SCI Summit Speakers
We are delighted to welcome an excellent calibre of speakers to our 2022 Secure Connected Intelligence Summit.
The Summit has evolved from a solely cyber focused event to now include speakers from the Wireless Communications, Machine Learning, Health and Agri-Food industries which will bring an entirely new dynamic to the event. We are really looking forward to welcoming you all to what is sure to be a great event in May 2022.
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Professor Ian Greer, President and Vice Chancellor, Queen's University Belfast
Ian Greer has been President and Vice Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast since August 2018. He has extensive experience of university innovation driving regional economic growth, including cross-sector developments such as the Northern Health Science Alliance, a collaboration of eight Universities and NHS partners, and is the cofounder of the Health Innovation Research Alliance for NI.
He is a strong advocate for University social responsibility including widening participation. He leads the innovation pillar of the Belfast Region City Deal, driving innovation in key sectors for the local economy - creative industries, health innovation, data science & analytics, and advanced manufacturing. He is currently President of Universities Ireland, promoting collaboration across the island.
By way of background, he is a medical graduate of the University of Glasgow, with his research and clinical career in obstetrics & gynaecology. He has held senior leadership positions in several UK Universities, and was Vice President of the University of Manchester, immediately before moving to Queen’s.
- Professor Máire O'Neill, Director, ECIT
Prof O'Neill is Director of ECIT and Director of the £5M EPSRC/NCSC-funded Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE) and recently led the €3.8m EU H2020 SAFEcrypto (Secure architectures for Future Emerging Cryptography) project (2014–2018). She previously held a UK EPSRC Leadership Fellowship (2008–2014) and was a former holder of a UK Royal Academy of Engineering research fellowship (2003–2008). She has received numerous awards, which include a Blavatnik Engineering and Physical Sciences medal, 2019, a Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal, 2014 and British Female Inventor of the Year 2007.
She has authored two research books, and over 150 peer-reviewed international conference/journal publications.
Professor O’Neill has significant expertise in the design of high-speed and lightweight security architectures, physical unclonable functions (PUFs), side channel analysis and applied quantum-safe cryptography. Her early research into high-speed AES hardware architectures was successfully commercialised by Amphion Semiconductors, Belfast, and utilized to provide security in their set-top box chip sets. Collaborative research with ETRI, South Korea, on a novel security architecture for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging systems was licensed by LG-CNS. She is an Associate Editor for IEEE TC and IEEE TETC and is secretary of the IEEE Circuits and Systems for Communications Technical committee. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering.
- Professor Chris Johnson, Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast
Chris Johnson works on the development of safety-critical systems; where errors in software can lead to loss of life. His research helps to increase confidence in technical innovation, for example, allowing autonomous vehicles to operate alongside conventional road traffic and pedestrians without increasing the risk to the public. He has worked with NASA, the US Air Force and a range of European governments.
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John Greer, Engineering Director, Sensata
John began his career as a Systems Design Engineer in Schrader Electronics in 2006, and has progressed through a number of Engineering and Technical Leadership roles since then. In 2014, John joined Sensata Technologies as part of the acquisition of Schrader Electronics, and since then he has continued to develop and lead Engineering teams within Sensata. These have included technology incubation projects within Sensata’s CTO Office, and most recently leading the development of a full-stack IoT solution for the Sensata Insights Business Unit.
John received his BEng in EEE from Queen's University, Belfast, with a specialism in High Frequency Design. He has multiple granted patents and enjoys learning about new technologies and building high performing cross-functional teams.
- Koen Gijsbers, Non-Executive Director, ANGOKA
Koen Gijsbers is a strategic expert in cyber innovation. Currently he is leading a public-private innovation programme in Automated Vulnerability Research for DCypher, a public-private partnership within the Ministery of Economic Affairs in The Netherlands. He is also Non-Executive Director of several start-ups, to include Angoka Ltd. in Belfast.
Koen retired from the military as Chief Information Officer of the Ministery of Defense and from NATO as the General Manager of the NATO Communications and Information Agency, NATO’s IT and cyber agency. He has 40 years operational experience in defence, including deployment in Kosovo (1999).
- Michael Lisanti, Director of Partnerships, CyLab
Michael Lisanti is the director of partnerships at CyLab, the Carnegie Mellon University Security and Privacy Institute. In this role, he leads the CyLab business engagement program, building relationships and developing strategies for corporate and government partners to collaborate with CMU faculty and student researchers. He designed the engagement models and established the partnerships leading to the launch of strategic initiatives including CyLab-Africa, Future Enterprise Security, Secure and Private IoT, and Secure Blockchain.
Prior to returning to CMU, he led product management and business development teams at technology companies including Keylingo Translations, DynaVox Mayer-Johnson (now Tobii Dynavox), iDirect, Ericsson (formerly Marconi/FORE Systems), AT&T/NCR, EDS (now HP), and IBM.
He appreciates his role helping people connect and engage in the critical field of cybersecurity at CMU, his alma mater, in Pittsburgh, his hometown.
- Joel Rasmus, Managing Director, Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Joel Rasmus is managing director for Purdue University’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS); North America’s largest and top-ranking interdisciplinary academic institute for cyber and cyber-physical systems. CERIAS focal areas include security, resiliency, privacy, autonomy, trusted electronics, and explainable AI. Rasmus joined Purdue in 2002, bringing with him more than 15 years experience in partnership development and project management. At CERIAS Rasmus developed a strategic partnership program that provides a formalized link between the University and industry. The program fosters tech transfer, collaborative research, and student recruitment. The CERIAS Strategic Partnership Program has led to unprecedented collaborations with government and commercial research programs; including the Northrop Grumman Cybersecurity Research Consortium, the Rolls Royce Cybertechnology Network, and Research Assistantship programs with commercial companies and government agencies. Rasmus coordinates international initiatives for CERIAS, including visiting scholars and sabbatical programs, collaborative research, workforce development and cybersecurity curriculum programs. He serves as the PI on numerous U.S. Department of State cybersecurity programs for Ukraine and the Balkan States. Rasmus has been recognized with national and international awards and honors for partnership development, project management and marketing. At Purdue he was inducted into in the University’s Council for Management Development, and is the recipient of both the College of Science Engagement Award (2012) and the Discovery Park Engagement Award (2018) recognizing his success building collaborations with industry. He has been an invited speaker and panelist at numerous national and international conferences speaking on cybersecurity education, private-public partnerships, and workforce development.
- Ben Harrison, Vice President of Global Security Operations, Site Lead Belfast, SilverSky
Ben joined SilverSky from Cygilant, where he led the Belfast site to build a scalable, robust, and effective Security Operations Centre, delivering demonstrable customer security value through Security Monitoring and Security Services. He now leads SilverSky’s Global SOC Security Monitoring Operations, with a focus on delivering a cutting-edge security experience for customers by building, evolving, and delivering services from a scalable Modern SOC.
Ben is a passionate and experienced Cyber Security evangelist, with 25 years’ experience in the IT, Security, and Engineering industries. His career has taken him through academia, with a PhD. from Queen’s University Belfast in advanced networks; on to working in the defence industry with a focus on wireless sensor networks for security applications; and then into the secure Set-Top box industry, working for the global leaders Arris Global Ltd. and Pace PLC, running SoC & Security Teams to deliver the very best in secure media platforms. He joined the SAAS / MSSP industry with Alert Logic, leading the Security Content efforts to build Threat Intelligence functions for their SOC, and Active Intelligence departments. Then he moved to Cygilant, to build and lead the Belfast Site, including Global Security Operations Centre and Security Services, with a key focus on delivering demonstrable customer security value while evolving and delivering on a scalable Modern SOC Roadmap.
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Trevor Graham, Co-founder and CEO, Ampliphae
Trevor Graham is co-founder and CEO of Ampliphae, a Belfast-based cyber-security software company helping enterprises to manage risk and safely adopt Cloud applications. Software-as-a-Service applications, delivered direct to end-users without corporate control, bring new risks to data, compliance and operational resilience. Ampliphae’s SaaSGuard product identifies and mitigates SaaS risk, allowing organisations to maximise their benefit from Cloud.
Trevor has over 25 years’ experience in the telecoms industry, developing software and hardware products for global communications networks. Through his career he has worked for large-scale telecoms operators, providing services to consumer and business customers throughout the UK, and also with global network equipment manufacturers developing the network devices that underpin communications.
Prior to founding Ampliphae, Trevor worked with Silicon Valley startups developing cutting-edge communications software – such as Intelliden (acquired by IBM) where he helped create one of the first telecoms solutions for managing scale-out IP networks for telco; and at Vello Systems (acquired by Sonus Networks) where he and the team built the first commercial Software-Defined Network, deployed around the Pacific Rim in 2013.
Trevor is also a member of the UK Government’s Digital Economy Advisory Group, helping to advise policymakers about issues related to the tech sector and innovation.
- Sandra Scott-Hayward, Associate Professor, Queen's University Belfast
Sandra Scott-Hayward is an Associate Professor at Queen's University Belfast. She began her career in industry and became a Chartered Engineer in 2006. Since joining academia, she has published a series of IEEE/ACM papers on security designs and solutions for softwarized networks based on her research on network security architectures and security functions for emerging networks. She received Outstanding Technical Contributor and Leadership awards from the Open Networking Foundation in 2015 and 2016, respectively, having been elected and serving as the Vice-Chair ONF Security Working Group from 2015 to 2017. Amongst many service memberships, she is on the IEEE NetSoft Steering Committee and is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. She is Director of the QUB Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE) and a Polymath Fellow of the Global Fellowship Initiative at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) from 2021 to 2023.
- Judith Millar, Business Development Manager, Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT)
Judith Millar leads industry engagement for CSIT, the cyber security research centre of Queen’s University Belfast. Judith brings over 20 years of marketing and business development experience in technology sectors and has worked with peers in industry to establish NI Cyber, the Northern Ireland cyber security cluster.
- Dr Paul Miller
Paul Miller was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1964. He received the B.Sc. (Hons) and PhD degrees in pure and applied physics from Queen’s University Belfast in 1985 and 1989 respectively.
From 1989 to 1991, he was a Research Fellow with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Queens. From 1991 to 1999, he was a Research Scientist, and then Senior Research Scientist, with the Defence, Science and Technology Organization in Adelaide, Australia. In 1999 he returned to Queens as a Lecturer, and then senior lecturer, with the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has been a Reader since 2018.
Dr Miller is currently Deputy Director of the Centre for Secure Information Technologies at Queen’s University Belfast. He has been PI/Co-I on EPSRC research grants worth £16M and recently led the £3M EPSRC-funded grand challenge project “Secure Transport Corridors”. He is the author of more than one hundred articles. His main research focus is on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to cyber and physical security. Specific areas of expertise are probabilistic modelling, deep learning neural networks, graph mining and evidential reasoning networks. Applications include malware detection on Android platforms, website vulnerability analysis, software vulnerability analysis, network intrusion detection, video surveillance and advanced persistent threat. He has also worked on insurance fraud detection and insider threat in banks. Most recently he has been researching the security of AI. He is a delegate on ETSI’s industrial advisory group Security of AI. He has collaborated with many SMEs and with major security and finance companies. Dr Miller was a recipient of the IPRCS International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference Best Paper Award in 2008.
- Andrew Elliot, Deputy Director Cyber Security Innovation and Skills, DCMS
Andrew is working on the ecosystem and technology pillars of the new National Cyber Strategy, seeking to find policy and programme interventions to close the skills gap, develop the cyber profession, support the growth of the cyber sector across the UK and to help innovators develop world leading cyber tech. He also leads the government's programme to develop international standards for consumer IoT as well as regulation to require manufacturers to apply minimum security standards as set out in the Product Security and Telecommunications Bill.
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Dr Howard Benn, Samsung Electronics R&D Institute (United Kingdom)
Howard started his career in the fixed telecommunication sector (Plessey) back in 1982, did his degree and PhD at Bradford University, moving into radio based communications in 1989. He started working in ETSI GSM standards committees in 1993, helping create 3GPP and chairing 3GPP RAN 4 from 1998 to 2007. He has been a board member of ETSI since 2008, is currently advising the ICANN board on mobile technology, and a member of a number of advisory boards for UK universities and research programs. His current role is ‘Vice President Communications Research’ for Samsung Electronics R&D Institute in the UK, managing a team of engineers covering ETSI, 3GPP, and GSMA. His team are also very active in the EU Horizon 2020 program with a focus on the 5G PPP activities. He also sits on the UK5G government advisory committee looking at the future of communications technology in the UK, and an advisor to the UK government on international free trade agreements.
- Dr Thorsten Wild, Head of Next Generation Wireless Systems, Nokia Bell Labs (Germany)
Thorsten Wild is Head of Next Generation Wireless Systems in Nokia Bell Labs, leading a research department in future radio access design since 2017. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree from the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT), in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and information technology from the University of Stuttgart, in 2015. Since 2001, he has been working in wireless communications. He achieved numerous patent awards, such as being top ten inventor in Nokia Stuttgart for granted patents for all time. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 conference papers contributed to 3GPP NR and LTE and holds more than 70 filed and granted patent families. He was an active contributor in several European research projects, such as being the Technical Manager of the 5GNOW Research Project. His research interests include 6G, air interface design, joint design of communication and sensing, as well as multi-antenna and physical layer processing.
- Dr Geoffroy Lerosey, Co-founder, CSO & Chairman, Greenerwave (France)
Geoffroy Lerosey is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Greenerwave. He earned an engineering degree from ESPCI Paris, a PhD in Physics from Université Paris Diderot and spent a postdoctoral year at University of California at Berkeley. Before founding Greenerwave, Geoffroy worked 10 years for French CNRS, at Institut Langevin, on novel wave control approaches as well as metamaterials and metasurfaces. Geoffroy was invited to more than 80 international conferences. His research led to 100 scientific articles, 15 patents and 2 startups.
- Stephen Gibson, Managing Director, UK, AST Space Mobile, (USA/UK)
Steve brings extensive experience in the space industry and contract management. Most recently, at Lockheed Martin’s largest UK facility, he was responsible for all business development for space activities, leading many international space program pursuits from the UK.
Prior, he held various roles across Europe in the space division of the Airbus Group, including at their subsidiary, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL). While there, he earned the inaugural business excellence award for his innovative commercial work on the Chinese DMC3 program.
He is a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and has been a member of the UK Space Agency Space Science Programme Advisory Committee. Steve was also the vice chairman of the Space Science and Exploration Committee for the UK Space Trade association.
Steve holds an MBA from The Open University and a BA in business studies from Coventry University and is currently an honorary visiting professor at the University of Leicester in the Physics and Astronomy Department.
- Baha Badran, Global Head of Engineering, Taoglas (Ireland)
Baha is the Global Head of Engineering at Taoglas, the global leader of advanced antenna designs. He has over 15 years of experience in RF and antenna design and product development for various applications. He leads the engineering team globally to offer bespoke and innovative antenna solutions in 5G Cellular and Space connectivity.
Taoglas is using the latest in high-performance RF antenna design and has one of the most comprehensive portfolios of external and embedded GNSS antennas.
Prior to Taoglas, Baha worked with EDMI Europe as Lead Hardware Engineer and Vertu (Nokia) as Senior Antenna Design Engineer.
Baha holds a BEng degree in Electrical, Electronics & Communications from An-Najah National University, Nablus and an MEng Degree in Personal Mobile and Satellite Communications from the University of Bradford.
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Desmond Power, Vice President, Remote Sensing, C-CORE (Canada)
Desmond Power joined C-CORE in 1991. He holds a Masters degree in Engineering (acoustical imaging systems) from Memorial University. An integral part of a research team that developed the Northern Radar surface wave radar facility at Cape Race, Newfoundland, he has led C-CORE’s development of advanced methods for iceberg detection, encroachment monitoring systems and techniques and ground movement monitoring applications. With over 25 years’ experience in Remote Sensing, Desmond provides leadership and overall direction to C‑CORE’s team of 30+ remote sensing specialists, engineers and scientists in St. John’s and Ottawa, advancing application of space technologies in terrestrial industries and operations.
- Professor Simon Cotton, Director at the Centre for Wireless Innovation, QUB
Professor Cotton is the Director of the Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI). He received the B.Eng. degree in electronics and software with first class honours from the University of Ulster, Ulster, U.K., in 2004 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the Queen’s University of Belfast in 2007.
Since graduating, Professor Cotton has worked as a Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Lecturer then Reader at Queen's University Belfast in the area of Wireless Communications.
Among Professor Cotton's research interests are millimetre-wave technologies for cellular communications and novel applications of short-range radio systems. His other research interests include radio channel characterization and modelling for device-to-device and body centric communications as well as the simulation of wireless channels. Professor Cotton’s contribution to research is extensive. He has authored and co-authored over 140 publications in major IEEE/IET journals and refereed international conferences, two book chapters and two patents.
- Dr Sriram Jayasimha
Dr Sriram Jayasimha brings a 30-year successful track record of IP creation and product design for the global telecommunications markets. He has authored 42 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications in an array of digital-signal-processing applications, including: mobility, satellite communications, modem, VLSI and instrumentation signal processing. A named inventor on 21 U.S. and European patents, Sriram was a fellow of the Center of Advanced Engineering Study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He earned his B.Tech and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Professor Cathie Sudlow, Director, British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre
Professor Cathie Sudlow is the inaugural Director of the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre, which aims to improve the public’s cardiovascular health through the power of large-scale data and advanced analytics across the UK and beyond. She is also Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh. Cathie was previously Director of the Centre for Medical Informatics at the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh and was the first Research Director for HDR UK in Scotland. From 2011-2019, she was Chief Scientist of UK Biobank, a large-scale research resource, with in-depth genetic and health information from half a million UK adults, accessible to approved researchers worldwide, studying a wide range of common, rare and life-threatening health conditions.
Cathie is a clinical neurologist and epidemiologist. Her clinical work involves assessing and treating patients with suspected acute stroke in the hospital emergency department.
Her research interests are firmly embedded in the world of big data, in particular large-scale, collaborative, open-science initiatives to understand the causes (genetic, environment and lifestyle), consequences of, and best treatments for common diseases of middle and older age. These have included initiatives to establish the role of antithrombotic drugs in preventing heart disease and stroke, to investigate differences between stroke subtypes, and to discover genes that influence stroke. From 2011, she led efforts follow the health of UK Biobank participants through linkage to national health datasets, and during 2020-2021 worked with NHS Digital to develop the first trusted research environment to hold and enable access for research to linked health data for the whole population of England.
She was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018 and awarded an OBE for services to medical research in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2020.
- Professor Mark Lawler, Queen's University Belfast
Prof Lawler has an international reputation in cancer research and recently received the prestigious 2018 European Health Award. His research focuses on developing a molecular understanding of cancer to improve patient care, including through precision medicine. approaches As Associate Director of Health Data Research Wales Northern Ireland, he also has a keen interest in health data research with particular relevance to cancer. Additionally, his research into cancer inequalities has been influential at both national and European levels.
- Doctor Michael Quinn, Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast
Doctor Michael Quinn, Centre for Public Health, Queen's University Belfast
- Professor Aedín Culhane, Professor of Biomedical Sciences (Cancer Genomics), University of Limerick School of Medicine
Professor Aedín Culhane, Professor of Biomedical Sciences (Cancer Genomics), University of Limerick School of Medicine
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Dr Cristiano Malossi, Principal RSM, Manager AI Automation, Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland
Cristiano Malossi is Principal Research Staff Member (PRSM) and Manager of the AI Automation group at the IBM Research laboratory in Zurich. The group focuses on creating solutions for scalable AI model development and deployment on Cloud and High-Performance on-prem systems. In 2018 Cristiano’s team released on the IBM Cloud the first IBM engine for automation of neural network synthesis (NeuNetS).
Since 2017 Cristiano is coordinator of the FET-H2020 Open transPREcision COMPuting (OPRECOMP) project, with focus on low-power/low-energy computing paradigms based on approximation and transprecision. Cristiano is a recipient of the 2016 IPDPS Best Paper Award and the 2015 ACM Gordon Bell Prize. Since 2015 he is also member of ACM and SIAM societies, and he is part of Technical Program committee of top conferences, including SC, ISC, IPDPS, and DATE.
Before IBM, Cristiano graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne with a PhD in applied mathematics. In 2013, his thesis on parallel algorithms and mathematical methods for the numerical simulation of cardiovascular problems granted him the IBM Research Prize for Scientific Computing. Cristiano has also a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering and a M.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
Cristiano research interests include: acceleration and new computing paradigms for machine learning and deep learning methods, AI lifecycle automation for enterprise data, AI systems design and user experience, high performance computing, transprecision & energy-aware computing, CFD and FEM, Aircraft design.
- Professor Hans Vandierendonck - Professor of High-Performance and Data-Intensive Computing at Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and Director of the Centre for Data Science and Scalable Computing (DSSC)
Hans' research interests are in compilers, runtime systems and architectures for parallel systems with special attention to the programmability of such systems. Hans also has a vested interested in computer architecture, and particularly in cache architecture, prediction and performance evaluation. He has co-authored over a 100 papers and has supervised PhD dissertations of 4 students, one of whom, Dr Jiawen Sun, is finalist in the EPSRC Connected Nation Pioneers competition. Hans received the IBM Belgium Prize for Computer Science in 2000 for his graduation thesis on "Bank prediction in multi-bank caches" and in 2004 for his PhD dissertation on "Avoiding mapping conflicts in microprocessors". His graduation thesis also received the Jozef Plateau prize from the Alumni Engineers Ghent in 2000. Hans was finalist in the 2004 Championship Branch Prediction competition.
Hans is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Member of ACM, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the EPSRC College of Peer Reviewers. He served as Programme Track Chair for Track 9 at Euro-Par 2017, Financy Chair for IEEE CLUSTER 2018, Student Travel Grant Co-Chair for HPCA 2016, publicity chair for the HiPEAC conference 2009 and for ISCA 2010. He has served on programme committees of major conferences in computer architecture and high-performance computing, including ISCA, SC, ICS, CCGrid, IPDPS, ICPP, DATE and Euro-Par. He regularly reviews for journals and transactions, including ACM TACO, IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TSE, IEEE Micro, ACM TOPLAS, ACM ToDAES, Wiley CCPE, Elsevier JPDC, Elsevier Parallel Computing, Elsevier JSA, and Elsevier Sustainable Computing.
Prior to joining Queen's, Hans was Fellow with the Research Foundation Flanders and placed at Ghent University. He was visiting researcher at the Foundation for Reseach and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory in 2010-2011. He was visiting researcher in the Amdahl's Law is Forever (ALF) team at INRIA Rennes in 2005 and he was visiting researcher at the Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors at the Universitat Polytècnica de Catalunya in 2001.
- Professor Hui Wang, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at QUB
His research interests are machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, and their applications in image, video, spectra and text data analyses and more recently education. He played an important role in the development of an algebraic framework for machine learning and knowledge representation, Lattice Machine; the original concept of contextual probability for probabilistic modelling, which can be used for uncertainty reasoning/quantification, probability estimation and machine learning; a generic similarity measure, neighbourhood counting, and its specialisations on multivariate data, sequences, tree and graph structures; and more recently detection learning and knowledge-based learning. He has over 300 publications in these areas.
He is principal investigator of a number of regional, national and international projects in the areas of image/video analytics (EPSRC funded MVSE 2021-2024, Horizon 2020 funded DESIREE and ASGARD, FP7 funded SAVASA, Royal Society funded VIAD), spectral data analytics (EPSRC funded VIPIRS on virus detection 2020-2022), text analytics (INI funded DEEPFLOW, Royal Society funded BEACON), and intelligent content management (FP5 funded ICONS); and is co-investigator of several other EU funded projects.
Prior to joining Queen’s, he was Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing, Ulster University, in various roles including Head of the AI Research Centre, and Research Director. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, founding Chair of IEEE SMCS Northern Ireland Chapter (2009-2018), and a member of IEEE SMCS Board of Governors (2010-2013).
- Dr Muhammad Fahim, Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, UK
Dr Fahim is a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast. His research interests include Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Data Science. He worked as an assistant professor at Innopolis University, Russia. He served as an assistant professor in department of computer engineering at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Istanbul, Turkey and led machine learning research lab for three years. He worked as post-doctoral research scientist at Ubiquitous Computing Lab, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. He also worked with Smart Environment Research Group (SERG), University of Ulster, UK and Tecnalia Research and Innovations, Health division, San Sabastian, Spain. He earned his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Department of Computer Engineering, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, in 2014. His Ph.D. contributed towards evolutionary learning models for indoor and outdoor human activity recognition. He earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science, specialized in Machine Learning from National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST), Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2009, and obtained Undergraduate degree in Computer Science with distinction “Gold-medalist” from Gomal University, Pakistan, in 2007.
- Dr Georgios Karakonstantis, Reader, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen’s University Belfast
He is leading the efforts on dependable energy efficient computing systems as member of the Data Science and Scalable Computing Research Centre at the ECIT Institute. Prior to joining Queen's, Georgios was a senior research scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland and he received his Ph.D. degree from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of the Purdue University, U.S.A, in 2010. In the summer of 2008, he was with the Advanced Technology Group, Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA, and in 2003 he worked in the VLSI lab of Intracom, Athens, Greece.
Overall, his research work appears in more than 90 journals and conferences and received the 'best paper award' at the IEEE DATE conference on 2020, and three 'HiPEAC paper awards' on 2016, 2020, 2021. His work was also nominated for the 'best paper award' in the IEEE/ACM MICRO conference on 2020 and in the IEEE DATE conference on 2016. His work was supported extensively by national and industrial funding agencies and he led major multi-national projects like the UniServer research project, funded with 4.9M by the Horizon 2020 Research Programme of the European Commission. In 2012 he was awarded a 4-year Marie-Curie Career Integration Grant by the European Commission and in 2010, his work on a quality adaptive and energy efficient camera was recognised at the International Altera Innovate Design Contest. From 2015 to 2018 Georgios served as the programme chair of the Workshop on Approximate Computing (WAPCO). He is serving as member of the programme committee and referee of several top-tier conferences and journals and since 2018 he is a co-chair of the System Level Dependability track of DATE conference. On 2019 he was appointed Associate Editor of the new IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems. He is Senior Member of the IEEE and Member of ACM SIGDA.
His research interests include approximate computing and storage architectures for nanometer technologies, modeling and design of and energy-efficient and fault-tolerant circuits and systems for embedded, edge, cloud applications.
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Dr John McAllister, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at QUB.
Dr McAllister (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, U.K., in 2004.,He is currently a Member of Academic Staff at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast. He is the Co-Founder of Analytics Engines Ltd, Belfast.
His research interest includes resource-constrained and embedded signal processing systems. Dr. McAllister is also a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Task Force on Rebooting Computing, a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the Founding Chief Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Resource Center, and a member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Neuroscience and the Journal of Signal Processing Systems. He was the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (DISPS) in 2020 and the Founding Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Applied Signal Processing Systems (ASPS) in 2021.
- Braj Srigengan, R&D Director, B-Secur
Braj studied Engineering at the Prestigious University of Cambridge, specialising in Engineering for the Life Sciences. With his impressive degree and notable experience as a Systems Engineer at Scrhader Electronics, Braj works effectively with all teams, supporting the definition and development of B-Secur's products.