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Anastasios Karakostas*
Information Technologies Institute – Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Dr. Anastasios Karakostas (m) received the Degree in Computer Science and the PhD degree in Computer Science Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece. He is a Researcher with ITI- CERTH. Currently, he is deputy coordinator and scientific manager of the H2020 Disaster Management projects aqua3S and beAWARE. beAWARE proposes an integrated solution to support forecasting, early warnings, transmission and routing of the emergency data, aggregated analysis of multimodal data and management the coordination between the first responders and the authorities. He has also participated in numerous European and national research projects and is the author of more than 60 publications in refereed journals and international conference. His research interests include decision support systems, semantic multimedia analysis, ontologies and semantic information modeling and reasoning. He has served as a reviewer in international Journals such as Computers and Education, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and as Technical program committee in well reputed conferences and workshops such as CSCL, IEEE ICALT. He has been chair of the ICMT 2018 and ICMT 2019 in ISCRAM 2018 and 2019, one of the organizers of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative systems (INCoS 2010) and 2018 IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP) Workshop. Anastasios Karakostas will be present at the ISCRAM conference and the ICMT workshop. |
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Claudio Rossi
Istituto Superiore Mario Boella Claudio Rossi graduated at INPG – Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble and at Politecnico di Torino with a double bachelor degree in Information and Communication Technology. In 2005 he obtained a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and in 2006 he graduated from Politecnico di Torino with summa cum laude degree in Electronics. Between September 2006 and October 2007, he worked at Consorzio per il Sistema Informativo (CSI) as software analyst. From October 2007 to June 2010 he worked as a Project Manager at Fiat Group Automobiles (FGA). He was with the International Manufacturing Engineering team and with the World Class Manufacturing Headquarter. He led the realization of a new passenger car plant in India and the development of new standards. Fom June 2010 to July 2014 he worked for the Telecommunication Group (DET) of Politecnico di Torino as project manager, software analyst, programmer and system admin, mainly focusing on the realization of a novel self-hosted peer-to-peer social network, and on interference estimation and classification using innovative algorithms and Software Defined Radios. From September 2012 to March 2013 he was an intern at Telefonica I+D working on bandwidth aggregation techniques between wired and cellular networks. In Dic 2013 he obtained from Politecnico di Torino his PhD with the thesis titled “Cooperation Strategies for Enhanced Connectivity at Home”, proposing several techniques to overcome connectivity issues, boost connection speed, achieve energy efficiency in wireless residential networks. He is now a researcher and project manager in the Microsoft Innovation Center at ISMB, focusing on mobile sensing, cloud-based web applications, wireless networks, and data analysis. He was the deputy project coordinator and technical lead of the FLOODIS project (http://floodis.eu/, FP7-SPACE-2013-1) and he currently has the same role in the I-REACT project (http://www.i-react.eu/, DRS-1 H2020). Both projects delivers novel services for emergency management involving the coupled use of Earth Observations (EO), nowcast and forecast models, gamified crowdsourcing, and social media. He is also the technical leader of other H2020 projects on agri-food (e.g. VISCA) and was involved in many regional and interregional research projects. He has authored more than 30 related scientific journal, conference and book chapter publications. |
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Evangelos Sdongos
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) Mr. Evangelos Sdongos is a Researcher, Scientific Project Manager and Team Leader of the Crisis Management and Security Unit at ICCS. Mr. Sdongos holds a MSc. in Telecommunications and Information Technology from the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of Patras University and has extensive experience in the design, implementation and integration of mobile communication networks, embedded systems and sensors and emergency communication systems. Mr. Sdongos has worked in several industrial projects and is actively participating in several FP7 and H2020 projects, such as PPDR-TC, eVACUATE, INTE-TRANSIT, NEXES, RECONASS, INACHUS, CURSOR, IN-PREP, INGENIOUS, aqua3S, STRATEGY, CitySCAPE, S4ALLCities, ZONESEC, EVACUATE and SAFEPASS as project and/or technical coordinator. He has obtained an MBA from Hellenic Open University (2016) and he is currently PhD candidate at National Technical University of Athens. He has published several articles in conference proceedings and journals in the domain of crisis management and risk reduction. Evangelos Sdongos will be present at the ISCRAM conference and the ICMT workshop. |
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Stefanos Vrochidis
Information Technologies Institute – Centre for Research and Technology Hellas Dr. Stefanos Vrochidis received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, the MSc degree in Radio Frequency Communication Systems from University of Southampton and the PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from Queen Mary University of London. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher with ITI-CERTH and co-founder of CERTH-ITI’s spin off Infalia. His research interests include semantic multimedia analysis, indexing and retrieval, data mining, web and social media monitoring, as well as security applications (including crisis management). Dr. Vrochidis has participated in more than 30 European and National projects (e.g. aqua3S, EOPEN, beAWARE, V4Design, etc.), in 3 as Project Coordinator, 2 as Deputy project Coordinator and in 5 as Scientific or Technical Manager, dealing with analysis and retrieval of multimedia information. Stefanos Vrochidis has been among the organizers of Environmental Multimedia Retrieval 2014 (EMR) and EMR 2015 workshops held in ICMR 2014 and 2015 respectively. He was also member of the organization team for the European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015) and the International Workshop on Multimedia Forensics and Security 2015 (MFSec) and MFSec 2017 in ARES 2015 and ICMR 2017 respectively and co-organizer of the CyberDD2017 (1st Intern. Workshop on Cyber Deviance Detection) collocated with WSDM 2017, and ICMT 2018 and 2019 collocated with ISCRAM 2018 and 2019. He was also among the organizers of relevant special sessions in MMM2017, CBMI 2018 and MMM2020. He has edited 2 books and authored more than 180 related scientific journal, conference and book chapter publications. He has served as a reviewer in international Journals such as Multimedia Tools and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and as Technical program committee in well reputed conferences and workshops such as ICMR, ACM Multimedia, ICME, ECIR, ICIP, CIKM and FOSINT. |
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