Ahmed E. Hassan is the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Software Analytics, and the NSERC/BlackBerry Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering for Ultra Large Scale systems at the School of Computing in Queen's University.
He spearheaded the organization and creation of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) conference and its research community. He is the named inventor of patents at several jurisdictions around the world including the United States, Europe, India, Canada, and Japan.
Marieke Huisman is a professor in Software Reliability, leading the Formal Methods and Tools group at the Univ. of Twente, Netherlands. She obtained her PhD in 2001 from the Univ. of Nijmegen, in the area of semantics and verification of sequential Java programs. She worked 8 years at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France on verification of concurrent programs. In 2008 she joined the UT. She leads the development of the VerCors program verifier for concurrent software. For this work, she has received the support of several personal grants, such as an ERC Starting Grant, and a Vici grant from the Dutch Science Organisation. She has been chairing Versen, the Dutch association of software researchers, and works hard to improve the overall visibility of software research.
Martina Iammarino is a Tenured Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technologies at Pegaso University in Naples.
She holds a Laurea degree in Computer Engineering in 2019 and a PhD degree in Information Technology for Engineering from the University of Sannio in 2023.
Her research focuses on software engineering, data quality, and process engineering, with a growing emphasis on artificial intelligence. Specifically, her work in AI has been pivotal in addressing challenges in the medical field, with a special interest in Parkinson's disease. Through the application of machine learning and deep learning techniques, her research has advanced understanding and innovation in diagnosing, monitoring, and managing this neurodegenerative disorder.
She has published extensively on AI methodologies applied in various domains and has contributed to the AI and healthcare research community as a reviewer for several international conferences and journals.
In addition to serving on the program committee of several international conferences, Martina Iammarino is an Editorial Board Member for the journal Peerj, and is also one of the main organizers of the CISE Workshop "Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering" held at PROFES 2023.
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.
Antónia Lopes is Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, since March 2006. She received a Ph.D. in Informatics at the University of Lisbon in 1999 and holds a BSc and MSc in Applied Mathematics from Technical University of Lisbon. Her research interests are mainly in the area of formal methods for software engineering. These include mathematically based techniques for the specification, modelling and analysis of various types of software intensive systems.
I am a Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics at UNC Charlotte.
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.
Dr. M. Nageswara Rao is a Professor within the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, K L University, India. He has over 19 years of experience in the S/W industry and academia. Dr. M. Nageswara Rao has published over 20 articles in reputed international journals, written 2 books and filed 2 Indian patents. He is a reviewer for a number of SCI/SCIE journals, including IEEE Access and Journal of Big Data(JBD) Journal of Database Management, Cluster Computing , NHIB and Information Sciences; and Scopus journals, such as IJAIP, IJDS, CIT and IJECE. Dr. M. Nageswara Rao is also an associate TPC member for the following International conferences: ICACII-2019-Springer (India), ICCET-2020-IEEE/WOS (New Zealand), ITIoT/ICCCS 2020-Shanghai (China), JCICE-Sydney (Australia), BDET-2020-ACM Digital Library (Singapore) and ICCMA 2019-IEEE (TU Delft, Netherlands).
Dr. M. Nageswara Rao's research areas are listed below:
1.Data Mining
2. Data Analytics
3.Machine Learning
4. Software Engineering
5. Artificial Intelligence
I am a Computer Research Scientist in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology division at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. My work focuses on computational methods for representing and interpreting complex biological data, in particular through the development and application of knowledge representation structures such as ontologies.
Dr. Anh Nguyen-Duc is a Professor at the Department of Business and IT, University of South Eastern Norway. He works as Professor 2 at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research interests include Empirical Software Engineering, Data Mining, Software Startups Research and Cybersecurity.
I am Full Professor at the Alma Mater Studiorum, the University of Bologna. As a researcher, I am currently working on multi-agent systems, intelligent systems engineering, computational logic, explainable AI, agreement technologies. As a professor, I am currently teaching distributed systems, multi-agent systems, and intelligent systems engineering.
Research interests: Formal methods, security and privacy, big data analytics, computational systems biology