Marco Aldinucci is a full professor and P.I. of the Parallel Computing research group at the University of Torino. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pisa (2003), and he has been a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He authored over 120+ scientific articles (see Google scholar). He is the recipient of the HPC Advisory Council University Award 2011, the NVidia Research award 2013, the IBM Faculty Award 2015, the Autodesk award 2021. He is a research fellow at Links foundation. He has participated in over 15 EU-funded research projects on parallel and cloud and high-performance computing attracting over 10M€ of research funds to the University of Torino. He has been the Italian delegate at the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Governing Board (2018-2021). He has led the design of the HPC4AI laboratory. He is the founding director of the CINI HPC Key Technologies and Tools national laboratory, gathering researchers from 38 Italian Universities. He is co-leading FureHPC, the technological spoke of the Italian National Centre on HPC (ICSC). He co-designed the FastFlow programming framework and several other libraries for parallel computing.

Yang Liu is an Associate Professor at the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) of Tsinghua University, China. Before joining Tsinghua University, she was Principal Researcher and Research Team Lead at WeBank. Her research interests include federated learning, machine learning, multi-agent systems, statistical mechanics, and AI industrial applications. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She holds more than 20 patents and more than 100 patent applications. Her research was published in well-known international conferences and journals including Nature, AAAI, IJCAI, USENIX, and ACM TIST, receiving more than 3000 citations overall. She coauthored Federated Learning [6], the first book on federated learning. She also serves as a guest/associate editor for IEEE Intelligent Systems and ACM TIST. She co-chaired multiple workshops at IJCAI, AAAI and NeurIPS. Her research work has been recognized with multiple awards, such as AAAI Innovation Award and the CCF Technology Award.