The Organizers

Email: monowar [@] cs.umu.se

Monowar Bhuyan (PhD, Member, IEEE) is a WASP Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden, since January 2020, and one of the research group leaders at Autonomous Distributed Systems Lab. He holds a PhD in computer science and engineering from Tezpur University (a Central University), India. Before this, he worked with the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, Umeå University, Sweden, Assam Kaziranga University, India, and Tezpur University, India, from January 2009 to December 2019. His research areas include machine learning, anomaly detection, security and privacy, trustworthy AI, and distributed systems.

Email: sonvx [@] cs.umu.se

Xuan-Son Vu (Ph.D., Member, IEEE) is a postdoctoral fellow at the department of computing science at Umeå University, Sweden. He received his Ph.D degree from the Umeå University. He obtained a M.Sc degree in Computer Science, Kyungpook National University in Korea, with focus on NLP and Machine Learning. His work has been primarily focused on knowledge - both acquiring knowledge from text, multimodal data, and using structured knowledge to power downstream applications. He is a reviewer for journals/conferences including TheWebConf, ECAI, ICDM, PAKDD, SSR, SC2, COSE (Computer & Security), IJCAI, ACL, TPAMI.

Email: Harry.Nguyen [@] glasgow.ac.uk

Harry D. Nguyen (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Singapore. He holds a PhD in Information Systems and Analytics from the National University of Singapore. His research interests include health optimisation, big data analytics, deep learning and mobile human-computer interaction. His work has been published in the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Decision Systems, and Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. He regularly serves as a program board member and/or reviewer for international conferences and journals including the International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII), Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) and Health Systems.

Email: elmroth [@] cs.umu.se

Erik Elmroth (Member, IEEE) is a Full Professor in Computing Science at Umeå University, Sweden. He has been Head and Deputy Head of the Department of Computing Science for 13 years and deputy director for a national supercomputer center for another 13 years. He has established the Umeå University research on distributed systems, see http://www.cloudresearch.org. His experience from management and executive groups in large-scale research projects includes highlights such as the 550M EURO Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program and the Strategic Research Area eSSENCE. He has been a member of the Swedish Research Council's committee for research infrastructure and chair of its expert panel on eScience as well as Chair of the Board of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing. He has developed two international research strategies for the Nordic Council of Ministers. International experiences include a year at NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, and one semester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. Elmroth is a lifetime member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences and vice-chair of its division for Information Technology.