Affiliation: Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy | Accelerat S.r.l, Italy
Name: Prof. Hoon Sung Chwa
Affiliation: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Name: Prof. Martina Maggio
Affiliation: Saarland University, Germany | Lund University, Sweden
Name: Dr. Francesco Restuccia
Affiliation: University of California San Diego, CA, USA
Name: Prof. Panagiotis Sarigiannidis
Affiliation: University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece
Name: Jörg Seitter
Affiliation: Infineon Technologies, Germany
Name: Prof. Heechul Yun
Affiliation: University of Kansas, KS, USA
Name: Dr. Dirk Ziegenbein
Affiliation: Bosch Corporate Research, Germany
Prof. Alessandro Biondi
Affiliation:
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy | Accelerat S.r.l, Italy
Bio:
"Alessandro Biondi is Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa (Italy), where he works at the Real-Time Systems (ReTiS) Laboratory. His main research interests include the design and implementation of real-time, safe, and secure cyber-physical systems, operating systems and hypervisors, synchronization protocols, design optimization for embedded systems, and formal analysis of scheduling algorithms. He graduated cum laude in Computer Engineering at the University of Pisa, Italy, within the excellence program. In 2017, he received a PhD cum laude in Emerging Digital Technologies (curriculum Embedded Systems) at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna under the supervision of Prof. Giorgio Buttazzo and Prof. Marco Di Natale. In 2016, he has been Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Kaiserslautern (Germany), where he worked with Prof. Bjoern B. Brandenburg. He was the recipient of several awards including six Best Paper Awards, one Best Journal Paper Award (IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics), one Outstanding Paper Award, one Best Presentation Award, one Best Paper Nomination, the EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award 2017 in the area "New directions in software design and optimization for embedded, cyber-physical and secure systems", and the ACM SIGBED Early Career Award 2019. Alessandro Biondi has been involved as member of the Program Committee of top conferences in the area of real-time, embedded, and cyber-physical systems. He is Associate Editor of Journal of Real-Time Systems (Springer), the major journal on time-critical computing, and he served as reviewer for most IEEE/ACM Transactions journals that cover research on embedded and cyber-physical systems. He served as TPC Vice-Chair of EMSOFT 2023, TPC Chair of EMSOFT 2024, and TPC Track Co-Chair of ETFA 2023 and 2022. He published several papers in international conferences, quality journals, and workshops, and filed two patents. He is currently leading industrial research projects in the area of safety-critical and secure software systems for automotive and railway industries, and he has been involved in research projects funded by the European Commission. Alessandro Biondi is also co-founder of two spin-off companies: Accelerat, focused on software solutions for safe, secure, and predictable cyber-physical systems, and Wriggle Solutions (IP now acquired), focused on real-time tyre monitoring systems. Wriggle Solutions received seven awards for startup companies at both the national and international level, and the SME Instrument grant from the European Commission."
Prof. Hoon Sung Chwa
Affiliation:
Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Bio:
"Prof. Hoon Sung Chwa is currently an associate professor at the department of electrical engineering and computer science, DGIST. Before joining DGIST in August 2018, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA from October 2016 to July 2018. He received a Ph.D. degree in School of Computing from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2016. His research interests include system design and analysis with timing guarantees and resource management in real-time embedded systems and cyber-physical systems. "
Prof. Martina Maggio
Affiliation:
Saarland University, Germany | Lund University, Sweden
Bio:
"Martina Maggio is a Professor at the Computer Science Department, Saarland University and a Professor at the Department of Automatic Control, Lund University. Martina completed her Ph.D. at Politecnico di Milano, working with Alberto Leva on the applications of control-theoretical tools for the design of computing systems. During her Ph.D., she spent one year as a visiting graduate student at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, working with Anant Agarwal and Hank Hoffmann on the Self-Aware Computing project. She joined Lund University in 2012 as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Karl-Erik Årzén on resource allocation for cloud infrastructures and real-time systems. She became an Assistant Professor in 2014, Docent and Associate Professor in 2017, and then Full Professor in 2023. In 2019 Martina spent a sabbatical year at Bosch Corporate Research in Renningen, Germany, working with Dirk Ziegenbein and Arne Hamann on the verification and validation of control systems in presence of deadline misses and computational faults. In March 2020, Martina joines the Department of Computer Science at Saarland University as a Full Professor."
Dr. Francesco Restuccia
Affiliation:
University of California San Diego, CA, USA
Bio:
Francesco Restuccia is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (cum laude) from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, Italy, in 2021. In 2016, he has been engineering intern at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA. In 2017, he has been visiting master’s student at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. In 2020, he has been visiting researcher at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He authored and co-authored multiple research articles published at top-notch peer-reviewed conferences and journals regarding hardware security, on-chip communications, timing and performance analysis of heterogeneous platforms, cyber-physical systems, and time-predictable hardware acceleration of deep neural networks on heterogeneous platforms. In 2022, he has been an invited speaker at the 2022 US Hardwear.io security conference and training.
Prof. Panagiotis Sarigiannidis
Affiliation:
University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece
Bio:
"Prof. Panagiotis Sarigiannidis is the Director of the ITHACA lab (https://ithaca.ece.uowm.gr/), co-founder of the 1st spin-off of the University of Western Macedonia: MetaMind Innovations P.C. (https://metamind.gr), and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece. He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2001 and 2007, respectively. He has published over 330 papers in international journals, conferences and book chapters, including IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Internet of Things, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Access and Computer Networks. He received 6 best paper awards and the IEEE SMC TCHS Research and Innovation Award 2023. He has been involved in several national, European and international projects, while his research interests include telecommunication networks, internet of things and network security."
Jörg Seitter
Affiliation:
Infineon Technologies, Germany
Bio:
"Jörg is distinguished engineer at Infineon Technologies. Previously he was heading the advance engineering of ETAS with a focus on Reliable Distributed Systems. In former roles within the Bosch group, he was working in Automotive Software and System Architecture and lead the development of high-performance ECUs for powertrain systems. Before Bosch he was working at IBM and has a deep history in large scale database systems technology and holds a lecture on this topic at University of applied science Esslingen. He holds a B.Eng. from University of applied Science Esslingen and a M.Sc. Degree from Brunel University London."
Prof. Heechul Yun
Affiliation:
University of Kansas, KS, USA
Bio:
"Prof. Heechul Yun is an Associate Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. Prior to the PhD, he worked for Samsung Electronics and ETRI."
Dr. Dirk Ziegenbein
Affiliation:
Bosch Corporate Research, Germany
Bio:
"Dirk Ziegenbein is chief expert for cyber-physical systems engineering and leads a research cluster developing methods and technologies for dynamic distributed systems at Bosch Corporate Research in Stuttgart, Germany. Dirk received a Master’s degree from Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. from Technical University of Braunschweig for his dissertation on modeling and design of embedded systems. He held several positions in R&D (software component technology, scheduling analysis, software architectures for multi-cores, autonomous systems design) and product management (embedded software engineering tools). Additionally, Dirk serves in various technical program committees including RTAS, ECRTS, and DATE."
