Prof. Surya Nepal (CSIRO, Australia)

Biography:

Dr Surya Nepal is a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO Data61. He has been with CSIRO since 2000 and currently leads the cybersecurity and quantum systems research group comprising 70 staff and 50 PhD students. His primary area of research focuses on the development and implementation of technologies in distributed systems, with a specific emphasis on security, privacy, and trust. Dr. Nepal has over 250 peer-reviewed publications to his credit. He currently serves as the Interim Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Service Computing and is a member of the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. Additionally, Dr. Nepal holds the position of Deputy Research Director at the Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre and is also a Conjoint Professor at UNSW.

Title:

The role of Service Computing in addressing challenges that arise from the adoption and convergence of critical technologies

Summary:

We are currently in the midst of a rapid and large-scale digital transformation. This transformation is driven by the widespread adoption of digital technologies in critical infrastructure such as energy, transport and health, as well as the emergence of key technologies such as AI/ML, cybersecurity, quantum computing, 6G, AR/VR/XR, and digital twins. As a result, we are seeing the convergence of these critical technologies and the merging of cyber, physical, and human spaces. The successful transition is crucial in creating the safe, responsible, and secure digital world that we envision for the 2050s. The adoption of critical technologies comes with costs and fundamental challenges. This presentation will uncover these challenges and explore how the basic concepts of service computing can be revisited to solve them. It will also highlight the need for rethinking in service computing research and development. The presentation will discuss relevant projects at CSIRO’s Data61 to explain the challenges and emphasize the critical role the service computing community could play.