Plenary Panel
Friday July 11 | 9:40 – 10:50 | Auditorium
Recent Advances and Future Directions of Quality Compliance in Services Computing
Quality compliance, including regulatory compliance, is very important for providing critical services for various applications. Due to the recent rapid developments of enabling technologies for services computing, such as artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs), blockchain, cloud computing, edge computing, big data analytics, internet of things (IoT), 5G/6G networks, and smart devices, much progress has been made in improving compliance with various important qualities of services for applications in healthcare, finances, e-commerce, manufacturing, transportation, entertainment, education, smart home and smart world. With the emerging enabling technologies, such as quantum computing, spatial computing, and software capability delivery approaches (e.g. DevSecOps, DevRegOps, and MLSecOps), it is promising to greatly improve quality compliance in critical services for applications. In this plenary panel session, several leading researchers will present their views on the recent advances and future directions to meet the challenges to achieve much better quality compliance, including build, deploy, and run phases, for providing critical services for applications, such as real-world regulatory alignment, run-time compliance, security, privacy, and usability. There will be discussions from the floor following these presentations.
Panel Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University
Stephen S. Yau is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University (ASU). He served as the chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 1994 – 2001, and later as the director of Information Assurance Center at ASU. Previously, he was on the faculties of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and the University of Florida. He served as the president of the IEEE Computer Society and the editor-in-chief of IEEE COMPUTER magazine. He was on the Board of Directors of the IEEE. He served as the president of American Federation of Information Processing Societies, and the chair of the Organizing Committee of the World Computer Congress in 1989 sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing. He was the general chair of the IEEE World Congress on Services in 2018. His current research interests include services and cloud computing, cybersecurity, software engineering, IoT and applications of artificial intelligence and blockchain. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the BS degree from National Taiwan University, the MS and PhD. degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana, all in electrical engineering.
Panelists
Abdelsalam Ali Helal (aka: Sumi Helal) is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Bologna, Italy, and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Florida. Prior to joining the University of Bologna in 2024, he spent 26 years as associate and then full processor in the Computer amd Information Science and Engineering Department at the University of Florida, USA. At University of Florida, he directed the Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory, co-founded and directed the Gator Tech Smart House –a real-world deployment project that aimed at identifying key barriers and opportunities to make the Smart Home concept a common place (creating the “Smart Home in a Box” concept). His active areas of research focus on architectural and programmability aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT), service-oriented IoT architectures, IoT edge intelligence, and pervasive/ubiquitous systems and their human-centric applications, especially in the Digital Health area. He founded several successful ventures in the areas of IoT and Digital Health. His patents were licensed by Google, Apple, Samsung, Bosch, Siemens, T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T among others. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, AAIA, IET, and a member of Academia Europaea.
Claudio Agostino Ardagna is Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, the Director of the CINI National Laboratory on Data Science, and co-founder of Moon Cloud srl. His research interests are in the areas of cloud-edge security and assurance, distributed systems and AI/ML verification and certification, and data science. He co-authored over 160 contributions in international journals, conference/workshop proceedings, and chapters in international books. He also coauthored the Springer books “Open Source Systems Security Certification” and “A Journey into Security Certification From the Cloud to Artificial Intelligence”. He served as visiting professor at Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, and visiting researcher at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Khalifa University, George Mason University. He has been a member of the Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, and serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. He has played lead roles in various national and international research projects, and has held positions as General/Program Chair in numerous international conferences and workshops focused on distributed systems, security and privacy, and data science.
Anupam Joshi is the Oros Family Professor in the Computer Science Electrical Engineering Department at University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC) and recently the Vice Provost and Chief AI Officer. He also serves as the Director of UMBC’s Cybersecurity Institute. He is an Adjunct Professor at IIT Delhi’s School of IT, and affiliate faculty in the UMBC’s Schools of Medicine and Aging. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and serves on the Maryland Cybersecurity Council chartered by the Legislature. He has published over 300 technical papers with an h-index of 95 and over 33000 citations (per Google scholar), been granted nine patents, and received support over $22M from NSF, NASA, DARPA, DoD, NIST, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin amongst others. He obtained a B.Tech degree from IIT Delhi in 1989, and a Masters and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1991 and 1993 respectively. His research interests are at the intersection of AI and Systems. Over the last decade, he has been exploring this intersection to improve Cybersecurity — using Distributed AI approaches for attack detection and resilience in CPS/IoT systems that undergird our critical infrastructure and services, and policy driven approaches to security and privacy.
Rong N. Chang is a Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Research, Yorktown, and a member of the prestigious IBM Academy of Technology. He is researching on service-oriented cybersecurity management technologies for modern enterprise applications, leveraging Generative AI under DevSecOps and MLSecOps frameworks. He has been recognized with nine IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, contributing to over $200 million in revenue impact. He holds more than 30 patents and published over 60 refereed technical papers in distributed services computing. He serves as the Steering Committee Chair of IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES) and the Advisory Committee Chair for the IEEE Technical Community on Services Computing (TCSVC). He is on the Steering Committee of ACM/IEEE Symposium of Edge Computing (SEC) and IEEE Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets (CCEM). He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. He is a Distinguished Member of ACM, and a member of Phi Tau Phi, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Zheng Yan is currently a Distinguished Professor at Xidian University, China. She earned the Doctor of Science in Technology from Helsinki University of Technology. She worked in the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki for over ten years and worked as a visiting professor and a Finnish Academy Fellow at the Aalto University, Finland for seven years. She is elected as an External Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, a Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA, and AIIA. She is a Stanford World top 2% scientist, a highly cited researcher by Elsevier in China, and a ScholarGPS World Top 0.05% Highly Ranked Scholar. Her research interests are in trust, security, privacy, and data analysis. She has received numerous awards, including the Nokia Distinguished Inventor, IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence, IEEE TEMS Distinguished Leadership, etc. She serves as a Co-EiC of Information Sciences and an Area Editor/Associate Editor for many esteemed journals. She founded the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and serves as its Steering Committee Co-chair. She has contributed to more than 40 conferences as a General Chair or TPC Chair and delivered over 40 keynotes and invited talks.
Jianwei Yin is a Qiushi Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang University. Currently he is served as the Dean of the School of Software, Director of Ningbo Science and Innovation Center of Zhejiang University. His research interests focus on the service computing, quantum computing and AI. He served as the Honorary Chairman of the ICSOC 2020 , Chairman of the CollaborateCOM 2020 , and Program Committee Chair or Co-Chair for IEEE ICWS 2024, IEEE SCC 2020, ICSOC 2018, and IEEE CIC 2015. He has published over four hundred papers in international journals and conferences such as TC, TSE, TKDE, TSC, HPCA, ISCA, MICRO, ASPLOS, ISSTA, CHI, ICDE, IJCAI, AAAI, CCS, ICSOC and ICWS. He has received awards for best papers/highlight papers at FedGraph 2022, IEEE TII 2021, IEEE TSC 2017, CollaborateCOM 2020, IEEE SMDS 2020, and ICSOC 2017, and has guided students to win the Best Student Paper awards at ICSS 2020, ICWS 2019, CollaborateCOM 2019, and IEEE SCC 2012. He received TCSVC Outstanding Leadership Award 2024.
