Advisory Board and Editors Distributed & Parallel Computing
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.
Jennifer Schopf
I lead a $2M/year international networking program that supports transoceanic networks to Europe, Japan, and China, as well as end user advocacy. Prior to this, I was a program officer at the US National Science Foundation (NSF), where I jointly led programs in deployed networks, geoscience data, distributed systems, and pragmatic software. My research focuses on end-to-end performance prediction and user requirements gathering, primarily in distributed systems with relation to large data use.
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 received his PhDs in computer science and technology from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 2022; in computer systems from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), NSW, Australia in 2023. Now he is a Research Fellow at UTS.
His research interests include opinion mining in social media, emergency management, meteorological knowledge service, and artificial intelligence.
He serves as an editor for WCMC and PeerJ Computer Science, a guest editor for IJDSN and WCMC, and a reviewer for IEEE TITS, IEEE TCSS, IEEE IoTJ, etc. He also serves as a program committee member of SIGKDD, ACL, etc. He is a member of the IEEE SMC Society and the Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee of the China Meteorological Service Association.
Junaid Shuja
Junaid Shuja is a Senior Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia. Previously, he served as Associate Professor at FAST-NUCES and Assistant Professor at COMSATS University, Pakistan. He completed his BS in Computer and Information Science from PIEAS, Islamabad, in 2009 and MS in Computer Science from CIIT Abbottabad, in 2012. He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Malaya, Malaysia in 2017. His Ph.D. thesis focused on the execution of SIMD instructions on heterogeneous mobile and cloud platforms. His research interests include the application of machine learning techniques in edge computing, energy-efficient cloud data centers, and mobile cloud computing. He has published research in more than 60 International journals and conferences.
Mukesh Singhal
Mukesh Singhal is a Chancellor's Professor and Chairman of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Merced. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, in May 1986. His current research interests include distributed and Cloud computing, mobile computing, cyber-security, Internet of Things, and computer networks. He has published over 240 refereed articles in these areas. He is a Fellow of IEEE (since 2001).
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.