Speakers

Dr Pavel Gladyshev is an internationally recognized expert in digital forensics and cybercrime investigation. He holds a PhD in Computer Science with a specialization in Digital Forensics, and his academic research focuses on the development of automated reasoning algorithms for the analysis of digital evidence. Dr Gladyshev has been working with Law Enforcement since 1998, when he designed the first cybercrime training course for An Garda Siochana, the Irish national police force. He joined University College Dublin as a faculty member in 2005. He directed the development of UCD’s MSc in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation, which became an international success story with over 150 law enforcement students enrolled annually. Dr Gladyshev founded the Digital Forensics Investigation Research Laboratory (DigitalFIRE) in 2007 and established UCD’s MSc programme in Digital Investigation and Forensic Computing for the private sector in 2009. In 2021/2022, he was the academic lead for developing the INTERPOL online Digital Forensics Training programme. In his extracurricular capacity, Dr Gladyshev served as an invited expert to INTERPOL Global Cybercrime Expert Group and worked part-time as a director consultant in the digital forensics division of Grant Thornton, Ireland. He serves as a cybercrime department editor for the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine. He participates as an editorial board member in the production of several academic journals in the field of digital forensics and cybercrime investigation. In 2014, Dr. Gladyshev was elected to the board of directors of DFRWS.org, a US not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting digital forensics education worldwide.