Robert S. Laramee received a bachelors degree in physics, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (ZooMass). He received a masters degree in computer science from the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He was awarded a PhD from the Vienna University of Technology (Gruess Gott TUWien), Austria at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms in 2005. From 2001 to 2006 he was a researcher at the VRVis Research Center (www.vrvis.at) and a software engineer at AVL (www.avl.com) in the department of Advanced Simulation Technologies. Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Swansea University (Prifysgol Cymru Abertawe), Wales in the Department of Computer Science (Adran Gwyddor Cyfrifiadur). His research interests are in the areas of scientific visualization, information visualization, and visual analytics. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals and conferences.

scientific visualization, information visualization, and visual analytics

Marcelo Milrad is a Full Professor at the Department of Media Technology. Professor Milrad has published over 170 articles in international journals, refereed conferences, books and technical reports. He has also been presenting and giving lectures about his work in more than 40 countries worldwide.

Marcelo Milrad's current research interests include the design of learning environments to support learning about complex domains, collaborative discovery learning and the development of mobile and wireless applications to support collaborative learning.

Petra Perner (IAPR Fellow) is the director of the IBaI. She received her Diploma degree in electrical engineering and her PhD degree in computer science for the work on “Data Reduction Methods for Industrial Robots with Direct Teach-in-Programing”. Her habilitation thesis was about “A Methodology for the Development of Knowledge-Based Image-Interpretation Systems". She has been the principal investigator of various national and international research projects. She received several research awards for her research work and has been awarded with 3 business awards for her work on bringing intelligent image interpretation methods and data mining methods into business.

Image analysis and interpretation, machine learning, data mining, big data, machine learning, image mining and case-based reasoning

Morgan C. Wang received his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1991. He is the funding Director of Data Mining Program and Professor of Statistics at the University of Central Florida. He has published one book (Integrating Results through Meta-Analytic Review Using SAS Software, SAS Institute, 1999), and over 80 papers in referee journals and conference proceedings on topics including interval analysis, meta-analysis, computer security, business analytics, health care analytics and data mining. He is the elected member of International Statistical Association and member of American Statistical Association and International Chinese Statistical Association。 Dr. Wang is an active big data analyst. He provides complete analytical services to help business community to maximize their customers' life time values through using data mining and advance big data analytical techniques.

Automatic and intelligent model building Big data analytics with business application focus Data Mining, Web-Mining, Meta-Analysis and Computation Methods for Multivariate Data Analysis

Nicolas Wesner has completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Paris X Nanterre in 2001 and is an Associate Actuary since 2011. He is the head of the Pension Department of Mazars Actuariat an actuarial consulting firm that provides financial services for Banks, Insurance companies and Pension Funds. He has published chapters or papers in reputed Journals on various subjects such as econometrics, quantitative finance, insurance and pension, and data mining.

Econometrics, Quantitative Finance, Insurance and pension, Data mining.

Yedidi Narasimha Murty obtained Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Andhra University, India in 1998 with Computational Fluid Dynamics as specialization. Yedidi continued his research work at Andhra University with CSIR fellowship till March-2000. Yedidi worked as Research Associate with CSIR fellowship at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. Since December-2005, Yedidi is Architecting Data warehousing solutions for clients like – Optus-Australia, Ford, Travelers, BestBuy, GE Commercial Finance, PayPal, Bank of the West. Yedidi is currently working with Electronic Arts as BI Solutions Architect. He designed and modeled several solutions on Risk, Payment Transaction processing that is useful for the data driven business enablement. He is editorial board member for “World Journal of Mechanics” and “Fluid Mechanis: Open Access”. He reviewed 50+ research papers for various journals

Convection, non-newtonian fluids, porous media, heat and mass transfer, stability, numerical solutions, optimization, computational fluid dynamics, Big data, Data mining, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

Professor Fuad Aleskerov is a leading scientist in mathematics and multicriterial choice and decision making theory. Fuad Aleskerov is the Head of the International Laboratory of Decision Choice and Analysis and the Head of the Department of Mathematics for Economics of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). He has published 10 books, many articles in leading academic journals. He is a member of several scientific societies, member of editorial boards of several journals, founder and head of many conferences and workshops. He has been an invited speaker on numerous international conferences, workshops, and seminars.

Decision Theory, Individual, Social and Multicriterial Choice Theory, Economics, Utomation and Remote Control, Business-informatics, Political Processes, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics,

Fairouz Kamareddine has been a professor of Computer Science since 1998. She has been involved in a number of worldwide consultancy assignments, especially on education and research issues working for United Nations and the EU.She has held numerous invited positions at universities worldwide. She has published well over 150 published articles and a number of books. She has played leading roles in the development, administration and implementation of interdisciplinary, international, and academic collaborations and networks.

Big Data, Data Mining

Prof Dr Parameshwar P Iyer has earned his Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees from IIT Kharagpur, Universities of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and California at Davis. He has been on the Faculties at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (in the USA), and at the IIT Kharagpur, IIM Kozhikode, and IISc Bangalore (all in India), where he is currently pursuing research, teaching, and consulting in Managenet of Innovation, Projects, and Entrepreneurship. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute in a number of Interanational and National peer-reviewed Journals

Project Management, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Management, and Management of Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Technology Transfer

Ergi Sener, who is indicated as one of the 20 Turkish people to be followed in the field of technology (*), received a BS in Microelectronics Engineering in 2005 and double MS in Telecommunications & Management in 2007 from Sabanci University. He is pursuing a PHD degree in Innovation. He worked at Garanti Payment Systems, Turkcell and MasterCard all for managing new businesses and innovation. Her is currently acting as the CEO of Bonbon Tech, the biggest IoT focused new generation analytics company of Turkey. He is also acting as the CDO of Holland based incubation center, IdeaField.

AI, big data analysis, data mining, predictive analysis