Dipankar Dasgupta

Dipankar Dasgupta is the William Hill Professor in Cybersecurity and Director of the Center for Information Assurance at the University of Memphis. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde (1994) and has been a faculty member since 1997, advancing to Full Professor in 2004. His research focuses on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and bio-inspired computing, particularly in artificial immune systems and evolutionary computation. He has authored/co-authored over 300 publications, including influential books like *Immunological Computation* and *Advances in User Authentication*.

Dr. Dasgupta is an IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and recipient of the 2014 ACM SIGEVO Impact Award and 2011-2012 Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award. He leads the Center for Information Assurance, a nationally recognized academic excellence hub in cybersecurity education and research. His work includes pioneering contributions to negative authentication systems, cybersecurity frameworks, and AI-driven threat detection.

His research spans adversarial machine learning, federated learning security, and generative AI. He has collaborated widely, with an h-index of over 58 and collaborations with 106 co-authors. He also contributes to educational initiatives, such as cybersecurity summer camps for high school students, and chairs like the MIT Geospatial Data Center Advisory Board.