Keynote Speakers

Prof. Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria

IEEE Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) President and Fellow
ACM Distinguished Scientist, ACM Distinguished Speaker
Member of the Academia Europaea

Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor of Computer Science heading the Research Division of Distributed Systems at the TU Wien, Austria. He holds several honorary positions: Honorary Professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China (since 2023), Francqui Chair Professor at University of Namur, Belgium (2021-2022), University of California (USC) Los Angeles; Monash University in Melbourne, Shanghai University, Macquarie University in Sydney, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. From Dec 2016 until Jan 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Sevilla, Spain and from January until June 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, USA.

From 1999 - 2007 he worked as the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software AG in Vienna (acquired by Engineering NetWorld AG), a venture capital co-funded software company focused on software for collaborative processes in teams. Caramba Labs was nominated for several (international and national) awards: World Technology Award in the category of Software (2001); Top-Startup companies in Austria (Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) (2002); MERCUR Innovation award of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (2002).

He is founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (ACM TIoT) as well as Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on the Web, and ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, as well as on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Computer. Dustdar is recipient of multiple awards: TCI Distinguished Service Award (2021), IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Leadership Award (2018), IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (2019), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009), ACM Distinguished Speaker (2021), IBM Faculty Award (2012). He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy of Europe, where he is chairman of the Informatics Section, as well as an IEEE Fellow (2016), an Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) President (2021) and Fellow (2021). He is an EAI Fellow (2021) and an I2CICC Fellow (2021). He is a Member of the 2022 IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluating Committee (2022).

He has been a frequently invited expert evaluator for the IST 6th Framework (FP6), EU Horizon 2020 of the European Commission, an invited expert for the 7th Framework roadmap definitions for several working groups, as well as a Technical Expert for the roadmap definition for the European Commission’s research on the Future Internet. He has been a scientific reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC) as well as a number of National Science Foundations e.g., DFG (Germany), NWO (Netherlands), SNF (Switzerland), EPSRC (UK), SFI (Ireland), Czech Science Foundation (GA CR), NSERC (Canada), FWO (Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium), FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal), Einstein Foundation Berlin (Germany). On behalf of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Development (CONICYT) and the Superior Council of the National Fund for Scientific & Technological Development (FONDECYT), Chile, Academy of Finland, Israel Science Foundation, EPSRC Peer Review College, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE), Cyprus Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education, L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards 2021 (Physical sciences, Mathematics and Computer science), Estonian Research Council (ETAg).

Prof. Ali Selamat, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Ali Selamat (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in IT from Teesside University, U.K., in 1997, the M.Sc. degree in distributed multimedia interactive systems from Lancaster University, U.K., in 1998, and the Dr.Eng. degree from Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, in 2003. He is currently the Dean of the Malaysia–Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), which is an educational institute that is established by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia, to enhance Japanese oriented engineering education in Malaysia and Asia with the support from the Government of Japan through the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) together with 29 Japanese University Consortium (JUC). He is also a Visiting Professor with the University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, and the Kagoshima Institute of Technology, Japan. Prior to that, he was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Director of Communication and Information Technology with UTM. He was previously assuming the position of the Research Dean on the knowledge economy research alliance with UTM. He was a Visiting Professor with Kuwait University and few other universities in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia. His research interests include data analytics, digital transformations, knowledge management in higher education, key performance indicators, cloud-based software engineering, software agents, information retrievals, pattern recognition, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and soft computing. He was elected as the Chair of IEEE Computer Society, Malaysia Section, under the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA. He was a Principal Consultant of big data analytics with the Ministry of Higher Education, in 2010, a member of the Malaysia Artificial Intelligence Roadmaps, from 2020 to 2021, and a keynote speaker in many international conferences.