Professor Diomidis Spinellis is a renowned academic in Software Technology at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). He specializes in software engineering practices, code quality, AI ethics, and system architecture. His work bridges theoretical advancements with practical applications in industry, emphasizing reproducibility and empirical methods. Recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's prestigious 'Distinguished Contributor Recognition,' Spinellis is the sole Greek scientist to achieve this honor. His research spans software evolution, security, and open-source ecosystems, with a focus on methodologies like refactoring, static analysis, and debugging strategies. Key research interests include AI-generated content detection, modular data analytics, and incident management systems. His studies often leverage large-scale datasets (e.g., Unix evolution, Linux supercomputing analysis) to uncover patterns in software behavior and development practices. Publications frequently address emerging technologies' societal impacts, such as energy-efficient computing and ethical AI deployment. He advocates for reproducible research through tools like the Alexandria3k framework and contributes to open-source initiatives.
Dipo Dunsin serves as Lecturer in Computer Science & Applied Computing at London Metropolitan University, where he also manages the University's Digital Forensics Laboratory. His research develops innovative frameworks for malware investigation and cyber incident response. Dunsin's work applies reinforcement learning to automate threat analysis and evidence extraction, with recent focus on IoT forensics and dark web criminal activities. He creates specialized protocols like D2WFP for analyzing deep/dark web browsing and hybrid methods for detecting steganographic evidence in audio files.
Maurice E. Dawson is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education (C²SAFE) at Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Computing. He holds multiple advanced degrees, including a Ph.D. in Cybersecurity from London Metropolitan University and a Postdoc in Information Science from Universidade Fernando Pessoa. His research focuses on software assurance, IoT security, and critical infrastructure protection, with over 150 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. Affiliations: Illinois Tech, Fulbright Specialist Program, IEEE Senior Member Grants: Over $100K in grants from U.S. State Department, USAID, and others for cybersecurity initiatives in Africa and the Middle East. Research Interests: Explores hyperconnectivity risks, dark web extremism, and cross-border cybersecurity collaboration. His work bridges academic research with practical applications in developing nations, focusing on IT training and infrastructure resilience. Awards & Recognition: Recipient of Teaching Excellence Awards (2019, 2021), Fulbright Specialist grants (Botswana, Saudi Arabia), and volunteer service medals. Media engagements include ABC7 Chicago and Illinois Public Media for cybersecurity commentary. Advising & Grants: Supervised multiple USAID-funded ICT projects in Senegal and Guinea, training local agricultural and tech professionals. Served on advisory boards for CTU and VIU, and editorships for journals like International Journal of Hyperconnectivity and IoT . Labs & Teams: Leads C²SAFE lab at Illinois Tech, specializing in incident response, digital forensics, and AI-driven security solutions. Collaborates with international institutions on cybersecurity education frameworks.
Orran Krieger is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He serves as the Founding Director of the Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI) and Resident Fellow of the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. His work focuses on cloud computing infrastructure, operating systems, and virtualization technologies. Prior roles include leading the Advanced Operating System Research Department at IBM T.J. Watson and contributing to VMware's vCloud initiatives. Education: PhD and MASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Research interests include cloud resource management, unikernel-based systems, security in distributed environments, and performance optimization. His leadership in the Massachusetts Open Cloud project and Open Cloud Testbed (OCT) demonstrates expertise in scalable cloud platforms. Key contributions span innovations in OS design (e.g., EbbRT framework), cloud marketplace architectures, and hardware-as-a-service models. His research bridges theoretical advancements with practical implementations in modern data centers.
Mario Alviano is a Full Professor in Computer Science (INF/01) at the University of Calabria, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He leads the LAIA lab (Laboratorio di Applicazioni dell'Intelligenza Artificiale) and serves as co-PI in the PRIN project PRODE ('Probabilistic Declarative Process Mining'). Current projects: FAIR ('Future AI Research'), Tech4You ('Technologies for climate change adaptation'), SERICS ('SEcurity and RIghts in the CyberSpace'), CAL.HUB.RIA , RADIOAMICA , and STROKE 5.0 His research focuses on Answer Set Programming (ASP), particularly in optimization, nonmonotonic reasoning, and applications to logistics, healthcare, and cybersecurity. He has authored over 120 publications in top venues like AIJ, AAAI, and IJCAI. Recent academic contributions includes work on: Temporal Many-valued Conditional Logics Weighted Knowledge Bases with Typicality Explainable AI via xASP and ASP Chef Defeasible Reasoning Scalability Notable awards: Artificial Intelligence Award 'Marco Somalvico' (2017) ICLP Best Paper Awards (2015, 2016) LPNMR Best Paper Award (2022) CILC Best Paper Award (2023)
Rebecca Ciota serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor and Systems and Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder Law School, where she operates within the Wise Law Library in the Wolf Law Building. Her responsibilities encompass technology infrastructure management, digital initiatives, and comprehensive library functions including instruction, lending operations, digital projects, Special Collections curation, and acquisitions. Her academic foundation includes: Master of Science (MS) from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Oberlin College Professor Ciota specializes in Library Systems architecture and Digital Asset Management workflows, with deep technical proficiency in Linux environments and Drupal CMS implementation. Her expertise extends to modernizing academic library services through digital preservation methodologies and Special Collections management systems, directly supporting legal research infrastructure within the law school context. No scientific awards or major professional honors are documented in the available information. There is no indication of graduate student advising responsibilities or externally funded research grants in the provided materials. Her operational focus remains centered within the Wise Law Library's technology division, with no additional research laboratories or specialized project teams referenced in the source text.
Christoph Egger is an Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, where he works with the Security & Privacy Lab and the Crypto Team. Prior to this position, he was a Marie-Curie Fellow at Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondamentale (IRIF) from fall 2022 to 2024, researching connections between cryptography and complexity theory. His educational background includes: PhD: "On Abstraction and Modularization in Protocol Analysis" Master's: "An implementation of global caching for the alternation-free coalgebraic μ-calculus" Bachelor's: "Analysing and attacking the I2P Network Database" Dr. Egger's research focuses on cryptography and its connections to computational complexity, statistical privacy, and formal methods. His work spans multiple areas including cryptographic foundations (random oracles, key agreement protocols), privacy-enhancing technologies (ring signatures, information flow techniques), and practical applications in genomic data security. He develops both theoretical frameworks and practical tools like CryptoZoo for cryptographic proof visualization, bridging the gap between theoretical cryptography and real-world security challenges. His recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on cryptographic foundations and privacy technologies, with significant contributions to ring signatures, key agreement protocols, and genomic data security. His work bridges theoretical cryptography with practical applications in blockchain, anonymous communications, and healthcare data management, showing consistent productivity across multiple high-impact venues in security and privacy. Dr. Egger has served on program committees for prestigious conferences including IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), and Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS). He currently advises PhD students Lucia Lavagnino at Chalmers and Kirthivaasan Puniamurthy at Aalto University. Previously, he advised Master's students including Julian Brost and Kirthivaasan Puniamurthy. His Marie-Curie Fellowship was cofunded by EU H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action and FSMP Comunity Service. Dr. Egger is an active member of the Security & Privacy Lab and Crypto Team at Chalmers. He is also a founding member of the FAUST CTF team and has been a Debian Developer for over a decade, contributing to various Free Software projects including the Linux kernel and Git version control system, demonstrating his commitment to both academic research and practical software security.
Prof. Dr. Erika Graf is a Professor for International Business Administration at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Business and Law. She serves as Director of Internationalisation Strategy for the faculty and has held academic roles since 2011. Her professional background includes senior consulting roles in the service industry, marketing management in global corporations, and teaching in institutions like the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz. Education: Bachelor in Marketing Management (University of Applied Sciences, Mainz), Master in International Business (Pace University, USA), PhD from NIMBAS University (Netherlands) and University of Bradford (UK). Research focuses on sustainability marketing, cross-cultural marketing in social media, international marketing strategies, and marketing productivity. She has collaborated with universities and businesses on studies involving customer loyalty, CRM systems, and technology adoption in various industries. Her work spans academic publications and practical consulting, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to business challenges. Her published works explore topics such as sustainability in HR recruitment, market entry strategies (e.g., Lidl in Finland), and digital marketing tools for SMEs. She actively engages in academic conferences and is a member of the American Marketing Association and Marketing Club Frankfurt. Her teaching spans courses in Marketing, International Strategic Management, and Sustainability, delivered in English. She advises students and collaborates on interdisciplinary initiatives, emphasizing global business practices and ethical considerations.
Iyán Méndez Veiga is a Research Associate and Doctoral Student at the Lucerne School of Computer Science and Information Technology, part of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). Their research focuses on quantum cryptography, post-quantum security protocols, and privacy amplification. They have conducted studies on adversarial wiretap channels and reproducible builds in open-source systems like Arch Linux. Education includes a BSc in Physics from the University of Oviedo, Spain, and an MSc in Physics from Ulm University, Germany. Their work bridges theoretical cryptography with practical implementations, such as developing the randextract library for validating privacy amplification algorithms. Key projects include quantum-safe hardware security modules, implications of post-quantum cryptography on certificate management, and quantum cryptography in practice. Presentations emphasize topics like quantum hardware verification and secure communication protocols. Collaborations with institutions like the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland highlight their applied research focus.
Adam Bates is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with affiliations in the Department of Computer Science and the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. His research focuses on data provenance, cybersecurity, and secure system design. He received his PhD from the University of Florida under Professor Kevin Butler, collaborating with the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research. His work addresses security challenges in SSL/TLS, cloud computing, USB attack vectors, and telephony infrastructure, with notable contributions to provenance-aware systems. Education: PhD in Computer Science (University of Florida, advised by Kevin Butler) Research Interests: Secure data provenance systems Endpoint detection and response Privacy in smart homes and IoT Serverless computing security USB and cloud security Scientific Awards: NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Award (2017) NSF CAREER Award (2018) Labs & Teams: Principal Investigator at the STS Lab
Haakon Bryhni is a Research Professor at Simula Research Laboratory's Center for Resilient Networks and Applications, focusing on telecommunications infrastructure and network resilience. His work spans optical fiber sensing, Cloud-RAN architecture, 5G networks, and network security. Expertise in telecommunications and network infrastructure Contributions to optical fiber sensing and AI-driven network outage classification Active in public outreach and policy analysis for ICT resilience Recent research explores Sagnac loop sensing systems , Cloud-RAN integration , and cybersecurity preparedness in Norway. Collaborations include international conferences and publications in Optics & Laser Technology , Sensors , and IEEE journals. Contact: haakonbryhni@simula.no
Brian Fitzgerald holds the Frederick A Krehbiel II Chair in Innovation in Business and Technology at the University of Limerick and serves as Director of Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre. He is a globally recognized leader in software engineering and information systems research with significant contributions to open source, agile methodologies, and global software development. His research interests focus on software development methodologies, particularly in open source, inner source, crowdsourcing, agile, lean, BizDevOps, and continuous software engineering. Fitzgerald's work bridges theoretical foundations with practical applications in global software engineering contexts. The trends in his recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on empirical studies of software development practices, with increasing attention to large language models, community dynamics in open source, and scaling agile methodologies in enterprise environments. His research spans both theoretical frameworks and practical applications across multiple software development domains. AIS Fellow award recipient LEO Award for outstanding lifetime contribution to the IS discipline (2024) President of the Association for Information Systems (2020) Fitzgerald has secured over €115 million in peer-reviewed research funding, including a notable €6 million project with Huawei. He serves as General Chair for major conferences including the 49th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) in Dublin 2027 and previously chaired the 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in 2016. His leadership extends to directing Lero, Ireland's national software research center that coordinates researchers across nine third-level institutions. As Director of Lero, Fitzgerald oversees a major research center focused on critical software domains including driverless cars, automation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. His work connects academic research with industry applications through collaborations with major technology companies and government initiatives.
Prof. Tegawendé F. Bissyandé is a Chief Scientist in the Professor category at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg. He holds the prestigious position of ERC Fellow and serves as Principal Investigator of the NATURAL project focused on Artificial Intelligence for Program Repair. His research spans software engineering, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on applying machine learning techniques to software development and security challenges. Dr. Bissyandé's research interests include: Software Debugging (especially bug localization and program repair) Software Security (especially malware detection and analysis) Code Search (both free-form and semantic code-to-code) Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for software engineering Cyber-security applications in mobile and cloud environments His recent work demonstrates a strong focus on leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for various software engineering tasks. Analysis of his 15 most recent publications reveals several key trends: extensive application of LLMs to program repair and code generation; innovative approaches to Android security and malware detection; development of novel techniques for code search and understanding; and exploration of the intersection between natural language processing and software engineering. His research increasingly bridges theoretical software engineering with practical applications in mobile security and developer productivity tools, with a significant portion of his work focusing on Android ecosystem security and program repair technologies. Dr. Bissyandé has received numerous prestigious awards throughout his career: APSEC Best ERA Paper Award (2018) for 'LSRepair: Live Search of Fix Ingredients for Automated Program Repair' IPSJ SIG SE Excellent Research Award (2018) for 'FaCOY: a Code-to-Code Search Engine' FOSS Impact Paper Award (2018) for 'Characterizing Deprecated Android APIs' SANER Best ERA Paper Award (2016) for 'Parameter Values of Android APIs: A Preliminary Study on 100,000 Apps' ASE Best Paper Award (2012) for 'Diagnosys: automatic generation of a debugging interface to the Linux kernel' As an active member of the software engineering research community, Dr. Bissyandé serves on program committees for major conferences including ICSE, ASE, and ISSTA, and has been an Area Chair for ICSE 2024. His industry partnerships include significant collaborations with BGL BNP Paribas (since January 2019), Luxembourg Stock Exchange (since January 2018), and Paul Wurth (January 2015 to 2018), demonstrating the practical impact of his research. He leads the SerVAL lab at SnT, which focuses on software validation and analysis, with particular expertise in mobile security and program repair technologies, and actively mentors PhD candidates through FNR research grants.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Keller serves as Vice Dean of the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences. He concurrently holds Laboratory Management roles for both the Operating Systems Laboratory and Information Technology Laboratory, coordinates the Applied Computer Science (Master) program, and serves on the Environmental Committee for his school. His academic journey includes a Doctorate in Engineering (with distinction), Research Associate and Group Leader positions at HLRS, University of Stuttgart (leading the 9-member "Applications, Models and Tools" group), PostDoc tenure at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and prior appointments at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences. Keller's research centers on operating systems, distributed systems, and HPC with specialized expertise in Linux-based parallel programming tools and file I/O optimization. His work bridges theoretical system models with practical performance tuning, particularly in high-performance computing environments where syscall tracing and storage optimization are critical. Recent publications reveal consistent focus on system-level performance analysis, evolving from foundational file I/O profiling (2020) to advanced syscall tracing mechanisms (2022) and forward-looking access optimization frameworks (2025). These works demonstrate applied research in Linux ecosystems with direct relevance to HPC infrastructure. As Program Coordinator for the Applied Computer Science (Master) program and laboratory manager for two key facilities, he oversees academic development and hands-on technical training. His consultation hours (Tuesdays 1-2 PM by appointment) support student engagement in systems research. He actively contributes to national HPC infrastructure as a Member of the State User Committee (LNA) bwHPC, influencing regional high-performance computing strategies while maintaining his laboratory management responsibilities at Esslingen.
Martin Pirker serves as a Professor and Senior Researcher at the Institute of IT Security Research within the Department of Computer Science and Security at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria. His academic profile demonstrates extensive expertise in IT security, trusted computing, and blockchain technologies, with a particular focus on Trusted Platform Modules, boot integrity, and secure systems development. His research interests span multiple critical areas of modern cybersecurity including Trusted Computing, blockchain-based security solutions, boot integrity verification, secure system design, privacy-preserving technologies, and information security auditing. Dr. Pirker's work consistently addresses practical security challenges in contemporary computing environments, with numerous publications exploring the intersection of hardware security, software implementation, and cryptographic verification mechanisms. His recent publications reveal a strong focus on blockchain applications for security auditing, Trusted Platform Module implementations, and secure boot processes. The research trends show progression from foundational trusted computing work toward more distributed security solutions using blockchain technology and addressing emerging challenges in AI security. His publications demonstrate consistent contributions to major security conferences including ARES (International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security) and ICISSP (International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy). Dr. Pirker leads or participates in several significant research projects including the Josef Ressel Center for Blockchain-Technologies & Security Management, Josef Ressel Center for Unified Threat Intelligence on Targeted Attacks (TARGET), RPM- Rusted Plattform Module, and E³UDRES² Ent-r-e-novators. These projects reflect his commitment to addressing real-world security challenges through collaborative research initiatives. He actively contributes to the academic community through teaching in the IT Security (BA) and Cyber Security and Resilience (MA) programs at St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. His work bridges theoretical security concepts with practical implementation challenges, making significant contributions to the field of applied cybersecurity research.
