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Frans Coenen
University of Liverpool
United Kingdom
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Short Bio
Prof Frans Coenen is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Liverpool, UK. He has 36 years of experience of working in AI, ranging from early work on driverless ships to current work on deep and machine learning. He is particularly interested in the application of the techniques of Machine Learning to unusual data sets, such as: (i) graphs and social networks, (ii) time series, (iii) free text of all kinds, (iv) 2D and 3D images, particularly medical images, and (v) video data. He is also interested in data mining over encrypted data. He currently leads a small research group working on many aspects of Machine Learning and AI. He has some 450 refereed research publications, and has been on the programme committees for many Machine Learning and AI conferences and related events. ... More >>
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Lars Nolle
Jade University of Applied Sciences
Germany
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Short Bio
Professor Lars Nolle graduated from the University of Applied Science and Arts in Hanover, Germany, with a degree in Computer Science and Electronics. He obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Software and Systems Security and an MSc in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford as well as an MSc in Computing and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from The Open University. He worked in the software industry before joining The Open University as a Research Fellow. Subsequently, he became a Senior Lecturer in Computing at Nottingham Trent University and is now a Professor of Applied Computer Science at Jade University of Applied Sciences. He is also Associate Professor with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Lars’ main research interests are artificial intelligence methods for real-world scientific and engineering applications. ... More >>
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David Aveiro
University of Madeira, NOVA-LINCS and ARDITI
Portugal
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Short Bio
David Aveiro is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Engineering at the University of Madeira (UMa) in Portugal. His research interests include enterprise engineering and digital innovation. He teaches subjects in undergraduate and master degrees in informatics engineering in the areas of enterprise engineering, information systems, database management systems and decision support systems. David holds a Master's and Doctor's degree in Informatics Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon and coordinates several European and national funded research and digital innovation projects, both at the University of Madeira and at the Regional Agency for the Development of Research, Technology and Innovation (ARDITI). ... More >>
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Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis
University of Murcia
Spain
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Short Bio
Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis is a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Sciene at the University of Murcia in Spain. His research interests include the semantic interoperability of biomedical and industrial data, and how large language models can contribute to improve knowledge engineering activities. He teaches subjects in undergraduate and master degrees in the areas of computer science and bioinformatics. He is participating and coordinating semantic interoperability national and international research projects, as well as industrial collaborations with international companies. He has published over 80 articles in journals with impact factor. He is the co-founder of the spin-off Longseq Applications.
Biography
Jesualdo Tomás Fernández Breis received a BSc degree in Computer Science from the University of Murcia in 1997, and a MSc degree in Computer Engineering from the same university in 1999. He obtained a European PhD degree in Computer Engineering in 2003 from the University of Murcia, which was possible thanks to a PhD Scholarship from the Seneca Foundation.
He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics and Systems, which he joined in 2003. He is currently serving as Vicedean of the School of Computer Science at the University of Murcia (Spain). Some of his responsabilities are the International Exchange Programmes and the Industrial Placements of our students.
His research in eLearning addresses different issues related to Semantic Web-based student assessment. On the one hand, the OeLE project attempts to evaluate automatically open questions written in natural language and using Semantic Web technologies to rank individuals in groups work and promoting self-assessment and autonomous learning. On the other hand, the Semantic Educative Curriculum project attempts to facilitate the management of the educative curriculum by using Semantic Web technologies and accomplishing standard quality criteria ... More >>
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Le Gruenwald
University of Oklahoma, School of Computer Science
United States
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Short Bio
Le Gruenwald is a Professor, Dr. David W. Franke Professor, and Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Presidential Professor in the School of Computer Science at The University of Oklahoma, United States. She was a Cluster Lead and Program Director of the Information Integration and Informatics program and a Program Director of the Cyber Trust program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States. Her major research interests include Spatio-Temporal Big Data Management and Mining, Cloud Data Management, Data Stream Management and Mining, Quantum Machine Learning and Data Management, Mobile Data Management, and Information Security and Privacy. She has published more than 200 technical articles in journals, books and conference proceedings and has served on the editorial boards, organizing committees, and program committees for many journals, conferences, and workshops. ... More >>
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Sven Groppe
Institute of Information Systems, University of Lübeck
Germany
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Short Bio
Sven Groppe is professor at the University of Lübeck and will join the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in the summer semester 2026 to start his professorship on artificial intelligence. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science (LLMs, agentic workflows, mathematical optimizations, graph neural networks, chatbots, reasoning), data management tasks (query processing and optimization, indexing, mapping, compression, replication, caching, transaction handling), data models (knowledge graphs, Semantic Web, property graphs, relational data), emergent hardware technologies (Many-Core CPU, GPU, FPGA, quantum computer), different platforms (Internet, Internet of Things, Cloud, Post-Cloud (Fog/Edge/Dew Computing), P2P, Mobile, Parallel and Main Memory Servers), advanced applications (citizen science, customer communications, pandemics like Covid-19, software vulnerability prediction) and sustainability (sustainable computing/AI, applications for sustainability). He is a full member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group WG2.6 Database. Over 140 program committee memberships in international conferences and workshops (including top-ranked venues like VLDB, ICDE and the Web Conference), chair of several conferences and various workshops at the first-class ACM SIGMOD and VLDB conferences as well as co-authorship of over 200 publications with over 200 scientists from 28 countries on 6 continents are hints for a strong integration into the scientific community. For more details about his academic career, visit https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe ... More >>