Conference Committee
11th Future Technologies Conference 2026
Sergei Gorlatch
University of Muenster
Germany
Sergei Gorlatch is Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Muenster (Germany) since 2003. Earlier he was Associate Professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Assistant Professor at the University of Passau, and Humboldt Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich, all in Germany. Prof. Gorlatch has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in renowned international books, journals and conferences. He was principal investigator in several international research and development projects in the field of software for parallel, distributed, Grid and Cloud systems and networking, funded by the European Commission and by German national bodies.
Kohei Arai
Saga University
Japan
Dr Kohei Arai, a Scientist, Professor and Author. He is currently Professor at Saga University, Japan and Adjunct Prof. of Nishi-Kyushu University, Kurume Technology of Institute (Applied AI Laboratory), Prishtina International University. Dr Arai received PhD degree in Information Science from Nihon University in June 1982 and MS degree in Electronics Engineering from Nihon University in March 1974. His current research concerns are AI, Big Data Analytics, Satellite Remote Sensing, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval. Dr Arai holds 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the Patent Award of the Year. Dr Arai has been featured in Japan Times and Italian Newspapers for his work on Eyes only Computer System. He has worked on several global research collaboration projects during his career. He wrote 131 books and published 749 journal papers and 585 of conference papers.
Pascal Lorenz
University of Haute Alsace
France
Pascal Lorenz received a PhD degree from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace and responsible of the Network and Telecommunication Research Group. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks. He was the Program and Organizing Chair of the IEEE HTUICATM'98UTH, HTUICATM'99UTH, HTUECUMN'00UTH, HTUICN'01UTH, HTUECUMN'02UTH and HTUICT'03UTH, HTUICN’04UTH, HTUPWC'05UTH conferences and co-program chair of HTUICC’04UTH. Since 2000, he is a Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board. He is the vice-chair of the IEEE ComSoc Communications Software Technical Committee and secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Communications Systems Integration and Modelling Technical Committee. He is senior member of the IEEE, member of many international program committees and he has served as a guest editor for a number of journals including Telecommunications Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine and LNCS.
Ann Cavoukian
Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence (Ryerson University)
Canada
Dr. Ann Cavoukian is recognized as one of the world’s leading privacy experts. Dr. Cavoukian served an unprecedented three terms as the Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. There she created Privacy by Design, a framework that seeks to proactively embed privacy into the design specifications of information technologies, networked infrastructure and business practices, thereby achieving the strongest protection possible. In 2010, International Privacy Regulators unanimously passed a Resolution recognizing Privacy by Design as an International Standard. Since then, PbD has been translated into 40 languages! In 2018, PbD was included in a sweeping new law in the EU: the General Data Protection Regulation. Dr. Cavoukian is now the Executive Director of the Global Privacy & Security by Design Centre. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre at Ryerson University, and a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Dr. Cavoukian is the author of two books, “The Privacy Payoff: How Successful Businesses Build Customer Trust” with Tyler Hamilton, and “Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World” with Don Tapscott. She has received numerous awards recognizing her leadership in privacy, including being named as one of the Top 25 Women of Influence in Canada, named as one of the Top 10 Women in Data Security and Privacy, and named as one of the ‘Power 50’ by Canadian Business. She was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal by the Governor General of Canada for her outstanding work on creating Privacy by Design and taking it global (May, 2017), named as one of the 50 Most Impactful Smart Cities Leaders (November, 2017), named among the Top Women in Tech (December, 2017), was awarded the Toastmasters Communication and Leadership Award (April, 2018), recognized among the Top 100 Identity Influencers (February, 2019), and most recently, she was named among the Top 18 Global AI Influencers within the AI & Tech Space (February, 2019).
Wenwu Wang
University of Surrey
United Kingdom
Wenwu Wang is a Professor of Signal Processing and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey, UK, where he serves as Co-Director of the Machine Audition Lab within the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing. He is also the Associate Head (External Engagement) of the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering and an AI Fellow at the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence. His research interests span signal processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, perceptual modelling, machine audition, multimodal fusion and learning, and statistical anomaly detection. He has authored or co-authored over 400 publications in these fields including two books: Machine Audition: Principles, Algorithms and Systems (IGI Global, 2010) and Blind Source Separation: Advances in Theory Algorithms and Applications (Springer, 2014). He has played a leading role (as PI or Co-I) in more than 40 research projects supported by UKRI, EPSRC, EU, Dstl, MoD, DoD, British Council, Research England, Home Office, Royal Academy of Engineering, Surrey County Council, and major industrial partners including BBC, Meta, NPL, Samsung, Tencent, Huawei, Saab, B&O, Atlas, Kaon, vHive, and Record Games, with a total grant portfolio exceeding £40 million.
Wenbing Zhao
Cleveland State University
United States
Dr. Wenbing Zhao is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Dr. Zhao has done research in a number of different areas, including fault tolerance computing, computer and network security, smart and connected healthcare, machine learning and control, quantum optics and superconducting physics. Currently, his research focuses on dependable distributed computing, and smart and connected healthcare. He is also exploring an exciting emerging research area on medical cyber physical systems, where he could integrate dependable computing with smart and connected healthcare. Dr. Zhao’s recent research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (CNS-0821319), US Department of Transportation (via CSU Transportation Center), and Cleveland State University (several FRD grants and a Faculty Scholarship Initiative grant). Dr. Zhao has authored a research monograph, titled “Building Dependable Distributed Systems,” and contributed 22 book chapters and over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications. He also has a US patent on consistent time service for fault tolerant distributed systems and another patent pending on privacy-aware human motion tracking. Dr. Zhao has been very active in professional services. Other than the Departmental/College/University duties, he has served on several NSF panels, and on the organizing and technical program committees of numerous conferences/workshops. Dr. Zhao is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is currently serving as a member of the executive board of the IEEE Cleveland Chapter.
Peter Mueller
University of Basel, Switzerland and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland
Peter Mueller is a senior scientist at the University of Basel and EPFL. He was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research for more than 35 years. His research expertise covers a wide range of technologies, including distributed computing systems architecture, microwave technology, device physics, nanoscience and modelling. His current research area is in the fields of quantum technology, mainly applied to quantum computing. Peter is a founding member and was the Chair of IEEE ComSoc’s technical committees on Communications and Information Systems Security (CIS-TC) and Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT). He also is a member of the Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society, the Electrochemical Society, and the Swiss and the American Physical Societies.
Nikola Serbedzija
ITETA Consulting
Germany
Dr. Nikola Šerbedžija is the founder of iTETA Consulting, specialized in deploying advanced information technology achievements in praxis, offering support in digital transformation, research on future technologies, coaching and teaching. He was scientific advisor at Fraunhofer FOKUS [1992-2018], responsible for new research initiatives and innovative technology, visiting professor at University of Sydney [1999-2000] and at the University of Arts, Berlin [2000-2007]. His research work is primarily concerned with distributed computing, especially applied to ubiquitous systems, cyber-physical systems and IoT. In addition, his research covers modelling, architectural approach and practical deployment of adaptive and autonomous systems. He was principal investigator in the various research projects that led to REFLECT and ASCENS frameworks for developing pervasive-adaptive systems and self-aware autonomous systems, respectively. He has been acting as an expert for European FP7 and Horizon 2020 programmes, mostly for the Future Emerging Technology actions. He has been on numerous international conference committees and held various invited/keynote talks at scientific events. He co-authored many chapters in special edition monographies or books and he is the author of over 100 journal and conference papers.
Sebastiano Battiato
Università di Catania
Italy
Sebastiano Battiato is a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Catania. He received his degree in Computer Science (summa cum laude) in 1995 from the University of Catania and his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Naples in 1999. From 1999 to 2003 he was the leader of the “Imaging” team at STMicroelectronics in Catania. He joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Catania in 2004 (respectively as assistant professor, associate professor in 2011 and full professor in 2016). He has been Chairman of the Undergraduate Program in Computer Science (2012-2017), and Rector's delegate for Education: postgraduates and Phd (2013-2016). He is currently the Scientific Coordinator of the PhD Program in Computer Science at the University of Catania. He is involved in research and directorship of the IPLab research lab (http://iplab.dmi.unict.it). He coordinates IPLab’s participation on large scale projects funded by national and international funding bodies, as well as by private companies. Prof. Battiato has participated as principal investigator in many international and national research projects. His research interests include Computer Vision, Imaging technology and Multimedia Forensics. He has edited 6 books and co-authored about 200 papers in international journals, conference proceedings and book chapters and has also been a guest editor of several special issues published in International Journals. He is also co-inventor of 22 international patents, reviewer for several international journals, and has been a regular member of numerous international conference committees.
LIIAN, Department of Informatics Faculty of Science Dhar-Mahraz University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah
Morocco
University Business Academy, Faculty of Economics and Engineering Management, Novi Sad,Serbia
Serbia
Faculty of sciences Dhar EL Mahraz ,Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University Fez, Morocco
Morocco
Materials and Instrumentations (MIN) Group, Electrical Engineering Department, Graduate School of Technology (ESTM), Meknes – Morocco
Morocco
Computer Science and Engineering Department, FEEIT-Skopje, "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" University in Skopje
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of
Department of Forestry and Natural Environment Aristotle University of Thessaloniki University Campus 54124, Po Box 268 Thessaloniki, Greece Phone (+30) 2310-992736
Greece
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India
India
Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics / instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Portugal
UTAD University and INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science
Portugal
Institute of Earth and Space Science, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Madalina - Xenia Calbureanu - Popescu
University of Craiova, Faculty of Mechanics, Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering Dept.
Romania
"Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Romania
Tunisia
Turkey
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Bandar Seri Iskandar, 31750, Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia.
Malaysia
University of South Florida, Global Center for Neurological Networks
United States
United States
Department Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia.
Malaysia
NA
AVR Lab, Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Italy
Italy
State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, China University of Communicatio
China