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Philippe Cudre-Mauroux is a Full Professor and the Director of the eXascale Infolab at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, where he won both the Doctorate Award and the EPFL Press Mention in 2007. Before joining the University of Fribourg, he worked on information management infrastructures at IBM Watson Research (NY), Microsoft Research Asia, and MIT. He recently won the Verisign Internet Infrastructures Award, a Swiss National Center in Research award, a Google Faculty Research Award, as well as an ERC research grant. His research interests are in next-generation, Big Data management infrastructures for non-relational data.
Bettina Kemme is an Associate Professor and the Director of the School of ComputerScience of McGill University, Montreal, where she leads the distributed information systems lab. She holds a PhD degrees in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on large-scale distributed data management with a main focus on adaptive data processing and data dissemination. Bettina has published over 80 publications in the major journals and conferences in the areas of database and distributed systems as well as served as General Chair, area program chair and PC member of the major conferences such as IEEE ICDE, IEEE ICDCS, ACM Middleware, IEEE SRDS, ACM SIGMOD etc. She received the 10-year Test-of-Time Paper award at VLDB 2010. Bettina is area editor of Elsevier Information Systems and a senior member of IEEE.
Daniel E. Lucani is an Associate Professor in the department of Electronic Systems, University of Aalborg, Denmark and the CEO and co-founder of Chocolate Cloud ApS, a start-up focused on developing and deploying distributed storage solutions using erasure codes. Dr. Lucani is a Senior Member of IEEE and he is the recipient of the IEEE ComSoc 2015 Outstanding Young Researcher Award for the EMEA region, Aalborg University's Talent Management Award in 2016, and a Best Paper Award in ISWCS 2016. Dr. Lucani has authored over 130 Journal and Conference papers and 7 patents focused on network coding. His research interests lie in the general areas of communications and networks, network coding, information theory and their applications to communication networks and distributed storage, focusing on issues of robustness, reliability, delay, energy, and resource allocation. Dr. Lucani received his B.S. (summa cum laude) and M.S. (with honors) degrees in Electronics Engineering from Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela in 2005 and 2006, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2010. He was the general co-chair of the Network Coding Applications and Protocols Workshop (NC-Pro 2011) and was the general co-chair of the 2014 International Symposium on Network Coding. Dr. Lucani has also served as reviewer for high impact international journals and conferences, such as, the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.
Jesus Carretero is a Full Professor of Computer Architecture and Technology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), where he is responsible for that knowledge area since 2000.
His research activity is centred on high-performance computing systems, large-scale distributed systems and real-time systems. He is Action Chair of the IC1305 COST Action "Network for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing Systems (NESUS)", and he is also currently involved in the FP7 program REPARA "Reengineering and Enabling Performance And poweR of Applications" and RePHRASE, Refactoring Parallel Heterogeneous Resource-Aware Applications - a Software Engineering Approach. He has participated and leaded several national and international research projects in these areas, founded by Madrid Regional Government, Spanish Education Ministry and the European union.
Prof. Carretero more than 230 papers in journals and international conferences, editor of several books of proceedings, and guest editor for special issues of journals as International Journal of Parallel Processing, Cluster Computing, Computers and Electrical Engineering, Journal of Supercomputing, and New Generation Computing. He is also co-author of several text books related to Operating Systems and Computer Architecture. He has participated in many conference organization committees, and he has been General chair of HPCC 2011 and MUE 2012, Program Chair of ISPA 2012, EuroMPI 2013, C4Bio 2014, and ESAA 2014, and Finantial Chair of CCGRID 2016.
Prof. Carretero is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and member of the ACM.
Christian Cachin is a cryptographer and computer scientist interested in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols, and security, working at IBM Research - Zurich. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and has held visiting positions at MIT and at EPFL. An IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, and recipient of multiple IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, he has co-authored a textbook on distributed computing titled "Introduction to Reliable and Secure
Distributed Programming". Currently he serves as the President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). In addition to many cryptographic protocols that he has developed, particularly for achieving consensus and for executing distributed cryptographic operations over the Internet, he has also contributed to standards in storage security and key management. His current research addresses blockchains, the security of cloud computing, secure protocols for distributed systems, and cryptography.
Michele Catasta is a research scientist and lecturer in Data Science at EPFL, Switzerland. During his PhD (EPFL, 2015), he let human memories and information systems have their first dance. To make this debut happen, he added new bells and whistles (human computation, machine learning, psychology) to his original researcher hat (big data analytics, information retrieval, semantic technologies). Michele was in the founding team of Sindice.com, the largest Semantic Web search engine (now SIREn Solutions). He also worked for MIT Media Lab, Google and Yahoo Labs. In the past years, he received several awards and recognitions - among them, a focused grant from Samsung Research USA.
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