Integration and Hybridization: Trends in Contemporary Data Processing

Speaker: Vassil Vassilev

Affiliation: London Metropolitan University, UK

Time: Thursday 23/02/2023 from 18:00 to 19:00

Venue: Zoom Only

Zoom ID: 825 0586 6326 Password: 060139

Abstract: In his talk Prof Vassil Vassilev will present the lessons and achievements of the work of his team he has been leading over the last several years during working on a number of projects of the Cyber Security Research Centre of London Metropolitan University executed in collaboration with Lloyds Banking Group in London and the GATE Institute of Sofia University in Bulgaria. Prof. Vassilev will focus on the evolution of data processing paradigms from the desktop to the cloud and the most recent trend in data processing - building distributed data spaces as an alternative of the centralization. After laying down the foundation of his approach to integration, based on containerization, orchestration and hybridization of the methods for data management and data analysis, he will focus on the recent additions to the data platforms. They are tailored specifically to support the role of data platforms as both provider and consumer of services within the data space: identity management, authentication and access control, monitoring and orchestration, event logging and auditing.

Biography: Professor Vassil Vassilev graduated with an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University in Sofia and obtained a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He became active during the nineties in both academia and industry in his home country of Bulgaria, where he became involved in establishing the first non-state university in the country, New Bulgarian University. There he founded and for a number of years headed the Department of Computer Science, where he also worked on several EU funded projects dedicated to the transformation of Higher Education in Bulgaria. In the end of the nineties Prof. Vassilev moved to software industry and for several years worked in offshore software development business with company from US, UK and Ireland. In 2000, Prof. Vassilev joined the academic community in the UK with positions at the University of Northumbria, the Open University, the American University in London and London Metropolitan University, where in addition to his teaching engagements he led several research and innovation projects funded by UK Research Councils and UK Industry. Currently he holds the position of a Professor in AI and Intelligent Systems and acts as a Director of the Cyber Security Research Centre of London Metropolitan University. Prof. Vassilev is also a guest lecturer and a senior researcher at Sofia University, where he participates in the work on several EU funded projects. His interests are mainly in distributed architectures, hybrid intelligence and system integration with applications to cyber security and transaction processing.