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High Performance Computing Centre (HLRS), University of Stuttgart - Germany
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Stefan Wesner has more than 10 years experience in collaborative research projects and several years of experience in commercial projects. He worked for IDS Prof. Scheer GmbH and German Telekom as developer and group leader before he joined USTUTT-HLRS. He is the deputy director of HLRS and the head of the Application and Visualisation Department. His group is involved in various ongoing collaborative research projects on national and European level related to Grid Computing, High Performance Computing and Collaborative Working Environments. His current research interests are on increasing the productivity of parallel software developers and the application of software engineering methods on HPC moving parallel programming from a niche expertise towards a mainstream capability. Lutz Schubert is head of the ISIS research group which focuses on enhancing distributed computing capabilities through intelligent embedding into the service infrastructure. He has been actively participating in Grid related research projects on national and international level since 2004. His actual research focus rests on embedding SOA capabilities into distributed execution frameworks so as to prepare multi-scale computing. He has published multiple papers on low level service oriented architectures and distributed execution control. Alexander Kipp is working on low-level resource virtualization for enhanced accessibility and control of distributed computing. He joined HLRS in 2006 and has worked in several grid related projects on resource virtualisation through message interception and inspection. Uwe Küster is heading the department on Numerical Methods & Libraries with a research focus on numerics, computer architecture and code optimization. He will contribute with his knowledge on future hardware developments and its expertise in parallel programming models, design and realization of benchmarks and its knowledge of PGAS languages. Daniel Rubio Bonilla recently joined HLRS as a researcher. Main interests are Operating Systems and processors' architectures. |
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Switzerland
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Dr. Rachid Guerraoui is is professor in computer science at EPFL and the head of the LPD lab. He graduated from the Univ of Paris, and has been affiliated with Ecole des Mines de Paris, the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, HP Labs, and more recently MIT. He has published two books on reliable distributed computing and wrote many journal papers on distributed algorithms and reliable middleware. He has chaired many conferences in the field and co- written two related books, including one on transactional systems. |
Europäisches Microsoft Innovations Center GmbH - Germany
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Dr. Holger Kenn is a Software Design Engineer in the European Microsoft Innovation Center in Aachen, Germany. In his role he is working on research projects in the area of embedded systems with a focus on embedded runtime environments. He is member of several program committees and organizer of workshops and conferences, in particular on wearable computing. Dr. Holger Kenn graduated as a Diplom-Informatiker from the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken/Germany in 1997 and received a Ph.D from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium in 2001 for a thesis on component-based operating systems for autonomous systems. From 2001 to 2004, he held the position of lecturer in electrical engineering and computer science at Jacobs University Bremen. From 2004 to 2007, he was the scientific lead of the wearable computing research group at the TZI in Bremen. His research interests are software engineering and service-oriented approaches for complex distributed embedded systems, mobile robotics in unstructured environments and wearable computing. In October 2007 he joined the European Microsoft Research Center in his current role. Dr. Johannes Helander joined the European Microsoft Innovation Center in Aachen, Germany, in May 2008, and is engaged in researching interesting topics in distributed embedded computing, especially in making embedded software more responsive to the increasing confidence we place on it. Until April 2008 Johannes was a researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond in the area of Embedded Systems. His interests include embedded web services, communication middleware, componentized real-time systems, consumer centric security, context history based prediction and modeling, and automatically scalable parallelism. Current application areas include interoperable discovery between device classes, IT management for out-of-band and embedded devices, and multi-language support for embedded platforms, including high-level domain-specific languages. Prior to Microsoft Johannes was at Helsinki University of Technology where he amongst other things created the first freely available Unix implementation for Mach, including simultaneous support for binaries from multiple Unix variants, and investigated the use of Real-Time Mach in a Nokia telephone switch. At Microsoft Johannes worked on the initial interactive TV project, firmware for 3D graphics acceleration, the first TCP direct path, a distributed mobile object system for Java; started an embedded C# runtime product group; co-designed initial smart watch software; created a component based RTOS, being used in management solutions; created the first Embedded XML Web Service implementation; designed and implemented a remote shell communicating over web services for Windows Vista; launched the Embedded WS-Management Toolkit, and prototyped a non-hierarchical trust and security system as well as an auto-adaptive distributed real-time scheduler. The latest experiments involve an evidence based firewall for fine grain trust management, using futures and partitures in concurrent programming leading to scalable parallelism, a tool for automatically discovering temporal and concurrency properties of existing software, and connecting Microsoft Robotic Studio directly to sensors using web services. |
Instituto de Telecomunicacoes-Pólo Aveiro - Portugal
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Dr. Rui Luis Aguiar holds a PhD from the University of Aveiro (2001). He is currently an associate professor at the University of Aveiro, and a Guest Professor at Carnegie Mellon INI. He is leading a research team at the Institute of Telecommunications, Aveiro, on next-generation network architectures and protocols. His current research interests are centered on the implementation of advanced wireless networks, systems, and circuits, with special emphasis on QoS and mobility aspects. He has been involved in European funded research since 1993, and has held technical responsabilities in many large projects, such as being the Chief Architect of the IST project Daidalos. He has more than 200 published papers in those areas. He is a Senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, and has taken chairing responsibilities in several conferences, such as ICNS’05, ICT’06 and ISCC’07. MSc. João Paulo Barraca holds a Master from University of Aveiro (2006), where he currently holds an Invited Lecturer position. He has been a researcher inside Institute of Telecommunications for five years. He has extensive experience in European funded research, having participated in projects like Daidalos and WIP. He has been responsible for network stack changes in the framework of industry-funded projects, where solutions for reliable handover operation were required, and where optimized behavior for Service-Oriented-Architectures (specifically web based) was needed. He has more than a dozen papers published in networking and software engineer design. |
Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna - Italy
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Giuseppe Lipari is Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. He is IEEE member since many years, and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computers. He is involved in many EU research projects (FRESCOR, RI-MACS, ARTIST 2, IRMOS) and national projects (ART-DECO, SensorNet). His research interests are in real-time systems, real-time operating systems, scheduling algorithms, embedded systems, and wireless sensor networks. Dhaval Giani is a research assistant at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. He has a strong expertise in development inside the Linux kernel. He is working on techniques for the performance isolation of KVM virtual machinesby means of real-time scheduling. Juri Lelli is a PhD student at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. His research interests fall in the field of real-time scheduling for General-Purpose Operating Systems. |
Computer Architecture for Embedded Systems (CAES), Universiteit Twente - the Netherlands
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Prof.dr.ir. Gerard J.M. Smit received his MSc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Twente. He then worked for four years in the research and development laboratory of Oc\'e in Venlo. He finished his Ph.D. thesis entitled ``the design of Central Switch communication systems for Multimedia Applications'' in 1994. He has been a visiting researcher at the Computer Lab of the Cambridge University in 1994, and a visiting researcher at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Innovations, New Jersey in 1998. Since 1999 he works in the CHAMELEON project, which investigates new hardware and software architectures for streaming applications. Currently his interests are: low-power communication, wireless multimedia communication, and reconfigurable architectures for energy reduction. Since 2007 he is full professor in the CAES chair (Computer Architectures for Embedded Systems) at the faculty EEMCS of the University of Twente. Prof. Smit has been and still is responsible of a number of research projects sponsored by the EC, industry and Dutch government in this field. Dr.ir. Jan Kuper studied mathematics at the University of Twente, and got his MSc (with honours) in 1986. He was a lecturer in computer science at the University of Leiden for one year, after which he got a position in theoretical computer science at the University of Twente. His PhD thesis (1994) is on aspects of undefinedness in both logic and computation, written under the supervision of Henk Barendregt. He developed a universal mathematical theory on functions, and developed reasoning systems to reason with uncertainty. At the University of Twente he is the primary lecturer on mathematical logic and on functional programming. A few years ago he joined the CAES group to work on the mathematical and functional characterisation of architectures for streaming processing. He is the main supervisor of several PhD students in the area of functional specification of wireless sensor nodes, multi-processor systems, and computer architectures. |