"Luís Almeida graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications Eng. in 1988 and received a Ph.D. in Electrical Eng. in 1999, both from the University of Aveiro in Portugal. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Porto (UP), Portugal, where he coordinates the Distributed and Real-time Embedded Systems laboratory (DaRTES). Among several appointments, he was a member of the Executive Committees of the IEEE Technical Committees on Real-Time Systems (2008-2013) and on Factory Automation (2007-2009, 2014-2017), Program and General Chair of the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (2011-2012 respectively), Vice-President (2011-2013) and Trustee (2008-2016) of the RoboCup Federation, and Associate Editor of the Springer Journal of Real-Time Systems (since 2010) and Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (since 2012). His research interests include real-time communications for distributed industrial/embedded systems including teams of cooperating agents and sensor networks."
"Fatima Anwar is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst Computer Engineering department. She completed PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) at UCLA (2019), where she was advised by Professor Mani B Srivastava. Recently, her focus is to establish a research group with a significant focus on designing systems for emerging embedded technologies while preserving security and privacy."
Dr. Ashutosh Dutta
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Labs, USA
"Ashutosh Dutta is Chief 5G Strategist and APL Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Labs, USA. He serves as the director of Doctor of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. In the past, he served as the chair of ECE department of Engineering for Professionals at JHU, Director of Technology Security at AT&T, CTO of Wireless at NIKSUN, Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of Central Research Facility at Columbia University, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. He has authored more than 110 technical papers, one book published by John and Wiley, and 5 book chapters, and has 31 issued patents. Ashutosh is recipient of IEEE MGA’s 2009 Leadership Award, IEEE-USA’s 2010 Professional Leadership Award, 2022 IEEE-USA George F. McClure Citation of Honor and 2022 IEEE North American Region Exceptional Service Award. Ashutosh served as Member-At-Large for IEEE Communications Society for 2020-2025 and Distinguished Lecturer from 2018-2021. Ashutosh was inducted into Internet IPV6 Hall of Famer in 2024. He co-founded the IEEE STEM conference (ISEC) in 2011 and has served its co-chair since then. Ashutosh currently serves as the Chair for IEEE Industry Connection’s O-RAN activities and 6G. As the Founding co-chair of IEEE Future Networks he led technology roadmap, publications, standardization, testbed, education, industry engagement, conferences and workshops in the area of 5G and 6G, while keeping a focus on humanitarian needs. Ashutosh is a Distinguished Alumnus of NIT Rourkela with a BS in Electrical Engineering, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and a PhD. in EE from Columbia University. Ashutosh is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished member."
"Timothy Lee is a Boeing Technical Fellow based in Southern California. He leads the development of disruptive microelectronics technologies for advanced communications networks and sensor systems for airborne and space applications. His research interests include 3D Heterogenous Integration (3DHI) technologies for chiplet/wafer stacking of digital/analog/RF silicon/III-V devices for high-performance, and low-power microelectronics for aerospace and defense application. He is principal investigator for the transition of IRAD, CRAD and university Lab to Fab research into technologies for defense systems. During his over 40 years of experience, he has held technical/managerial positions at research facilities, aerospace companies, and semiconductor foundries. He has led development of hardware for satellite communications and has built phased-array antenna electronics for commercial and US government customers. Lee has authored over 30 journal and conference papers. He holds SMEE and SBEE degrees from MIT and a master’s degree in system engineering from University of Southern California."
"Prof. Selma Saidi is a full professor in the field of computer engineering at TU Braunschweig, one of Germany's leading universities renowned for excellence in engineering. She is the head of the Institute of Computer and Network Engineering (IDA). She holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France. She conducted her PhD between VERIMAG and the Advanced System Technology Computing R&D department at STMicroelectronics, one of the top semiconductor manufacturers in Europe and in the world. VERIMAG is an internationally leading research institute in formal methods for designing reliable embedded computer systems. The institute was founded by Turing prize winner Joseph Sifakis. For more than 10 years she have been involved in various disciplines of development, implementation, and validation/verification of computer systems. Her research focus has been on the design, implementation, and validation of innovative intelligent computing systems where connectivity, real-time, and safety requirements play an important role. She focuses on the development of novel hardware and software design methods for networked and collaborative embedded and autonomous systems with performance, predictability, and self-adaptability requirements. The results and findings of her research activities have been published in outstanding conferences and journals in the field of hardware and software design and verification, e.g., RTSS, DAC, DATE, ICCAD, IEEE Design and Test Magazine, and ACM Transactions Journal on Embedded Computing Systems."
"Irida Shallari is an Assistant Professor at the Sensible Things that Communicate research center at Mid Sweden University. She graduated in 2016 on the European Masters in Embedded Computing Systems from the University of Southampton, UK and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. In 2019, Irida was awarded the Bronn scholarship for her licentiate thesis in “Intelligence Partitioning for IoT”, while in 2021, she obtained her PhD degree from Mid Sweden University. Her research focused on the design of energy efficient smart camera nodes, considering the optimisation of both the computational and communication burden of the IoT node. Irida has been a visiting researcher at the Blaise Pascal research institute in France and the Ontario Tech University, Canada, while she has obtained several national funds from the Knowledge Foundation and Vinnova. Her research is centered on vision systems, where camera based IoT nodes relying on both traditional and AI-based processing can be deployed as metrology instruments within the Smart Cities and the Industry 4.0 perspectives."
"Dr. Soham Sinha is a systems software engineer and researcher at Nvidia. His research focuses on time-critical systems software design. He currently works on Nvidia's system design and real-time performance for the Holoscan embedded computing platform. In his doctoral thesis, he proposed a new design and implementation of a centralized multicore vehicle operating system, Drako DriveOS. He has previously worked on real-time task scheduling algortihms, progress-aware predictable program executation, predictable I/O and virtualized real-time systems. He also dabbled in performance of cloud-storage services and enterprise-scale software."
