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Schahram Dustdar is
Full Professor of Computer Science heading the
Research Division of Distributed Systems at the TU
Wien, Austria. He holds several honorary positions:
Honorary Professor at Nanjing University of Science
and Technology, China (since 2023), Francqui Chair
Professor at University of Namur, Belgium
(2021-2022), University of California (USC) Los
Angeles; Monash University in Melbourne, Shanghai
University, Macquarie University in Sydney,
University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. From Dec
2016 until Jan 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at
the University of Sevilla, Spain and from January
until June 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at UC
Berkeley, USA.
From 1999 - 2007 he worked as the co-founder and
chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software AG in
Vienna (acquired by Engineering NetWorld AG), a
venture capital co-funded software company focused
on software for collaborative processes in teams.
Caramba Labs was nominated for several
(international and national) awards: World
Technology Award in the category of Software (2001);
Top-Startup companies in Austria (Cap Gemini Ernst &
Young) (2002); MERCUR Innovation award of the
Austrian Chamber of Commerce (2002).
He is founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM
Transactions on Internet of Things (ACM TIoT) as
well as Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer). He
is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on
Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud
Computing, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions
on the Web, and ACM Transactions on Internet
Technology, as well as on the editorial board of
IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Computer. Dustdar
is recipient of multiple awards: TCI Distinguished
Service Award (2021), IEEE TCSVC Outstanding
Leadership Award (2018), IEEE TCSC Award for
Excellence in Scalable Computing (2019), ACM
Distinguished Scientist (2009), ACM Distinguished
Speaker (2021), IBM Faculty Award (2012). He is an
elected member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy
of Europe, where he is chairman of the Informatics
Section, as well as an IEEE Fellow (2016), an
Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association
(AAIA) President (2021) and Fellow (2021). He is an
EAI Fellow (2021) and an I2CICC Fellow (2021). He is
a Member of the 2022 IEEE Computer Society Fellow
Evaluating Committee (2022).
He has been a frequently invited expert evaluator
for the IST 6th Framework (FP6), EU Horizon 2020 of
the European Commission, an invited expert for the
7th Framework roadmap definitions for several
working groups, as well as a Technical Expert for
the roadmap definition for the European Commission’s
research on the Future Internet. He has been a
scientific reviewer for the European Research
Council (ERC) as well as a number of National
Science Foundations e.g., DFG (Germany), NWO
(Netherlands), SNF (Switzerland), EPSRC (UK), SFI
(Ireland), Czech Science Foundation (GA CR), NSERC
(Canada), FWO (Research Foundation Flanders,
Belgium), FCT (Foundation for Science and
Technology, Portugal), Einstein Foundation Berlin
(Germany). On behalf of the National Commission for
Scientific and Technological Development (CONICYT)
and the Superior Council of the National Fund for
Scientific & Technological Development (FONDECYT),
Chile, Academy of Finland, Israel Science
Foundation, EPSRC Peer Review College, New Zealand
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
(MBIE), Cyprus Agency for Quality Assurance and
Accreditation in Higher Education, L’Oréal-UNESCO
For Women in Science Awards 2021 (Physical sciences,
Mathematics and Computer science), Estonian Research
Council (ETAg).
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Ali Selamat (Member,
IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in IT from
Teesside University, U.K., in 1997, the M.Sc. degree
in distributed multimedia interactive systems from
Lancaster University, U.K., in 1998, and the Dr.Eng.
degree from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, in
2003. He is currently the Dean of the Malaysia–Japan
International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), which
is an educational institute that is established by
the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, to
enhance Japanese oriented engineering education in
Malaysia and Asia with the support from the
Government of Japan through the Japanese
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) together with 29
Japanese University Consortium (JUC). He is also a
Visiting Professor with the University of Hradec
Králové, Czech Republic, and the Kagoshima Institute
of Technology, Japan. Prior to that, he was the
Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Director of
Communication and Information Technology with UTM.
He was previously assuming the position of the
Research Dean on the knowledge economy research
alliance with UTM. He was a Visiting Professor with
Kuwait University and few other universities in
Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia. His research
interests include data analytics, digital
transformations, knowledge management in higher
education, key performance indicators, cloud-based
software engineering, software agents, information
retrievals, pattern recognition, genetic algorithms,
neural networks, and soft computing. He was elected
as the Chair of IEEE Computer Society, Malaysia
Section, under the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA. He was a
Principal Consultant of big data analytics with the
Ministry of Higher Education, in 2010, a member of
the Malaysia Artificial Intelligence Roadmaps, from
2020 to 2021, and a keynote speaker in many
international conferences.
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