Mary Shaw's research interests are in software engineering, particularly software architecture and design of systems used by real people. She has received the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award (with David Garlan), the IEEE Computer Society TCSE's Distinguished Educator Award, and CSEE&T's Nancy Mead Award for Excellence in Software Engineering Education. She is an elected fellow of the ACM, the IEEE, and the AAAS.
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.
Prof. Giancarlo Succi is a Professor within the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is also the Dean at Constructor University in Bremen, Germany.
His research interests include Software Engineering and Visual Analytics.
Maurice ter Beek coordinates the Formal Methods and Tools group of the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, Italy, where he's affiliated since 2003, when he obtained a Ph.D. in Theoretical Computer Science from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He has authored over 125 peer-reviewed papers, edited over 25 proceedings and special issues of journals, and next to PeerJ CS he is an editorial board member of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, Science of Computer Programming, and ERCIM News. His research interests concern formal methods and model-checking tools for the specification and verification of safety-critical software systems, recently in particular for applications in service-oriented computing, software product line engineering, and railways. He is or has been PC member or chair of conferences like FM, iFM, FASE, FMICS, FormaliSE, SEFM, SPIN, SPLC, VaMoS, ABZ, AVoCS, COORDINATION, FORTE, RSSRail, and ACSD. He is member of the Steering Committees of the Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS), Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS) and Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) series.
Georg Umgiesser has two masters degrees in oceanography and physics and a PhD in biomedical sciences. He is working at the CNR as a senior scientist.
Principal fields of investigation are hydrodynamic modeling, circulation and sediment transport. He has developed a series of finite element models for shallow water bodies (SHYFEM) for the study of hydrodynamic processes, water quality and transport phenomena. He has participated in various EU projects dealing with the North Sea and the Mediterranean, turbulence studies and application of 3D models. He was a visiting professor at the Kyushu University, Japan. He is also lead researcher at the Open Access Center of Klaipeda University. He is the Italian coordinator of the ESFRI project Danubius-RI dealing with study on river-sea systems.
Stefan Wagner is full professor of software engineering at the Technical University of Munich in the TUM School of Communications, Information and Technology. He studied computer science in Augsburg and Edinburgh and psychology in Hagen. He holds a doctoral degree in computer science from TU Munich, where he also worked as a post-doc. Previously, he was a full professor at the University of Stuttgart. His main research interests are empirical studies, software quality, human factors, AI-assisted software engineering, AI-based software and automotive software. He is a member of GI and a senior member of ACM and IEEE.
Robert Winkler is Principal Investigator of the Laboratory of Biochemical and Instrumental Analysis at the CINVESTAV Unidad Irapuato and faculty member for the postgraduate programs Plant Biotechnology and Integrative Biology. His research topics include novel mass spectrometry techniques such as low-temperature plasma ionization and covalent protein staining, new approaches in the high-throughput metabolomic profiling of plants, computational mass spectrometry and proteomics.
Dr. Marvin Wyrich is a Researcher at Saarland University, Germany.
His primary research interests include empirical software engineering, program comprehension, and meta-scientific topics.
Yue Zhang is an assistant professor at Drexel University’s Computer Science department. His research primarily focuses on system security, specifically in the areas of IoT Security and mobile security. He has published more than 40 papers in security conferences (e.g., USENIX Security, ACM CCS, and NDSS) and journals (e.g., TDSC, TPDS). He received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at ACM CCS 2022, and the Best Paper Award at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet. He has also served on the organization committees of the conferences (e.g., general chair of EAI ICECI, track chair for IEEE MSN and IEEE MASS) and technical program committee of the conferences (e.g., USENIX Security, NDSS, ACM CCS, RAID). He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE T-IFS, HCC and Editor Member of the Blockchain Journal, Electronics Journal, and CMC. His research had led to the discovery of many vendor-acknowledged vulnerabilities, such as by Bluetooth SIG, Apple, Google, and Texas Instruments, and had attracted intense media attention such as Hacker News, and Mirage News.