Programme Committee Programme Committee

Scientific programme Committee

  • Dana Petcu, University of Timisoara, Romania
    Active in many Cloud projects, including MoSAIC, HOST, ModaClouds
    Homepage: http://web.info.uvt.ro/~petcu/
  • Wolfgang Gentzsch, Regensburg, Germany
    Veteran of distributed computing, Grid computing Cloud computing. Involved in EUDAT project
    Main activity: "Uber- Cloud experiment"
    Web page: http://www.hpcexperiment.com/
  • Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy
    Involved in many distributed and Cloud computing projects. Including Reservoir and VisionCloud.
    Homepage: http://cia.unime.it/specialvispeople.php?id=1
  • Jens Jensen, STFC, UK
    Involved in many Grid, Cloud and security projects with a focus on security, including Contrail and Eudat. Active in OGF.
    Homepage: http://www.stfc.ac.uk/e-Science/People/22363.aspx
  • Laurentiu Neamtu, La Salle University, Almere, the Netherlands, Barcelona, Spain
    Academic director. Expert in project management, Software Development, Airspace Engineering, Computational Mechanics.
    La Salle Website: http://lasallealmere.nl/

CVs CVs

Gaetano Anastasi

Gaetano Anastasi is a Postdoctoral research fellow of the HPC Laboratory at the National Research Concilium (CNR) of Italy in Pisa. His main research interests include QoS management issues in Clouds and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), QoS negotiation methods, real-time scheduling and real-time virtualisation. He obtained the PhD in Innovative Technologies at the ReTiS Laboratory, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa, Italy) in November 2011. During his PhD programme, he spent a research period abroad at the DREQUIEM Lab, University Carlos III of Madrid. He received the Laurea degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pisa in February 2008. 

Michael Berlin

Michael Berlin is currently employed at the Zuse-Institute Berlin (ZIB) and works on the XtreemFS file system as part of the Contrail EU project. He received a degree in Computer Science from Humboldt University Berlin, Germany in 2011. His research interests are in distributed systems and data-management in the cloud.

Wolfgang Gentzsch

Chairman of the ISC Cloud'13, Chairman of the UberCloud HPC Experiment, Executive HPC Consultant.

Wolfgang Gentzsch is consultant for HPC, Grid and Cloud; Co-founder of the UberCloud Experiment; Advisor to the EU funded project EUDAT; and the Chairman of the ISC Cloud Conferences. Previously, he was an Advisor to the EU project DEISA, directed the German D-Grid Initiative, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Grid Forum, and of the US President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, PCAST.

Before, Wolfgang was a professor of computer science and mathematics at several universities in the US and Germany, and held leading positions at the North Carolina Grid and Data Center in Durham, Sun Microsystems in California, the DLR German Aerospace Center in Gottingen, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasmaphysics in Munich. In the 90s, he founded HPC software companies Genias and Gridware, the latter developing what is now Grid Engine.

Jens Jensen

Jens Jensen received his PhD in maths from the University of Aarhus, Denmark.  He currently works for the Science and Technology Facilities Council, one of seven UK research councils where he is head of the data services group in e-Science, and leads the grid storage and data management group in GridPP, the UK grid for particle physics.  He is Area Director for security in the Open Grid Forum (OGF), and a member of the OGF standards council.  He leads the security work package in the EU-funded Contrail project, a project building federated cloud services for, among others, life sciences and high performance scientific data processing.  He is the CA manager for the UK e-Science certification authority, and occasionally does other things for the national grid service.  Most of his work is in data security, data management, and identity management infrastructures; in the past he has also done work in maths, quantum information theory, quantum cryptography, and various aspects of e-Science.

Dana Petcu

Dana Petcu (http://web.info.uvt.ro/~petcu) is leading the Distributed and Parallel Computing research team of the Computer Science Department of West University of Timisoara, Romania, where she is professor responsible for PhD and master studies in Computer Science. She is also scientific manager of the High Performance Computing center and President of the Scientific Council of the university. Moreover, she act as CEO of a research spin-off, Institute e-Austria Timisoara. Her research experience is related to distributed and parallel computing; her publications from the last ten years have been devoted to Clouds, HPC, Grids and Web services. She has authored more than two hundreds reviewed articles and acts as chief editor of the journal Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience. She is or was leading EC-FP7 projects HOST, SPRERS, mOSAIC (last one, scientifically), and was involved in more than twenty other international or national research projects. In 2005, she received the Maria-Sybilla-Merian international award for women in science and education, and currently serves as Romanian representative in several European research policy forums.

Guillaume Pierre

Guillaume Pierre is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Rennes 1, France. Prior to this he spent 13 years at the VU University Amsterdam where he took part in the Contrail project and acted as the lead designer of the ConPaaS platfor-as-a-Service environment. His main interests are Cloud computing (obviously), Web application support, peer-to-peer and many other types of large-scale distributed systems.

Prof Antonio Puliafito

Antonio Puliafito is a full professor of computer engineering at the University of Messina, Italy. His interests include parallel and distributed systems, networking, wireless, GRID and Cloud computing. He is involved in research on advanced analytical modelling techniques. He is the coordinator of the Ph.D. course in Advanced Technologies for Information Engineering and the responsible for the course of study in computers engineering. He has been a referee for the European Community since 1999. He has contributed to the development of the software tools WebSPN and ArgoPerformance, which are being used both at national and international level.

Dr. Puliafito is co-author of the text entitled "Performance and Reliability Analysis of Computer Systems: An Example-Based Approach Using the SHARPE Software Package", edited by Kluwer Academic Publishers. He is currently the director of the RFIDLab, a joint research lab with Oracle and Intel on RFID and wireless. He acted as the director of the Centre on Information Technologies Development and Their Applications (CIA) till 2009. From 2006 to 2008 he acted as the technical director of the Project 901, aiming at creating a wireless/wired communication infrastructure inside the University of Messina to support new value added services (winner of the CISCO innovation award). He is also the responsible of two big Grid Projects (TriGrid VL and PI2S2) funded by the Sicilian Regional Government and by the MIUR, respectively. He is currently a member of the general assembly and of the technical committee of the Reservoir and Vision, IP projects funded from the EU to explore the deployment and management of IT services and data across different administrative domains. He is also the main investigator of the Italian PRIN2008 project "Cloud@Home", trying to combine cloud and volunteer computing. He is the scientific leader of the PON01 SIGMA project, that intends to develop cloud solutions to manage environmental multi-risk critical situations. He is the scientific director of Inquadro s.r.l., a spin-off company whose main business is RFID and its application both in public and private sectors.

Christian Temporale

Christian Temporale, master degree in Electronics Engineering, is technology consultant for Hewlett Packard. Since 2000 he is working at Italy Innovation Center (Milan), where he is now involved in projects and initiatives concerning Big Data and Cloud Computing, which are his current fields of interest. Within the Contrail EU project, he is contributing mainly on SLA management (WP3) and demonstrator (use cases, WP12).

Erik Tjong Kim Sang

Erik Tjong Kim Sang is a researcher of the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam. He earned a MSc in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Delft and a PhD in computational linguistics from the University of Groningen. After working at the universities of Uppsala, Antwerp, Tilburg and Amsterdam, he developed the website twiqs.nl in a six-month project at the Netherlands eScience Center in Amsterdam.

Peter Walgemoed

After working for Philips Medical Systems as Product and International Business Development manager, Peter founded Carelliance in 2000. Carelliance is specialized in long term digital data management for healthcare and life sciences. As its name suggests it's an alliance/network company that links organizations and is driven by trust in medical communications. Recent activities have been with Erasmus MC on developing a Genetic services organization and iMMovator to develop the Dutch Health Hub.

David Wallom

Dr David Wallom is the Associate Director – Innovation of the Oxford e-Research Centre, where he leads three different activities, Energy and ICT, Cloud Computing and Volunteer Computing. He has led over 20 research projects in areas such as Cloud utilisation, Smart Energy Grids, Research data management, Green IT, ICT security and institutional repositories.  He has led the OeRC Volunteer Computing Group for the last 3 years. He is the OeRC representative at the Open Grid Forum ensuring University of Oxford has a voice at this international standards and community body. Within this activity he was the VP-Community where he lead activities around utilisation of standards and best practices developed in OGF. He is a member of the GCHQ recognized Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security and the UK Space Agency Ground segment Advisory Group and the UK Government TSB Satellite Applications Centre Academic Advisory Board. He currently chairs the Federated Cloud Task Force within the EGI.