Alexandra Poulovassilis is Professor of Computer Science at Birkbeck, University of London, as well as Co-Director of the London Knowledge Lab: a joint research collaboration between Birkbeck and the Institute

Zoran Obradovic is an Academician at the Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe) and a Foreign Academician at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a L.H. Carnell

Ahmed K. Elmagarmid is the Qatar Foundation’s inaugural executive director of the Qatar Computing Research Institute. Before joining Qatar Foundation, he was director of both the Indiana Center for Database

Professor Robert Kowalski studied at the University of Chicago, the University of Bridgeport, Stanford University, and the University of Warsaw, before completing his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in

Dr. Dimitra Giannakopoulou is a senior research scientist with the Robust Software Engineering Group at the NASA Ames Research Center. Her research focuses on scalable specification and verification techniques for

Maria Petrou studied Physics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Applied Mathematics in Cambridge and she did her Ph.D. in the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, from where she

Ivica Crnkovic is a professor of industrial software engineering at Mäardalen University where he is the administrative leader of the software engineering division and the scientific leader of the industrial

Dr Ricardo Baeza-Yates is VP of Yahoo! Research for Europe, Middle East and Latin America, leading the labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile, as well as supervising the newer

Claes Wohlin is Professor of Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. He has served as Pro Vice Chancellor for six years and Dean of Undergraduate and Graduate Education