Gabriela Nicolescu obtained her PhD Degree in 2002 from INPG (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble) France, with the award for the Best Microelectronic Thesis of the year.
Her research interests are related to the design methodologies, programming models and security for advanced heterogeneous systems on chip integrating advanced technologies such as optical networks on chip or liquid cooling systems.
The Pardee Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley; Past Chair, CS Division; Past Chair, Computing Research Association; Past President, Association for Computing Machinery. Best known projects are Reduced Instruction Set Computers, Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks, and Network of Workstations. All helped lead to multibillion-dollar industries. Elected Fellow, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Computer History Museum; IEEE von Neumann Medal; NEC C&C Prize .
Dr. Ivan Miguel Pires is a web and mobile developer, and adjunct professor at Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Portugal.
Related to the back-end development:
He has worked with native PHP and OutSystems, and some PHP frameworks, including Zend, Symfony, Yii, Silex and Wordpress.
Related to the database development:
Dr. Pires has primarily worked with MariaDB and MySQL.
Related to the client-side development:
Dr. Pires has worked with native JavaScript, BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, jQuery, jQueryUI, AngularJS, Angular 2, Angular 4 and others.
Related to the mobile development:
Dr Pires' primary research experience is related to the Android development. With additional training in Swift 3.
Related to my academic experience:
Dr. Pires was awarded a MSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Following this, his research focused on the use of mobile devices' sensors for the development of a platform related to Ambient Assisted Living.
Dr. Pires was awarded his PhD, and following this, his research has focused on the automatic recognition of Activities of Daily Living to be implemented as a module for the development of a personal digital life coach.
Certifications: Professional Trainer Certification; Scrum Master Certified; Scrum Product Owner Certified; Google Android Programming Certification; Oracle Certified Associate Java SE 7 Programmer; iOS Technical Test; OutSystems Apprentice Developer Certification.
Arun K. Somani research interests are fault tolerant computing and networking systems, scalable architectures and algorithms for WDM optical networks and parallel computer system architecture. He is active in professional society activities. He has served as an IEEE distinguished visitor and tutorial speaker. He was elected as a Distinguished Engineer of ACM in 2006, a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to theory and applications of computer networks in 1999, and a fellow of AAAS in 2012.