Previous Speakers

 

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Werner Nutt

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

 

 

Werner Nutt is a full professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Bozen-Bolzano in Northern Italy since 2005. Before this, he was a reader at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (2000-2005), visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and research scientist at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken (1992-2000).

His research interests are in data and knowledge management, with a focus on extracting structured information from text, ensuring data quality, and organizing knowledge-intensive processes.  Since 2017, he is coordinating the EU-funded project COCkPiT, which aims to create techniques and tools to model, schedule, and monitor construction processes.

He has published more than 120 refereed papers and has an h-index of 35 on Google Scholar.

 
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Professor Dame Wendy Hall

University of Southampton, United Kingdom

 

Professor Hall is widely known as the co-founder of World Wide Web Consortium, along with Sir. Tim Berners-Lee. She is a professor from Southampton University, United Kingdom. She is also the director of the Web Science Institute. In 2009, she was awarded “Dame Commander of the British Empire” due to her contributions to Engineering Policy and Education. Her research interests include: web science, semantic web, and hypermedia

 
 

Tan Chuan-Hoo

National University of Singapore

 

Tan Chuan-Hoo is an associate professor of Information Systems and Analytics at the National University of Singapore. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the National University of Singapore. His main research area is in Social Media & Digital Business. His research interests include the design and evaluation of consumer-based decision support interfaces, electronic commerce, and technology adoption. His work has been published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Annals of Operations Research, Communications of the ACM, and Information & Management among others as well as conferences such as International Conference on Information Systems. Prior to joining NUS, he held a tenured faculty position in Hong Kong. He is a recipient of the INFORMS ISS Design Science Award 2013.

 
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Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa

University of Tokyo, Japan

 

Professor Ishikawa is a professor in the Department of Creative Informatics, Department of Information Physics and Computing, and Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics. Professor Ishikawa received over 50 awards in the field of Computer Science. His research interests include: sensor technology, robotics, image processing, perception and behavior systems, and sensor fusion

 
  Professor José A.B. Fortes, Ph.D       

University of Florida, USA

 

José A.B. Fortes is the AT&T Eminent Scholar and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Florida where he founded and is the Director of the Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory. He has authored or coauthored over 200 technical papers and has lead the development and deployment of Cloud and Grid-computing software used in several cyberinfrastructures for e-Science and digital government. His research interests are in the areas of distributed computing, autonomic computing, computer architecture, parallel processing, and fault-tolerant computing.

 
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Professor Kevin Burrage

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

 

Prof Kevin Burrage joined Oxford University in early 2008 and now Professor of Computational Systems Biology at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, and the Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology.  Prof Kevin Burrage is a member of the Computational Cardiac Modelling and Simulation group within Computer Science. Prof Kevin Burrage is also a theme leader in the new Institute for Future Environments at QUT http://www.qut.edu.au/institute-for-future-environments. Prof Kevin Burrage was a supernumerary fellow of New College at Oxford University between 2008-2012.  Before coming to Oxford, Prof Kevin Burrage was a Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council (2003-2008) at the University of Queensland.

 
 

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Massey University, New Zealand

 

Professor Mukhopadhyay has more than 24 years of experience in teaching, industry, and research experience. He is currently a Professor of Remote Sensing at Massey University, New Zealand. His research interests include smart sensor and remote sensing technology, instrumentation technique, wireless sensor networks, numerical calculation, and electromagnetics. Professor Mukhopadhyay has published more than 280 international journals and conference proceedings. He has delivered 190 presentations, including keynote speech, invited speech, tutorial, and special courses.