Event Chairs

Jorge Bernardino Polytechnic University of Coimbra Portugal

Brief Bio
Jorge Bernardino received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Coimbra in 2002. He is currently a coordinator professor with the Polytechnic University of Coimbra - ISEC (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra), Portugal. From 2005 to 2010, he was president of ISEC. In 2014, he was a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA. From 2017 to 2019, he was also president of the ISEC Scientific Council. He was the director of the Applied Research Institute (i2A), Polytechnic University of Coimbra, from 2019 to 2021. His main research fields are big data, NoSQL, data warehou sing, business intelligence, open source tools, and software engineering. ... More >>

Ricardo da Silva Torres Artificial Intelligence Group, Wageningen University & Research Netherlands

Brief Bio
Ricardo da S. Torres is a Professor in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Wageningen University and Research. Dr. Torres held the position of Professor in Visual Computing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) from 2019 to 2024. He used to hold a position as Professor at the University of Campinas, Brazil (2005 - 2019). Dr. Torres received a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 2000, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the same university in 2004. Dr. Torres has been developing multidisciplinary eScience research projects that involve mu ltimedia analysis, Multimedia Retrieval, Machine Learning, Databases, and Information Visualization. Dr. Torres is an author/co-author of more than 200 articles in refereed journals and conferences and serves as a PC member for several international and national conferences. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition Letters. He is a member of the IEEE. ... More >>

Le Gruenwald University of Oklahoma, School of Computer Science United States

Brief Bio
Le Gruenwald is a Professor, Dr. David W. Franke Professor, and Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Presidential Professor in the School of Computer Science at The University of Oklahoma, United States. She was a Cluster Lead and Program Director of the Information Integration and Informatics program and a Program Director of the Cyber Trust program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States. Her major research interests include Spatio-Temporal Big Data Management and Mining, Cloud Data Management, Data Stream Management and Mining, Quantum Machine Learning and Data Management, Mobile Data Manage ment, and Information Security and Privacy. She has published more than 200 technical articles in journals, books and conference proceedings and has served on the editorial boards, organizing committees, and program committees for many journals, conferences, and workshops. ... More >>

Sven Groppe Institute of Information Systems, University of Lübeck Germany

Brief Bio
Sven Groppe is professor at the University of Lübeck and will join the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in the summer semester 2026 to start his professorship on artificial intelligence. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science (LLMs, agentic workflows, mathematical optimizations, graph neural networks, chatbots, reasoning), data management tasks (query processing and optimization, indexing, mapping, compression, replication, caching, transaction handling), data models (knowledge graphs, Semantic Web, property graphs, relational data), emergent hardware technologies (Many- Core CPU, GPU, FPGA, quantum computer), different platforms (Internet, Internet of Things, Cloud, Post-Cloud (Fog/Edge/Dew Computing), P2P, Mobile, Parallel and Main Memory Servers), advanced applications (citizen science, customer communications, pandemics like Covid-19, software vulnerability prediction) and sustainability (sustainable computing/AI, applications for sustainability). He is a full member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group WG2.6 Database. Over 140 program committee memberships in international conferences and workshops (including top-ranked venues like VLDB, ICDE and the Web Conference), chair of several conferences and various workshops at the first-class ACM SIGMOD and VLDB conferences as well as co-authorship of over 200 publications with over 200 scientists from 28 countries on 6 continents are hints for a strong integration into the scientific community. For more details about his academic career, visit https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~groppe ... More >>