Professor of Distributed Systems University of Leicester, UK
Topic: Physics-Informed Machine Learning Models for Self-adapting Network of Digital Twins
Dr. Ashiq is a professor of Distributed Systems at the University of Leicester and has been an active member of the international research community in this area for almost two decades now. He is the director of enterprise and impact and previously has been the director of the data science research center. My areas of research include data-intensive distributed systems, distributed machine learning models, self-adapting digital twins, and physics-informed machine models for digital twins to emulate the real-time behavior of (bio)mechanical and cyber-physical systems. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS).
Professor of Computer Science at Linnaeus University Sweden
Topic: Virtual Ecosystems for Smart Sustainable City-districts
Dr. Jesper Andersson is a Professor of Computer Science at Linnaeus University. He holds a PhD. in Computer Science from the Department of Computer and Information Science at Linköping University (2007). Dr. Andersson served as the Department Chair for the Computer Science department at Linnaeus University from 2013 to 2020. From January 2021, he is the Dean of the Faculty of Technology. His research focuses mainly on Software Engineering techniques and methodologies supporting the development of smarter systems. He has published several papers in distinguished journals and conferences in Self-adaptive Software Systems, Software Reuse, and Software Ecosystems. He has also served in organization and program committees for international conferences, symposiums, and workshops. Professor Andersson has a long and broad educational experience. During the last decades, he has taught computer science, primarily courses in software design. He has also been engaged as a trainer, coach, and technical advisor by several prominent industrial companies with a global presence.
Professor Linnaeus University Department of Computer Science and Media Technology SE-351 95 Växjö, Sweden
Topic: From Technology-Driven to Social-Drive Innovations in the age of Digital Transformations
Marcelo Milrad is a Full Professor of Media Technology at Linnaeus University (LNU) in Sweden. His current research interests include the areas of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL), advanced human-computer interaction and novel uses of Big Data techniques and mobile technologies in the fields of Education & Health Care. Since March 2020, he acts as the main scientific coordinator of LNU ́s cross disciplinary knowledge environment called Digital Transformations Dr Milrad is also actively involved also in an initiative at LNU together with colleagues at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities called Digital Humanities. Professor Milrad conducts his research in very close collaboration with industrial partners and the public sector. Currently, he is acting as principal investigator for the research project “Extending Design Thinking with Digital Technologies” supported by the EU Commission (2022-2025, 3,2 M€). Professor Milrad has published over 250 articles in international journals, refereed conferences, books, and technical reports. Dr Milrad has also been presenting and giving lectures about his work in more than 45 countries worldwide.
University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Topic: Creative Technology and Design
Professor Ellen Yi-Luen Do (ATLAS Institute & Computer Science) invents at the intersections of people, design and technology. She works on computational tools for design, especially sketching, creativity and design cognition, including creativity support tools and design studies, tangible and embedded interaction and, most recently, computing for health and wellness. She holds a PhD in Design Computing from Georgia Institute of Technology, a Master of Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a bachelor’s degree from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. She has served on the faculties of University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon and Georgia Tech, and co-director of the Keio-NUS CUTE Center in Singapore before joining CU Boulder. https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/ellen-yi-luen-do
Founder and Director of the Cyber Assurance Lab Associate Professor in Cyber Security University of Greenwich London, UK
Topic: Certified and Explainable Sustainable Cyber Security
Dr Muhammad Taimoor Khan is an Associate Professor (Reader) of Computer Science at the University of Greenwich, UK. He is also the founder and Director of the Cyber Assurance Lab in a multi-disciplinary Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security of the University. He is also a member of various multi-disciplinary scientific and technical initiatives, e.g., an interdisciplinary Law, Emerging Tech and Science (LETS) Lab, UK, Formal Methods Europe, and an European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), to name a few. His current research interest aims at developing certified and explainable sustainable software by the application of formal methods. He has received an MSc in Advanced Distributed Systems from the University of Leicester, UK in 2008 and PhD (Dr. techn.) in 2014 focusing on Formal Verification of Computer Algebra Software from the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), Johannes Kepler University, Austria, both with distinction. Before joining the University of Greenwich, he held faculty and research fellow positions at various institutes including the University of Surrey and University of Leicester, UK, MIT CSAIL, USA, and the Alpen-Adria University, Austria. His research has been recognised through winning research awards in premier research venues including CICM 2012, WF-IoT 2016 and ICS-CSR 2019, to name a few and winning or being part of mega research grants by distinguished international and regional funding agencies including Horizon Europe, Erasmus, H2020, HFRI, FWF, FFG, NSF/DARPA, and UKRI, to name a few.
Associate Professor and Scientist at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman
Topic: GEOMATICS TECHNOLOGY IN THE ASSESSMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCE POTENTIAL
Faculty member at the Department of Geodetic Engineering (DGE), and Faculty Affiliate at the Energy Engineering Program of the National Graduate School of Engineering (NGSE) both in UP Diliman. Dr. Principe is the head of DGE’s Geomatics for Sustainability and Renewable Energy (SuRE) research laboratory and teaches undergraduate, graduate, and training courses in remote sensing (RS), photogrammetry, surveying, geographic information systems (GIS), and energy resource assessment. His current research project is called SINAG or Solar PV Resource and Installation Assessment Using Geospatial Technologies. Dr. Principe’s past research projects were mostly on the applications of Geodetic Engineering and Geomaticsincluding the PRS92 R&D, CECAM, Phil-LiDAR 2, and BlueCARES projects. He also held classes as a lecturer in short courses on RS and GIS and did consultancy work as an RS specialist. Dr. Principe received his BSc (Geodetic Engineering) and MSc (Remote Sensing) degrees in UP Diliman and his PhD (Civil Engineering) at the University of Tokyo. His current research interests are mostly in the applications of remote sensing and GIS, renewable energy (specifically, solar) resource potential
assessment, and surveying.
Research Fellow, Accounting Research institute (ARI), Assistant Professor (Forensic Accounting and Fraud Management), Director of Forensic Accounting Programs, Department of Accounting and Financial Management, University Technology Mara, Malaysia
Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Fraud Management
Dr. Norazida Mohamed is a chartered accountant specializing in forensic accounting and fraud management. She currently serves as a Senior Accounting Lecturer at University Technology Mara, Malaysia, with over 20 years of experience in the field. Dr. Norazida has held senior management positions and served as an Assistant Rector at University Technology MARA Kelantan. She is a Research Fellow at the Accounting Research Institute (ARI), focusing on Islamic Financial Criminology (IFC). With a Doctorate in Forensic Accounting and Fraud Management, she has conducted extensive research and presented internationally. Dr. Norazida has also served as an External Examiner for the Harare Institute of Technology and lectured at Teesside University. Her qualifications include a Doctorate, Masters of Arts, Masters in Business Administration, Bachelor of Accounting (Hons), and a Diploma in Accounting. Dr. Norazida’s expertise, dedication to research collaborations, and ability to form relationships make her a respected professional in the field.
Assistant Professor (Software Engineering), Director Software Technology Master Programs, Dept. of CS and Media Technology, Linnaeus University Sweden
Topic: Industry 5.0 and Self-Adaptive Software Systems
Dr. Nadeem Abbas holds a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from Linnaeus University Sweden. He is currently working as Assistant Professor and Director Software Technology Master Programs at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology, Linnaeus University Sweden. He has been working with software systems since 2001. He is an active team player of several research groups. With about 20 years of experience in software design and development and a number of scholarly publications, Dr. Nadeem holds state- of-the-art knowledge and skills to design and develop product- lines of smarter self-adaptive software systems with reuse across several applications and application domains. His primary research areas of interest are mainly the following: Self-Adaptive Software Systems, Software Variability Management, Dynamic Software Product Lines, Software Architecture and Design, and Architectural Analysis and Reasoning. His other areas of interest include artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, and computer science education. Dr. Nadeem has collaborated with researchers from different parts of the world and is looking forward to collaborate with researchers in Pakistan for joint research projects, funding applications, and publications.
Assistant Professor (Computer Science), Chiang Mai University Thailand
Topic: Mastering Distributed Application Design Patterns: Building Scalable and Resilient System
Ratsameetip Wita received Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Department of Computer Engineering, Chulalongkorn University in 2013. She is an assistant professor at Department of Computer Science, Chiang Mai University, Thailand. She had experience in massive software development and distributed system. Her research interest are graph-based data analytics and ontology, enterprise software architecture, cloud computing and bioinformatics
Researcher at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano , Italy
Topic: Techniques to Evolve the Software Architecture in an Agile Project
Eduardo Guerra is a Researcher at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. He worked for seven years at the Spacial Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil, reaching the senior researcher level. Before that, he also acted as a teacher at the Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronáutica (ITA), which is known as one of the best engineering schools in the country. The focus of Eduardo Guerra’s research can be defined as “find better ways to develop software”, which includes patterns, programming approaches, and processes to be used by the development team. He considers the principles of Agile Software Development the core guidance of his research since they share the goal of improving software quality, optimizing development time, and increasing software adaptability. Test-driven development (TDD) was the core of several works that focused on test code refactoring, application of TDD for specific kinds of software, and teaching and evaluating the technique. Also, in the scope of programming techniques, metadata and code annotations were the focus of several works that aimed to study them as an alternative to make the software more adaptable and improve the code quality.
