Advisory Board and Editors Natural Language & Speech
Shaoxiong Ji
Dr. Ji completed his Ph.D. at Aalto University. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Munich (LMU Munich, Germany) and at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, Finland). Following his doctoral studies, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, working on advanced language technology, and led his own research group at the Technical University of Darmstadt as an independent research group leader.
Pengcheng Liu
Pengcheng Liu is a member of IEEE, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He is also a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Bio Robotics, Soft Robotics, Robot Learning, and Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics. Dr Liu is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, PeerJ Computer Science, and he received the Global Peer Review Awards from Web of Science in 2019, and the Outstanding Contribution Awards from Elsevier in 2017. He has published over 70 papers on flagship journals and conferences. He was nominated as a regular Funding/Grants reviewer for EPSRC, NIHR and NSFC and he has been leading and involving in several research projects and grants, including EPSRC, Newton Fund, Innovate UK, Horizon 2020, Erasmus Mundus, FP7-PEOPLE, NSFC, etc. He serves as reviewers for over 30 flagship journals and conferences in robotics, AI and control. His research interests include robotics, machine learning, automatic control and optimization.
Vijay Mago
Vijay Mago received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Panjab University, India, in 2010. In 2011, he joined the Modeling of Complex Social Systems Program at The IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University. He is currently the Chair and an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, where he teaches and conducts research in areas, including big data analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, medical decision making, and Bayesian intelligence. He has published extensively on new methodologies based on soft computing and artificial intelligence techniques to tackle complex systemic problems, such as homelessness, obesity, and crime. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
Ana G Maguitman
Ana Gabriela Maguitman is a Principal Researcher at the National Council for Science and Technology (CONICET) of Argentina and an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina). She obtained her PhD in Computer Science at Indiana University (USA). Dr. Maguitman leads the Knowledge Management and Information Retrieval Research Group at Universidad Nacional del Sur. Her main research areas include Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval.
Binh P. Nguyen
Senior Lecturer in Data Science at the School of Mathematics and Statistics in Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Former Scientist at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR (Singapore). Former Research Fellow at Duke-NUS Medical School and National University of Singapore (Singapore).
Krishna Dev Oruganty
I can best describe myself as a simulation biologist. I am interested in simulating life processes at multiple scales. From the atomic scale to understand protein function to cellular or systems scale to understand physiological processes. My main tool is the computer which I use to analyze, understand and predict biology. Secondary tools are in vitro biochemistry and biophysics experiments that I use to validate my predictions.
Francesca Peressotti
FP is Full Professor at the Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione (DPSS), University of Padova, Italy. She was Director of the PhD Course in Psychological Sciences, at the University of Padova from 2013 to 2017. From 2010 to 2013 she was Coordinator of the PhD program in Cognitive Sciences of the PhD Course in Psychological Sciences. From 2018 to 2020 she has been elected as member of the Executive Committee of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP). She was elected member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology (2013-2016), and elected member of the Executive Committee of the Experimental Psychology Section of AIP (2008-2013). She acted as a PI in several research projects funded by the University of Padua, the Italian Ministry for the Scientific Research and the National Science Fundation (US).
FP’s research is aimed at investigating the functional architecture of the language system and it is primarily based on data coming from behavioral and electrophysiological measures, comparing the performance of different individuals, such as, e.g., adults, children, bilinguals, deaf people, signers. In a general sense, the approach used is to look at the language system taking into account experimental data coming from different domains focusing on the interactions between the language system and other cognitive functions, such as spatial attention, visual short memory, executive functions, emotions.
Marco Piangerelli
Dr. Marco Piangerelli had his M.Sc. in Bioengineering from the University of Bologna and got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Camerino, where he is currently a Research Associate. His research interests are mainly on Unsupervised techniques for Machine Learning and Data Science in Manufacturing and Bio Science, Self-Adaptive Systems, and Topological Data Analysis. He is the author of many publications and was a PC member for many conferences and Workshops (AAAI-MAKE 2022-23-24 Spring Symposium, SACAIR 2023, DESRIST 2023, ATDA2019). He co-organized the 9th International Workshop on Engineering Energy Efficient InternetWorked Smart seNsors (E3WSN ) hosted by the 37th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil. He has experience in Technological transfer projects and actively collaborates with international companies (INGKA, Schnell S.p.A., Sigma S.p.A., and Nuova Simonelli S.P.A.) and Italian ones (Syeew S.r.l). In 2024, he will be a Visiting Researcher at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) to work on topics related to his research fields.
Alessandro Sebastian Podda
Alessandro Sebastian Podda is a tenure-track Assistant Professor (RTT) at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari, and he is accredited by the Italian Ministry of University and Research for Associate Professor positions in the scientific sectors 01/B1 (Informatics) and 09/H1 (Computer Engineering). He received a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Cagliari (cum laude) in 2014 and he got a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science with a thesis entitled "Behavioural contracts: from centralized to decentralized implementations" in 2018. In 2017, he has been visiting scientist at the Laboratory of Cryptography and Industrial Mathematics of the University of Trento. In 2021, he was formally commissioned to a six month collaboration with the Ispra Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission under the research tender ref. JRC/IPR/2020/VLVP/2916.
Currently, Alessandro Sebastian Podda is Research Unit Coordinator (AI for eHealth and Smart Cities) at the Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Laboratory and former member of the Blockchain Laboratory. He has been also the Work Package Lead of the Doutdes and Sardcoin projects and participates/d in several research projects including AlmostAnOracle, Nomad, Safespotter, Social Glue and Mister. To date, he has been the co-author of no. 18 articles in international journals in the field of computer science, no. 16 conference and workshop proceedings, and 1 book chapter, for which he has over 1450 citations on Google Scholar and over 900 on Scopus, as well as a speaker (eg. LOD 2022, ICCSA 2021, PerAwareCity 2021, MaDaIN 2020, FACS 2015, etc.), co-chair (AISC 2021/2022, HUMAD 2024) and program committee member at numerous international scientific events (eg. HT2022, LOD 2021/2022/2023/2024, IEEE HPCC 2022, IEEE CPS-COM 2021, etc.).
Alessandro Sebastian Podda has been a Member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (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.
Filipi Nascimento Silva
Dr. Filipi Silva is a Research Scientist at the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe), Indiana University. With a Ph.D. in Computational Physics from the University of São Paulo, his expertise lies in the intersection of complex networks, machine learning, text analysis and data visualization. Dr. Silva's research includes contributions to many fields, from bioinformatics, to digital art representation. He is the developer of Helios-Web, a state-of-the-art network visualization tool. And his current interests include mapping science, detecting suspicious activities and uncovering narratives in social media data.
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.