Advisory Board and Editors Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing
Giorgio Delzanno
Prof. Giorgio Delzanno graduated in Computer Science in 1992. He defended his PhD thesis in Computer Science in 1998 (Doctorate program in the Genoa, Udine and Pisa consortium) and was Post-Doc at the Max Planck Institut in Saarbruecken until the end of 1999. He got a position In 2005 Associate Professor at the University of Genoa. He is Full Professor at the University of Genoa since 2018.
Prof. Delzanno is currently the Coordinator of the PhD in Computer and Systems Engineering at the University of Genoa. Since 2012 he has been a member of the Orientation Commission of the Computer Science Degree Program and deputy coordinator of the Master's Degree in Computer Science.
The research activity was mainly carried out in the following areas: AI and Computational Logic: Logic Programming, Constraints, Multiagent Systems; Formal Methods: Model Checking, Abstract Interpretation, Parameterized Verification; Concurrent and Distributed Systems, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Internet of Things; Computer Science Education: Computational Thinking and Coding.
He has participated in numerous program and organized committees
conferences, workshops and doctoral schools. Recently he was co-chair of the APCSE 2020 workshops of UMAP 2020 and HCVS of ETAPS 2020.
He is co-founder of Druidlab, a joint laboratory with the FOS Group of Genoa, and a member of GRIN, of the INSTM, of the CINI laboratory on Smart Cities and of the Indam GNCS group.
Markus Endler
Markus Endler obtained his Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin (1992), and the Professor Livre-docente title (Habilitation) from the University of São Paulo (2001). From 1989 to 1993 he worked as a researcher at the GMD Research Institute Karlsruhe (Germany), and from 1994 to 2000 as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2001 he joined the Department of Informatics of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where he is currently Associate Professor. His main research interests include Mobile and Pervasive Computing, IoT Middleware Architectures. Distributed Algorithms for Cooperation and Consensus, Online Data Analytics, and Data Stream Processing. As of 2020, he has supervised 13 PhD thesis and 30+ M.Sc. dissertations.
Anna Rita Fasolino
Anna Rita Fasolino received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering in 1996 by the University of Naples “Federico II”. Since 2005 she is an Associate Professor of Software Engineering at the same University. Her research interests include Software Maintenance and Testing, Reverse Engineering, Web Engineering, and Embedded Software Engineering. She published more than 100 scientific papers in the field of software engineering.
Polly Huang
Polly Huang is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University. Polly received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Southern California. Her research interest includes multimedia networking, sensor networking, and mobile computing. Polly has co-authored over 100 technical articles and 9 US patents. She has served as a TPC member for several high-profile network/system conferences, and as an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.
Syed Anas Imtiaz
I am a researcher in wearable medical devices working on creating new technologies for the monitoring and diagnosis if neurological, neurodevelopmental and sleep disorders. My research focuses on developing new biomedical signal processing methods, algorithms and mixed-signal circuit design for wearable systems, low power digital circuits for medical applications and embedded systems design. I am a Research Fellow at Imperial College London where I am developing new technologies for long-term monitoring, management and diagnosis of COPD, sleep disorders, epilepsy, and autism. I am also the Head of Engineering at Acurable leading development and at-scale manufacturing of a wearable medical device and its accompanying smartphone applications for the diagnosis of respiratory disorders.
Pattie Maes
Pattie Maes is the Alexander W. Dreyfoos (1954) Professor at MIT's Media Laboratory and the academic head for the Program in Media Arts and Sciences. She directs the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces research group, whose goal is to design and develop computer interfaces that are a more natural extension of our minds, bodies and behavior. She holds bachelor's and PhD degrees in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.
Hamid Mcheick
Dr. Hamid Mcheick is a full professor in Computer Science department at the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, Canada. He has more than 25 years of experience in both academic and industrial areas. He has done his Ph.D. in Software Engineering and Distributed System in the University of Montreal, Canada. He is working on designing of adaption distributed, smart and connected software applications; designing healthcare frameworks; and designing smart Internet of Things architecture. He has supervised many post-doctorate, PhD, master, and bachelor students. He has nine book chapters, more than 60 research papers in international journals, and more than 150 research papers in international/national conferences and workshop proceedings to his credit. Dr. Mcheick has given many keynote speeches and tutorials in his research area, particularly in Healthcare systems, Architecture Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Distributed Middleware Architectures, Software Connectors, Service-Oriented Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Architectural Frameworks, Mobile Edge Computing, Fog Computing, and Cloud Computing. Dr. Mcheick has gotten many grants from governments, industrials and academics. He is a chief in editor, chair, co-chair, reviewer, member in many organizations (such as IEEE, ACM, Springer, MDPI, Elsevier, Inderscience) around the world.
Elizabeth D Mynatt
Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology and Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Tech. Her research program, known as Everyday Computing, examines the human-computer interface implications of having computation continuously througout everyday life. She is a member of the SIGCHI Academy, a Sloan and Kavli research fellow, and serves on Microsoft Research's Technical Advisory Board. Mynatt is also the Vice-Chair of the Computing Community Consortium.
Cunhua Pan
Cunhua Pan received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Research Associate at the University of Kent, U.K. He held a post-doctoral position at Queen Mary University of London, U.K., from 2016 and 2019, where he is currently a Lecturer.
His research interests mainly include intelligent reflection surface (IRS), machine learning, UAV, Internet of Things, and mobile edge computing.
He serves as a TPC member for numerous conferences, such as ICC and GLOBECOM, and the Student Travel Grant Chair for ICC 2019. He also serves as an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, IEEE Communications Letter and IEEE Access.
Hemant Rathore
Hemant Rathore received his B.E. and M.E. in computer science from RGTU, India, and BITS Pilani, India, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He is currently associated to Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Pilani, India; and has strong academic and industry research experience in the field of security, and currently works in the domain of adversarial learning and explainability in malware detection models based on machine learning and deep learning.
Hemant has published many research papers in various reputed SCI journals and CORE-ranked (A*, A, and B) conferences. He also won the prestigious K Shankar Meritorious Paper Award 2021 in the journal category. Hemant was selected to present his work in the 11 IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium 2021, and he received multiple travel and registration grants from a number of reputed conferences such as NDSS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE PerCom, IEEE S & P, IACR Eurocrypt, etc. Hemant has also been invited to various venues (e.g. BDA, TENCON, etc.) for invited tutorials, talks, and seminars.
His teaching credentials include taught courses in the areas of Network Security, Advanced Data Mining, and Data Mining to undergraduate and postgraduate students; in addition to guiding and supervising numerous students in short-term projects.
Hemant is a member of the IEEE and ACM.
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.