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2019

On November 25th, 2019, the University of Memphis Research Foundation (UMRF) signed an agreement to license a U.S. patent with i2Chain, a San Francisco area cybersecurity startup, for an Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication (A-MFA) System invented and developed by a team led by Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta. This news was also featured in the Daily Memphian.
The August 2019 issue of FedTech magazine (which is widely circulated among federal agencies) interviewed Dr. Dasgupta as an expert in the field and mentioned in an article (in the 7th paragraph) the DOD’s use of the latest Technologies and implementation of CMFA (Continuous Multi-Factor Authentication).
Dr. Dasgupta will organize a Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) symposium at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) in Xiamen, China, from Dec 6 - 9, 2019. Click here for more details.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on Online Social Networks and Privacy Issues and engaged in discussion on research collaboration, curriculum, student visits, etc., at Lancaster University (https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/events/acm-distinguished-talk-on-online-social-networks-and-privacy-issues ) on June 11, 2019.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on their patented research (A-MFA) at Oxford University on June 7, 2019 (http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/seminars/2225.html).
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on Cyber Security on June 5, 2019, at the City University of London to establish a cross-university Institute for Cyber Security research.
Dr. Dasgupta gave CAST Training on Cyber security at the FedEx Institute of Technology on May 2, 2019.
Dr. Dasgupta gave a talk on “data privacy in research” at the Research & Networking Breakfast Series at FedEx Institute of Technology on April 24, 2019
Dr. Dasgupta gave an NEDTalk on “Hashtag & Emoji in Social Media " at the University of Memphis McWherter Library on April 18, 2019.
Dr. Dasgupta gave Keynote ICSC-2019 at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida (INDIA) on March 9, 2019.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an ACM Distinguish Speaker Program (DSP) lecture on "Genetic and Evolutionary Computation in Defense, Security and Risk Management" at ABES Engineering College, March 8, 2019, Ghaziabad, India.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an ACM-DSP Keynote Speech on Puzzle-based learning in Cyber Security Education at the Second International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP 2019) (http://www.icaccpa.in/) at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT), February 25 - 28, 2019, Sikkim, India.

2018

Dr. Dasgupta participated in a project meeting entitled "Smart, Secure, Scalable, Resilient and Adaptive Cyber-Physical Power System" at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, on Dec 17, 2018.
Dr. Dasgupta gave a Machine Learning-Based User Identity Management seminar at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, on Nov 27, 2018.
Dr. Dasgupta has organized a Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) in Bengaluru, India, from November 18-21, 2018.
Dr. Dasgupta gave several lectures (webinars) at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India, on November 15 - 17, 2018.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an ACM Distinguished lecture and talk on Social Media security and Privacy issues in Bhopal, India, on October 26 - 27, 2018.
Dr. Dasgupta was Stationed at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur for two months (Oct 20 - Dec 22, 2018) as an International Visiting Professor and offered a micro-credit course on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security. The course received a lot of attention from students.
Dr. Dasgupta gave a series of lectures at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, on Advances in User Authentication and Immunological Computation on October 1, 2018, and an ACM Distinguished Speaker talk on October 4, 2018.
Dr. Dasgupta hosted two Cybersecurity Professional workshops on August 3rd and another on October 12, 2018.
Dr. Dasgupta has helped (in finding the speakers and some logistics) to host the Cyber Summit on October 5, 2018.
The Center for Information Assurance (CfIA) hosted the Raymond James team and engaged in day-long activities/meetings to explore collaboration; Prof. Dasgupta led the discussion where cybersecurity faculty and students participated and gave brief presentations of their research works at the FedEx Institute of Technology (FIT) on Sept 14, 2018.
Dr. Dasgupta has given an invited talk on "Advances in User Authentication" at the Memphis chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), Crescent Club, Memphis, on Sept 12, 2018.
Dr. Dasgupta visited the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, from September 3rd to 7th, 2018. He gave several lectures on Computational Intelligence in Cybersecurity (as part of a short course), participated in research discussions and explored collaboration.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on An Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (A-MFA) System at Oslo University on August 31, 2018. Norway's security seminar series AFSecurity, participants from several IT companies, university faculty and students attended.
Dr. Dasgupta received the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) Designation of William Hill Professor in Cybersecurity on August 22, 2018
Dr. Dasgupta, director of the Center for Information Assurance, was interviewed on WMC Action News 5 about the upcoming Cyber Ambassadors Tech Camp.
Dr. Dasgupta was recently featured in the news "TNReady testing troubles over, for now" on News3 Channel Memphis, TN.
Dr. Dasgupta served as a Panelist at the 2018 SEC Academic Conference at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, from April 8-10, 2018. CfIA Students Team won the 2018 DOE Cyber Defense competition.
Dr. Dasgupta took part as a Program Committee Member at The 12th Annual Cyber & Information Security Research (CISR) Conference at Oak Ridge, TN on April 04-06, 2018.
Dr. Dasgupta received the US Patent approved for an Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication System (No. 9,912,657) on March 6, 2018.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has approved Dr. Dasgupta's Patent (#9,912,657) on Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication.
Dr. Dasgupta has submitted another patent application on Multi-user Permission Strategy to Access Sensitive Information, PCT/US18/026782, US App. 15/949,111
Dr. Dasgupta is working on corporate engagements with three companies on research. One of them is Raymond James, for which he has organized a visit to the UofM Campus.
Dr. Dasgupta is helping to form a university-wide team to propose the NSF ERC Center of Excellence.
Dr. Dasgupta is working on a Multi-University DHS proposal with MIT (Pre-proposal under submission).
Dr. Dasgupta has been involved in two university-level committees: the UM Corporate Strategy Council and the University Research Council.

2017

Dr. Dasgupta participated as a Program Committee Member at the 6th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC) 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic, on Dec 18-20, 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta has organized the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2017) in Hawaii, USA, from Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2017.
Dr Dasgupta has received the Best Paper Award for a collaborative paper (Privacy-Preserving Proxy Re-encryption with Fine-Grained Access Control) at the International Conference on Information Systems Security, Bombay, India, December 16-18, 2017.
Dr Dasgupta gave a talk at an International seminar on "International Seminal on Intelligent Computing (ISIC 2017)" organized by the Department of Information Technology, Jadavpur University, India, on December 16, 2017.
Dr Dasgupta gave a plenary talk at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models (ICC3) at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, on December 15, 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta participated as a Program Committee Member at the 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence 2017 in Kolkata, India, on Dec 05-08, 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta organized (served as a session chair, gave a tutorial and presented a paper) the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2017) in Hawaii, USA, from Nov 27 to Dec 01, 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta gave the keynote talk at the 7th International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security(MMM-ACNS) in Warsaw, Poland, on Aug 28-30, 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta offered a session on Online Social Networks and Privacy issues for School Students at the Lausanne Summer Conference, which was organized for teachers of the Middle School STEM program under Engaging Students in Technology Enhanced Project-Based Learning LLI 17 1:1 NEXT CONFERENCE in Memphis, TN, on July 17, 2017 (Host: Dr. Stephanie S. Ivy).
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on Adaptive Multi-Factor Systems at the Applied Cyber Security Seminar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on June 20, 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta attended the National Cyber Preparedness Consortium (NCPC) core members meeting in Washington, D.C., on June 19, 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta organized and hosted week-long GenCyber Bootcamps (for Middle and High School students) at the University of Memphis from June 11 to 16 and June 19 to 23, 2017, respectively.
Dr. Dasgupta attended the National Cyber Security Summit (NCS) on 07-08 June 2017, Huntsville, AL.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on cybersecurity initiatives at the University of Memphis Brief at the 2017 Cybersecurity Conference on June 6, 2017, at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, TN.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on Internet Safety and Privacy at Tigers Tech Expedition Camp for Middle School Students on April 22, 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an ACM Distinguished Speaker Talk on Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (A-MFA) Methodology at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of IIT Gandhinagar, India, on April 11, 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at the Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT) Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, on April 10, 2017.
Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta attended and demonstrated the PBL Project at ACM SIGCSE, Seattle, WA, from March 8 to 11, 2017.
Article on the cyber security concentration at Study International second editorial launch - University of Memphis on March 3, 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta co-hosted a lightning talk on CAST (Cluster to Advance Cyber Security and Testing) at FIT on February 28 from 5 to 7 p.m.
Dr. Dasgupta gave a talk on Cybersecurity integration into PAL3 during the Navy's visit to the Institute of Intelligent Systems (IIS) at FIT 405 on February 27, 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta, the inventor of the A-MFA patent, gave a talk at the IP Parade on February 23, 2017, at the Memphis Scipreneur Challenge at Memphis Bioworks.
Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta gave a presentation to the TN Senate Education Committee on the University of Memphis Cyber Security Initiatives in Nashville on Feb 15, 2017.
Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta was recently featured in an interview with Dr. David Fogel, former president of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and current co-general chair of IEEE SSCI 2017.
Dr. Dasgupta lectured at Cyber Security Training in Nashville, TN, on Jan 13, 2017.

2016

Dr. Dasgupta gave a keynote speech at a Seminar on Cyber Security at iLead | Institute of Leadership Entrepreneurship & Development, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on Dec 23, 2016. (Host: Mr. Pradip Chopra, iLEAD Chairman)
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at the Computer Science Dept. of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India on Dec 22, 2016 (Host: Mr. Ujjwal Maulik)
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at the Indian Statistical Institute on December 16, 2016, in Bangalore, India.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at the CSA Dept (Computer Science & Automation) of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India, on Dec 15, 2016. (Host: Mr. K. Gopinath, Dept. Chair)
Dr. Dasgupta presented at the DOE/ASCR invited workshop on Smart Networks, which was held on December 8-9, 2016, in Rockville, MD.
Dr. Dasgupta organized the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS 2016) in Athens, Greece, held from December 6-9, 2016.
Dr. Dasgupta has been invited to serve as a Panelist at the Department of Energy Office of Science for a Panel Meeting on November 9-10, 2016, in Washington, DC.
Dr. Dasgupta attended the 7th Annual National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) in Kansas City, Missouri, from November 1 to 2, 2016.
Dr. Dasgupta presented and demonstrated at the NSF-ATE Conference in Washington, DC, on October 26-28, 2016.
Dr. Dasgupta attended the Cyber Seed Competition on October 9-11, 2016, at UConn, CT.
Dr. Dasgupta attended the Structure Security event on September 27-28, 2016, in San Francisco, CA.
Dr. Dasgupta attended the GenCyber Fall Meeting on September 15-16, 2016, at the Hilton Boston Logan Airport Hotel, Boston, MA.
Dr. Dasgupta attended the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining on August 15-18, 2016, in San Francisco, CA.
Dr. Dasgupta became a Program Committee Member of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Cyber Resiliency Economics (CRE 2016) in Vienna, Austria, August 1-3, 2016.
Dr. Dasgupta presented at the Third Annual Community College Cyber Summit (3CS) in Pittsburgh on July 22-24, 2016.
Dr. Dasgupta presented at the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) on June 13-15, 2016, at the Sheraton Philadelphia Society Hill Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Dr. Dasgupta attended the Annual Southeast Region Cyber Summit on June 8-9, 2016, in Huntsville, AL.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at the Computer Science Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, on April 7, 2016
Dr. Dasgupta presented a research paper at the 11th Annual Cyber and Information Security Research (CISR) Conference held at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee conference center on April 4 - 6, 2016.
Ph.D. student Abhijit Nag, working under Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta, received 1st place in the University of Memphis's Student Research Forum held on April 1, 2016.
Undergraduate student Robert Edstrom, working under Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta, won 1st place at the University of Memphis's Student Research Forum held on April 1, 2016.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at the Regional Symposium "Graduate Education and Research in Information Security" during 'GERIS'16 on March 8, 2016, at Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York.
Dr. Dasgupta attended the National Cyber Security Preparedness Consortium (NCPC) Principal's meeting at the University of Texas System in Washington, DC, on March 15, 2016.
Announcement for the available position of Research Assistant Professor (in Cyber Security)
Dr. Dasgupta was interviewed by a local TV Channel (FOX 13) telecasted on Feb. 19, 2016.
Dr. Dasgupta organized the "Cybersecurity Certificate Course" foundational program at FedEx Institute of Technology, University of Memphis, on February 1-5, 2016.

2015

Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at the 5th International Conference on Fuzzy and Neural Computing, FANCCO-2015, December 16-19, 2015.
Cluster to Advance Cyber Security & Testing (CAST) hosted Cybersecurity Lightning Talks at the FedEx Institute of Technology, afternoon of December 3, 2015
UofM's CfIA will Develop Courses on Mobile Device Security and Privacy Issues. The CfIA Received a Cyber Security Training Grant from FEMA.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and CASE Center, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY on November 18, 2015
He organized a Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) at Cap Town, South Africa, from December 7 to December 10, 2015
Dr. Dasgupta gave a keynote speech at the St. Louis Cyber Security workshop (STL-CyberCon) at the University of Missouri-St. Louis on November 20, 2015
Dr. Dasgupta attended the NIST-NICE conference in San Diego from November 1, 2015 to November 4, 2015
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk at the International 9th Research Workshop on Advances and Innovations in Systems Testing at FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis on October 20, 2015
Our Cyber Security Team secured second position in the Cyber Defense Competition @CANSec 2015, held on 24th October at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The participants, as Blue Team, had to manage services, report intrusions, and complete the challenges. The other teams (primarily organizers) acted as White Teams that enforced rules and set up infrastructures, and the Red Team enumerated and exploited vulnerabilities in Blue Team services. Detail
Dr. Dasgupta hosted the 8th Mid-South Cyber Security Summit at FedEx Institute of Technology, The University of Memphis, on October 16, 2015
He served as a panelist at the session on Cyber Security 2015 & Beyond at the 29th Annual SIM Memphis Strategy Series on Wednesday, September 30, 2015
He gave an invited talk at the DHG Cyber Security Forum in Memphis (Host: Eric J Spiegel) on August 19, 2015
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk to the Cyber Security Workshop at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, on August 14, 2015
He gave a keynote speech at International Conferences in Advances in Information Technology, Boroda, India, on June 1, 2015
He gave a keynote speech at Queen's University Graduate Computing Society Conference, Kingston, Canada, sponsored by the ACM Distinguished Speaker program on May 7, 2015
He offered a tutorial on "Puzzle-Based Learning in Cyber Security Education" at the 2015 EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference at the Hilton Minneapolis, May 4-6, 2015 in Minneapolis, MN
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk in the computer science division of the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) on March 16, 2015 (Host: Dr. Cezary Janikow)
He gave an invited talk at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) organized by Computer Science, ACM chapter on March 13, 2015
The University of Memphis Magazine published an article about Prof. Dasgupta's work in bio-inspired computing (President's Report 2014).
He is elevated to IEEE Fellow (Batch of 2015) for contributions to immunological computation and bio-inspired cyber security

2014

Dr. Dasgupta offered a lecture at the International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS) in Hyderabad, India, from December 16-20, 2014.
Dr. Dasgupta organized a Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) in Orlando, Florida, from December 9 to 12, 2014.
Professor Dipankar Dasgupta was selected as a member of the ACM Distinguished Speakers Programfor three years.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an IEEE Chapter-sponsored seminar on puzzle-based learning in Cybersecurity education at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, on November 13, 2014.
Dr. Dasgupta lectured at the CAE Community Meeting and NIST meeting on November 4-6, 2014.
Dr. Dasgupta was invited to talk on "Need for Penetration Tests for Risk Management" at the 8th annual STEP Workshop, FedEx Institute of Technology, The University of Memphis, on November 3, 2014.
Professor Dipankar Dasgupta hosted the 7th Annual Cyber Security Summit at FedEx Institute of Technology on October 17, 2014.
Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta shared with NCPC a $2.3 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on October 1, 2014.
Dr. Dasgupta lectured at the IEEE Memphis Section of Power & Energy Society Seminar at the FedEx Institute of Technology on September 9, 2014.
Prof. Dasgupta was the dissertation reviewer and external examiner of a Ph.D. student (Jyri Rajamaki) at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, on Sept. 7, 2014.
Dr. Dasgupta gave the Keynote Speech on "Cloud Computing: Security, Privacy, Compliance and an Insurance Model" at the Cyber Security Conference in Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Prof. Dasgupta received the Alumni Association's "Eye of the Tiger" award at the homecoming football game of the U of M at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 30, 2014
Prof. Dasgupta has been named the Dr. Pat E. Burlison professor at the University of Memphis. This named professorship is designated for at least five years beginning Fall 2014., announced on August 22, 2014. For details, click here
On September 1, 2014, Dr. Dasgupta received a $365k grant from the NSF for "Collaborative Project: Puzzle-Based Cybersecurity Learning to Enhance Defensive Skills of Front-Line Technicians."
Dr. Dasgupta received a 2014 Impact Award from ACM SIGEVO for the paper "Real-Valued Negative Selection Algorithm with Variable-Sized Detectors," published at GECCO 2004.
Prof. Dasgupta's interview on cyber security was telecasted on a News Channel; for details, click here.
Dr. Dasgupta lectured on cybersecurity at the Mid-South Association of Contingency Planners (MSACP) monthly meeting at the University of Memphis on February 12, 2014.

2013

Dr. Dasgupta gave the Keynote Speech at the First International Conference on Recent Trends and Innovations in Engineering and Technology (ICRTIET) in Nagpur, India, on December 20-21, 2013.
Dr. Dasgupta gave the Keynote Speech at the Second International Conference on Cyber Security, Smart Grid Computing, and Environmental Protection Technologies in Raipur, India, on December 10, 2013.
Dr. Dasgupta gave a lecture at the Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI) at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India, from December 10-14, 2013.
NAS project Meeting (final demo and presentation), Washington DC, December 5th, 2014.
NAS project Team Meeting at MIT Boston Campus on November 12, 2013.
Dr. Dasgupta hosted the 6th Annual Cyber Security Expo @ the University of Memphis on October 18, 2013.
Dr. Dasgupta presented a research paper at the Information Security Curriculum Development Conference (InfoSecCD2013) at Kennesaw State University in Georgia on October 11-12, 2013.
He presented a poster on the CRF project at the National Center for Academic Transformation workshop, which will be held at the UC Ballroom at the University of Memphis on October 1-2, 2013.
Dr. Dasgupta visited Finland from September 23 to 27, 2013, to participate in research collaboration and to give lectures.
Dr. Dasgupta attended the NIST NICE Shaping the Future of Cybersecurity Education Workshop in Gaithersburg, MD, from September 17-19, 2013.
Dr. Dasgupta gave a colloquium talk on Puzzle-Based Learning for Cyber-Security Education at the Department of Computer Science, University of Memphis, on September 6, 2013.
Dr. Dasgupta gave a research presentation and chaired a session at the International Symposium on Resilient Cyber Systems, San Francisco, on August 13-15, 2013.
He attended the National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium member meeting at the University of Arkansas System, Little Rock, on August 7, 2013
Dr. Dasgupta presented a research paper on Active Authentication at a Cyber Security Summit, CyberSci Summit, in Arlington, VA, on June 25-26, 2013.
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on Cloud Security at the MIT summer workshop on Applied Cyber Security on June 25, 2013
Dr. Dasgupta offered a tutorial on "Evolutionary Computation in Cyber Security" at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, which was held June 20-23, 2013, in Cancun, Mexico.
Dr. Dasgupta presented a paper on puzzle-based learning in cybersecurity at The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) in Mobile Bay, Alabama, on June 10-13, 2013.
Dr. Dasgupta attended the IARPA-NAS project meeting at MIT Boston Campus on May 28, 2013.
Dr. Dasgupta organized a Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) from April 15-19, 2013, in Singapore.
Dr. Dasgupta gave a talk on Bio-inspired Cyber Security and served as a panelist at the CLION Symposium at FIT on April 22-23, 2013.
On March 28, 2013, Dr. Dasgupta gave a talk on our cyber security center's outreach activities to the state agency of Homeland Security.
Dr. Dasgupta gave a Lecture on Cyber Security Education at Jackson State Community College on Feb. 21, 2013.

2012

Gave a keynote at the International conference on soft computing for problem-solving SocProS-2012, at Jaipur, India, December 28-30, 2012.
Gave a keynote speech at IEEE International conference ET2ECN2012, Surat, Gujarat, India, December 19-21, 2012.
Gave a keynote speech at the International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (ISCOS 2012), NIT Surathkal, Mangalore, India, December 17-18, 2012.
Keynote Speaker at the seventh International Conference on "Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Application" (BIC-TA) to be held at Gwalior, India, December 14 - 16, 2012.
Keynote Speaker at International Conference on Advanced Machine Learning Technologies and Applications (AMLTA12) to be held at the Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt during Dec. 8-10, 2012.
Host at 5th Annual Cyber Security Expo @ Uni. of Memphis, October 19, 2012.
Will give a series of lectures in Finland during September 17-21, 2012
Keynote speech on Cloud Security at Network Science and Reconfigurable Systems for Cybersecurity (NSRSC) Conference near Washington D.C. August 28-29, 2012.
Alumni Association's UMAR annual "Coffee and Conversation" with featured speaker Dr. Dipankar Disgupta at the home of University President Shirley C. Raines on September 11, 2012 at 10 a.m.
Started a project called “Negative Authentication System” funded by Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Also published in Memphis Business Journal.
I gave the commencement speech at the university's summer graduation event. Click for the video from August 12, 2012, details of the talk on the commencement website, photos, etc.
Gave an invited talk on Cloud Security at MIT summer workshop on Applied Cyber Security, June 26, 2012.
Invited talk on Cyber Security Awareness will be given at McWherter Library, University of Memphis on May 9, 2012
Prof. Dasgupta received the 2011-2012 Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award, the University of Memphis's highest distinction and most prestigious honor.
Associate Editor-in-Chief, Immune Computation Journal, Publisher: AICIT, Korea.
Organize a Special Session on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), June 11-15, 2012, in Brisbane, Australia.
Gave IUCEE hosted Webinar on Information Security, Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Gave a series of lectures (tutorial-style) on computational intelligence in cybersecurity (CICS) at the Department of Computer Science and Intell. Systems, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, January 9-13, 2012.

2011

Keynote Speaker at IEEE International Conference on Energy, Automation, and Signal (ICEAS) 28-30th December, 2011 at Bhubaneswar, India.
Gave a tutorial on Immunological Computation at the Computational Intelligence Seminar (CIS) on 27th December 2011 at Bhubaneswar, India
Research meeting at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, on December 21, 2011 (Host: Prof. Sugata Sanyal)
Gave an invited talk at Coastal Institute of Technology and Management (CITM), Vizag, India, on December 20 (Host: Dr. Milind Kulkarni, Director)
Keynote Speaker at Joint International Conference on Swarm Evolutionary and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO), Vizag, AP, India, December 19-21.
Keynote Speaker at 10th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM) to be held at the University of Calcutta, December 14-16, 2011.
Gave an invited talk at Jaipur Engineering College and Research Centre (JECRC), Jaipur, India, On December 14, 2011 (Host: Prof. S.N. Gupta, Principal)
Offer a workshop on Social Media and Privacy at the University of Memphis campus, in the UC River Room on Wednesday, November 16, from 12:40 pm – 2:05 pm
Gave IFEES/IUCEE Global Webinar on Intelligent Security Systems,(9:30 am IST)(4 am GMT), Thursday 3rd Nov 2011.
Hosted the 4th annual Cyber Security Expo at the U of M FedEx Institute of Technology (FIT) on October 7, 2011.
Organized a Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2011), April 11-15, 2011, at the Halle aux Fairnes, Paris, France.
Gave an invited talk at Biologically Inspired Security and Resilience (BISR), Ocala, FL. March, 28, 2011.
Hosted DHS-sponsored College and University Forum event on National Cyber Security Awareness Campaign at the University of Memphis, Wednesday, March 23, 2011.
Gave an invited talk at the Global Cyber Security Summit at the University of Wales, Cardiff, UK. Cyber security summit signs UK-US university deal March 22, 2011.
Member of Editorial Board of two journals: Applied Soft Computing, Publisher- Elsevier Press and Evolutionary Intelligence, Publisher- Springer-Verlag.Since 2006
Chair of IEEE Task Force on Artificial Immune Systems, Computational Intelligence Society Technical Committee on Evolutionary Computation, since 2003.
Council of Editors, International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC), since 2000.
Member of Editorial Board: Evolutionary Optimization - An International Journal on the Internet, Publisher - Polish Academy of Science, since 1998.

2010

Advisory Board Member of MIT Geospatial Center since 2010
Gave an invited talk at the National Brain Research Centre on December 23, 2010, in Delhi, India, Hosted by Dr. P. K. Roy
Keynote speaker at International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO 2010), December 17, 2010, Chennai, India
Gave an invited talk at the Indian Statistical Institute on December 16, 2010, in Bangalore, India, Hosted by Dr. K. Majumdar
Keynote Speaker at 2nd Vaagdevi International Conference (VCON'10), December 9-11, 2010, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India
Gave Presentation at MITRE, October 29, 2010, McLean, VA
Hosted Cyber Security Expo at FedEx Institute of Technology, University of Memphis, October 15, 2010, Memphis, USA
Offered Tutorial on "Advances in Immunological Computation" at 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), July 18, 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
Keynote speaker at Future Challenges in Network Security (FCNS), sponsored by ONR Global/AFRL, June 21-23, 2010, Prague, Czech Republic

2009

Offered tutorial on Immunological Computation at Second International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology (ICETET 2009), December 16-18, 2009, Nagpur, India.
Gave an invited talk on C-DAC: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, December 15, 2009, Kolkata, India.
Gave an invited talk at Avinashilingam University for Women on December 14, 2009, in Coimbatore, India.
Plenary Speaker at International Symposium on Innovations In Natural Computing (INC), December 12-13, 2009. Cochin, India.
Keynote Speaker at World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009), December 9-11, 2009, Coimbatore, India.
Gave a talk on ACT Online at NSA/DHS Annual National CAE Principals Meeting, November 9-10, 2009, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Keynote Speaker at Graduate Education and Research in Information Security (GERIS '09), October 26-28, 2009, Binghamton, New York, USA.
Hosted 2nd Annual Cyber Security Expo on October 15, 2009, where this year's theme was Global Cyber Security, focusing on cybercrime, identity theft, software security, etc. University News
Gave an invited talk on Adaptive Cybersecurity Training (ACT) Online Program at the 8th Annual Cyberethics, Cybersafety, and Cybersecurity (C3) Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA on October 1-2, 2009.
Prof. Dasgupta was a Program Co-Chair of the HEALTH-INSPIRED NETWORK DEFENSE working group at the National Cyber Leap Year (NCLY) Summit, August 17-19, 2009, Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, Virginia.
Program Committee Member and Reviewer: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 8-12, 2009, Montreal, Canada.
Offered a tutorial at Security and Defense Applications, July 8-10, 2009, in Ottawa, Canada.
Program Committee Member and Reviewer: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), June 14-19, 2009, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Program Committee Member and Reviewer: Fourth Annual Symposium on Information Assurance, June 3-4, 2009, Albany, NY.
Offered a tutorial on "Adaptive Cybersecurity Training (ACT) Online Program" at the 13th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), June 1, 2009, Seattle, USA.
Program Committee Member and Reviewer: Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), May 18-21, 2009, Trondheim, Norway.
Organized a Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS) at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2009) March 30 - April 2, 2009, Sheraton Music City Hotel in Nashville, TN, USA.
Program Committee Member: 4th International Conference on i-Warfare and Security, March 26-27, 2009, Cape Town, South Africa.

2008

Offered a tutorial on Immunological Computation at the 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, Melbourne, Australia, December 7-10,2008
Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta gave an invited talk on "DIGITAL IMMUNITY: IS IT POSSIBLE?" at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as part of ORNL's "Distinguished Seminar" series (Host: Dr. Lee Hively, Senior Research Staff) on November 21, 2008.
The Center for Information Assurance, University of Memphis, hosted the Cyber Security Expo at FIT on October 16th, 2008.
Dipankar Dasgupta and Fernando Nino published a new book on artificial immunological systems (AIS) in September 2008.
Keynote Speaker at ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired, Learning, and Intelligent Systems for Security (BLISS), August 4-6, 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Guest Editor for Special issue on Computational Intelligence on Cyber Security of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, May 2008.
Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta, Director of the Center for Information Assurance, chaired a session at the International Conference on i-Warfare and Security (ICIW) in Omaha, Nebraska, April 24-25, 2008. Presented a research paper titled "An Investigation of Negative Authentication Systems" at the event.
Nominated as the Chair of the Task Force on Artificial Immune Systems, IEEE Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee (ECTC).
Advisory Board Member: Center for Advanced Information Technologies at Binghamton University, New York (since 2006).
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation since January 2003.

2007

For outstanding achievements, Dr. Dasgupta received the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Award and the prestigious Dunavant Professorship.
Dr. Dasgupta lectured on Artificial Immune Systems at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) in Singapore from September 25 to 28, 2007.
Dr. Dasgupta was invited to talk at the Asansol Engineering College, West Bengal, India (Host: Dr. Amit Aditya, Principal) on June 12, 2007.
Dr. Dasgupta was invited to talk at the IIS Colloquium on Bio-Inspired Computational Intelligence on April 13, 2007.
Dr. Dasgupta offered a lecture on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Honolulu, Hawaii, from April 1-5, 2007.
Dr. Dasgupta was invited to talk at the IEEE regional meeting at the University of Missouri, Rolla(Host: Dr. G K Venayagamoorthy, President IEEE St. Louis Chapter)on March 12, 2007
Dr. Dasgupta was invited to talk on "Computer Science Program & Research at the University of Memphis" at the University of Tennessee, Martin (Host: Dr. Jim Clark, Professor & Chair) on February 15, 2007.
Dr. Dasgupta was the guest editor of a special issue of IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine on computational intelligence in cyber security.
Dr. Dasgupta was on the advisory board of the Center for Advanced Information Technologies (CAIT) at Binghamton University in New York.

2006

Dr. Dasgupta organized CISCO Network Security Boot Camp at the Center for Information Assurance, The University of Memphis (Instructor: Robert J. Du Charme) from December 11-14, 2006.
He gave an invited talk on "Cyber Security Education, Training & Research at the University of Memphis" at the IEEE Computer Society (Memphis Chapter) meeting on November 30, 2006.
Dr. Dasgupta was the guest editor for IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine's special issue on computational intelligence in cyber security (see Call for Papers ).
Dr. Dasgupta gave an invited talk on "Cyber Security Education, Training & Research at the University of Memphis" at the Tennessee Homeland Security Consortium meeting in Nashville on November 10, 2006.
Dr. Dasgupta gave a plenary talk on "Computation Intelligence in Cybersecurity" at the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety (CIHSPS) in Alexandria in October 2006.
He received the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) in Seattle, Washington, from July 8-12, 2006.
In 2006, he was nominated for IEEE Fellow at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology.
Dr. Dasgupta organized a special track on Artificial Immune Systems at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), which was held July 8-12, 2006, in Seattle, USA.

2005

Dr. Dasgupta organized a one-day event called "Cyber Security Education Day" on Sept. 26th, 2005, attended by 150 people from Tennessee.
He organized a Special Track on Artificial Immune Systems at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), during June 25-29, 2005 in Washington D.C, USA.

2004

Dr. Dasgupta organized a Special Track on Artificial Immune Systems at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), during June 26-30, 2004 in Seattle, USA.
He was the keynote speaker and offered a tutorial on Immunological Computation at the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), which was held April 26-30, 2004, in Mexico City.

2003

Dr. Dasgupta was the Plenary Speaker and Session Organizer of the Special Session on Artificial Immune Systems at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), which was held from December 8 to 12, 2003, in Canberra, Australia.
Dr. Dasgupta was chosen as the publicity chair for the Second International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), which was held September 1-3, 2003, at Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.
Dr. Dasgupta offered a tutorial on Artificial Immune Systems at the INTROS-03 sessions during the 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA) on August 12, 2003, at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Dr. Dasgupta gave a lecture on Immunological Computation at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) on August 10, 2003, in Acapulco, Mexico.
He was the panelist on Biologically Inspired/Motivated Computational Models at the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in Portland, USA, from July 20-24, 2003.
He was the keynote speaker, offered a tutorial and organized a special track on Artificial Immune Systems at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in Chicago, USA, from July 12 to 16, 2003.
Dr. Dasgupta organized a special Computer Security with Soft Computing session at the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE2003) in St. Louis, Missouri, on May 25-28, 2003.
He was invited to discuss Multi-Level Monitoring and Fuzzy Clustering to detect Cyber Attacks at Interface 2003: Security and Infrastructure Protection on March 12-15, 2003, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

2002

Dr. Dasgupta was a Plenary Speaker at the Third International ICSC Symposium on Engineering of Intelligent Systems at (ICSC-NAISO) University of Malaga in Spain from September 24-27, 2002.
Dr. Dasgupta offered a tutorial on Immunological Computation: Theory and Applications at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), held in New York from July 9 to 13, 2002.
Dr. Dasgupta organized a one-day workshop on Artificial Immune Systems at the Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) in Honolulu, Hawaii, on May 12, 2002.
Dr. Dasgupta was the guest editor of a Special Issue on Artificial Immune Systems of the journal IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 6, No. 3, in June 2002.
ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEMS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY CS Technical Report (No. CS-02-002), The University of Memphis, September 2002 (Updated regularly).

2001

Dr. Dasgupta was the Keynote Speaker at the International Workshop on Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Networks Security in St. Petersburg, Russia, on May 21, 2001.

2000

Dr. Dasgupta served as a Panel Member on Information Security Research and Development in Academia at the 23rd National Information Systems Security Conference (NISSC), which was held on October 16, 2000, in Baltimore, USA.