Prof. Dr. Keshav Dahal, University of the West of Scotland, UK

Keshav Dahal is a Professor of intelligent systems with the Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Communications and Network (AVCN) Research Centre at University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, UK. He received his masters and PhD degrees from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He also held academic and research positions at the University of Strathclyde and University of Bradford UK. His research interests lie in the areas of applied AI, trust and security modelling in distributed systems, blockchain technologies and scheduling/optimization problems. He has been principal investigator or co-investigators on more than 25 externally funded projects, and supervised over 30 PhD and postdoctoral researchers. He has published over 200 papers in his research fields with award winning publications and has sat on organizing/program committees of over 70 international conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.