Program Committee

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Frans Coenen
University of Liverpool
United Kingdom

Brief Bio
Prof Frans Coenen is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Liverpool, UK. He has 36 years of experience of working in AI, ranging from early work on driverless ships to current work on deep and machine learning. He is particularly interested in the application of the techniques of Machine Learning to unusual data sets, such as: (i) graphs and social networks, (ii) time series, (iii) free text of all kinds, (iv) 2D and 3D images, particularly medical images, and (v) video data. He is also interested in data mining over encrypted data. He currently leads a small research group working on many aspects of Machine Learning and AI. He has some 450 refereed research publications, and has been on the programme committees for many Machine Learning and AI conferences and related events. ... More >>

Lars Nolle
Jade University of Applied Sciences
Germany

Brief Bio
Professor Lars Nolle graduated from the University of Applied Science and Arts in Hanover, Germany, with a degree in Computer Science and Electronics. He obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Software and Systems Security and an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford as well as an MSc in Computing and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from The Open University. He worked in the software industry before joining The Open University as a Research Fellow. Subsequently, he became a Senior Lecturer in Computing at Nottingham Trent University and is now a Professor of Applied Computer Science at Jade University of Applied Sciences. He is also Associate Professor with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Lars’ main research interests are artificial intelligence methods for real-world scientific and engineering applications. ... More >>

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Mayer Aladjem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Nuno Almeida, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Eva Armengol, IIIA CSIC, Spain
Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg , Germany
Claudio Biancalana, Roma Tre University, Italy
Isabelle Bichindaritz, State University of New York at Oswego, United States
Alina Campan, Northern Kentucky University, United States
Enrique Cano-Marin, Computer Science, University of Alcalá (UAH), Spain
Jesús Ariel Carrasco-Ochoa, INAOE, Mexico
Luigi Cerulo, University of Sannio, Italy
Sharma Chakravarthy, University of Texas at Arlington, United States
Patrick Marques Ciarelli, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
Beatriz De La Iglesia, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo, University of Vigo, Spain
Mihaela Dinsoreanu, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Lachit Dutta, Faculty of Technology, Gauhati University, India
Bilel Elayeb, Yncréa Ouest, L@bISEN, ISEN de Nantes, France
Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas, United States
Jane Greenberg, Drexel University, United States
Josephine Griffith, University of Galway, Ireland, Ireland
Kazuo Hara, Yamagata University, Japan
Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Bogdan Ionescu, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania
Yogan Jaya Kumar, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Constantine Kotropoulos, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada
Christos Makris, University of Patras, Greece
J. Fco. Martínez-Trinidad, Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico
Brigitte Mathiak, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Dulani Meedeniya, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Manuel Montes y Gómez, INAOE, Mexico
Parma Nand, Department of Data Science and AI, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Anne Hee Hiong Ngu, Texas State University-San Marcos, United States
Dorina Rajanen, University of Oulu, Finland
Rui Santos, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, CEAUL - Center of Statistics and Applications, Portugal
Alessia Sarica, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy
Claudio Sartori, Universita' di Bologna, Italy
Milos Savic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Asadollah Shahbahrami, University of Guilan, Iran
Ahmed Shehata, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Julian Szymanski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Marco Temperini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Silvio Ricardo Timaran Pereira, Universidad De Nariño, Colombia
Domenico Ursino, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Michael Vassilakopoulos, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., University of Thessaly
Ishan Verma, TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, India
Manuel Vilares Ferro, University of Vigo, Spain
Jie Wang, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States
Nicola Zeni, University of Trento, Italy
Yan Zhang, California State University, San Bernardino, United States

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