Data Protection in a Post-Pandemic Society (PDF)

¿Chaminda Hewage is a Reader (Associate Professor) of Data Security in the Cardiff School of Technologies at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK where he is also the Associate Dean Research for the school. He is the founder and director of Cybersecurity and Information Networks Centre (CINC). He received a B.Sc. Engineering (First Class Honours Degree) in Electrical and Information Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna (Sri Lanka) in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Multimedia Communications from the University of Surrey (UK) in 2009. He was awarded the Gold Medal for best performance in Engineering (2014) by the University of Ruhuna for his achievements in undergraduate studies at the General Convocation held in 2004. After graduation, he joined Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (Sri Lanka) as a Telcommunication Engineer (2004). In September 2005, he was awarded the Overseas Research Scholarships (ORS) scholarship by the Higher Education Funding Council of England (Universities UK) to pursue his Ph.D. at the University of Surrey, UK. Upon completion of his PhD, he works as a researcher at the University of Surrey, UK and Kingston University, London, UK. In 2015, he joined Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK as a Senior Lecturer. In 2014, he received a Post-Graduate Certification in Higher Education (HE) Teaching and Learning from Kingston University - London. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK. He is a Senior member of the IEEE and Member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec).
Yogachandran Rahulamathavan is a Senior Lecturer and the Programme Director for MSc Cyber Security and Data Analytics at Loughborough University's London Campus in the UK. Yoga obtained his PhD degree from Loughborough University in mathematical optimisation techniques for information processing in 2012. His research interest is in developing novel security protocols to advance machine learning techniques to solve complex privacy issues.