Dr Surya Nepal is a Principal Research Scientist at Information Engineering Laboratory of CSIRO Computational Informatics. 

Dr Nepal has 15+ years experience in computer science research, latterly with a specific focus on security, privacy and trust in distributed systems. He has more than 100 publications to his credit, has edited or co-authored several books, and is the co-inventor of two patents. Much of his work appears in top international forums such as VLDB, ICDE, ICWS, SCC, CoopIS, ICSOC, International Journals of Web Services Research, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, IEEE TPDS, ACM Computing Survey and ACM Transaction on Internet Technology. 

He obtained his BE from the National Institute of Technology, Surat, India; his ME from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand; and PhD from RMIT University, Australia.