Prof. Kenli Li

Vice President of Hunan University and Director of the National Supercomputing Center in Changsha, China

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Prof. Francesco Flammini

University of Florence, Italy - IDSIA USI-SUPSI, Switzerland

Short Bio: Prof. Francesco Flammini is a Full Professor at the University of Florence, where he is a member of the Resilient Computing Lab (RCL) and of the Computer Science Ph.D. steering board at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science “Ulisse Dini”. He is also jointly affiliated with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, where he leads the Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) research group at Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA USI-SUPSI), formerly serving as the program director of the bachelor in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

He received his laurea (M.D., 2003), cum laude, and research doctorate (Ph.D., 2006) both in Computer Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. He spent 15 years in public and private organizations, including Ansaldo STS (now Hitachi Rail) and IPZS (Italian State Mint and Polygraphic Institute), leading large international programs in intelligent transportation and critical infrastructure protection, as the technical leader and unit head.

Prof. Flammini has also been a Full Professor of Computer Science with a focus on Cyber-Physical Systems at Mälardalen University, Sweden. He previously served as an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) environment at Linnaeus University (Sweden), and as an Adjunct Professor at several universities, including the University of Maryland Global Campus Europe.

Prof. Flammini is an IEEE Senior Member and an active volunteer leader across IEEE societies. He serves on the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Board of Governors as Associate Vice President for Members and Student Activities and chairs the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Homeland Security. He has also served as Vice-Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Italy Chapter. He is an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor and an ACM Distinguished Lecturer.

During his career, he received several research and innovation awards, including the most recent TRA Visions Senior Researcher Competition Award (2024), and the Dalle Molle Award for the Quality of Life Label (2024).

He has (co)authored 200+ publications and has served in leadership roles (chair, invited speaker, steering/program committee member, editor) for 50+ international conferences, books, and journals. He has been PI/technical manager and WP/task leader in 15+ research projects (largely EU-funded) and also serves as an expert evaluator for research agencies. He has supervised 10+ Ph.D. students as primary advisor and co-supervised 20+.

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Prof. Sadi Alawadi 

Blekinge Tekniska Högskola (BTH), Sweden

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Prof. Rehmat Ullah

Newcastle University, UK

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