July 24th to August 4th, 2017
Main Speakers:
Cláudio Silva
Cláudio Silva is a professor of computer science and engineering and data science at New York University. His primary research interests are in visualization, geometric computing, data science, sports analytics, and urban computing. He received a BS in mathematics from the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil) in 1990, and a PhD in computer science from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1996. He was also a postdoc in applied mathematics at Stony Brook in 1996-7.
He has held positions in academia and industry, including at AT&T, IBM, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, and the University of Utah. Cláudio has made contributions to visualization and graphics, notably in the areas of point-based modeling, surface reconstruction, isosurface generation, out-of-core and streaming techniques, visibility computations, volume rendering, and urban data visualization. Having participated in interdisciplinary projects, his work has had impact in multiple scientific domains. Cláudio has advised 15 PhD and 8 MS students, and mentored 6 post-doctoral associates; he currently advises over 8 PhD and MS students. He has published over 200 journal and conference papers, is an inventor of 12 US patents, and co-authored 12 papers that have received “Best Paper Awards” (including honorable mention) in visualization and geometric computing conferences. He has over 9,900 citations according to Google Scholar. He is an IEEE Fellow and was the recipient of the 2014 Visualization Technical Achievement Award “in recognition of seminal advances in geometric computing for visualization and for contributions to the development of the VisTrails data exploration system.”
Cláudio Silva is an active member of the research community, having participated in more than 100 IPC committees and served on the editorial boards of several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Big Data, ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, Computer Graphics Forum, The Visual Computer, Graphical Models, Computer and Graphics, Computing in Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. He has taken on various organizational roles, including serving as conference co-chair for IEEE VIS 2010, and paper co-chair for VIS 2005 and VIS 2006.
Cláudio has strong interest in bridging the gap between academia and industry, and he has contributed to large-scale technology projects. UV-CDAT, a novel climate data analysis tool that he helped built, won the 2015 Federal Laboratory Consortium Interagency Partnership Award. He is part of the research and development team for Major League Baseball (MLB) MLB.com’s Statcast player tracking system, which won the Alpha Award for Best Analytics Innovation/Technology at the 2015 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. In urban computing, he has made contributions to interactive data tools to analyze complex spatial-temporal urban data. TaxiVis, a tool developed in his group, is currently being used at the NYC Department of Transportation and the Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC). Cláudio’s research has been funded by NSF, DOE, NIH, DOD, AT&T, IBM, ExxonMobil, MLBAM, Moore Foundation, Sloan Foundation, LLNL, Sandia, Los Alamos, State of Utah, University of Utah, Center for Urban Science and Progress, and New York University.
Cristina V. Lopes
Crista Lopes is a professor in the School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to being in academia, she worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (1995-2001). She is co-inventor of AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming), a programming technology featured in the MIT Technology Review (2001) as “one of the 10 emergent technologies that will change the world.”
Along with her research program, she is also a prolific software developer. Her open source contributions include being one of the core developers of OpenSimulator, a virtual world server. She is also a founder of Encitra, a company specializing in online virtual reality for early-stage sustainable urban redevelopment projects.
She has a PhD from Northeastern University, and MS and BS degrees from Instituto Superior Tecnico in Portugal. She is the recipient of several National Science Foundation grants, including a prestigious CAREER Award. She ia an ACM Distinguished Scientist.
Gemma Guilera
Gemma Guilera is currently working at the Future Cities Catapult developing a variety of programmes for SMEs to provide them with the appropriate tools and network connections that enables them to transform the Future Cities market.
Prior to this, she has been a beamline scientist on the X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) beamline at ALBA Synchrotron in Barcelona. There, she has contributed to building the beamline from scratch and bringing it to user operation. During this period, she has also been deeply involved with the scientific user community worldwide to shape state-of-the-art experiments. In particular, she has been very active in the community of Environmental Catalysis, but she has also been very involved in other areas of research, such as Cultural Heritage, Electrochemistry and Solid-State physics.
Before that, she was at the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility) in Grenoble (France) working as a XAS beamline scientist, where she worked directly with automotive industries to develop new catalysts for car emission control. The successful work which arose from the collaboration with Toyota has been cited numerous times and has had press coverage in several media.
The interdisciplinary and international environment that she had the opportunity to experience equipped her with skills such as good communication and interpersonal skills, time and project management, quick problem-solving skills, basic technical knowledge on alienate disciplines, scientific and technical writing, among others.
She got a PhD in Organometallic Chemistry issued by King’s College London, where she won the Daniel’s Prize for the best first year PhD student. Before that, she did an MSc in Supramolecular Chemistry, and in particular, in Metal-based Coordination Polymers. She studied her BSc in Chemistry at the University of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain).
She already participated in a São Paulo School of Advanced Science in 2011.
Gene Tsudik
Gene Tsudik is a Chancellor’s Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from USC in 1991. Before coming to UCI in 2000, he was at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (1991-1996) and USC/ISI (1996-2000). Over the years, his research interests included many topics in security and applied cryptography. He is the Director of Secure Computing and Networking Center (SCONCE) at UCI. Gene Tsudik is a former Fulbright Scholar and a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. From 2009 to 2015 he served as the Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security (TISSEC).
Mischa Dohler
Mischa Dohler is full Professor in Wireless Communications at King’s College London, driving cross-disciplinary research and innovation in technology, sciences and arts. He is the Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research, co-founder of the pioneering smart city company Worldsensing, Fellow of the IEEE and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and a Distinguished Member of Harvard Square Leaders Excellence.
He is a frequent keynote, panel and tutorial speaker, and has received numerous awards. He has pioneered several research fields, contributed to numerous wireless broadband, IoT/M2M and cyber security standards, holds a dozen patents, organized and chaired numerous conferences, was the Editor-in-Chief of two journals, has more than 200 publications, and authored several books. He has a citation h-index of 47.
He acts as policy, technology and entrepreneurship adviser, examples being Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room, David Willetts’ 8 Great Technology Fund, Regulator Ofcom, UK Ministries, EPSRC ICT Strategy Advisory Team, European Commission, Tech London Ad vocate, ISO Smart City working group, and various start-ups.
He is also an entrepreneur, composer & pianist, and fluent in 6 languages. He has talked at TEDx. He had coverage by national and international TV & radio, and his contributions have featured on the BBC and the Wall Street Journal.
Nuria Oliver
Nuria Oliver is a computer scientist and Scientific Director at Telefónica. She holds a Ph.D. from the Media Lab at MIT. She is the first female Spanish computer scientist to be named an ACM Distinguished Scientist and one of the most cited female computer scientistin Spain, with her research having been cited by more than 9000 publications. She is well known for her work in computational models of human behavior, human computer-interaction, intelligent user interfaces, mobile computing and big data for social good.
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Antônio Alfredo Loureiro
Antonio A.F. Loureiro is a professor in the Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, Canada, 1995. Back in 1998, he established the first mobile computing research group in Brazil, namely the Ubiquitous and Wireless Sensor Networks Lab. Besides, he coauthored the book ”Introduction to Mobile Computing”, in Portuguese), perhaps the first book on mobile computing published in Portuguese. His main research areas include mobile computing, wireless networks, vehicular networks, and distributed systems. In the last 15 years he has published over 250 papers in international conferences and journals related to those areas, and also presented keynotes and tutorials at international conferences. Several of his papers have received best paper awards and his PhD students have received national awards.
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros is full professor of databases at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. She holds a degree in Electrical Engineering (1976) and an MSc degree in Computer Science (1979) from PUC-Rio, Brazil and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada (1985). For the past 20 years, she has been working as a visiting professor at the University Paris-Dauphine, France. She has received Brazilian and international awards for research, teaching, and also for her work in fostering the participation of women in IT-related activities.
Her research is centered on the design and development of scientific databases. Her main interests lie in facing the challenges posed by large, real world applications, which require handling distributed and very heterogeneous data sources. In particular, she has coordinated large multidisciplinary projects, in Brazil, involving applications in agro-environmental planning and biodiversity. Data to be handled include, among others, sensor data streams, satellite images, photos, videos, sound and all kinds of textual sources. She has also coordinated research projects in scientific data management, workflow systems and geographic information, in cooperation with universities and research labs in Brazil, Germany and France.
She is a Commander of the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit, Dr. Honoris Causa from the University Antenor Orrego, Peru (2007), and Dr. Honoris Causa from the University Paris-Dauphine, France (2015).
Kiev Gama
Kiev Gama received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Grenoble (France) in 2011. He is an assistant professor at the Center of Informatics of Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (CIn-UFPE) and a researcher of the Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering (INES). With an academic background in Software Engineering and Distributed Systems, his current research efforts are applying those in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities. Gama’s current graduate students are focusing on topics such as realtime data stream processing, the Web of Things and the economic impacts of civic hacking.
He is also interested in fostering the usage of digital technologies as a way to empower citizens in the creation of solutions that can bring a positive impact in urban life. Gama is also involved in discussions with society and government concerning public transparency and policies around the Smart Cities and IoT themes. As an active member of the local software development community, he has been involved in the organization of several civic hackathons. He was one of the idealizers and organizers of Recife’s City Hall official hackathon Hacker Cidadão (citizen hacker) which happens annually since 2013 and was also one of the organizers of the brazilian edition of Hackacity.
Marcelo Finger
Bachelor in electronic engineering from the University of São Paulo (1988), has a masters degree in Foundations of Advanced Information Technology - Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (1990) and a PhD in Computing - Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London (1994). Was a visiting professor at the Computer Science Departments of Universitée Paul Sabatier - Toulouse (2011) and Cornell University (2012-2013). Currently is a Full Professor at the University of São Paulo. Is editor of the journals South American Journal of Logic and São Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences and a guest editor of Theoretical Computer Science and Anals of Mathematics in Artificial Intelligence. Has experience in the field of Computer Science with emphasis in logic, logical-probabilistic reasoning and computational linguistics and has focused his research on the fields of logic, artificial intelligence, digital humanities and computational linguisticcs.
Thaís Vasconcelos Batista
Associate of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) since 1991. Professor Associate of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) since 1996, where she held the post of Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Systems and Computation (PPgSC) in the period of 2006-2010. Vice President of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), since July 2015. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Paraíba (1990), a Master’s degree in Informatics from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio 1994) and a PhD in Informatics from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio (2000).
She was a post-doc at the University of Lancaster - UK (2004-2005) and undertook a Senior Internship at the same University, in the period 2013-2014, as a Fellow of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (CAPES). She was a member of the CAPES Computing Area Committee (2008-2014) and Regional Secretariat Director of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) from 2009 to 2013. She has experience in the area of Computer Science, with emphasis on Software Architecture and Distributed Systems, working mainly in the following topics: Cloud Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Middleware, Business Process Modeling, Component Based Development, Aspect-Driven Development, ADLs, Dynamic Reconfiguration and Security. Until June of 2016 she has advised 8 doctoral theses and 25 master’s dissertations.
Wagner Meira Jr
Wagner Meira Jr. is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Wagner holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rochester (1997), and both a Bachelor and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1990 and 1993, respectively). Currently Wagner is a productivity researcher at CNPq (level 1C) and coordinator of the Knowledge Discovery research line at INWeb - National Institute of Science and Technology for the Web. He has published over two hundred articles in journals and impact conferences and is co-author of the book Data Mining and Analysis - Fundamental Concepts and Algorithms, published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. His research interests are in parallel and distributed systems, particularly their scalability and efficiency, ranging from massively parallel systems to Internet-based platforms, and in data mining algorithms, its parallelization and application in areas such as information retrieval, bioinformatics and electronic governance.
Marco Aurélio Gerosa
Marco Aurélio Gerosa is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at the Northern Arizona University and in the Computer Science Department at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research lies in the intersection between Software Engineering and Social Computing, focusing on the fields of empirical software engineering, mining software repositories, software evolution, and social dimensions of software development. In addition to his research, he also coordinates award-winning open source projects. For more information, visit [http://www.ime.usp.br/~gerosa].
Ana Paula Chaves
Ana Paula Chaves completed the Graduate Program in Computer Science in the Department of Informatics at State University of Maringa. Currently, she is a PhD Student in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at the Northern Arizona University, advised by Professor Marco Aurelio Gerosa. She is Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Campus Campo Mourão, Brazil, where she works since 2010 in the Academic Department of Computing. She is also member of the Research Group on Information Systems from the State University of Maringá, and the Software Engineering and Collaborative Systems Research Lab from the Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Campo Mourão. Her research area involves Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Human-Computer Interface (HCI), and Smart Cities, focusing on Human Aspects of Smart Cities and Mobility and Interaction Design for Conversational Agents.