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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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Muthu Ramachandran
Forti5 Technologies (Pvt) Ltd
United Kingdom
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Brief Bio
Dr. Muthu Ramachandran is currently a visiting Professor in the School of Computing, Creative Technologies, and Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Southampton in the UK and a Research Consultant at AI Tech Leeds UK. Previously, he spent nearly eight years in industrial research(Philips Research Labs and Volantis Systems Ltd, Surrey, UK) where Muthu has worked on various research projects including Cloud Software Engineering, Big Data Software Engineering, IoT Software Engineering, Software Security Engineering, SOA, Cloud Computing, and ma
in Software Engineering areas 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 real-time systems projects for Aerospace industrial applications. Muthu is an author & co-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 9books, over 100s of journal articles, over 50 book chapters and over 200 conferences papers on various advanced topics in software engineering, software security, cloud computing and education. Muthu has been leading conference 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).Muthuis a member of various professional organizations and computer societies: IEEE, ACM, Fellow of BCS, and a Senior Fellow of HEA. He is also invited keynote speaker on several international conferences. 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.
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