Erol Gelenbe

Prof. Erol Gelenbe, FIEEE'86, FACM'01, FIFIP'19, FRSS'20 is Professor in the Institute of Theoretical & Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences since 2017, and currently leads research on Cybersecurity & Performance Analysis, funded by the EU Horizon DOSS Project. Awarded the ACM SIGMETRICS 2008 Life-Time Award for pioneering theoretical and experimental work on computer and network system performance, Erol graduated from the Middle East Technical University (Ankara), holds a PhD from New York University (1970) and the Doctor of Science Degree from Sorbonne University (1973) in Paris. He was elected Fellow of the French Nanational Academy of Technologies, Foreign Fellow of the National Science Academies of Belgium and Poland, Fellow of the Turkish Science Academy, and Honorary Fellow of the Science Academy of Hungary and of the Islamic Academy of Sciences, he has received three "honoris causa" doctorates from the University of Roma II (Italy) in 1996, Bogazici University, Istanbul (Turkey) in 2004, and the University of Liege (Belgium) in 2006. Recipient of scientific prizes in France, Turkey, US, UK, and Iran, he graduated 95 PhDs, and has held chaired professorships at leading institutions including Univ. of Liege (Belgium) in 1974-79, Univ. Paris-Saclay (France) in 1979-86, University Paris-Descartes (France) in 1986-1992, NJIT (USA) in 1992-93, Duke University (USA) in 1993-98, University of Central Florida (USA) in 1998-03, and Imperial College (UK) in 2003-20. Participating actively in EU Research Programs since 2003, including FP5, FP6, FP7, H2020, he was funded in the USA by NSF and ONR, and by EPSRC in the UK. He was awarded French honors of Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (2015) and Commandeur du Mérite (2019), Italy awarded him Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica (2005) and Grande Ufficiale della Stella d'Italia (2007), and Belgium Awarded him Commandeur de l'Ordre de la Couronne (2022). He recently received the Best Paper Awards at IEEE MASCOTS 2023 (Oct. 16, 2023) and IEEE Trustcom 2023 (Nov. 2, 2023).

Ioannis Pitas

Prof. Ioannis Pitas, IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow, received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of AUTH and Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) lab. He served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities. His current interests are in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, autonomous systems, intelligent digital media, image/video processing, human-centred computing, affective computing, 3D imaging and biomedical imaging. He has published over 970 papers, contributed to 46 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 15 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 23 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 5 international conferences. He delivered 129 keynote/invited speeches worldwide. He co-organized 38 conferences and participated in technical committees of 291 conferences. He participated in 75+ R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator in 47 such projects. He is the coordinator of the Horizon Europe R&D project TEMA, AUTH principal investigator in H2020 R&D projects Aerial Core, AI4Media one of the 4 H2020 ICT48 AI flagship projects and Horizon Europe R&D projects AI4Europe, SIMAR. He is chair of the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA). He was chair and initiator of the IEEE Autonomous Systems Initiative. He has 37300+ citations to his work and h-index 92+. According to research he is ranked first in Greece and 319 worldwide in the field of Computer Science (2022).

Bruno Tuffin

Prof. Bruno Tuffin received his PhD degree in applied mathematics from the University of Rennes 1, France, in 1997 and spent 8 months at Duke University. Since then, he has been with Inria in Rennes and is leading the Ermine team since 2022. His research interests include developing Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo simulation techniques for the performance evaluation of telecommunication systems and telecommunication-related economical models. Overall, he has published close to two hundred papers and has written or co-written four books: Rare Event Simulation using Monte Carlo Methods, John Wiley & Sons in 2009, La simulation Monte Carlo, Editions Hermès in 2010, Telecommunication Network Economics: From Theory to Applications published by Cambridge University Press in 2014 and From Net Neutrality to ICT Neutrality, Springer, 2022. He is currently Area Editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing and Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation and Queuing Systems.

Zonghua Zhang

Prof. Zonghua Zhang is working on secure and dependable digitalization of intelligent railway transportation. He was previously with Huawei Paris Research Center, where he led a team dedicated to building resilient and trustworthy autonomous driving networks (ADN) by developing robust, adaptive and generalized AI- enabled solutions. Before diving into the industry, Zonghua has spent nearly 16 years in academia at different institutions (Professor at IMT, Researcher at NICT, INRIA, JAIST, University of Waterloo). He holds an HDR diploma (UPMC, France) in computer science, and a Ph.D. Degree (JAIST, Japan) in information science. He has been actively working at the intersections of cyber security, networking, and applied machine learning. Zonghua has contributed, as either PI or key contributor, to more than a dozen national and international research projects, with the topics ranging from anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and network forensics, to trust management, and eventually to autonomic cyber defense. These research projects have led to the publication of 100+ research articles in well-recognized international journals and conferences.

Saadi Boudjit

Dr. Saadi Boudjit is Associate Professor (Maître de conferences - HDR) and member of the L2TI laboratory at the university Sorbonne Paris Nord. He is working on wireless ad hoc architectures and was involved in several national and international research projects (International project QNRF NPRP8-140-2-065, Paris region project THD, RIAM project SoundDelta, ANR project R2M, ... etc). He received his Ph.D degree in Computer Science from INRIA Paris and was a research fellow with Telecom ParisTech. Dr. Boudjit is the initiator and Co-chair of ACM MobileHealth workshop, which aims at providing a forum for the interaction of multiple areas related to pervasive wireless healthcare systems. He also acted or still acts as TPC member of several IFIP, ACM and IEEE conferences and workshops (HealthCom, MobileHealth, ICC, Globecom, CAMAD, WCNC, WONS, DCOSS, ...). His research interests include wireless networks, parallel and distributed computing, protocols and architecture design for mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs/UAVs), and eHealth systems.