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Prof. Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves de Melo obtained her PhD degree in Computer Science from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France, in 1996. Since 1997, she is with the Department of Computer Science of the University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil, where she is now Full Professor and Head of the Department. Prof. Melo is currently Member of the Council of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC), Vice-Chair of the IEEE Technical Community on Parallel Processing (TCPP), IEEE Senior Member and CNPq/Brazil Researcher level 1C. One of the PhD Thesis advised by Prof. Melo was awarded the Best PhD Thesis in Computer Science in Brazil (Premio Capes de Tese) in 2016. She is also recipient of the 2023 IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award and the 2019 Wilkes Award for the Best Paper published at The Computer Journal in 2018. Prof. Melo serves as Associate Editor in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Computers, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Future Generations Computing Systems. She also chaired many important conferences, such as IEEE IPDPS 2024 (General Co-Chair), HiPEAC 2025 (Program Chair), IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2025 (Program co-Chair), IEEE IPDPS 2019 (Program co-Chair), Euro-Par 2025 (co-Track Chair), IEEE Cluster 2023 (co-Track Chair), Supercomputing (SC) 2022 (co-Track Chair) and Euro-Par 2020 (co-Track Chair). Prof. Melo was keynote speaker at prestigious conferences (Euro-Par 2021 and SBAC-PAD 2023) and in several international workshops. 

Prof. Ricardo Pezzuol Jacobi completed his PhD in Applied Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain in 1993. He was a professor at the Institute of Informatics at UFRGS from 1989 to 1998. He is currently an associate professor at the University of Brasília. He was Director of the Institute of Exact Sciences at UnB from 2004 to 2007. In August 2008, he became Vice-Director of the UnB Gama Campus, where four new engineering courses were created. He works in the areas of Computer Science and Microelectronics, with an emphasis on CAD, reconfigurable architectures and monolithic systems (SoC).

Prof. Carla Denise Castanho holds a PhD (2001) and a master's degree (1998) in Computer Science from the Nagoya Institute of Technology (Japan), and a bachelor's degree (1994) in Computer Science from the University of Passo Fundo (Brazil). Since 2005, she has been a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Brasília. Her research interests focus on Electronic Games, more precisely on Game Analytics and User Experience (UX) in Games.

Prof. Daniel Sundfeld Lima is a professor of higher education at the University of Brasilia (UnB), at the Software Engineering course from Faculty of Science and Technology in Engineering (FCTE) since 2022. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Brasília (2017), with a sandwich doctorate at the University of Copenhagen (2015) (CAPES scholarship holder). His doctoral thesis "Primary and secondary alignment of biological sequences in high-performance architectures" was awarded an honourable mention at the Contest of PhD Thesis and MsC Dissertations in High Performance Computing 2018 by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). His main area of research is leveraging parallel and high-performance computing, graphics processing units (GPU) and cloud computing to solve efficiently complex problems in Bioinformatics.

2025 Best Poster Award, given at the 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms for paper "A Framework for Reproducible Parallel DNA String Matching".

2023 TCPP Ouststanding Service and Contributions Award, given by IEEE Society.

2019 Wilkes Award for paper "Formalization of Block Pruning: Reducing the Number of Cells Computed in Exact Biological Sequence Comparison Algorithms", given by Oxford Press.

2018 Honourable Mention at the WSCAD-CTD Contest for the Best PhD Thesis on High Performance Computing for the PhD Thesis "Alinhamento primário e secundário de sequências biológicas em arquiteturas de alto desempenho".

2016 Capes PhD Thesis Award for the Best PhD Thesis in Computer Science in Brazil for the PhD Thesis "Algoritmos Paralelos Exatos e Otimizações para Alinhamento de Sequências Biológicas Longas em Plataformas de Alto Desempenho".