IEEE Joint Intelligence
and Security Informatics Conference (JISIC) 2014
September 24-26, 2014
the Hague, the Netherlands

The first joint International and European conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI & EISIC)

Keynote Speakers


Jeroen Keppens

Jeroen Keppens

Jeroen Keppens obtained a PhD degree in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 2002. Since then, he has been working in the fields of artificial intelligence and law, and evidential reasoning, as a postdoc at the Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning in Edinburgh and at the University of Aberystwyth and as a lecturer of Computer Science at King's College London. His research interests include decision support systems for evidential reasoning, the construction of models for evidential reasoning and the validation of such models, using methods such as argumentation, approximate, qualitative and probabilistic reasoning.

John Stasko

John Stasko

John Stasko is a Professor in and the Associate Chair of the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also is an Honorary Professor in the School of Computer Science at the Univ. of St. Andrews in Scotland. Stasko is an internationally recognized and widely published researcher in the area of human-computer interaction, with a specific focus on information visualization and visual analytics.

Stasko has been Papers/Program Co-Chair for the IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVis) Conference, the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Conference, and the ACM Software Visualization (SoftVis) Symposium. He has served on numerous journal editorial boards including ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and Information Visualization. In Fall 2013 he served as General Chair for the IEEE VIS meeting in Atlanta, the primary research meeting for the field of data visualization. Stasko was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2011 and an IEEE Fellow in 2014. He received the IEEE VGTC Visualization Technical Achievement Award in 2012.

V.S. Subrahmanian

V.S. Subrahmanian

V.S. Subrahmanian is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland and heads the Center for Digital International Government, having previously served as Director of the University of Maryland's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) for 6+ years. Prof. Subrahmanian develops big data analytics including methods to analyze vast bodies of text, learn models of behaviors of entities from the data, forecast actions by these entities, and methods to influence these behaviors.

He has written six books and edited seven including textbooks on advanced databases and on multimedia databases. Prof. Subrahmanian has published over 200 articles in leading international conferences and journals. He was named to ISIHighlyCited.com which lists the top 320 most cited computer scientists of all time. He was named to the top 20 best computer science "mentors" (post 1993) in a worldwide study by the Indian Institute of Science in 2004. He was elected a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Prof. Subrahmanian's work has been described in articles in the Baltimore Sun, the Economist, Science, Nature, Computerworld, the Washington Post, American Public Media, The New Scientist, Scientific American.com, and many other international media outlets. He has served on numerous editorial boards and government/corporate boards.

Niall Adams

Niall Adams

Niall Adams has been a member of faculty in the department of Mathematics at Imperial College London since 2000. He presently holds the position of Reader in Statistics. Additionally, since 2011, he has been seconded to the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, University of Bristol.

His methodological research interests include classification, anomaly detection and adaptive estimation, with applications in cyber-security, consumer finance and cell biology. Adams was the recipient of a Winton research prize in 2011, and was a member of the Imperial College team that won the ³Credit Collections and Risk² prize for contributions to the credit industry in 2012. He has published 70 refereed journal and conference papers, and edited 7 books. He has been an associate editor for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (series C), Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, and Intelligent Data Analysis.

Thomas Holt

Thomas Holt

Thomas Holt is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University specializing in cybercrime, policing, and policy. He received his Ph. D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis in 2005. He has published extensively on cybercrime and cyberterror in outlets such as Crime and Delinquency, Sexual Abuse, the Journal of Criminal Justice, Terrorism and Political Violence, and Deviant Behavior. He has published multiple edited books, including Corporate Hacking and Technology-Driven Crime with coeditor Bernadette Schell (2011), Crime On-Line: Correlates, Causes and Context, now in its 2nd Edition, and a co-author of Digital Crime and Digital Terror, 2nd edition (2010). He has also received multiple grants from the National Institute of Justice and the National Science Foundation to examine the social and technical drivers of Russian malware writers, data thieves, and hackers using on-line data. He has also given multiple presentations on computer crime and hacking at academic and professional conferences, as well as hacker conferences across the country including Defcon and HOPE.

Judee K. Burgoon

Judee K. Burgoon

Dr. Burgoon is Professor of Communication, Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona, where she is Director of Research for the Center for the Management of Information and Site Director for the Center for Identification Technology Research, a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. Previously, she held faculty appointments at the University of Florida and Michigan State University, was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at University of Oklahoma and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. She has authored or edited 13 books and monographs and nearly 300 published articles, chapters and reviews related to nonverbal and verbal communication, deception, and computer-mediated communication. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, among others. Her awards and honors include, from the International Communication Association, the Steven Chaffee Career Productivity Award, Robert Kibler Mentorship Award, and election as Fellow; from the National Communication Association, the Distinguished Scholar Award for a lifetime of scholarly achievement, the Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication and the Charles Woolbert Research Award for Scholarship of Lasting Impact. A recent survey identified her as the most prolific female scholar in communication in the 20th century.