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<p>Her current research interests include aspects of security within the context of
smart cities, eHealth and Internet of Things. She has a keen interest in the pedagogical
aspects of cyber security, particularly in gamification of cyber security education.</p><p><strong>Areas
of Expertise</strong></p><ul><li>IoT Security and Healthcare, </li><li>Smart
Cities– Technologies and Applications, Internet of Things - Communication Systems,
Architectures and Applications, Experimentation with Open source platforms and hardware.</li><li>Cyber
security education.</li></ul><p><strong>Publications</strong></p><ol><li>C Balakrishna
and D Romano (2018) Mood and game-based learning in the classroom” in Journal
of Computers in Human Behaviour, Special Issue (Paper submitted)</li><li>H Hasan,
G Ali, W Elmedany and C Balakrishna‘A security and performance review of IoT
encryption algorithms, Eighth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology’
(INTECH 2018), University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK, August 15-17, 2018</li><li>S
Aljeshi, T Ahmed, A Hasan, E Wael and C Balakrishna,‘Distributed Ledger Transformations
for Fintech Industry, Challenges, and Opportunities’, Eighth International Conference
on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2018), University of Bedfordshire, Luton,
UK, August 15-17, 2018</li><li>H Aswad, W Elmedany and C Balakrishna,‘Blockchain
as an enabler for the Social Health Insurance Program in the kingdom of Bahrain’,
Eighth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2018) University
of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK, August 15-17, 2018</li><li>S Alromaihi, W Elmedany, and
C Balakrishna,‘Cyber Security Challenges of Deploying IoT in Smart Cities for
Healthcare Applications’, FI Cloud 2018, The IEEE 6th International Conference
on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, IEEE-CS TCI, 6-8 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain</li><li>C
Balakrishna (2017), Gamified Virtual Training Environment for Attacker-centric Cybersecurity
Skills Development, Transactions on edutainment, Springer, ISSN: 1867-7207 (Accepted)</li><li>G.Garge,
C Balakrishna and S K Datta (2017), Consumer Healthcare: Current Trends, IEEE Consumer
Electronics, Magazine</li><li>T K Damenu, C Balakrishna, (2015), Cloud Security Risk
Management: A Critical Review, in Proc of Fourth International Workshop on Technologies
and Applications for Smart Cities (I-TASC’15), 10th September 2015, Cambridge,
U.K. </li><li>Maketo, L.,& Balakrishna, C. (2015, September). Is Rural Botswana
Stuck to the" Chalkboard Only" Era while Others Make Strides in Mobile Learning?.
In Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2015 9th International
Conference on (pp. 382-387). IEEE.</li><li>Lake, D.,& Balakrishna, C. (2015, September).
Using Value Added Services to Realise the Benefits of Enterprise Small Cell Deployments:
Discussion and Prototype. In Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies,
2015 9th International Conference on (pp. 399-404). IEEE.</li><li>P Shuttleworth,
C Balakrishna (2015),‘Cloud and Energy Management - Issues and Concerns’
in Proc of Fourth International Workshop on Technologies and Applications for Smart
Cities (I-TASC’15), 10th September 2015, Cambridge, U.K. </li><li>Chairing
and Invited Talk at I-TASC 2014</li><li>C Balakrishna, Multimedia Service Delivery
in Next-Generation Networks - The Need for Adaptation and Inter-Mediation, in Proc.
of International Conference on Internet Computing and Information Communications Chennai,
India, 2013</li><li>C Balakrishna, Enabling Technologies for Smart Services, in Proc.
Of the Sixth International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services
and Technologies, NGMAST 2012, Paris, France, September 2012</li><li>C.Balakrishna, IMS Experience
Centre– A Real-life Test Network for IMS services, In Proceedings
of IEEETRIDENTCOM 2009, Washington DC, April 6th -8th 2009,</li><li>Invited
Presentation on Open Source Technologies for Next-generation Networks at
First International Workshop on Next-Generation Networks: Open Platforms and Systems
[NGNOPS 2008], 16th September 2008, Cardiff, UK</li><li>Kuwadekar, C. Balakrishna,
K. Al-Begain, GenXfon: Design and Implementation of and Ubiquitous SIP Video
Client, In Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Conference on Next Generation Mobile
Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2008), IEEE Computer
Press, Cardiff, UK 16th-19th September, 2008.</li><li>C.Balakrishna, K.Al-Begain, A
Reality Check on SIP-based Streaming Applications on the Next Generation Mobile Test
Network IEEE COMSWARE 2007, Jan 2008, Bangalore India</li><li>C.Balakrishna,
K.Al-Begain, Towards a User-Centric and Quality-Aware Multimedia Service Delivery
Implementation on IP Multimedia Subsystem, in Proc. Of the First International Conference
on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, NGMAST 2007,
Cardiff, UK, October 2007.</li><li>C.Balakrishna, K.Al-Begain, Implementing Next-Generation
Multimedia Service Enablers over an experimental IMS Test Network, First
Research Workshop, Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan, UK, February
2007. (ISBN: 978-1-84054-156-4)</li><li>C.Balakrishna, K.Al-Begain, A Cross Layer
Approach for Adaptive Multi-level QoS Mobile Multimedia Multicast in Next Generation
Wireless Internets, 15th IST mobile summit, Greece, June, 2006.</li></ol><p><strong>Books</strong></p><ul><li>Khalid
Al-Begain, Chitra Balakrishna, Luis Galindo, David Moro Fernandez: IMS- A Development
and Deployment Perspective, John Wiley& Sons, publication date: October 2009.http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd0470740345.html</li><li>C.Balakrishna,
K.Al-Begain, Mobility and Quality Enabler for Multimedia Services on the next
Generation IP Multimedia Subsystem Contribution to COST-290 Final Report,
Chapter 4 on Mobility Support. November 2007</li></ul><p><strong>Academic Tutorials</strong></p><p>Tutorial
as part of IEEE NGMAST 2010, Aman, titled Next-Generation Service
Delivery Platforms</p><p>Tutorial as part of the IEEE NGMAST 2009,
titled IMS – A Service Centric View http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/NGMAST09/NGMAST09_programme_final.htm</p><p><strong>Editorials</strong></p><p>Co-editor
of Proceedings of the IEEE co-sponsored conference on Next-Generation Mobile
Applications Services and Technology [NGMAST] 2008 -2015</p> |
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<p><span style="font-size: 16px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961); color: rgba(0,
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Sans", Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe
UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida
Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;">Chitra Balakrishna,
Ph.D. MBCS, FHEA , CEH is an academic, author, futuristic technology and open source
enthusiast with over 19 years of experience spanning across academia and industry
in the areas of Cyber Security, Data Networking, Mobile Communications,Technologies
and Applications.</span><br style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color:
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Sans", Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe
UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida
Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;">She has been instrumental
in acquiring research income of over£2 million as a co-investigator or principal
investigator from funding sources such as ERDF, Innovate UK, HEA, EPSRC and British
Council. She has over 40 academic publications to her credit in international journals
and conference proceedings. In addition, she has authored a highly cited book on'IP
Multimedia Subsystem' by John Wiley publications.</span><br style="font-size:
16px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961); color: rgba(0, 0,
0, 0.901961); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe
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Neue","Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans", Cantarell,"Droid
Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI
Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;">She is currently the Program Leader for Cyber
Security at Open University. She has previously held position of program leader for
Networking, Security and Forensics at Edge Hill University and Head of Networks and
Services with Centre of Excellence for Mobile Applications and Services. During her
tenure as an academic member of staff at the University of South Wales, she set up
an open source next-generation networking (NGN) lab in collaboration with industrial
partners such as Orange and France Telecom. She is a founding member of a very successful
IEEE conference on Next-Generation Applications, Technologies and services which is
in its 11th edition and a chair for an IEEE sponsored workshop on Smart Cities for
5 years.</span><br style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0,
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Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe
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UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida
Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;">In 2017, she secured
a£80K grant from HEA for a project on gamification of cyber security education.
The outcomes are maintained at a public website -http://www.cyberedge.uk. She currently
holds a£40K GSIKE UK-Gulf partnership fund with University of Bahrain.</span></p> |
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Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;">Chitra Balakrishna,
Ph.D. MBCS, FHEA , CEH is an academic, author, futuristic technology and open source
enthusiast with over 19 years of experience spanning across academia and industry
in the areas of Cyber Security, Data Networking, Mobile Communications,Technologies
and Applications.</span><br style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color:
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Sans", Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe
UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida
Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;">She has been instrumental
in acquiring research income of over£2 million as a co-investigator or principal
investigator from funding sources such as ERDF, Innovate UK, HEA, EPSRC and British
Council. She has over 40 academic publications to her credit in international journals
and conference proceedings. In addition, she has authored a highly cited book on'IP
Multimedia Subsystem' by John Wiley publications.</span><br style="font-size:
16px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961); color: rgba(0, 0,
0, 0.901961); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe
UI", Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen,"Oxygen
Sans", Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe
UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida
Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;" /><span style="font-size:
16px; caret-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961); font-family:
-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI", Roboto,"Helvetica
Neue","Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans", Cantarell,"Droid
Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI
Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;">She is currently the Program Leader for Cyber
Security at Open University. She has previously held position of program leader for
Networking, Security and Forensics at Edge Hill University and Head of Networks and
Services with Centre of Excellence for Mobile Applications and Services. During her
tenure as an academic member of staff at the University of South Wales, she set up
an open source next-generation networking (NGN) lab in collaboration with industrial
partners such as Orange and France Telecom. She is a founding member of a very successful
IEEE conference on Next-Generation Applications, Technologies and services which is
in its 11th edition and a chair for an IEEE sponsored workshop on Smart Cities for
5 years.</span><br style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgba(0,
0, 0, 0.901961); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui,
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Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans", Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple
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Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans", Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple
Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe
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rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.901961); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe
UI", Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen,"Oxygen
Sans", Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe
UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida
Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-line;">In 2017, she secured
a£80K grant from HEA for a project on gamification of cyber security education.
The outcomes are maintained at a public website -http://www.cyberedge.uk. She currently
holds a£40K GSIKE UK-Gulf partnership fund with University of Bahrain.</span></p> |
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