Prof. Yannis Ioannidis
ACM President
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Yannis Ioannidis is the President of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecom of the University of Athens as well as an Associated Faculty at the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center, where he also served as the President and General Director for 10 years. His research interests include Database and Information Systems, Data Science, Data Infrastructures and Digital Repositories, Recommender Systems and Personalization, and Interactive Digital Storytelling, topics on which he has published over 180 articles in leading journals and conferences and holds four patents.
His work is often inspired by and applied to data management and analysis problems that arise in industrial environments or in the context of other scientific fields (Social Sciences and Humanities, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences) and the Arts. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow, a member of Academia Europaea, and a recipient of several research, teaching, and service awards. He is a co-founder of OpenAIRE, the international data infrastructure for Open Science in Europe, the technology director of the EBRAINS European Research Infrastructure on neuroscience, the coordinator of the implementation of the EU Node of the European Open Science Cloud, as well as of several AI/data-driven spin-offs. He is also a co-chair of the Global Climate Hub of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
Prof. John Shawe-Taylor
IRCAI | International Research Centre On Artificial Intelligence – Director
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John Shawe-Taylor obtained a PhD in Mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London in 1986. He subsequently completed an MSc in the Foundations of Advanced Information Technology at Imperial College. He was promoted to Professor of Computing Science in 1996. He moved to the University of Southampton in 2003 to lead the ISIS research group. He was the Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College, London from July 2006 till September 2010. From September 2010 till June 2019, he was been the Head of Department of Computer Science at UCL. He was appointed UNESCO Chair of Artificial Intelligence at UCL in 2018. He is Director of the International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) under the auspices of UNESCO at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Prof. Bashar Nuseibeh
Head, Software Engineering and Design,
Open University, UK
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Bashar Nuseibeh is Professor of Computing at The Open University and Research Pillar Chair of the UK’s Responsible AI programme (RAi UK). Previously, he was an Associate Professor (Reader) at Imperial College London, and a Full Professor of Software Engineering and Chief Scientist of Lero – Ireland’s national centre for software research. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor of Software & Systems at Trinity College Dublin, an Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL), and a visiting professor at NII (Japan) and UCD (Ireland).
Bashar’s research lies at the intersection of software engineering, adaptive systems, and security & privacy. His work also addresses physical and psychosocial aspects of technology. He is the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant on Adaptive Security and Privacy, and an ERC Proof of Concept grant that contributed to the commercialisation of his patented innovations.
Bashar is a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering and the ACM, and is a Member of Academia Europaea and the Royal Irish Academy.
Dr. Agiatis Bernardou
DARIAH Director
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Agiatis Benardou is President of the Board of Directors of DARIAH-eu, the European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, Teaching Fellow at the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business and Senior Researcher at the Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C. She has held posts as Research Associate at the Departments of Information Science and Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California Berkeley. Agiatis has served as Teaching Fellow in Digital Curation at the Department of Media and Culture, Panteion University, and she is co-ordinating the core course on Applications of Digital Methods in the Humanities at the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business. She holds a PhD in Ancient History from King’s College London.
Prof. Francesco Saverio Cataliotti
University of Florence/CNR-INO
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Francesco Saverio Cataliotti is director of the National Institute of Optics of the National Research Council (CNR). His research interests focus primarily on experimental work, conducted between the European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) at the University of Florence, the Max Planck Institute for Quantitative Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany, and the Quantum Information Laboratory at the Scuola Superiore dell’Università di Catania. His work concerns the physics of atoms and their interactions with laser radiation, with broad perspectives ranging from quantum computing to the mechanical manipulation of single biomolecules to advanced sensing.
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