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Muthu Ramachandran
Forti5 Tech Ltd / University of South Africa (UniSA)
United Kingdom
https://www.linkedin.com/in/muthuuk/
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Brief Bio
Dr Muthu Ramachandran is currently a CEO and an Independent Educational and Research Consultant and an AI Ethics Research Consultant at AI Tech North, and a visiting Research Fellow at University of Southampton. Previously, Muthu was a Principal Lecturer (Associate Professor) for more than 19+ years in the School of Built Environment, Engineering, and Computing at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. Muthu has more than thirty years of teaching and research experience both in academia and in industrial research settings. Prior to this, he spent eight years in industrial research at Philips Research Labs and subseq
uently at Volantis Systems Ltd, Surrey, UK where Muthu has worked on various research projects for Software Engineering Applications for Consumer Electronics including software architecture design and reuse for large scale telecommunication, multi-media and car navigation systems. Currently, Muthu is leading research in the areas of Cloud Software Engineering, Big Data Software Engineering, IoT Software Engineering, Software Security Engineering, SOA, Cloud Computing, and in the main areas of Software Engineering on RE, CBSE, software architecture, reuse, quality and testing. Muthu’s first career started as a research scientist where Muthu has worked on large scale high integrity real-time systems for Aerospace industrial applications. Muthu is the author of books: Software Components: Guidelines and Applications (Nova Publishers, NY, USA, 2008) and Software Security Engineering: Design and Applications (Nova Publishers, NY, USA, 2011). He has also widely authored and published over 10 books, 100s of journal articles, over 50 book chapters and 200 conferences papers on various advanced topics in software engineering, software security, cloud computing and education. Muthu has been leading conferences as chairs and as keynote speakers on global safety, security and sustainability, emerging services, IoTBDS, Complexis, Big Data, and Software Engineering for Service and Cloud Computing (SE-CLOUD 2018). Muthu is a member of various professional organizations and computer societies: IEEE, ACM, Fellow of BCS, and a Senior Fellow of HEA. Muthu’s had worked on several research projects including all aspects of software engineering, SPI for SMEs (known as a Prism model), emergency and disaster management systems, software components and architectures, good practice guidelines on software developments, software security engineering, and service and cloud computing. Project details can be accessed at:
LeedsBeckett: http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/dr-muthu-ramachandran/
Scopus profile: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=8676632200
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=KDXE-G8AAAAJ&hl=en
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Kulvinder Panesar
University of Bradford
United Kingdom
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Brief Bio
Dr Kulvinder Panesar is an Assistant Professor in Applied AI, from the University of Bradford having joined in September 2020. Her academic career spans over three decades. She is a strategically focused senior computing professional in natural language processing (NLP), conversational AI specialism - AI for good/healthcare context (principal investigator in several research grant submissions) and NLP consultancy activities. She is WeAreTech100 Women awardee by JP Morgan (2019). She undertook a research moderator role – technical/ethics panels: European Chatbot and Conversational AI Summit (2022- 2025). She
wears several hats but not limited to: course director; module leader; project supervisor for FYP, MSc/PhD students; a UKRI research reviewer; a recent project technical lead on an internal university awarded commercialisation project deploying generative AI and ethically-aligned solutions (AI Patient Chatbot (OSCE)). She has authored/co-authored NLP research papers and delivered international research outputs and engaged in university collaborations on AI-linked transformational activities. Currently, she is a co-investigator of a British Council – ISPF grant (research fellowships) strengthening global AI research networks. She is an established British Computer Society (BCS) member; an AI 360 Smart Ethics tool contributor (2yrs) and AI expert/advisor for a start-up events/activities (5 yrs), and an external mentor at Reed (4yrs).
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Gopal Jamnal
Leeds Beckett University
United Kingdom
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Brief Bio
Dr Gopal Jamnal received his Ph.D. in Internet of Things and Machine Learning from Edinburgh Napier University, U.K, and currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Leeds Beckett University, U.K. With over a decade of experience across academia and industry in Europe, the U.K., and the Asia-Pacific region, he has established expertise as an AI solution architect and software engineer, focusing on explainable and causal machine learning for quantitative finance, including earnings forecasting, factor-based modeling, systematic trading, risk analytics, and trustworthy decis
ion-support systems for regulated financial environments. He has led and contributed to externally funded, industry-facing research projects and collaborated with globally recognized organizations such as Adidas Group, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Goodyear, and PwC to design and deploy applied AI solutions. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at leading international conferences in explainable finance, interpretable machine learning, and data-driven forecasting, and he continues to advance research and applied AI systems that bridge rigorous academic inquiry with quantitative research and financial risk modeling.
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Salim Aftab
Cognizant
United States
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Brief Bio
Salim Aftab is a Principal Architect – Security & Infrastructure at Cognizant, specializing in enterprise architecture, Zero Trust network design, and cyber resilience strategies. With deep expertise in disaster recovery, business continuity, and ransomware defense, he helps organizations strengthen their security posture while ensuring operational resilience. As a technology evangelist, Salim is passionate about driving secure digital transformation and aligning security architecture with business objectives.
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Deepak Singh
Gainwell Technologies Microservices
United States
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Brief Bio
Deepak Singh is a seasoned technology leader and Principal Solution Architect at Gainwell Technologies with over 19 years of experience in software development, cloud computing, and enterprise architecture. He specializes in microservices-based architectures and AWS cloud solutions, driving scalable and resilient digital transformations. A Certified Java Professional, Deepak combines deep technical expertise with strategic vision to deliver high-impact IT solutions across complex enterprise environments.