Exemplar Marquee Event Speaker Venues
"Defense, Information, and Cyber Warfare in an Age of Disinformation: Hoax News"
Venue: The 23rd World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) Dates: 6-9 October 2019 Location: Karen Demirtchian Sport/Concert Complex, Yerevan, Armenia
"Emerging trends - Internet of Things (IoT) and Mobile Applications as a Growing Source of Development Data: IOT and Mobile Applications + ICT Infrastructure = New Opportunities for Development"
Venue: 13th World Telecommunication/Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) Indicators Symposium (WTIS) Dates: November 30, 2015 to December 2, 2015 Location: Grand Prince Hotel, Hiroshima, Japan
"The Promise of Big Data in BioLogos" (Keynote)
Venue: Trieste Next – European Science Forum (TN-ESF) Dates: 25-27 September 2015 Location: Piazza Unità d'Italia, Trieste, Italy
"Connect on the Digital Economy: Enhancing Connectivity of Infrastructure, Energy, and Public Services"
Venue: World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia Dates: 19-21 April 2015 Location: Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia
"The Future of Warfare"
Venue: Aspen Security Forum (ASF) Conference Date: 23-26 July 2014
"An Enabler for Smart Power Analytics: The Hybridization of Algorithmic and Heuristical Methodologies and Tools"
Venue: National Research Council of the National Academies (NRC-NA) Dates: 19-21 November 2013 Location: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California
"Big Data to Big Insight for Human Trafficking: Analysis of Adaptation Cycles for Digital Image Deployment on Online Classified Sites"
Venue: White House Forum (WHF) to Combat Human Trafficking Conference Date: 9 April 2013 Location: Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), The White House, Washington, D.C.
"Decision Engineering for Leadership on the 21st Century Landscape" (Keynote)
Venue: Todd Lecture Series (TLS) Date: 19 March 2013 Location: Plumley Armory, Norwich University, Norwich, Vermont
Exemplar Keynote Speaker Venues
“Leveraging Sidecars for a More Probabilistic Cyber Convergence”
“A Cyber Key to Log Analysis”
“Leveraging Artificial Intelligence/Cognitive Computing to Meet the Increasing Cycles of Adaptation within the Cyber Domain”
“Energy/Cyber Security Assessment: Data Analytics for Cyber Resilience of Strategic / Critical Electrical Grid Infrastructure”
“Enhancing Cyber Infrastructural Resilience for Cyber Cities”
“Architecting Resiliency-by-Design: Analytics on Analytics”
“Finding the Fast Last Piece of the Puzzle, via Network/Relationship Science Analytics: A New Paradigm of Sensemaking for Insider Threat”
Exemplar Invited Speaker Engagements
“How AI and Cybersecurity Can Effectively Converge Out of One Necessity to 'Remove Hay from the Haystack' so as to More Quickly Target and Contextualize Pertinent Data in Real-Time - The Nexus of AI and Cybersecurity: Anomaly Detection at Scale ”
“Energy Smart Technologies”
“Measuring IoT Usage + Projecting IoT Impact on Development”
“Quantitative Exactitude and Trust in Measurements: Time Series Baselining of Sensor Telemetry Data”
Venue: Joint International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)-International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Workshop on Environmental Mapping: Mobilising Trust in Measurements and Engaging Scientific Citizenry Dates: 16 March; 6-24 March 2017 Location: Scientific FabLab (SciFabLab), ICTP, Trieste, Italy
“Electric Grid Monitoring and Big Data Analytics”
“Winning the Game of Monopoly: Innovation over Specious Business Sophistication in the Indo-Asia-Pacific”
“The Resiliency Calculus in the Wild West of the IOT”
“The Internet Space Race”
“Industrial Control Systems: Safer Planet, Smarter Cities, and Smarter Resilience-by-Design Grids”
“How Climate Change Resilience Studies Enhanced Hawaii’s Critical Infrastructure Protection HPC-Assisted Dynamic Fine-Tuning for Analytics on Analytics”
“Big Data and IoT Data”
Venue: International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Workshop on Scientific Applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) Dates: 16-27 March 2015 Location: Giambiagi Lecture Hall, Adriatico, ICTP, via Grignano, Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
“The Future of National Security Starts Here: Bigger Data, Analytics on Analytics, and Systems of Insights”
“Pre-Planning for Extreme-Scale Dynamic Supply Chain Events”
“The Future of Contending with Cyber Crime Starts Here - Morphological Analysis for Resolving the Quantitative Exactitude of Cyber Crime: A New Paradigm of Sensemaking for Contending with Cyber Crime”
“Humans as Sensors”
“The Future of Cyberpsychology Starts Here: Human Trafficking as Part of the Isomorphic Problem Set for the Keiretsu Cyber Leadership Analysis of Counterfeit Supply Chains Plaguing Health Care”
“Big Data to Big Insight Decision Engineering: The Art and Science of Human Domain Analysis for Infusing Latent Stability Amidst Dorian Gray Duality”
“Evolutionary Decision Engineering: The Art and Science of Winning an Unfair Cyber Game”
“Network Science as a Public Science”
“Humans as Sensors: Fusion of Participatory Mechanisms and Computational Innovations to Monitor Climate Change and its Consequences”
“High Performance Multiscale Information Visualization Quadrilateralized Spherical Rubrics Cube (QSRC) Platform as a Geospatial Exclusion Mechanism for Cyber Security”
“Smarter Defence of the Smart Grid: Pervasive Computing is Flooding the Geospatial Grid”
“Cyber-Physical Supply Chain Provenance/Pedigree and Synchronized Data for a Smarter Grid”
“An Open-Source GIS Platform That Supports Point-of-Need Delivery by Addressing Provenance and Providing Supply Chain Event Simulations”
“[National Leadership Index] NLI Analytics: A Quasi-Dynamic Heat Map Functionality for 'Real-Time' Temporal Spatial Analaysis of the NLI 2009 Report”
“The Cyber Leadership Project: Informing Leadership and Enhancing Cyber Security, via a Convergence of Dynamic Global Information Grids, Cloud Computing, and Temporal Spatial Analysis”
Exemplar Panel Talks
“Systems Resilience: Reliable Cyber-protection”
“Anomaly Detection At Scale - Annealed Cyber Resiliency”
“Challenges in Cyber Services - Advances to Protect the Critical Assets”
“Sunnylands Retreat: Countering Extremism in Southeast Asia”
“Cyber-Centered Major Challenges, Monitoring and Evaluating the Cyber-health of Industrial Systems”
“The Internet of Everything Current and Future”
“The Value of Data Analytics for Resiliency and Sustainability Efforts”
“Future of Biomedical Research; Will Big Data Change Hypothesis-Driven Research”
“Cross-sector Collaboration Opportunities Using Critical Infrastructure Big Data Analytics”
“Public Private Partnership Initiatives (P3I): Electrical Grid Reliability and Resiliency”
Exemplar Refereed Paper Presentations
“Multi-Resolution/High-Resolution Telemetry Data Sensors for Interharmonic and Oscillation Detection within a Smart Grid Implementation”
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD) 2020 Conference Date: 26-28 October 2020 Location: Phuket Graceland Resort, Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand (virtual due to COVID)
“Single Node-based Power Oscillation Detection and Classification”
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD) 2020 Conference Date: 26-28 October 2020 Location: Phuket Graceland Resort, Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand (virtual due to COVID)
“Artificial Intelligence-Based Approach for Forced Oscillation Source Detection and Classification”
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD) 2020 Conference Date: 26-28 October 2020 Location: Phuket Graceland Resort, Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand (virtual due to COVID)
“The Challenges of Clamp-On Sensors for High-Resolution Phasor Measurement Unit Applications”
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD) 2020 Conference Date: 26-28 October 2020 Location: Phuket Graceland Resort, Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand (virtual due to COVID)
“The Paradox of Electromagnetic Interference Affecting Medical Devices at International Hospitals”
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD) 2020 Conference Date: 26-28 October 2020 Location: Phuket Graceland Resort, Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand (virtual due to COVID)
“The Brittleness of a Non-Reconfigurable Distribution Network Topology Approach”
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD) 2020 Conference Date: 26-28 October 2020 Location: Phuket Graceland Resort, Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand (virtual due to COVID)
“PMU Time Series Module Adapted for Reduction of Dark Data and the Ensuing Enhanced Analytics for Higher Quality Yields of Ethanol Fuel Production"
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD) 2020 Conference Date: 26-28 October 2020 Location: Phuket Graceland Resort, Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand (virtual due to COVID)
“Artificial Intelligence-based Power Oscillation Source Location Detection for Power System Stability"
Venue: IEEE International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD) 2020 Conference Date: 26-28 October 2020 Location: Phuket Graceland Resort, Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand (virtual due to COVID)
“Resilient Communications Availability Inverting the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability Paradigm”
“Mitigation Factors for Multi-domain Resilient Networked Distributed Tessellation Communications”
“Detecting Powerline Noise with Low-Cost Noise Sensors for Power Outage Mitigation”
Venue: IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) 2020 Conference Date: 9-11 March 2020 Location: Grand Millenium Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (virtual due to COVID)
“Quality Assurance/Quality Control Engine for Power Outage Mitigation”
“Monitoring and Alarm System Timing Analysis for an Interconnecting Grid”
Venue: The 10th IEEE Annual IEEE Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC) 2020 Conference Date: 6-8 January 2020 Location: Science and Engineering Building, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States
“The Blindspot of Electromagnetic Interference Affecting Sensitive Medical Devices at Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities”
“A Deep Learning CNN and AI-Tuned SVM for Electricity Consumption Forecasting: Multivariate Time Series Data”
“Sparse Data Proxy Actuation for the Electrical Grid: Proxy Utilization with a Q-Input Harmonization Method for System Estimation”
“Mitigation of Thermal Stress Accelerants on Key Components of an Electric Grid”
“Prototype Resilient Command and Control (C2) of C2 Architecture for Power Outage Mitigation”
“Convolutional Adversarial Neural Network (CANN) for Fault Diagnosis within a Power System”
“A Potential Cascading Succession of Cyber Electromagnetic Achilles’ Heels in the Power Grid”
“Annealed Cyber Resiliency: Cyber Discernment for the Launch Providers of Space Systems”
“Surveying and Enhancing Grid Resilience Sensor Communications: An Amalgam of Narrowband, Broadband, and Hybridizing Spread Spectrum”
“Context-Referenced Telemetry Data for Distribution Utilities: Quality Assurance/Quality Control by Lateral Sensors”
“Fast Training of Support Vector Machine for Forest Fire Prediction” (Co-Presenter)
“Counter an Anti-Natural Language Processing Mechanism in the Computer-Mediated Communication of “Trusted” Cyberspace Operations: Bi-Normal Separation Feature Scaling for Informing a Modified Association Matrix for Enhanced Event Correlation”
“Prototype Open-Source Software Stack for the Reduction of False Positives and Negatives in the Detection of Cyber Indicators of Compromise and Attack: Hybridized Log Analysis Correlation Engine and Container-Orchestration System Supplemented by Ensemble Method Voting Algorithms for Enhanced Event Correlation”
“Prototype Orchestration Framework as a High Exposure Dimension Cyber Defense Accelerant Amidst Ever-Increasing Cycles of Adaptation by Attackers: A Modified Deep Belief Network Accelerated by a Stacked Generative Adversarial Network for Enhanced Event Correlation”
“Technology Roadmap for Hawaii Resiliency: Resiliency and Sustainability through Advanced Analytics”
“Sensemaking and Robust Decision Engineering: Synchrophasors and their Application for a Secure Smart Grid”
“Robust Decision Engineering: Collaborative Big Data and its Application to International Development/Aid”
Exemplar Moderator/Session Chair Venues
Dr. Chan has had the privilege and honor of serving as Session Chair for a variety of venues.
“Software Engineering, Data Analytics, and Big Data”
“Machine Learning”
“Application of Big Data and IoT on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis”
“Systems Resilience: Reliable Cyber-protection”
“Challenges on Cyber Services”
“The Nexus of Cognitive Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security – Anomaly Detection at Scale”
“Data Analytics: Target Analytics”
“Cyber Attack Surfaces and the Interoperability of Architectural Application Domain Resiliency”
“Cyber-Centered Major Challenges: Monitoring and Evaluating the Cyber-health of Industrial Systems”
“Cyber Security”
“Government and Industry Responsibilities – CONUS & OCONUS”
“The Value of Data Analytics for Resiliency and Sustainability Efforts”
“Information Operations and Messaging in the Cyber Domain”
“Identifying, Exploiting and Countering the Adversary’s Use of “Disruptive” Identity Technology in Cyberspace (Senior Leadership / Government Perspectives)”
“Allied and Partner Nation Cyber Policies and Rules of Engagement”
“Smartgrid”
Exemplar Venues Attended
Dr. Chan has attended hundreds of conferences, symposiums, seminars, colloquiums, and workshops. The below are some examplar venues attended in various parts of the world. He has had the privilege of receiving peer review and the honor of collaborating with esteemed colleagues at the various venues.
Venue: IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference (PLC) 2016
Date: 15-18 February 2016
Location: Hilton Bonnett Creek, Orlando, Florida
Venue: Europol-INTERPOL Cybercrime Conference (EC3)
Date: 30 September to 1 October 2015
Location: Europol Headquarters, The Hague, Netherlands
Date: 6-7 April 2016
Location: Europol Headquarters, The Hague, Netherlands
Venue: Aspen Security Forum (ASF)
Date: 22-25 July 2015
Location: Aspen Institute, Aspen Meadows Campus, Aspen, Colorado
Venue: Consortium for Ocean Science Exploration and Engagement (COSEE) - Global Ocean Science Education (GOSE) Workshop
Date: 26-27 June 2015
Location: Graduate School of Oceanography, The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
Venue: LA Film Fest - Loyola Marymount University (LMU) Los Angeles School of Film and Television & Steed Symposium, Cyber Security: Is There a Safe Box in the Cloud?
Date: 10-18 June 2015
Location: The GRAMMY Museum at L.A. Live, Los Angeles, California
Venue: Po'oihe 2015 Cyber Security Exercise part of Exercise Vigilant Guard/Makani Pahili 2015
Date: 4 June 2015
Location: University of Hawaii Manoa Campus Center Ballroom, Honolulu, Hawaii
Venue: Distributech Conference & Exhibition
Date: 3-5 February 2015 (first started attending)
Location: San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California
Venue: World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia
Date: 21-23 May 2014 (first started attending)
Location: Makati Shangri-La Hotel, Metro Manila, Philippines
Venue: IBM Impact 2014
Date: 27 April 2014 to 1 May 2014
Location: The Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevada
Venue: Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG) Annual Industry Workshop
Date: 6-7 November 2013
Location: iHotel and Conference Center, Champaign, Illinois
Venue: IBM Information on Demand (IOD)
Date: 4-5 November 2013 (first started attending)
Location: Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada
Venue: North American Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI)
Date: 22-24 October 2013
Location: Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare Hotel, Rosemont, Illinois
Date: 22 October 2014
Location: Royal Sonesta Hotel, Houston, Texas
Venue: West Point Senior Conference XLIX
Date: 3-5 June 2012
Location: Haig Room, Jefferson Hall, United States Military Academy West Point
Venue: MIT Sloan Chief Information Officer (CIO) Symposium
Date: 22 May 2012 (first started attending)
Location: MIT Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Venue: 1st Annual Minerva at West Point Workshop
Dates: 16-17 April 2012
Location: United States Military Academy West Point, New York (remote participation, represented)
Venue: NATO Network Enabled Capability (NNEC) Conference
Dates: 26-29 March 2012
Location: Eventhotel Pyramide & Congress Center, Vienna, Austria
Venue: Telling the Stories of Science: A Celebration of 10 Years of Science Writing at MIT 2002-2012
Dates: 24 March 2012
Location: MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Network Science, Social Complexity, and Civil Affairs Science” (originally an attendee, but became ad hoc co-speaker on panel)
Venue: The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC)
Date: 28 November 2011 to 1 December 2011
Location: Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida
Venue: The Eagle and the Dragon: Stability and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa at Virginia Military Institute (VMI)
Date: 3-5 November 2011
Location: Marshall Hall and adjoining spaces, VMI, Lexington, Virginia
Venue: 6th Annual National Security Conference (NSC)
Date: 5 July 2011
Location: Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Conference Centre, London, United Kingdom
Venue: Info Security Europe (ISE)
Date: 19-21 April 2011
Location: Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, U.K.
Venue: Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) in Cyber Security (CICS)
Date: 11-15 April 2011
Location: Halle aux Farines, Paris, France
Venue: Geospatial Cyber-Physical Supply Chain Summit (GCPSCS) 2011
Date: 20-24 March 2011
Location: London & Cardiff, United Kingdom
Venue: Sundance Film Festival
Date: 20-30 January 2011
Location: Park City, Utah
Venue: Federation Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
Date: 20-23 July 2010 (first started attending)
Location: University of Tennessee's Conference Center, Knoxville, Tennessee
Venue: Gleitsman Social Change Film Forum (GSCFF)
Date: 16-17 April 2010
Location: Northwest Building, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Venue: DEF CON 17 Hacking Conference
Date: 31 July 2009 to 1 August 2009 (first started attending)
Location: The Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
Venue: Blackhat Technical Security Conference: USA 2011
Date: 25-30 July 2009 (first started attending)
Location: Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada
Venue: Personal Democracy Forum (PDF)
Date: 29-30 June 2009
Location: Time Warner Center, New York City, New York
Venue: John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
Date: 21 April 2009 (first started attending)
Location: Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts