Marin Litoiu (York University): Professor; research interests in software engineering, IoT, adaptive systems, and cloud computing. He is Chair of the Steering Committee of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS) and Vice Chair of IEEE TCSE. He has rich industrial experience and has led many large-scale research projects and programs. While at IBM, he led the research programs in autonomic computing and software engineering. At York, he directs York’s Information Technology Graduate Program.
Hausi Müller (University of Victoria): Professor; research interests in software engineering, IoT, smart cyber physical systems, and adaptive, cognitive computing, context-aware systems, and DevOps. He is Program Co-Chair for World Forum of Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2015 & 2018). He serves on the IEEE Computer Society (CS) Board of Governors (2015–17) and is Vice President of IEEE CS Technical and Conferences Activities Board (2016–17). He was Chair of IEEE CS Technical Council on Software Engineering (2010–15). He is founding director of UVic’s software engineering program.
Eleni Stroulia (Univeristy of Alberta): Professor; research interests in Smart Homes and Assisted Living, wearables and mobile applications, computer-aided teaching and learning, collaborative platforms, and service-oriented systems. She is the co-lead of the UAlberta Smart Condo project and AGE-WELL’s workpackage WP6 on technologies for cognitive and mental health, where she uses technology to support seniors and people with chronic conditions live independently longer, and to educate health-science students in using technology to provide better care.
Alberto Leon-Garcia (Toronto): Professor; research interests in Smart Cities and smart transportations, wireless sensor networks, edge and fog computing; An NSERC Canada Research Chair, Alberto was the Scientific Research Director of SAVI, Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructure, an NSERC Strategic Network, and the PI of Connected Vehicles and Smart Transportation, an Ontario RE-ORF, sponsored project. He is the PI in the NSERC CREATE NetSoft.
Jenn McArthur (Ryerson): Assistant Professor; research interests in Building Information Management, Smart Buildings, and Data Analytics techniques; over a decade of industry experience in sustainable building design and energy consulting prior to starting her academic career in 2014, which included a hiring manager role where she initiated the hiring of four-month co-op students in the mechanical and electrical teams, she spearheaded the establishment of the Resilient Facility Analytics Network, a Canada/US partnership of 25 academic and 25 industry partners.
Manos Papagelis (York): Assistant Professor; research interests in data mining, graph mining, large-scale network analysis, information networks, big data systems, big data analytics, knowledge discovery, city science. His research focuses on the design and development of fast and principled algorithms and tools for solving computational problems and enabling data-driven decision making.
Sotirios Liaskos (York): Associate Professor; research focuses on how human and business needs, preferences and priorities that can be captured, modeled, analyzed and interpreted into software system functions. He is particularly interested in the elicitation and visualization of problem-level conceptual models as well as the use of classical AI techniques for reasoning about human goals and preferences vis-a-vis system functions. He served as a Technology Internship Program Coordinator for his Department at York University for several years.
Natalija Vlajic (York): Associate Professor; research focuses on (1) the analysis of network and application-layer characteristics as well as security vulnerabilities of a wide range of Internet bots and IoT devices, and (2) the development of intelligent (machine-learning) techniques for the detection and protection against Internet bots and IoT devices that exhibit malicious/problematic behavior. She currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Communication Magazine.
Lauren Sergio (York): Professor in School of Kinesiology and Health Science; her neuroscience research examines the effects of age, sex, experience, disease, and injury on the brain’s control of visually-guided movement using behavioral and brain imaging techniques. She is a Research Affiliate at Southlake Regional Health Centre, part of the York University Sport Medicine team, and directs York’s Neuroscience Graduate program.
Marios Fokaefs (Polytechnique Montréal): Assistant Professor; his research focuses on DevOps, software evolution and continuous integration with respect to value, performance and cost in service-oriented, cloud and IoT systems. His research has been funded by IBM (for about a decade), Alberta Ingenuity and OCE. His teaching excellence has been recognized by the University of Alberta.
