Speaker: Nicolas Ferry.
Nicolas Ferry is an Associate Professor at University Côte d’Azur. Prior he was a Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF. His research interest includes model-driven engineering, domain- specific languages, Internet of Things, cloud-computing, self-adaptive systems, and dynamic adaptive systems. He has actively contributed to various national and international research projects such as the REMICS, CITI-SENSE, MC-Suite and MODAClouds EU projects, and was the technical manager of the H2020 ENACT project. He has also served as a program committee member of international conferences and workshops.
Speaker: Professor Chunming Rong
Prof. Chunming Rong is the chair of IEEE CS STC on Blockchain. He served also as co-chair of IEEE Blockchain in 2018, and the chair of IEEE Cloud Computing in 2017-2020. He is the head of the Data-centered and Secure Computing (DSComputing) at the University of Stavanger (UiS) and adjunct Chief Scientist at the independent research institute NORCE. He is also co-founder and CEO/CTO of two start-ups bitYoga and Dataunitor (sold) in Norway, both received EU Seal of Excellence Award in 2018. He was the vice president of CSA Norway Chapter (2016-2017). His research work focuses on AI, cloud computing, blockchain, security and privacy. He is an IEEE senior member and is honored as member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA) since 2011. He has extensive contact network and projects in both the industry and academic. He is also founder and Steering Chair of IEEE CloudCom conference and workshop series. He is Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Cloud Computing (ISSN: 2192-113X) by Springer, and co-Editors-in-Chief of the journal “Blockchain: Research and Applications” by Elsevier, has served as the steering chair (2016-2019), and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC) since 2016. He has extensive contact network and projects in both the industry and academic. His research work focuses on cloud computing, data analytics, cyber security and blockchain. Prof. Rong has extensive experience in managing large-scale R&D projects, both in Norway and EU.
Speaker: Viraj Bhat
Viraj is employed with GoDaddy in Santa Clara, California, and is a Principal architect in the DnA org, where he works on building data pipelines for machine learning applications. Previously, he was employed at Yahoo! where he was porting and parallelizing several data-intensive applications on Yahoo! Grids based on Hadoop (Map Reduce Programming Paradigm). He built Hadoop Vaidya, a performance diagnostic tool for Map/Reduce jobs. Vaidya is automated to process thousands of Grid jobs running daily. He contributes to various open-source projects such as Airflow, Pig, Hive, Oozie, and HCatalog. He received the Yahoo! award in 2008 for evangelizing Grid technologies, profiling, and optimizing Map Reduce applications. Viraj Bhat graduated with a Ph.D. degree (May 2008) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the guidance of Professor Manish Parashar. He used to be a visiting researcher at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in Princeton, New Jersey. Viraj has been involved in several research projects at Rutgers, PPPL, and ORNL, including Autonomic Data Management, AutoMate/Accord, DISCOVER, and CORBACoG at CAIP (Rutgers University) and Development of Systems for Distributed Scientific Data Management using Automated Workflows Applied to Plasma Physics Simulations (PPPL).