Building Trustworthy Intelligent Systems for Critical Infrastructures by Dr. Geetanjali

Abstract: The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud-edge computing, and autonomous cyber-physical systems is transforming critical infrastructures across healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, and smart cities. As these technologies become increasingly interconnected, ensuring that they operate in a secure, reliable, explainable, and privacy-preserving manner has emerged as a fundamental research challenge. This talk presents a coherent research program dedicated to the development of Trustworthy Intelligent Systems through the integration of network security, blockchain, trust management, intelligent decision-making, and AI.

It traces the evolution of this research from blockchain-enabled secure communication and privacy-preserving healthcare frameworks to adaptive trust evaluation, multi-criteria decision-making, and decentralized trust management for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). These contributions culminate in TrustNextGen, a comprehensive framework for trustworthy next-generation IIoT, providing a robust foundation for future advances in Trustworthy AI. The talk concludes by outlining a forward-looking research roadmap encompassing explainable AI, federated learning, edge intelligence, digital twins, and resilient autonomous systems. Together, these directions aim to enable secure, trustworthy, and human-centric intelligent systems capable of safeguarding next-generation critical infrastructures while delivering broad societal and industrial impact.

Bio: Dr. Geetanjali Rathee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science andEngineering at Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT), Dwarka, New Delhi. Prior tojoining NSUT, she served as an Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) at Jaypee University
ofInformation Technology (JUIT), Waknaghat, Himachal Pradesh, for four years. She earned herB.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer
Science and Engineering in 2011, 2014, and2017, respectively.Dr.Rathee has made significant research contributions in the fields of
computer science andnetwork security. She holds eight Indian patents and has authored approximately 15 papers inIEEE Transactions journals
(including publications in journals with impact factors as high as9.1), over 40 SCI-indexed research papers, around 10 Scopus-indexed
publications, and morethan 15 conference papers and book chapters at national and international forums.Her research has also been supported
through competitive funding. She successfully completeda SERB-SURE (ANRF) sponsored project on data governance and security in
healthcare, whileanother collaborative proposal with Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi, is currently under reviewunder the ICRM scheme. In
addition, Dr. Rathee is the author of the book Large-Scale DataStreaming, Processing, and Blockchain Security. She has delivered invited talks on blockchaintechnology and network security at several reputed universities and institutions across India.Her research technology,resilient wireless mesh networks, routing protocols, computer networking, and Industry 4.0.She also serves as a regular reviewer for several leading international journals, including IEEETransactions on Vehicular Technology, Wireless Networks, Cluster Computing, Journal ofAmbient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, and the International Journal of Communication Systems.