Data Protection: The Wake of AI and Machine Learning

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Dr. Chaminda Hewage is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Data Security in the Cardiff School of Technologies at Cardiff Metropolitan University UK where he is also the Associate Dean Research for the school. He is the fFounding Director of the Cybersecurity and Information Networks Centre (CINC) at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He received a B.Sc. Engineering (First Class Honours Degree) in Electrical and Information Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering University of Ruhuna (Sri Lanka) in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Multimedia Communications from the University of Surrey (UK) in 2009. He was awarded the Gold Medal for best performance in Engineering (2014) by the University of Ruhuna for his achievements in undergraduate studies at the General Convocation held in 2004. After graduation he joined Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (Sri Lanka) as a Telecommunication Engineer (2004). In September 2005 he was awarded the Overseas Research Scholarships (ORS) scholarship by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (Universities UK) to pursue his Ph.D. at the University of Surrey UK. Upon completion of his PhD he works as a researcher at the University of Surrey UK and Kingston University London UK. In 2015 he joined Cardiff Metropolitan University UK as a Senior Lecturer in Networking and Cyber Security. In 2014 he received a Post-Graduate Certification in Higher Education (HE) Teaching and Learning from Kingston University London. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) UK. He is a Senior member of the IEEE and Member of IET and the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec). Dr. Lasith Yasakethu is a Senior Lecturer in Department of Applied Electronics Sri Lanka Technological Campus. He is currently serving as the Dean of Faculty of Technology. Dr. Yasakethu received his BSc. Engineering degree (First Class Hons.) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka in 2007. He was awarded the prize for best performance in Electronic Communication Engineering by the University of Peradeniya for his achievements in undergraduate studies. After graduation he joined Dialog Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. Sri Lanka as a Core-Network Engineer (2007). In October 2007 he was awarded the Overseas Research Scholarships Award by the Higher Education Funding Council of England to pursue PhD at the University of Surrey UK. After completing his PhD he worked as a Research Engineer for Technicolor Research & Innovations (formerly known as THOMSON R&D) in Rennes France (2010-2012). Dr. Yasakethu worked as a Research Fellow and a Senior Research Fellow at University of Surrey UK and Kingston University London UK respectively (2012-2014). Afterwards he worked as a Senior Lecturer at Department of Mechatronics Faculty of Engineering SAITM Sri Lanka (2014-2016) and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka (2016-2018). His area of expertise is 3D Video Communication Perception and Cyber Security. Dr. Yasakethu has worked for several European Commission Framework Program-6 (FP6) and Framework Program-7 (FP7) and Horizon 2020 projects. He is a member of IEEE & an author/reviewer of several IEEE/IET journal/conference publications. Prof. Dushantha Nalin Jayakody  is a Senior Member IEEE Fellow IET  and received the Ph. D. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University College Dublin Ireland in 2014. He received his MSc degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University Turkey. He was ranked as the top 2% scientist in the world in 2021 2022 and 2023 by the Stanford Elsevier list. In 2021 he received the Sri Lankan Presidential Award for his outstanding research performance among many other awards and recognitions.  Since 2022 he is a Professor at the Lusófona University Portugal. Since 2023 he is also with the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Sri Lanka. From 2019-2022 he served as the Dean Faculty of Postgraduate Studies & Research at Sri Lanka Technological Campus Sri Lanka from 2021-2022 as the Director Postgraduate Research and Impact at the Research at Sri Lanka Technological Campus Sri Lanka. He is currently serving as the Vice Chair of IEEE ComSoc (Sri Lanka Chapter). He held visiting and/or sabbatical positions at the Center for Telecommunications Research University of Sydney Australia in 2015 and Texas A&M University in 2018 Qatar Foundation (HBKU). He was a visiting professor at the University of Jyvaskyla Finland both in 2019 and 2022 within the framework of the Academy of Finland. He also served as a visiting professor at the University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil in 2019. From 2019-2022 he has been a SPARC Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering National Institute of Tiruchirappalli India within the framework of the Ministry of Human Resources in India.  From 2014 - 2016 he was a Postdoc Research Fellow at University of Tartu Estonia and University of Bergen Norway. From 2016-2021 he was a Professor at the School of Computer Science & Robotics National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) Russia.  From 2021-2022 he was with the Department of Engineering & Computer Science/Autonoma TechLab Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Portugal. He has supervised over 8 PhD students and many master and over 50 undergraduate students and 5 Postdoc researchers. In his career so far he has attracted nearly 6M $ research funding from many international grant agencies and has   published   over 230 international   peer reviewed journal and conference papers and books.  Prof. Jayakody has received the best paper award from the ICCMIT in 2017 and International Conference on Emerging Technologies of Information and Communications (ETIC 2019) March 2019 and IRC 2023. He has received the Sri Lankan Presidents Award for Research Excellence in 2020. In July 2019 Prof. Jayakody received the Education Leadership Award from the World Academic Congress in 2019. In 2017 and 2018 he received the outstanding faculty award by National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University Russia. He also received the Distinguished Researcher in Wireless Communications award in Chennai India 2019. Prof. Jayakody received the Presidential Award for outstanding research performance in the year 2021. He also received Best Publication Award at the Sri Lanka Technological Campus Sri Lanka in 2019 and 2020.