI 2017.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave lecture at Cyber Security Training at Nashville, TN on Jan 13, 2017.
2016
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a keynote speech at Seminar on Cyber Security at iLead | Institute of Leadership Entrepreneurship & Development, Kolkata, West Bengal, India on Dec 23, 2016. (Host: Mr. Pradip Chopra, iLEAD Chairman)
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at Computer Science Dept. of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India on Dec 22, 2016 (Host: Mr. Ujjwal Maulik)
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at Indian Statistical Institute on December 16, 2016 at Bangalore,India.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at CSA Dept (Computer Science & Automation) of Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India on Dec 15, 2016. (Host: Mr. K. Gopinath, Dept. Chair)
- Dr. Dasgupta gave presentation at DOE/ASCR invited workshop on Smart Networks on December 8-9, 2016 at Rockville,MD.
- Dr. Dasgupta organized IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2016) at Athens, Greece held from December 6-9, 2016.
- Dr. Dasgupta have been invited to serve as Panelist at Department of Energy Office of Science for Panel Meeting on November 9-10, 2016 at Washington,DC.
- Dr. Dasgupta attended 7th Annual National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) on November 1-2, 2016 at Kansas City, Mo.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave presentation and demo at NSF-ATE Conference on October 26-28, 2016 at Washington,DC.
- Dr. Dasgupta attended Cyber Seed Competition on October 9-11, 2016 at UConn,CT.
- Dr. Dasgupta attended Structure Security event on September 27-28, 2016 at San Francisco,CA.
- Dr. Dasgupta attended GenCyber Fall Meeting on September 15-16, 2016 at Hilton Boston Logan Airport hotel, Boston,MA.
- Dr. Dasgupta attended ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining on August 15-18, 2016 at San Francisco, CA.
- Dr. Dasgupta became Program Committee Member of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Cyber Resiliency Economics (CRE 2016) at Vienna, Austria, August 1-3, 2016.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave presentation at Third annual Community College Cyber Summit (3CS) on July 22-24, 2016 in Pittsburgh.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave presentation at the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) on June 13-15, 2016 at Sheraton Philadelphia Society Hill Hotel, Philadelphia, PA USA.
- Dr. Dasgupta attended Annual Southeast Region Cyber Summit on June 8-9, 2016 at Huntsville,AL.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at the Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN on April 7, 2016
- Dr. Dasgupta presented a research paper at 11th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research (CISR) Conference held at the conference center of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee on April 4 - 6, 2016.
- Ph.D. student Abhijit Nag, working under Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta, received 1st place in University of Memphis's Student Research Forum held on April 1, 2016.
- Undergraduate student Robert Edstrom working under Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta won 1st place University of Memphis's Student Research Forum held on April 1, 2016.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at the Regional Symposium "Graduate Education and Research in Information Security" during 'GERIS'16 on March 8, 2016 at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York.
- Dr. Dasgupta attended the National Cyber Security Preparedness Consortium (NCPC) Principal's meeting at the University of Texas System in Washington DC on March 15, 2016.
- Announcement for the available position in Research Assistant Professor (in Cyber Security)
- Dr. Dasgupta was interviewed by a local TV Channel (FOX 13) that was telecast on Feb. 19, 2016. Click here for Video.
- Dr. Dasgupta organized "Cybersecurity Certificate Course" foundational program at FedEx Institute of Technology, University of Memphis on February 1-5, 2016.
2015
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on 5th International Conference on Fuzzy and Neural Computing, FANCCO-2015, December 16-19, 2015.
- Cluster to Advance Cyber Security & Testing (CAST) hosted Cybersecurity Lightning Talks at the FedEx Institute of Technology, afternoon of December 3, 2015
- UofM's CfIA will Develop Courses for Mobile Device Security and Privacy Issues.CfIA Receives Cyber Security Training Grant from FEMA.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CASE Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY on November 18, 2015
- He organized a Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI,), at Cap Town, South Africa from December 7 to December 10, 2015
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a keynote speech at St. Louis at Cyber Security workshop (STL-CyberCon) at University of Missouri-St. Louis on November 20, 2015
- Dr. Dasgupta attended the NIST-NICE conference at San Diego from November 1, 2015 to November 4, 2015
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at International 9th Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Systems Testing at FedEx Institute of Technology at University of Memphis on October 20, 2015
- Our Cyber Security Team secured second position on Cyber Defense Competition @CANSec 2015, held on 24th October at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The participants as Blue Team had to manage services, report intrusions, complete the challenges. The other teams (mostly organizers) acted as White Team that enforces rules, setup infrastructures and Red Team enumerated and exploited vulnerabilities in Blue Team services. Detail
- Dr. Dasgupta hosted 8th Mid-South Cyber Security Summit at FedEx Institute of Technology, The University of Memphis on October 16, 2015
- He served as a panelist at the session on Cyber Security 2015 & Beyond at 29th Annual SIM Memphis Strategy Serieson Wednesday September 30, 2015
- He gave an invited talk at DHG Cyber Security Forum at Memphis (Host: Eric J Spiegel) on August 19, 2015
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk Cyber Security Workshop at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, on August 14, 2015
- He gave a keynote speech at International Conferences in Advances in Information Technology, Boroda, India, June 1, 2015
- He gave a keynote speech at Queen's University Graduate Computing Society Conference, Kingston, Canada sponsored by the ACM Distinguished Speaker program on May 7, 2015
- He offered a tutorial on "Puzzle-Based Learning in Cyber Security Education" at the 2015 EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference at the Hilton Minneapolis, May 4-6, 2015 in Minneapolis, MN
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk in computer science division of University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) on March 16, 2015 (Host: Dr. Cezary Janikow)
- He gave an invited talk at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) organized by Computer Science, ACM chapter on March 13, 2015
- An article about Prof. Dasgupta was published at the University of Memphis Magazine (President's Report 2014) that talks about his work in bio-inspired computing.
- He is elevated to IEEE Fellow (Batch of 2015) for contributions to immunological computation and bio-inspired cyber security
2014
- Dr. Dasgupta offered a lecture at International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS) in Hyderabad, India during December 16-20, 2014.
- Dr. Dasgupta organized a Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) during December 9-12, 2014 at Orlando, Florida.
- Professor Dipankar Dasgupta got selected as a member of ACM Distinguished Speakers Programs for three years.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an IEEE Chapter sponsored seminar on Puzzle based learning in Cyber Security education at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, on November 13, 2014.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a lecture at CAE community Meeting and NIST meeting on November 4-6, 2014.
- Dr. Dasgupta was invited to talk on "Need for Penetration Tests for Risk Management" at the 8th annual STEP Workshop, FedEx Institute of Technology, The University of Memphis on November 3, 2014.
- Professor Dipankar Dasgupta hosted 7th Annual Cyber Security Summit at FedEx Institute of Technology during October 17, 2014.
- Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta shared with NCPC a $2.3 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on October 1, 2014.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a lecture at IEEE Memphis Section of Power & Energy Society Seminar at the FedEx Institute of Technology on September 9, 2014, for details click here
- Prof. Dasgupta was the dissertation reviewer and the external examiner of a Ph.D student (Jyri Rajamaki) at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, Sept. 7, 2014.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave the Keynote Speech on "Cloud Computing: Security, Privacy, Compliance and an Insurance Model" at Cyber Security Conference in Jyvaskyla, Finland. For details click here
- Prof. Dasgupta received the Alumni Association's "Eye of the Tiger" award at the homecoming football game of the U of M at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 30, 2014 (Here's a link to Video Eye of Tiger)
- Prof. Dasgupta has been named the Dr. Pat E. Burlison professor at the University of Memphis. This named professorship is designated for at least five years beginning Fall 2014.,announced on August 22, 2014. For details click here
- Dr. Dasgupta received a $365k grant from the NSF for "Collaborative Project: Puzzle-Based Cybersecurity Learning to Enhance Defensive Skills of Front-Line Technicians" on September 1, 2014.
- Dr. Dasgupta received a 2014 Impact Award from ACM SIGEVO for paper "Real-Valued Negative Selection Algorithm with Variable-Sized Detectors" published at GECCO 2004.
- Prof. Dasgupta's interview on cyber security telecasted on a News Channel, for details click here.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a lecture on Cyber Security at Mid-South Association of Contingency Planners (MSACP) monthly meeting at The University of Memphis on February 12, 2014.
2013
- Dr. Dasgupta gave the Keynote Speech at First International Conference on Recent Trends and Innovations in Engineering and Technology (ICRTIET) at Nagpur, India during December 20-21, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave the Keynote Speech at Second International Conference on Cyber Security, Smart Grid Computing, and Environmental Protection Technologies at Raipur, India on December 10, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an lecture at Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI) at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India during December 10-14, 2013.
- NAS project Meeting (final demo and presentation), Washington DC, December 5th, 2014.
- NAS project Team Meeting at MIT Boston Campus on November 12, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta hosted 6th Annual Cyber Security Expo @ the University of Memphis on October 18, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta presented a research paper at Information Security Curriculum Development Conference (InfoSecCD2013) at Kennesaw State University at Georgia during October 11-12, 2013.
- He presentation a poster on CRF project at the National Center for Academic Transformation workshop to be held at UC Ballroom at The University of Memphis, during October 1-2, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta visited Finland to participate in research collaboration and to give lectures during September 23-27, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta attended NIST NICE Shaping the Future of Cybersecurity Education Workshop, in Gaithersburg, MD during September 17-19, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a colloquium talk on Puzzle-Based Learning for Cyber-Security Eduation at Department of Computer Science, University of Memphis on September 6, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a research presentation and chair a session at International Symposium on Resilient Cyber Systems , San Francisco on August 13-15, 2013.
- He attended National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium member meeting at University of Arkansas System, Little Rock on August 7, 2013
- Dr. Dasgupta presented a research paper on Active Authentication at a Cyber Security Summit, CyberSci Summit in Arlington, VA during June 25-26, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on Cloud Security at MIT summer workshop on Applied Cyber Security on June 25, 2013
- Dr. Dasgupta offered a tutorial on "Evolutionary Computation in Cyber Security" at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation that was held on June 20-23, 2013 at Cancun, Mexico.
- Dr. Dasgupta presented a paper on Puzzle-based learning in Cyber Security at The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE: ) at Mobile Bay, Alabama during June 10-13, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta attended IARPA-NAS project meeting at MIT Boston Campus on May 28, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta organized a Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) during April 15-19, 2013 at Singapore.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a talk on Bio-inspired Cyber Security and served as panelist at CLION Symposium at FIT during April 22-23, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a talk on outreach activities of our cyber security center to the state agency of Homeland Security, March 28, 2013.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a Lecture on Cyber Security Education at Jackson State Community College on Feb. 21, 2013.
2012
- Gave a keynote at International conference on soft computing for problem solving SocProS-2012, at Jaipur, India, December 28-30, 2012.
- Gave a keynote speech at IEEE International conference ET2ECN2012 , Surat, Gujarat, India, December 19-21, 2012.
- Gave a keynote speech at International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (ISCOS 2012) , NIT Surathkal, Mangalore, India, December 17-18, 2012.
- Keynote Speaker at seventh International Conference on "Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Application" (BIC-TA) to be held at Gwalior, India, December 14 - 16, 2012.
- Keynote Speaker at International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications (AMLTA12) to be held at the Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt during Dec. 8-10, 2012.
- Host at 5th Annual Cyber Security Expo @ Uni. of Memphis, October 19, 2012.
- Will give a series of lectures in Finland during September 17-21, 2012
- Keynote speech on Cloud Security at Network Science and Reconfigurable Systems for Cybersecurity (NSRSC) Conference newar Washington D.C. August 28-29, 2012.
- Alumni Association's UMAR annual "Coffee and Conversation" with featured speaker Dr. Dipankar Disgupta at the home of University President Shirley C. Raines on September 11, 2012 at 10 a.m.
- Started a project called “Negative Authentication System” funded by Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Click for press release , Also published at Memphis Business Journal.
- Gave commencement speech at university's summer graduation event Click for video on August 12, 2012, details of the talk at commencement website with photos, etc.
- Gave an invited talk on Cloud Security at MIT summer workshop on Applied Cyber Security ,June 26, 2012, for lecture video click here
- Invited talk on Cyber Security Awareness will be given at McWherter Library, University of Memphis on May 9, 2012
- Prof. Dasgupta is the recipient of 2011-2012 Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award, the highest distinction and most prestigious honor given to a faculty member by the University of Memphis.
- Associate Editor-in-Chief, Immune Computation Journal,Publisher: AICIT, Korea.
- Organize a Special Session on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), June 11-15, 2012 at Brisbane, Australia.
- Gave IUCEE hosted Webinar on Information Security, Tuesday January 24, 2012
- Gave a series of Lectures (tutorial style) on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at Dept. of Computer Science and Inf. Systems, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, January 9-13, 2012.
2011
- Keynote Speaker at IEEE International Conference on Energy, Automation, and Signal (ICEAS) 28-30th December, 2011 at Bhubaneswar, India.
- Gave a tutorial on Immunological Computation at Computational Intelligence Seminar (CIS) on 27th December, 2011 at Bhubaneswar, India
- Research meeting at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India on December 21, 2011 (Host: Prof. Sugata Sanyal)
- Gave an invited talk at Coastal Institute of Technology and Management (CITM), Vizag, India on December 20 (Host: Dr. Milind Kulkarni, Director)
- Keynote Speaker at Joint International Conference on Swarm Evolutionary and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO), Vizag, AP, India, December 19-21.
- Keynote Speaker at 10th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM) to be held at University of Calcutta, December 14-16, 2011.
- Gave an invited talk at Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre (JECRC), Jaipur, India, On December 14, 2011 (Host: Prof. S.N. Gupta, Principal)
- Offer an workshop on Social Media and Privacy at the University of Memphis campus,in the UC River Room Wednesday, November 16, from 12:40pm – 2:05pm
- Gave IFEES/IUCEE Global Webinar on Intelligent Security Systems ,(9:30am IST)(4 am GMT), Thursday 3rd Nov, 2011.
- Hosted the 4th annual Cyber Security Expo at the U of M FedEx Institute of Technology (FIT), October 7, 2011.
- Organized a Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2011),April 11-15, 2011 at the Halle aux Fairnes, Paris, France.
- Gave invited talk at Biologically inspired Security and Resilience (BISR), Ocala, FL.March, 28, 2011.
- Hosted DHS sponsored College and University Forum event on National Cyber Security Awareness Campaign at the University of Memphis, Wednesday, March 23, 2011.
- Gave invited talk at Global Cyber security summit at University of Wales, Cardiff,UK. Cyber security summit signs UK-US university deal March 22, 2011.
- Member of Editorial Board of two journals: Applied Soft Computing, Publisher- Elsevier press and Evolutionary Intelligence, Publisher- Springer-Verlag.Since 2006
- Chair of IEEE Task Force on Artificial Immune Systems, Computational Intelligence Society Technical Committee on Evolutionary Computation, since 2003.
- Council of Editors, International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC), since 2000.
- Member of Editorial Board: Evolutionary Optimization - An International Journal on the Internet, Publisher - Polish Academy of Science, since 1998.
2010
- Advisory Board Member of MIT Geospatial center Since 2010
- Gave an invited talk at National Brain Research Centre , December 23, 2010, Delhi, India Hosted by Dr. P. K. Roy
- Keynote speaker at International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO 2010),December 17, 2010, Chennai, India
- Gave an invited talk at Indian Statistical Institute , December 16, 2010, Bangalore, India Hosted by Dr. K. Majumdar
- Keynote Speaker at 2nd Vaagdevi International Conference (VCON'10), December 9-11, 2010, warangal, andhra pradesh, India
- Gave Presentation at MITRE, October 29, 2010, McLean, VA
- Hosted Cyber Security Expo at FedEx Institute of Technology, University of Memphis, October 15, 2010, Memphis, USA
- Offered Tutorial on "Advances in Immunological Computation" at 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), July 18, 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
- Keynote speaker at Future challenges in network security (FCNS), sponsored by ONR Global/AFRL, June 21-23, 2010, Prague, Czech Republic
2009
- Offered tutorial on Immunological Computation at Second International Conference on Emerging Trend in Engineering & technology (ICETET 2009), December 16-18, 2009, Nagpur, India.
- Gave an invited talk on C-DAC: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, December 15, 2009, Kolkata, India.
- Gave an invited talk on Avinashilingam University for Women, December 14, 2009, Coimbatore, India.
- Plenary Speaker at International Symposium on Innovations In Natural Computing (INC), December 12-13, 2009. Cochin, India.
- Keynote Speaker at World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009), December 9-11, 2009, Coimbatore, India.
- Gave a talk on ACT Online at NSA/DHS Annual National CAE Principals Meeting, November 9-10, 2009, Tampa , Florida, USA.
- Keynote Speaker at Graduate Education and Research in Information Security (GERIS '09), October 26-28, 2009, Binghamton, New York, USA.
- Hosted 2nd Annual Cyber Security Expo on October 15, 2009 where this year's theme was Global Cyber Security focusing on cyber crime, identity theft, software security, etc. University News released at http://memphis.edu/releases/sep09/cybersecurity.htm
- Gave an invited talk on Adaptive Cybersecurity Training (ACT) Online Program at 8th Annual Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity (C3) Conference at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA on October 1-2, 2009.
- Prof. Dasgupta was a Program Co-Chair of HEALTH-INSPIRED NETWORK DEFENSE working group at National Cyber Leap Year (NCLY) Summit, August 17-19, 2009, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, Virginia.
- Program Committee Member and Reviewer: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 8-12, 2009, Montreal, Canada.
- Offered a tutorial at Security and Defense Applications, July 8-10, 2009, Ottawa, Canada.
- Program Committee Member and Reviewer: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), June 14-19, 2009, Atlanta, GA, USA.
- Program Committee Member and Reviewer: Fourth Annual Symposium on Information Assurance, June 3-4, 2009, Albany, NY.
- Offered a tutorial on "Adaptive Cybersecurity Training (ACT) Online Program" at the 13th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), June 1, 2009, Seattle, USA.
- Program Committee Member and Reviewer: Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), May 18-21, 2009, Trondheim, Norway.
- Organized a Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2009) March 30 - April 2, 2009, Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville, TN, USA.
- Program Committee Member: 4th International Conference on i-Warfare and Security, March 26-27, 2009, Cape Town, South Africa.
2008
- Offered a tutorial on Immunological Computation at the 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, Melbourne, Australia, December 7-10,2008
- Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta gave an invited talk on "DIGITAL IMMUNITY: IS IT POSSIBLE?" at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as part of ORNL's "Distinguished Seminar" series (Host: Dr. Lee Hively, Senior Research Staff) on November 21, 2008.
- The Center for Information Assurance, University of Memphis hosted the Cyber Security Expo at FIT on October 16th, 2008.
- A new book has been published in September,2008 on Artificial Immunological Systems(AIS) by Dipankar Dasgupta and Fernando Nino.
- Keynote Speaker at ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security (BLISS),August 4-6, 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Guest Editor for Special issue on Computational Intelligence on Cyber Security of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, May 2008.
- Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta, Director of Center for Information Assurance chaired a session at the International Conference on i-Warfare and Security (ICIW) in Omaha, Nebraska, April 24-25 2008.Presented a research paper titled "An Investigation of Negative Authentication Systems" at the event.
- Nominated as the Chair of the Task Force on Artificial Immune Systems, IEEE Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC).
- Advisory Board Member: Center for Advanced Information Technologies at Binghamton University, New York (since 2006).
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation since January 2003.
2007
- Dr. Dasgupta received the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Award and was also awarded the prestigious Dunavant Professorship for outstanding achievements.
- Dr. Dasgupta offered a lecture on Artificial Immune Systems at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) in Singapore during September 25-28, 2007.
- Dr. Dasgupta was invited to talk at the Asansol Engineering College, West Bengal in India (Host: Dr. Amit Aditya, Principal) on June 12, 2007.
- Dr. Dasgupta was invited to talk at IIS Colloquium on Bio-Inspired Computational Intelligence on April 13, 2007.
- Dr. Dasgupta offered a lecture on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Honolulu, Hawaii during April 1-5, 2007.
- Dr. Dasgupta was invited to talk at the IEEE regional meeting at the University of Missouri, Rolla(Host: Dr. G K Venayagamoorthy, President IEEE St. Louis Chapter)on March 12, 2007
- Dr. Dasgupta was invited to talk on "Computer Science program & Research at the University of Memphis" at the University of Tennessee, Martin (Host: Dr. Jim Clark, Professor & Chair) on February 15, 2007.
- Dr. Dasgupta was the guest editor of a special issue on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.
- Dr. Dasgupta was on the advisory board of Center for Advanced Information Technologies (CAIT) at the Binghamton University, New York.
2006
- Dr. Dasgupta organized CISCO Network Security Boot Camp at the Center for Information Assurance, The University of Memphis (Instructor: Robert J. Du Charme) during December 11-14, 2006.
- He gave an invited talk on "Cyber Security Education, Training & Research at the University of Memphis" at IEEE Computer Society (Memphis Chapter) meeting in November 30, 2006.
- Dr. Dasgupta was the guest editor for special issue on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (see Call For Papers ).
- Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on "Cyber Security Education, Training & Research at the University of Memphis" at the Tennessee Homeland Security Consortium meeting in Nashville on November 10, 2006.
- Dr. Dasgupta gave a plenary talk on "Computation Intelligence in Cybersecurity" at IEEE conferences on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety (CIHSPS) in Alexandria on October 2006.
- He received the Best Paper Award at International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) in Seattle, Washington during July 8-12, 2006.
- He was nominated for IEEE Fellow at Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers--the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology in 2006.
- Dr. Dasgupta organized a special track on Artificial Immune Systems at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) during July 8-12, 2006 in Seattle, USA.
2005
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2003
- Dr. Dasgupta was the Plenary, Speaker and Session Organizer of Special Session on Artificial Immune Systems at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), that was held during December 8-12, 2003 in Canberra, Australia.
- Dr. Dasgupta was chosen as the publicity chair for Second International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), that was held during September 1-3, 2003 at Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.
- Dr. Dasgupta offered a tutorial on Artificial Immune Systems at INTROS-03 sessions during 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA) on August 12, 2003 at The University of Nottingham, UK.
- Dr. Dasgupta offered a lecture on Immunological Computation at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), on August 10, 2003 at Acapulco, Mexico.
- He was the panelist on Biologically Inspired/Motivated Computational Models at at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in Portland, USA during July 20-24, 2003.
- He was the keynote speaker, offered a tutorial and organized special track on Artificial Immune Systems at at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in Chicago, USA during July 12-16, 2003.
- Dr. Dasgupta organized a special session on Computer Security with Soft Computing at IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE2003) in St. Louis, Missouri on May 25-28, 2003.
- He was invited to talk about Multi-Level Monitoring and Fuzzy Clustering to detect Cyber Attacks at Interface 2003: Security and Infrastructure Protection during March 12-15, 2003 at Salt Lake City, Utah.
2002
- Dr. Dasgupta was a Plenary Speaker at Third International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems at (ICSC-NAISO) University of Malaga in Spain during September 24-27, 2002.
- Dr. Dasgupta offered a tutorial on Immunological Computation: Theory and Applications at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) held at New York during July 9-13, 2002.
- Dr. Dasgupta organized one-day workshop on Artificial Immune Systems at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) in Honolulu, Hawaii on May 12, 2002.
- Dr. Dasgupta was the guest editor of Special Issue on Artificial Immune Systems, of the journal IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 6, No. 3 in June 2002.
- ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY CS Technical Report (No. CS-02-002), The University of Memphis, September, 2002 (Update regularly).
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