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Péter Kacsuk (honorary)
MTA SZTAKI
Hungary
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Brief Bio
Prof. Dr. Peter KACSUK is the Director of the Laboratory of the Parallel and Distributed Systems in the Computer and Automation Research Institute (SZTAKI) and the technical director of the Hungarian Research Cloud (ELKH Cloud). He received his MSc and university doctorate degrees from the Technical University of Budapest in 1976 and 1984, respectively. He received the kandidat degree (equivalent to PhD) from the Hungarian Academy in 1989. He habilitated at the University of Vienna in 1997. He received his professor title from the Hungarian President in 1999 and the Doctor of Academy degree (DSc) from the Hungari
an Academy of Sciences in 2001. He was a part-time full professor at the University of Westminster (London, UK) between 2001 and 2017. He has published two books, two lecture notes and more than 350 scientific papers on parallel computer architectures, parallel software engineering, workflow systems, Grid and Cloud computing. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Grid Computing published by Springer. He was invited as keynote speaker for more than 20 scientific conferences.
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Prof. Victor Chang is a Professor of Business Analytics at Operations and Information Management, Aston Business School, Aston University, UK, since mid-May 2022. He was previously a Full Professor of Data Science and Information Systems at the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, UK, since September 2019. He was previously a Senior Associate Professor, Director of Ph.D. and Director of MRes at International Business School Suzhou, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. He was also a very active contributing key member at the Research Institute of Big Data Analytics
, XJTLU. Before that, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Within 4 years, Prof Chang completed Ph.D. (CS, Southampton) and PGCe rt (Higher Education, Fellow, Greenwich) while working for several projects at the same time. Before becoming an academic, he has achieved 97% on average in 27 IT certifications. He won 2001 full Scholarship, a European Award on Cloud Migration in 2011, IEEE Outstanding Service Award in 2015, best papers in 2012, 2015 and 2018, the 2016 European award: Best Project in Research, 2016-2018 SEID Excellent Scholar, Suzhou, China, Outstanding Young Scientist award in 2017, 2017 special award on Data Science, 2017-2022 INSTICC Service Awards, Talent Award Suzhou 2019, Top 2% Scientist 2019-2022, Highly Cited Researcher 2021, Outstanding Reviewer of several Elsevier journals 2018-2019 and Outstanding Editor of FGCS (stepped down). He is the Associate Editor of IEEE TII, JGIM, Expert Systems and IJBSR and an Editor of Information Fusion, Scientific Report and IDD journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IJOCI and OJBD journals, and holds important or lead guest editor roles in several prestigious journals. Prof Chang was involved in different projects worth more than £14 million in Europe and Asia. He has published 3 books as sole author and the editor of 2 books on Cloud Computing and related technologies. He gave 48 keynotes at international conferences. He is widely regarded as one of the most active and influential young scientists and experts in IoT/Data Science/Cloud/Security/AI/IS, as he has the experience to develop 10 different services for multiple disciplines. He is the founding conference chair for IoTBDS, COMPLEXIS and FEMIB to build up and foster active research communities globally with positive impacts.
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Denis Bastieri (honorary)
University of Padova
Italy
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Gary B. Wills
University of Southampton
United Kingdom
https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/gbw
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Gary Wills is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He graduated from the University of Southampton in Electromechanical Engineering, and then a PhD in Computer Science. He is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the Institute of Engineering Technology and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Educational Academy. Gary's research centres around Secure System Engineering. Gary works cross-discipline with colleagues from industry, and academia. His research can be grouped under a number of themes: Internet of Things, Blockchain, Security, Data Protection, Cloud Computing, Data Analyti
cs, Games/Gamification, and ICT4D.
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Bruno Rossi
Masaryk University
Czech Republic
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Bruno Rossi received in 2008 the PhD degree in Computer Science from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Lab of Software Architectures and Information Systems (Lasaris) - Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He is mostly interested in Empirical Software Engineering research and Cyberphysical systems, with specific focus on Smart Grids. He is part of the C4e project, "Center of Excellence for Cybercrime, Cybersecurity and Protection of Critical Information Infrastructures", and has taken part to key European (COSPA, STREP FP6) and Italian pr
ojects (ArtDeco, FIRB 36 months).
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Bernhard Heiden
Carinthia University of Applied Sciences
Austria
www.cuas.at
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Bernhard Heiden is a professor of production Technology in the Industrial Engineering degree program at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences. He previously worked in the industry for 6 years. He completed his process engineering studies at TU Graz, writing his diploma thesis at ETH Zurich. He holds a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Graz University of Technology. From the Karl-Franzens University of Graz, he holds a degree in Philosophy and an MBA in Financial Management and Controlling. His current research and consulting focus is on production technology and Industry 4.0. He is co-founder an
d part of an Austria-wide cooperation Network for 3D printing and chairman of the 3D printing group at FH-Kärnten, and part of the iMaterial research group initiated in 2018, which focuses, among other things, on research into smart materials and their manufacturing processes. He is the initiator and co-founder of Smartlab Carinthia at the University of Applied Sciences Carinthia, the first Fab Lab in Carinthia.
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Flavia C. Delicato
Universidade Federal Fluminense
Brazil
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