Program Committee

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Víctor Méndez Muñoz
IUL, S.A. & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB
Spain

Brief Bio
Dr. Víctor Méndez Muñoz has a main background in big data management and distributed systems. He participated in scientific international projects in physics and bioinformatics like AGATA, LHCb, ENRM and EISCAT, collaborating with several more. Currently, he is Head of Software Development at Mind the Byte, a bioinformatics company specializing in computational drug discovery using a pay-per-use SaaS platform (Software as a Service). He also works in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) as a part time professor. He holds the program chair in INSTICC conferences in the fields of cloud computing, big data, complexity and the internet of things, as well as editorial collaboration in some journals of high impact. ... More >>

Farshad Firouzi
IMEC/Katholieke Univ. Leuven
Germany

Brief Bio
is a senior researcher and program manager at MSG Systems AG, Germany working in the fields of statistics, machine learning, neuromorphic computing, IoT, Big Data, and eHealth. Prior to joining MSG Systems, he was senior scientist at KU Leuven, KIT, SRC, and SI LAB. Dr. Firouzi is the author of more than 40 journals and conference papers. He has served as reviewer (e.g. IEEE Transactions on VLSI, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and System, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Elsevier Microelectronics Reliability, Elsevier Microelectronics, etc.), managing guest editor (e.g. TVLSI, FGCS, TCAD), Program Chair (e.g., Complexis) and program committee member in several conferences (e.g. ICCAD, ATS, etc.). ... More >>

Ernesto Estrada
University of Strathclyde
United Kingdom

Brief Bio
Professor Estrada has an internationally leading reputation for shaping and developing the study of complex networks. His expertise ranges in the areas of network structure, algebraic network theory, dynamical systems on networks and the study of random models of networks. He has a distinguished track record of high-quality publications, which has attracted more than 8,000 citations. His h-index (number of papers with at least h citations) is 51. His publications are in the areas of network theory and its applications to social, ecological, engineering, physical, chemical and biological real-world problems. Professor Estrada has published two text books on network sciences both published by Oxford University Press in 2011 and 2015, respectively. He has demonstrated a continuous international leadership in his field where he has been invited and plenary speaker at the major conferences in network sciences and applied mathematics. ... More >>

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Enrique Abad, University of Extremadura, Spain
Hany Ammar, West Virginia University, United States
Tomaso Aste, University College London, United Kingdom
Franco Bagnoli, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Daniele Barettin, Unicusano - University Nicolò Cusano Rome, Italy
Mohamed Batouche, Université Constantine 2 - Abdelhamid Mehri, Algeria
Matteo Beccaria, Università del Salento, Italy
Christophe Berenguer, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Gilles Bernot, Université Côte d'Azur, France
Ginestra Bianconi, Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL), United Kingdom
Vincenza Carchiolo, Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
Guoqian Chen, Peking University, China
Richard Clegg, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Carmen-Eugenia Costea, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Martin Crane, Dublin City University, Ireland
Regino Criado, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Jean-Charles Delvenne, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Bayram Deviren, Nevsehir University, Turkey
Francesco Di Maio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Craig Douglas, University of Wyoming, United States
Duccio Fanelli, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Bahar Farahani, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Jianxi Gao, Northeastern University, United States
Didier Georges, Grenoble Institute of Technology - Grenoble INP, France
Guido Germano, University Colllege London, United Kingdom
Adrian Gligor, University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Sciences and Technology "George Emil Palade" of Targu Mures, Romania
Jesus Gomez-Gardenes, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Alex Graudenzi, Univ. of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
Jean-Loup Guillaume, Université de la Rochelle, France
Abraham E. Gutiérrez, INRA, France
Chris Hankin, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Fred Hasselman, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Yurij Holovatch, Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, National Acad. Sci. of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine
Edward Huang, George Mason University, United States
Christopher Hudson, Salem State University, United States
Sabir Jacquir, Université de Bourgogne-Franche Comté, France
Rushed Kanawati, LIPN CNRS UMR 7030, France
Hyoungshick Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, Republic of
Igor Kotenko, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS), Russian Federation
Tao Li, Nankai University, China
Adolfo Lopez-Paredes, Independent Researcher, Spain
Krzysztof Malarz, AGH University of Kraków, Poland
Massimo Marchiori, University of Padua, Italy
Alexandre Martinez, Independent Researcher, Brazil
Matus Medo, Fribourg University, Switzerland
Eunika Mercier-Laurent, University Lyon3, France
Paolo Moretti, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
A. M. Ozbayoglu, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey
Arka Pandit, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Fragkiskos Papadopoulos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Ben Parker, Mathematically Speaking Ltd, United Kingdom
Faustino Prieto, University of Cantabria, Spain
Francisco Prieto-Castrillo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Denise Pumain, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Derek Raine, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Martín G. Ravetti, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Grzegorz Redlarski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Francesca Saglietti, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Antonio Scala, Institute for Complex Systems (ISC), CNR, Universita` degli Studi "La Sapienza", Italy
Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Seung-Woo Son, Hanyang University, KOREA, Korea, Republic of
Samir Suweis, University of Padova, Italy
Bosiljka Tadic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle, INAOE, Mexico
Imre Varga, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Sandro Wimberger, Parma University, Italy
Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, United States
Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK), United States
Soon-Hyung Yook, Kyung Hee University, Korea, Republic of
Massimiliano Zanin, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC-CSIC, Spain
Dmitry Zinoviev, Suffolk University, United States
Vinko Zlatic, Ruder Boškovic Institute, Croatia

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