Summer School on Internet of Things 2016

Carlo Alberto Boano (opens in new tab) is an assistant professor at the Institute for Technical Informatics of Graz University of Technology, Austria. He received a doctoral degree with distinction from TU Graz in 2014, with a thesis on dependable wireless sensor networks. Before joining TU Graz, he was researcher at the University of Lübeck, Germany (2009-2013) and at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden (2008-2009). Carlo Alberto’s current research interests encompass the design of dependable networked embedded systems, with emphasis on the energy-efficiency and reliability of low-power wireless communications, as well as on the robustness of IoT protocols against environmental influences.

Gerd Kortuem (opens in new tab) is professor of Computing at the Open University the UK and deputy director of the smart city project MK:Smart (opens in new tab). His research focuses on the design of connected services—in particular, in the context of energy and mobility. Most recently, he has been exploring data-driven design methods for the Internet of Things for incorporating sensor data about people’s behaviors and practices into the design process. Before joining academia, Gerd worked as software developer for IBM and Apple.

Dimitrious Lymberopolous (opens in new tab) is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. His work focuses on low power sensing architectures, indoor location technologies and mobile context sensing for web search services. Since 2014 he has been organizing the Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition, a prime venue where academia and industry come together to benchmark the latest indoor location technologies. Dimitrios received his Ph.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering department at Yale University in 2008, where he designed and implemented wireless sensor networks for privacy-preserving, in-home elderly care monitoring.

Denis is the threat expert of Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab. He is a permanent speaker at international security conferences and specialized in threat researches.

Denis gained diverse experience while working in the information security area. He was engaged in penetration testing and security audit of corporate web-apps, stress testing information and banking systems for DDoS-attacks resistance, and he took part in the organization and produce of the international forum on practical security issue. He had time to look at the industry from the defending side perspective and provided information protection of energy facilities (integration and administration information security systems).

Denis graduated from National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Information Security Faculty. He continues research in the DDoS protection in postgraduate of MEPhI.

Luca Mottola (opens in new tab) is an associate professor at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and a senior researcher at SICS Swedish ICT. He completed his Ph.D. at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2008. His research interests focus on modern networked embedded systems, with the current focus on the Internet of Things, Cyberphysical Systems, Drone Sensor Networks, and Low-power Wireless Sensing. His research recently earned him the Google Faculty Award, he was listed amongst Postscapes “Internet of Things Top 100 Thinkers,” and he was also awarded the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award, the MIT TR Italia Young Innovator Award, the EWSN/CONET European Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, the Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2011, and the Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2009. Luca routinely serves on the program committees of top conferences such as ACM SENSYS, ACM/IEEE IPSN, IEEE ICDCS, EWSN, and IEEE INFOCOM. He was PC co-chair for IEEE DCOSS 2015.

Thomas Ploetz (opens in new tab) is a Computer Scientist with expertise and almost 15 years experience in Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning research (PhD from Bielefeld University, Germany). His research agenda focuses on applied machine learning, that is developing systems and innovative sensor data analysis methods for real world applications. Primary application domain for his work is computational behaviour analysis where he develops methods for automated and objective behaviour assessments in naturalistic environments. Main driving functions for his work are “in the wild” deployments and as such the development of systems and methods that have a real impact on people’s lives.

Thomas works at the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where he holds a Senior Lectureship (Assoc. Prof.) for “Context Aware Computing”. He is affiliated with Open Lab, Newcastle’s interdisciplinary research centre for cross-disciplinary research in digital technologies. Within Open Lab he leads the machine learning and ubiquitous computing research team — a group of 15 researchers (PhD students and postdoctorate research associates) who specifically work on applied machine learning projects primarily related to computational behaviour assessments within the wider ubicomp and wearables field.

Atul Prakash (opens in new tab) is Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Division at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1982, M.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1984 and Ph.D. in EECS from University of California, Berkeley in 1989. His research is in the area of security and privacy of computer systems. His recent work has been analyzing the security of mobile operating systems and emerging Internet of Things programming environments and designing mechanisms to improve their security. He has served as Director of the Software Systems Lab in EECS at the University of Michigan. He also led the creation of the new Data Science undergraduate program at the University of Michigan. You can find more information about his research and teaching on the EECS website (opens in new tab).

Claire Rowland (opens in new tab) is an independent UX and product consultant specializing in the Internet of Things. She has a particular interest in taking connected products from an early adopter user base to the mass market, and technologies that support mundane, everyday activities. Before becoming independent, she worked on energy management and home automation products as the service design manager for AlertMe.com (opens in new tab), a connected home platform provider. Previously, she was head of research for design consultancy Fjord, where she led EU-funded R&D work investigating the inter-usability of interconnected embedded devices. She has worked in UX design and research for mobile, multiplatform, and web services since 1997.

Alberto Sillitti, Ph.D., PEng is Full Professor of Software Engineering at the Innopolis University (Russian Federation) where he is also the director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab. He holds a PhD in Electronics and Computer Engineering received from the University of Genoa (Italy) in 2005. From 2005 to 2010 he has been Assistant Professor and from 2010 to 2015 Associate Professor at the Free University of Bolzano (Italy).

Alberto Sillitti has been involved in several EU funded projects related to Open Source Software, Service-Oriented Architectures, Agile Methods, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Mobile and Embedded Systems in which he applies non-invasive measurement approaches. He has served as member of the program committee of several international conferences and as program chair of the International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2007) and International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP 2010 and XP 2011). He is one of the founders of the International Conference in Software Engineering for Defense Applications (SEDA) for which served as program chair in 2012, 2013, and 2014. He has been the director of the International CASE Summer School on Practical Experimentation in Software Engineering from 2011 to 2014.

Alberto Sillitti serves in a few scientific associations: vice-chairman of the IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Systems for which he served as chairman from 2012 to 2015; founding member of the Italian Association for Software Engineering (founded in 2013); founding member of the Defense & Security Software Engineers Association (funded in 2015) where he serves as vice-chairman of the Research and Innovation Working Group; member of the board of the International Chapter of AICA (Italian Association for Computer Science and Automated Computation).

His research areas include open source development, agile methods, empirical software engineering, non-invasive measurement, software quality, cyber-physical systems, mobile and web services. In the last few years he has focused on mobile and energy-aware software development and quality for cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things. He is author of more than 150 papers published in international conferences and journals.