Program Committee

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Hugo Plácido da Silva
IT- Instituto de Telecomunicações
Portugal

Brief Bio
PhD in Electrical and Computers Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) - University of Lisbon (UL), Hugo is a researcher at the IT - Instituto de Telecomunicações since 2004, and an Invited Auxiliary Professor at IST/UL since 2019. He is also an entrepreneur, having co-founded and contributing to the foundation of multiple innovative technology-based companies operating in the field of medical devices for healthcare and quality of life. More recently, Hugo has been actively working towards making the world a bit more physiological, through BITalino, an open source software and low-cost hardware toolkit for rapid prototyping and development of biomedical application. His main interests include biosignal research, system engineering, signal processing, and machine learning, and in these topics Hugo has participated and actively contributed to 30+ R&D projects funded by national and internacional agencies. His work has been distinguished with several academic and technical awards, examples of which include the “alumniIPS” career award in 2018 and the 1st place at the Ordem dos Engenheiros Young Engineer Innovation Award in 2015, or the “Most Innovative Technology” award at the MIT Portugal E3 Forum in 2013. Hugo is an ACM Senior Member, an IEEE Senior Member, and a officer-elect of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Portugal Chapter. ... More >>

Larry Constantine
Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute
Portugal

Brief Bio
Larry Constantine, ACM Fellow, Life Member of the Industrial Designers Society of America, is an Institute Fellow at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal. An award-winning designer specializing in interaction design for complex systems and services, he is the developer of widely used techniques in interaction design and software engineering, including essential use cases, human activity modeling, and data flow diagrams. His research interests center on the role of models and modeling in systems and service design processes. His publications include over 200 papers and articles and more than two dozen books, among them Software for Use, co-authored with Lucy Lockwood, winner of the Jolt Award. A former professor at the University of Madeira, he is a recipient of the Stevens Award for his pioneering contributions to design and development methods. Under his pen name, Lior Samson, he is the author of nine novels, including Bashert, a 2015 winner of the Hoffer Award, and most recently, The Millicent Factor (Gesher Press, 2016). ... More >>

Maria Jose Escalona
University of Seville
Spain
www.iwt2.org

Brief Bio
María José Escalona Cuaresma is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at the University of Seville. She is the also the director of the Web Engineering and Early Testing research group. Her research interests include requirements engineering, web system development, model-driven engineering, early testing, and quality assurance. She also has managed important research and transference projects, both national and international. She received a PhD in computer science from the University of Seville.María José Escalona Cuaresma is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Computer Languages and Systems at the University of Seville. She is the also the director of the Web Engineering and Early Testing research group. Her research interests include requirements engineering, web system development, model-driven engineering, early testing, and quality assurance. She also has managed important research and transference projects, both national and international. She received a PhD in computer science from the University of Seville.

Andres Jimenez Ramirez
University of Seville
Spain

Brief Bio
Andres Jimenez-Ramirez is lecturer and researcher at the University of Seville, Spain. In 2014, he obtained his Ph.D degree in Computer Science. His research focuses on intelligent techniques for business process management and flexible business processes, hereby combining different disciplines, amongst which constraint programming, imperative and declarative business process modeling, and planning and scheduling. His current research interests are related to decision support systems applied to flexible business processes. Andres has published his research at international journals and conferences like Data and Knowledge Engineering, Information and Software Technology, Journal of Web Engineering or CAiSE. He is a member of the IWT2 Group at the University of Seville. ... More >>

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Alessandra Agostini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
David Ahlström, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Mehdi Ammi, University of Paris-Sud, France
Henning B. Andersen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Nikolaos Avouris, University of Patras, Greece
Ahmad Taher Azar, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia
Paul M. Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Dana Balas-Timar, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania
Frank Biocca, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States
Karen Blackmore, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Monica Bordegoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Yang Cai, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Juan G. Calleros, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico
Giovanni Carlomagno, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Luis A. Castro, Instituto Tecnólogico de Sonora (ITSON), Mexico
Bongsug Chae, Kansas State University, United States
Debashish Chakravarty, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Yang-Wai Chow, University of Wollongong, Australia
Lewis Chuang, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany
Cesar Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
Nibaran Das, Jadavpur University, India
Lizette de Wet, University of the Free State, South Africa
Chelsea Dobbins, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Sanda Erdelez, University of Missouri, United States
Vania V. Estrela, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Jesus Favela, Cicese, Mexico
Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
Carla Freitas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Antonio Frisoli, Independent Researcher, Italy
Elizabeth S. Furtado, University of Fortaleza, Brazil
Diego Gachet, European University of Madrid, Spain
Kiel Gilleade, Independent Researcher, United States
Daniela Giordano, University of Catania, Italy
Toni Granollers, University of Lleida, Spain
Sonja Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Karin Harbusch, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Ciara Heavin, University College Cork, Ireland
Bruno Heberlin, EPFL, Switzerland
Pilar Herrero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain
Beat Hirsbrunner, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Martin Hitz, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Sylwia Hyniewska, World Hearing Centre, Poland
Victor Kaptelinin, Umeå University, Sweden
Adi Katz, SCE - Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel
Simeon Keates, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom
Suzanne Kieffer, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Gerard J. Kim, Korea University, Korea, Republic of
Bernd Korn, German Aerospace Center, Germany
Harilaos Koumaras, Independent Researcher, Greece
Heidi Krömker, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel
Hannah Kum-Biocca, New Jergy Institue and Technology, United States
Joohaeng Lee, Independent Researcher, Korea, Republic of
Gerhard Leitner, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Youquan Liu, Chang'an University, China
Arminda G. Lopes, Interactive Technologies Institute (LARSyS/ITI) & Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal
Eurico R. Lopes, Escola Superior de Tecnologia (EST), Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (IPCB), Portugal
Daphne Lopez, VIT University, India
Andreas Luedtke, OFFIS, Germany
Anderson Maciel, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia, Italy
Federico Manuri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Frédéric Mérienne, Arts et Metiers, France
Daniel Mestre, Aix-Marseille University / CNRS, France
Max Mulder, TU Delft, Netherlands
Jaime Muñoz-Arteaga, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico
Stephen Mutula, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa, Italy
Michael O'Grady, University College Dublin, Ireland
Yoosoo Oh, Daegu University, Korea, Republic of
Tal Oron-Gilad, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Sheng-Lung Peng, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Claudio Pinhanez, IBM Research, Brazil
Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, New Delhi, India
Laura A. Ripamonti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Paul Rosenthal, University of Rostock, Germany
Cristian Rusu, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Pijush Samui, National Institute of Technology Patna, India
Andrea Sanna, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Ahmed Seffah, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
João Sequeira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Rahul Singh, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States
Kirsten Smith, University of Southampton, United States
Changsoo Sohn, St. Cloud State University, United States
Tania Tait, Maringá State University and FEITEP, Brazil
Zuhal Tanrikulu, Bogazici University, Turkey
Evert van Loenen, Philips Research & TU/e, Netherlands
Jean Vanderdonckt, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Phu N. Vo, Duy Tan University, Vietnam
Spyros Vosinakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Juan Wachs, Purdue University, United States
Guoyin Wang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Marcus Winter, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Gokmen Zararsiz, Erciyes University, Turkey
Philippe Zimmermann, University of Bern, Switzerland

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