The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Smart Innovation (ICMISI 2025)

10 - 12 May 2025, Egypt

Prof. J. Somasekar Biography

The ICMISI 2025 Conference is established to facilitate the state-of-the-art research, innovation, and development activities at the frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, Machine intelligence and Smart Technology.

Prof. J. Somasekar

Professor and Program Head, Department of CSE (AIDD), JAIN, Bengaluru, India
Research Fellow, INTI International University, Malaysi

Talk Title: ML for Cybersecurity: Applications and Challenges
➔ ML-Driven Next-Generation Firewalls and Intrusion Detection Systems

Biography

Dr. J. Somasekar received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from JNTUA, Andhra Pradesh, and an M.Tech. degree from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal. He is currently serving as a Professor in the CSE Department at JAIN (Deemed-to-be University), Bangalore and also, head for the ‘AI-Driven DevOps’ program. Additionally, Dr. Somasekar holds a Post-doctoral Researcher position at the University of South Florida, USA, and has been appointed as a Research Fellow at INTI International University, Malaysia since 2024.
As a resource person, he has delivered 198 Technical Talks (Invited Talks) for FDPs, Workshops, STTPs, and Webinars sponsored by AICTE/ISTE/DST/UGC/CSIR, in 13 states within the country and in international events. With over 18 years of teaching experience and 6 years of research experience, he has published more than 30 research articles in leading journals indexed in SCI & SCOPUS, along with three international textbook chapters indexed in SCOPUS and authored three textbooks. Additionally, he serves as a reviewer for reputed international journals and conferences, acts as a session chair for international conferences, and has been a guest editor for three journals. He achieved an All India Rank of 43 in the GATE exam. Furthermore, he served as a visiting professor for the Data Science and Data Analytics PG program at Kannur University, Kerala.
He has been honored with the 'Innovative Collaborative Researcher' award in Medical Imaging for his collaborative research with Dr. Ching-Hao Lai, Director of ITRI, Taiwan, presented by the WRC in association with the United Medical Council.
Additionally, he has been recognized with the Best Outstanding Speaker award and several Best Paper awards at conferences. In his role as a convener/coordinator, he has organized and conducted various FDPs, AICTE STTPs, SDPs, National conferences, workshops, and webinars. Currently, he is guiding four PhD research scholars in the CSE department. His research interests include Machine Learning, Image Processing, Data Science, and ML for Cybersecurity.