SmartComp2024

Dr. Takashi Takenaka (NEC)
Takashi Takenaka received his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He joined NEC Corporation in 2000 and is currently a director of Green AI Research Group, Secure System Platform Laboratories, NEC Corporation. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Irvine, from 2009 to 2010. His current research interests include the acceleration of AI/ML, system-level design methodology, high-level synthesis, formal verification, and stream processing. He is a member of IEEE, IEICE, and IPSJ.

Prof. Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines)
Dr. Qi Han is Professor  in the Department of Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines.  She founded and currently directs the Pervasive Computing Systems (PeCS) research group  (http://pecs.mines.edu).  Her broad research interests lie in the areas of wireless and mobile systems with specific focuses on mobile sensing, crowdsourcing, Internet of Things, networked robotic systems, mobile augmented reality, and cyber-physical systems.  She has been active in interdisciplinary research where she applies her expertise to a variety of applications in the domains of smart cities, intelligent transportation, underground safety, environmental monitoring, and space exploration.  Her research has been mainly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and Army Research Labs (ARL).  She has led multiple interdisciplinary research projects. Dr. Han  holds a Ph.D. degree from the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.   She has served on a number of technical program committees for international conferences and held several workshop or conference program chair positions.  She is an ACM Distinguished Speaker, an ACM senior member,  and an IEEE senior member.

Prof. Sozo Inoue (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Sozo INOUE is a full professor in National Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, and the Chief Technical Officer of AUTOCARE LLC. His research interests include human activity recognition with smart phones, and healthcare application of web/pervasive/ubiquitous systems. Currently he is working on applictions of activity recognition and health forecasting for nursing care and medicine to hospitals and more than 50 nursing facilities using smartphones and IoT. Inoue has a Ph.D of Engineering from Kyushu University in 2003. After completion of his degree, he was appointed as an assistant professor in the Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering at the Kyushu University, Japan. He then moved to the Research Department at the Kyushu University Library in 2006. Since 2009, he has been appointed as an associate professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, and moved to Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering at Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2018, and appointed as a full professor from 2020 and a head of Care XDX Center in Kyushu Institute of Technology from 2022. Meanwhile, he was a guest professor in Kyushu University, a visiting professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, in 2014, a special researcher at Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies (ISIT) during 2015-2016, and a guest professor at University of Los Andes in Colombia in 2019. He was a technical advisor of Team AIBOD Co. Ltd during 2017-2019, and a guest researcher at RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) during 2017-2019. He was a director during 2020-2021 and is a senior member of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), a member of the IEEE Computer Society, the ACM, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics, the Japan Association for Medical Informatics (JAMI), and the Database Society of Japan (DBSJ).

Dr. Gregor Schiele
Dr. Gregor Schiele is professor for embedded systems and leads since november 2014 the Intelligent Embedded Systems group at the University Duisburg-Essen at the campus Duisburg. Before that he was working from 2012 to 2014 at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) as well as at the National University of Ireland, Galway. From 2006 to 2012 he was working at the department of Prof. Dr. Christian Becker at the University Mannheim. He wrote his doctorate 2007 at the University Stuttgart at the department of Prof. Dr. Kurt Rothermel.
The core of his current research interest consist of adaptive embedded systems as well as the Internet of Things. He has great interest in how embedded systems can be operated with as little maintenance as possible, in a cheap and reliable way over a long operation time of several years to decades by using three-dimensional environmental models and methods of artificial intelligence.

Prof. Stephan Sigg (Aalto University)
Stephan Sigg is an Associate Professor at Aalto University in the Department of Communications and Networking. With a background in the design, analysis and optimisation of algorithms for distributed and ubiquitous systems, he focuses on sensing systems for environmental perception and Usable (perception-based) Security. Especially, his work covers proactive computing, distributed adaptive beamforming, context-based secure key generation and device-free passive activity recognition. Stephan is an editorial board member of the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), the Elsevier Journal on Computer Communications and has been a guest editor for the Springer Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Systems Journal. He has served on the organizing and technical committees numerous prestigious conferences including IEEE PerCom, ACM Ubicomp, IEEE ICDCS.