The Chief Patron and Plenary Speakers

Prof. Dalibor DOBRILOVIC, PhD

Full professor

University of Novi Sad
Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin” – Zrenjanin, Serbia
Department of Information Technology

Presentation title:

Zero-Knowledge Proof Protocols for Securing IoT-Based Critical Infrastructure Systems

Dr. Dalibor Dobrilovic is a full professor at the Information Technology department at the University of Novi Sad, Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin”, Zrenjanin. He received his PhD in Information Technology in 2012. His research interests are in the areas of IoT, Smart Cities, Wireless Communications, Wireless Sensor Networks, Computer Networking, Engineering education, etc. Dalibor Dobrilovic has more than 180 research articles (Scopus: 335 Citations, 68 Documents, h-index 10; WoS: 168 Citations, 44 Publications, h-index 8; IEEE Xplore: 95 Citations, 28 Publications) published in international journals and conferences. He has participated in three EU and over ten nationally funded scientific, research, and technical projects. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Education Society, IEEE Communication Society, ACM (Association for Computer Machinery), and ACM SIGCOMM. From 2019 to 2023, he has been president of the Council of the Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin”, Zrenjanin. Since 2018, he has been president of the local HAM radio club “Zrenjanin”. In 2016, he was the mentor of student team 6thSense in an international competition, the Texas Instruments TI Innovation Challenge (TIIC) European Design Contest, which won one of seven 1st round prizes in the category of Innovation. He is a technical committee member of the following international conferences: ICICCT, New Delhi, India; SSSCC and ICCECIP, Budapest, Hungary; ICI2C’21, Morocco; EAI FABULOUS, Zagreb, Croatia; AIIT and ITRO, Zrenjanin, Serbia.

Prof. Levente DIMÉN, PhD

Full professor

„1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania – Faculty of Informatics and Engineering, Alba Iulia, Romania

Presentation title:

Analysis of Natural and Anthropogenic Hazards in order to Produce Vulnerability and Risk Maps

Levente Dimén is currently a professor in Soil science and remote sensing at the „1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Romania – Faculty of Informatics and Engineering, Alba Iulia, Romania, and he has been the head of the department for distance learning and continuous education since 2012. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography; M.A. in Environment sciences; B.A. in Environment sciences. He teaches Soil sciences, remote sensing, geomorphology and geomorphological risk assessment. Her research interests focus on: GIS, GIS aided modelling, distance education and lifelong learning, and he has published numerous works in these fields both as an author and co-author or editor. He is one of the expert evaluators of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education for Commission 13, Distance Education, and he is the Erasmus+ departmental Coordinator.

Prof. László KOVÁCS, DSc

Full professor

Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary

Presentation title:

Effective cyber defence against military cyber operations

Major General László Kovács Ph.D. is a full university professor at the Ludovika University of Public Service. He has been involved in electronic warfare, information operations and cyber warfare for over twenty-five years. In addition to university education, as a scientific researcher, he conducts research in the fields of cyberwarfare, information terrorism, and the protection of critical information infrastructures. In September 2020, he was awarded the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with his dissertation on cyber security strategies. Between 2019 and 2023, he was the Cyber Defense Inspector of the Command of the Hungarian Defense Forces and then the Commander of the Cyber Operations Command of the Hungarian Defense Forces. His main task was the management of the cyber defense and cyber operations of the Hungarian Armed Forces, as well as the development of its organizations. He is currently the vice rector for academic affairs of the Ludovika University of Public Service, Head of Doctoral School of Military Science, and Head of Cyber Security Research Institute of Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies.

Artur Jach-Chrząszcz, PhD

Assistant professor

University of the National Education Commission, Kraków, Poland

Presentation title:

The Security and Defense Fund 2025 Initiative as an Opportunity to Strengthen Local Government and National Defense Capabilities in the Field of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure. The Perspective of Poland and the Central European Region.

Artur Jach-Chrzaszcz, PhD, is an assistant professor at the University of the National Education Commission in Kraków, Poland. He is a researcher and academic teacher at the Department of Military Security of the Institute of Security and Computer Sciences. Since 2018, he has been the president of the European Foundation for Cooperation and Science.

Prof. Blagoj Ristevski, PhD

Full professor

University “St. Kliment Ohridski” – Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia

Presentation title:

Detection of Cyber Grooming and Deceptive Manipulation as Human-Focused Cyber Threats

Full Professor Dr. Blagoj Ristevski is the Dean of the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies – Bitola, University “St. Kliment Ohridski”  Bitola, Macedonia. He holds a Graduated Engineer in Electrical Engineering degree with a specialization in Computer Science, Informatics, and Automation (2001), a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Computer Science and Informatics (2007), and a PhD in Technical Sciences (2011) from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies – Skopje, at the “St. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje, Macedonia. Prof. Ristevski has reviewed numerous scientific journals indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus, including: Briefings in Bioinformatics, Computer Communications, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Big Data, Molecular Informatics, IET Systems Biology, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Neurocomputing, Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, JAMIA Open, Informatica, Complexity, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, BMC Bioinformatics, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Heliyon, Array, BMC Supplements, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Electronic Journal of e-Learning, Digital Health, Health Policy and Technology, Journal of Public Health Research, International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management, BMJ Open, Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Opuscula Mathematica, among others. Ristevski is a member of several professional organizations, including IEEE (Senior Member), IEEE Computer Society, and the scientific research honor society Sigma Xi. He has been the principal investigator in several research projects funded by DAAD, and has also been the project manager and principal investigator in two bilateral scientific research projects. Ristevski has delivered lectures and conducted research visits at several universities, including those in Zhejiang, Göttingen, Bielefeld, Rostock, Linz, Groningen, the Technical Universities of Dresden and Košice, the Leibniz Institute IPK in Gatersleben, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and “St. Kliment Ohridski” University in Sofia. Ristevski has participated in several projects under the INTERREG IPA Cross-Border Cooperation Programme as well as within the DIGITAL EUROPE program. He is the author of more than 110 scientific papers in various fields such as databases, data science, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, bioinformatics, medical informatics, computer graphics, cryptography and cybersecurity.