Advisory Board and Editors Distributed & Parallel Computing
Michele Pasqua
Michele Pasqua is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona, Italy. His main research interests include abstract interpretation, program verification, static analysis, software testing, theoretical foundations of programming languages and software engineering, language-based security, and distributed systems.
He works actively in the software engineering and programming languages communities, being (co)author of more than 30 publications in international scientific journals and conference proceedings with peer review and regularly serving on international conferences and workshops program committees.
Radia Perlman
Inventor of innovations that make today's network protocols scalable, robust, and self-organizing. In particular, link state routing, spanning tree, and TRILL. Also, innovations in security including distributed algorithms resilient against malicious participants, assured expiration of data from storage, and PKI trust models.
Awards
- National Inventors Hall of Fame induction (2016)
- Internet Hall of Fame induction (2014)
- SIGCOMM Award (2010)
- USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (2006)
- Recipient of the first Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Innovation in 2005
- Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association Inventor of the year (2003)
- Honorary Doctorate, Royal Institute of Technology (June 28, 2000)
- Twice named as one of the 20 most influential people in the industry by Data Communications magazine: in the 20th anniversary issue (1992) and the 25th anniversary issue (1997). Perlman is the only person to be named in both issues.
- Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, class of 2016
Anne Reinarz
Dr. Anne Reinarz is an Assistant Professor at Durham University in the Scientific Computing Group. Her research is at the interface of three main areas: Application science (mechanical engineering, astrophysics and seismology), numerical methods development (fast solvers, high performance computing) and uncertainty quantification.
Torbjørn Rognes
Torbjørn Rognes is the Head of the Biomedical Informatics Research Group at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, and a research scientist at the Department of Microbiology at Oslo University Hospital, Norway. He obtained a MSc in computer science in 1994, a PhD in bioinformatics in 2001 and a professorship in 2010. His main interest is in development of algorithms and tools for sequence analysis, and has recently worked mostly with metagenomics and metabarcoding. He is a co-author of the VSEARCH, Swarm and SWIPE tools.
Mema Roussopoulos
Mema Roussopoulos is a faculty member at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Athens, Greece. She completed my PhD in Computer Science and served on the faculty of Harvard University and University of Crete before joining the University of Athens. She investigates topics in the areas of distributed systems, networking, mobile computing, and digital preservation.
Rossano Schifanella
Rossano Schifanella is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Turin and a researcher at ISI Foundation, where he is a member of the Data Science for Social Impact and Sustainability group. His research embraces the creative energy of a range of disciplines across machine learning, urban science, computational social science, complex systems, and data visualization. He leverages data-driven approaches to model the behavior of (groups of) individuals and their interactions in space and time, aiming at understanding the interplay between online and offline social behavior. He is passionate about understanding the dynamics of complex phenomena in modern cities and building interactive web interfaces to explore urban spaces and access human knowledge through geography.
Elad Michael Schiller
Elad Michael Schiller received his M.Sc., and B.Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the same university. His research excellence has been acknowledged by several highly competitive research fellowships from the Israeli government and the Swedish government. He is now an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. Elad has published in top-tier venues (including PODC, DISC, OPODIS, SPAA, SRDS, ICDCN, IEEE-TMC, IEEE-TPDS and Acta Inf.). He has co-authored more than 50 conference and journal papers. He served on the program committees for several international conferences, including PODC, DISC, SSS, ICDCN and AlgoSensors. His research interests include distributed computing, with special emphasis on self-stabilizing algorithms, wireless communications and the application of game theory to distributed systems.
Prashant Shenoy
Prashant Shenoy is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research
interests lie in distributed systems and networking, with a recent emphasis on cloud and green computing. He is a distinguished member of the ACM and a fellow of the IEEE.
Kaize Shi
Kaize Shi is with the Data Science and Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Technology Sydney. He has PhD degrees in computer science and computer systems, which are from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, and the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests include natural language generation, social computing, cyber-physical-social systems, meteorological knowledge services, intelligent transportation, and artificial intelligence technology. He is the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems and academic editor of PeerJ Computer Science and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. He also served as a guest editor for the Information Fusion, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, etc. He served as a program committee member for conferences of ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, SIGKDD, ICDM, etc. He is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee of the China Meteorological Service Association.
Giancarlo Sperlì
Giancarlo Sperlì is an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Naples Federico II.
He obtained his PhD in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the same University defending his thesis: "Multimedia Social Networks".
He is a member of the Pattern Analysis and Intelligent Computation for Multimedia Systems (PICUS) departmental research groups. His main research interests are in the area of Cybersecurity, Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data and Social Networks Analysis.
He has served as guest editor of different special issues on International Journals. Finally, he has authored about 118 publications in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters.
Harini Srinivasan
Working for 20+ years in industry on a variety of innovative topics - programming languages, run-time environment, tools including performance analysis, parallel distributed systems, service-oriented and business process architectures, deployment of large systems, e-commerce and social media analysis.
Sándor Szénási
Sándor Szénási has earned his MSc degree in 2004 from Faculty of Informatics of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He has received his PhD in 2013 from Doctoral School of Applied Informatics (GSAI) of Óbuda University, Budapest.
Currently, he is an associate professor in the Institute of Applied Informatics of John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Óbuda University, Budapest. He is the leader of the local CUDA Teaching Center.
His research areas are (data) parallel algorithms, GPU programming and medical image processing. He engages both in theoretical fundamentals and in algorithmic issues with respect to realization of practical requirements and given constraints.
He is the member of the John von Neumann Computer Society and IEEE, and also a reviewer of several conferences and journals.