ECCWS Biographies

Below are the ECCWS Biographies of the Conference and Programme Chairs, Key Note Speakers and Mini-Track Chairs.

Conference and Programme Chairs


Christoph Lipps, graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern, where he meanwhile lectures as well. He is a Senior Researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern, Germany, heading the Cyber Resilience & Security Team of the Intelligent Networks Research Department. His research focuses on Physical Layer Security (PhySec), Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Biometrics and Security in the Sixth Generation (6G) Wireless Systems.

Keynote Speakers

Mini Track Chairs


Arun Mamgai has over 20 years of experience in cloud-native cybersecurity, application modernization, open-source secure supply chain, AI/machine learning, and digital transformation, including balanced scorecard, while working with Fortune 1000 customers across industries. He has published many articles highlighting the use of Generative AI for cybersecurity and developing secure cloud applications. He has also developed a Balanced Scorecard based framework for CISOs, and has been invited to speak at international conferences and universities on various topics like “digital transformation”, “Application-level attack in connected vehicle ”, "Generative AI and Cybersecurity", in addition to being a judge in industry-leading events. He mentors start-ups and actively engages with a nonprofit institution that enables middle school girls to become future technology leaders.

Dr. Jawad Hussain Awan is a member of IFIP WG 9.10: ICT Uses in Peace and War, and an active researcher with the Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research Group. His research interests are ICT, Data Science, Cyber security, Security challenges in Smart and Physical Systems. He has published his research in several national and international research journals. He is the member of Editorial Review Board of a number of journals including of IEEE Access, Egyptian Journal of Informatics and the Journal of Information Warfare. He performed his duties as Committee member in ICCWS 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. He is also Microsoft Certified Professional in Web Programming, and has won research awards with the collaboration of HEC, Pakistan and the British Council. He also worked as Research Fellow, Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Professional expertise in federal departments, Government of Pakistan.