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.
Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Levi Professor of Computer Science at
Columbia University, received his Ph.D. from the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. MTS at AT&T Bell
Laboratories; associate department head at GMD-Fokus (Berlin),
before joining the Computer Science and EE departments at Columbia
University. He served as chair of Computer Science from 2004 to 2009 and
as Chief Technology Officer of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
from 2012 until 2014.
Prashant Shenoy is currently a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research
interests lie in distributed systems and networking, with a recent emphasis on cloud and green computing. He is a distinguished member of the ACM and a fellow of the IEEE.
Dr. Meng Wang is a professor at the Hefei University of Technology, China. His current research interests include multimedia content analysis, search, mining, recommendation, and large-scale computing. He received the best paper awards successively from the 17th and 18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. He is the recipient of ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2014.
Lexing Xie is Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. She leads the ANU Computational Media lab (http://cm.cecs.anu.edu.au/). Her current research interests are in machine learning on graphs and time series, especially on understanding individual and aggregate behaviour in online social networks, at the intersection of media, language and behaviour. She was research staff member at IBM T J Watson Research Center 2005-2010. She is Associate editor for ACM TOIS, ACM TiiS and PeerJ CS.
From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Yudong (Eugene) Zhang worked at Columbia University as a postdoc. From 2012 to 2013, he worked as an assistant research scientist at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. From 2013 to 2017, he is a full professor and doctoral advisor at School of Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing Normal University. He also serves as the academic leader of the“Jiangsu key laboratory of 3D printing equipment and manufacturing”. At present, he is a Professor in Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning, in Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. His research interests focus on computer-aided medical diagnosis and biomedical image processing.
Prof. Huiyu (Joe) Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Prof. Zhou currently heads the Applied Algorithms and AI (AAAI) Theme and leads the Biomedical Image Processing Lab at University of Leicester. He was the Director of MSc Programme (2018-19), and currently is the Coordinator of MSc Distance Learning and a Member of Research Committee at School of Informatics. Prior to this appointment, he worked as a Lecturer (2012-17) at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast.
Prof. Zhou has published widely in the field. He was the recipient of "CVIU 2012 Most Cited Paper Award", "MIUA 2020 Best Paper Award", "ICPRAM 2016 Best Paper Award in the Area of Applications" and was shortlisted for "ICPRAM 2017 Best Student Paper Award" and "MBEC 2006 Nightingale Prize".