Dr. Emanuele Carlini is a Researcher at Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), which he joined in 2008. He received his Bachelor Degree in Computer Science in 2004 and Master Degree in Computer Technologies in 2008, both from University of Pisa. In 2012 he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy. His main research interests revolve around many areas of distributed systems, in which he has published over 50 research papers in international and peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Currently, he is active on brokering and adaptivity in Cloud federations and multi-cloud infrastructure, distributed analysis of large graphs on private and remote clusters, and spatio-temporal data analysis. Finally, he has participated in technical and scientific activities of several EC funded projects, such as FP6 XtreemOS, FP7 CONTRAIL, H2020 BASMATI, and he is currently Technical Manager of the H2020 ACCORDION project. When not busy with the above, he enjoys board games, videogames, and good beers.
Konstantinos Tserpes is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telematics of the Harokopio University of Athens. He holds a PhD in the area of Distributed Systems from the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. His research interests revolve around distributed systems, software and service engineering and data analytics. He has been involved in several EU- and nationally-funded projects conducting research to tackle challenges related to scalability, interoperability, fault tolerance, and extensibility in application domains such as e-governance, post-production, finance, e-health and multimedia. His group is involved in several ongoing projects such as ACCORDION, TEACHING, COLLABS, FNS-Cloud, CHARITY, MASTER and SmartShip (H2020)
Massimo Coppol
a is a Researcher at the Institute of Information science and Technologies “A. Faedo” of the Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa. He’s also been teaching courses on parallel programming at the University of Pisa since 2002, within the master degrees in Computer Science and in Computer Science and Networking.
His research interests revove around parallel and distributed platforms and programming, and their application to real world applications. They notably include Cloud computing and federations, tools and performance models for structured parallel computing, as well as all aspects of exploiting large-scale heterogeneous platforms, e.g. run-time support, deployment and distributed management of parallel, self-adapting applications; Data Mining and Machine Learning for large data sets; FPGA and GPU based parallel computing.
As proposer, team leader, or researcher within his group, Massimo Coppola participated in a number of EU projects, including FP6 GridCoord, CoreGRID, BeinGrid, and XtreemOS; FP7 Contrail, NESSOS, and H2020 Basmati, Accordion, Teaching, and Charity. He is currently serving as Scientific Manager within ACCORDION.
Konstantinos Tserpes is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telematics of the Harokopio University of Athens. He holds a PhD in the area of Distributed Systems from the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. His research interests revolve around distributed systems, software and service engineering and data analytics. He has been involved in several EU- and nationally-funded projects conducting research to tackle challenges related to scalability, interoperability, fault tolerance, and extensibility in application domains such as e-governance, post-production, finance, e-health and multimedia. His group is involved in several ongoing projects such as ACCORDION, TEACHING, COLLABS, FNS-Cloud, CHARITY, MASTER and SmartShip (H2020)
Beatrice Rapisarda (female) is a Communication Manager with many years of experience in the scientific/technological field.
She deals with the development, coordination and implementation of communication strategies and dissemination of research activities; organization and management of scientific dissemination events aimed at academic and industrial realities; internal communication; design and creation of graphic material and copywriting for communication, promotion and enhancement of scientific and research activities aimed at heterogeneous stakeholders.
She is responsible for the communication activities related to national and international research projects, with a particular focus on analysing stakeholders and the best communication channels; furthermore, she is responsible for the design and production of material to support communication and promotion in the scientific/technological field and for the organization of events related to research activities and scientific dissemination (meetings, conferences, workshops, etc.) of national and international projects.
She has been involved in several EU funded projects.
Michalis Vakalellis holds a BSc in Management and Business Administration from Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, an MSc in Management and Economics of Telecommunication Networks from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and an MSc in Information Systems from Hellenic Open University, Greece.
He has extensive experience in the telecommunications and consulting industry specializing in the analysis, design, management, and improvement of business processes to achieve business goals and objectives. He also has experience in managing technology incentive projects from the inception phase to achieving significant results through the coordination of dissemination and communication activities. He also has valuable experience as a Project Manager in EU-funded projects in the field of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence tools in the healthcare domain, and his motivation is to efficiently turn ICT projects into successful commercial products.
Dr. Maria Pateraki acts as the Research Executive in ORamaVR S.A. She is also an Assistant Professor in Photogrammetry – National Technical University of Athens, Greece and an affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas. She received her PhD in Photogrammetry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), and has been a research associate at the Univ. of Melbourne and the Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information (CRCSI) in Melbourne, Australia. In the past she has also been a visiting assistant professor at the Computer Science Department (CSD) of the University of Crete (UoC), and a visiting lecturer and a postdoctoral fellow at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research focus is in the converging areas of computer vision and photogrammetry, in the topics of human & object extraction and tracking, 3D pose estimation, 3D reconstruction and image matching. She has R&D experience in large industries, research institutes and academia and has participated in more than 25 international, EU and national-funded projects, contributing in the development of large-scale vision systems addressing real-world problems in different application domains such as health, human-robot and human-computer interaction, cultural heritage, aerial/satellite applications. Since 2019 she is the Research Executive in ORamaVR S.A. Currently she is the Coordinator of H2020 project sustAGE “Adaptive smart working and living environments supporting active and healthy ageing”, and Co-PI in “SMART BEAR: Smart Big Data Platform to Offer Evidence-based Personalised Support for Healthy and Independent Living at Home.
Dr. Ferran Diego Andilla is a Research Scientist at Telefonica Research. Her research focuses on theoretical and applied machine learning and deep learning, and optimization algorithms, distributed learning and inference in diverse fields. Before joining Telefonica, he worked for Corporate Research Division at Robert Bosch GmbH as a senior research engineer and University of Heidelberg. He has published in many international conferences and journals. He has also been involved in several national and EU research initiatives.
Dr. Emanuele Carlini is a Researcher at Information Science and Technologies Institute (ISTI) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), which he joined in 2008. He received his Bachelor Degree in Computer Science in 2004 and Master Degree in Computer Technologies in 2008, both from University of Pisa. In 2012 he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy. His main research interests revolve around many areas of distributed systems, in which he has published over 50 research papers in international and peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Currently, he is active on brokering and adaptivity in Cloud federations and multi-cloud infrastructure, distributed analysis of large graphs on private and remote clusters, and spatio-temporal data analysis. Finally, he has participated in technical and scientific activities of several EC funded projects, such as FP6 XtreemOS, FP7 CONTRAIL, H2020 BASMATI, and he is currently Technical Manager of the H2020 ACCORDION project. When not busy with the above, he enjoys board games, videogames, and good beers.
Konstantinos Tserpes is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telematics of the Harokopio University of Athens. He holds a PhD in the area of Distributed Systems from the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. His research interests revolve around distributed systems, software and service engineering and data analytics. He has been involved in several EU- and nationally-funded projects conducting research to tackle challenges related to scalability, interoperability, fault tolerance, and extensibility in application domains such as e-governance, post-production, finance, e-health and multimedia. His group is involved in several ongoing projects such as ACCORDION, TEACHING, COLLABS, FNS-Cloud, CHARITY, MASTER and SmartShip (H2020)
Lorenzo Blasi (male) achieved his M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering in 1990 and is a technical consultant for HPE Pointnext. His 30 years of experience in ICT include 14 years as technical contributor to EC funded research projects, 7 years in Corporate R&D, and several customer projects in the financial and telecom markets, either as Architect or as Business Analyst. Lorenzo’s research interests are on the following areas: Cloud and Edge computing, DevOps, Security and Languages. He contributes to the Technical Committee of several workshops and conferences, e.g. ISIICT 2018, ICCBDC 2019 and is a reviewer for journals such as JPDC and FGCS. Within HPE Pointnext, Lorenzo is currently contributing in ACCORDION H2020 project as leader for WP3 (Edge infrastructure pool framework), and recently contributed in several EC funded FP7 and H2020 projects including DECIDE, as WP leader for Continuous deployment and operation, Contrail, as WP leader for Federation SLA, ASCETIC, and Coco Cloud. In his free time Lorenzo likes gardening, reading SF books and sailing on the lake.
Dr. Ferran Diego Andilla is a Research Scientist at Telefonica Research. Her research focuses on theoretical and applied machine learning and deep learning, and optimization algorithms, distributed learning and inference in diverse fields. Before joining Telefonica, he worked for Corporate Research Division at Robert Bosch GmbH as a senior research engineer and University of Heidelberg. He has published in many international conferences and journals. He has also been involved in several national and EU research initiatives.
Bartłomiej Lipa, R&D Project Manager at BlueSoft. He has over 15 years of professional experience in telecommunications, IT and digital transformation. He worked for such companies as Orange Polska, P4 (telecommunications company) and PwC Polska. At BlueSoft, he is responsible for product development and managing a team of researchers and developers involved in R&D projects. His areas of interest include Circular Economy, Machine Learning algorithms, Business Process Automation.
Dr. Maria Pateraki acts as the Research Executive in ORamaVR S.A. She is also an Assistant Professor in Photogrammetry – National Technical University of Athens, Greece and an affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas. She received her PhD in Photogrammetry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), and has been a research associate at the Univ. of Melbourne and the Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information (CRCSI) in Melbourne, Australia. In the past she has also been a visiting assistant professor at the Computer Science Department (CSD) of the University of Crete (UoC), and a visiting lecturer and a postdoctoral fellow at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research focus is in the converging areas of computer vision and photogrammetry, in the topics of human & object extraction and tracking, 3D pose estimation, 3D reconstruction and image matching. She has R&D experience in large industries, research institutes and academia and has participated in more than 25 international, EU and national-funded projects, contributing in the development of large-scale vision systems addressing real-world problems in different application domains such as health, human-robot and human-computer interaction, cultural heritage, aerial/satellite applications. Since 2019 she is the Research Executive in ORamaVR S.A. Currently she is the Coordinator of H2020 project sustAGE “Adaptive smart working and living environments supporting active and healthy ageing”, and Co-PI in “SMART BEAR: Smart Big Data Platform to Offer Evidence-based Personalised Support for Healthy and Independent Living at Home.
Michalis Vakalellis holds a BSc in Management and Business Administration from Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece, an MSc in Management and Economics of Telecommunication Networks from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and an MSc in Information Systems from Hellenic Open University, Greece.
He has extensive experience in the telecommunications and consulting industry specializing in the analysis, design, management, and improvement of business processes to achieve business goals and objectives. He also has experience in managing technology incentive projects from the inception phase to achieving significant results through the coordination of dissemination and communication activities. He also has valuable experience as a Project Manager in EU-funded projects in the field of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence tools in the healthcare domain, and his motivation is to efficiently turn ICT projects into successful commercial products.