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José I. Santos Martín

I hold a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Burgos and a Bachelor's degree in the same field from the University of Valladolid. Additionally, I have earned an M.Sc. in Business Economics from UNED and an M.Sc. in Information Systems from the School of Industrial Management (EOI) in Madrid. At the outset of my career, I dedicated myself to developing methodologies for the study of complex systems, a commitment that has defined my research trajectory. My work is distinguished by a dual focus. First, I am deeply interested in employing a variety of methods and techniques—such as agent-based modeling, complex network theory, and machine learning. These approaches are instrumental in my ongoing study of complex systems. Second, I am committed to an interdisciplinary approach, actively collaborating with experts across engineering, social sciences, anthropology, and archaeology. This cross-disciplinary engagement has been crucial in tackling complex challenges, leading to significant contributions in both the social sciences and humanities and the domains of computer science and engineering.

Bart Selman

Bart Selman is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research interests include computational sustainability, efficient inference, planning, KR&R, and connections between CS and statistical physics. He has (co-)authored over 150 publications, including six best paper awards. He has received the Cornell Miles Excellence in Teaching Award, the Cornell Outstanding Educator Award, an NSF Career, and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship. He is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, and ACM.

Cédric Sueur

Cédric Sueur is Full Professor at the University of Strasbourg, specializing in the study of animal behavior with a primary focus on the dynamics of social networks and the mechanisms of collective decision-making within social groups. He holds leadership roles in academic programs, serving as co-director of both the Master's program in Ecology, Ecophysiology, and Ethology, and the Master's program in Animal Ethics, highlighting his dedication to advancing knowledge in both ecological and ethical domains. His distinguished contributions to his field have earned him membership in the prestigious Institut Universitaire de France and recognition from the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, where he was honored with an award.

Julita Vassileva

Professor in Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her research area is human issues in decentralized computing technologies and applications: user modeling, personalization, trust modeling, intelligent educational and persuasive technologies.

Christopher John Webster

Prof. Chris Webster is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong, and leads the HKUrbanLab. He has degrees in urban planning, computer science, economics and economic geography and is a leading urban theorist and spatial economic modeller. He has published over 150 scholarly papers on the idea of spontaneous urban order and received over US$20M grants for research and teaching and learning projects.

His research interests includes leading HKU’s Healthy High Density Cities research group to establish systematic evidence for the relationship between urban configuration (planned and spontaneous) and individual health.

He is a strong supporter of the discipline of Urban Science, believing that much (but by no means all) urban social science of the 20th century did not deliver on its claims and that advances in big data, sensing technology and computing power, are leading to a new engagement between urban decision makers and scientists. The 20th century urban scholars' reliance on small numbers, descriptive case studies, rudimentary analytics, cross-sectional designs and subjective measurements from social surveys are giving way to a more mature phase of urban science, with large-N panel studies, quasi and RCT designs, temporally and spatially fine-grained units of analysis, and a high degree of inter-disciplinarity. Professor Webster's hope is that an increasing number of Urban Science studies will appear in widely-read public science journals.

Marvin Wyrich

Dr. Marvin Wyrich is a Researcher at Saarland University, Germany.

His primary research interests include empirical software engineering, program comprehension, and meta-scientific topics.

Keli Xiao

Dr. Keli Xiao is an Associate Professor in the College of Business at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Dr. Xiao’s research interests include business analytics, data mining, real estate/urban computing, economic bubbles and crises, and asset pricing. His research has appeared in many high-quality journals and conference proceedings, such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Real Estate Economics, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), etc. He regularly serves as an SPC or PC of numerous prestigious conferences, such as AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, ICDM, SDM, CIKM, etc.. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM.

Ying Xu

Ying Xu received B.Eng, M.Eng, and PH.D. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. From 2009-2017, he had been a Senior Engineer in the North China Grid Dispatching and Control Center. He is a research scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, USA. His main research interests and experiences include power system analysis and control, system modeling and simulation, cooperative control, distributed control and optimization for networked systems.