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Since September 1996, he has been with the European
Commission, DG XIII, later DG Information Society and
Media, as Scientific Officer in the areas of Mobile and
Personal Communications and Broadband for All. He became
Principal Scientific Officer in 2005, moving to the area of ICT
for Sustainable Growth, with a focus on Energy Efficiency and
Emergency and Disaster Management. In 2008, he moved to
the area of Embedded Systems and Control, where he was
responsible for the area of Wireless Sensor Networks and
Cooperating Objects. Since 2011, he is working in the area of
Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE), now
under Experimental Platforms in DG CONNECT.
He received the Software-Defined Radio (SDR) Forum
2003 Industry Achievement Award in recognition of his
“outstanding contributions, research and development in the
field of SDR”.
He is a Member of the IEEE and of the ACM. He is
Associate Editor for Mobile Radio, including Vehicular
Communications, for the IEEE VTS Magazine, and has
recently taken up the position of Associate Editor of the ACM
Transactions on Sensor Networks.
João Barros is Founder and CEO of Veniam and an Associate
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of Porto. He has also been Founding Director of the
Institute for Telecommunications (IT Porto) in Porto, Portugal,
counting almost 100 active members. His other appointments
include Fulbright scholar at Cornell University and Visiting
Professor with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) since 2008. He also teaches at the Porto Business School
and co-founded two startups, Streambolico and Veniam,
commercializing wireless video and vehicular communication
technologies, respectively. Between 2009 and 2012, Dr. Barros
served as National Director of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal
Program, a five-year international partnership funded by the
Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology, with a total
budget of 56M Euros. In recent years, João Barros has been
Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI of numerous national,
European and industry funded projects, co-authoring one book
and 145 research papers in the fields of networking,
information theory and security, with a special focus on smart
city technologies, network coding, physical-layer security,
sensor networks, and intelligent transportation systems. Dr.
Barros has received several awards, including the 2010 IEEE
Communications Society Young Researcher Award for the
Europe, Middle East and Africa region, the 2011 IEEE
ComSoC and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award,
the 2012 BES National Innovation Award, and a state-wide
best teaching award by the Bavarian State Ministry of
Sciences, Research and the Arts. Dr. Barros is frequently
invited as an expert speaker by international organizations such
as the European Commission, OECD, ITU, EuroDIG and
IEEE. He also worked as an independent consultant for various
organizations and projects. Dr. Barros is fluent in Portuguese,
German, English, French and Spanish. He received his
undergraduate education in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from the Universidade do Porto (UP), Portugal
and Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany, a performing arts degree
in flute from the Music Conservatory of Porto, and the Ph.D.
degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Germany.
Manuel Serrano is an Electronic Engineer. He holds a double
degree in Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University
of Valencia (Spain) and l’École Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications de Bretagne (France) – networking
specialisation. He is currently Head of the New Technologies
Area within the Technology department of ETRA I+D. He is
currently involved in the GAMBAS project, and was a project
manager in the EMMA and PECES projects.
Stefan Viehmann works for Kuehne + Nagel in Hamburg, and
is responsible for the Gobal Customer Solutions group with its
corporate and de-central teams located in each regional
headquarter. Viehmann joined Kuehne + Nagel Canada as Vice
President IT in 2007. He managed successfully a customer
orientated IT organization serving all business fields of the
Kuehne + Nagel group in Canada in close collaboration with
the global IT group.
Until 2007 he worked for DHL as Director Customer
Integration Services where he was responsible for establishing
a professional service organization to manage the electronic
interfaces between global customers and DHL. From 2002 -
2003 he was a Manager eCommerce at DHL and was
responsible for the end to end automation of sales and services
via several electronic channels.
Prior to DHL, he worked for Andersen Consulting (now
Accenture) as senior consultant focusing on Financial Service
Industries. In 1998 Viehmann worked in the product
development department at Lufthansa Cargo AG. He started
his career as a trainee at Boehringer Mannheim, Tokyo Japan
in 1996, and holds an M.B.A degree from Marburg University,
Germany. He serves as director of the board of the Canadian
German Chamber of Industry and Commerce Inc., Toronto.
Prof. Dr. Pedro José Marrón received his bachelor and
master's degree in computer engineering from the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA in 1996 and 1998 respectively.
At the end of 1999, he moved to the University of Freiburg in
Germany to work on his Ph.D., which he received with honors
in 2001. His dissertation was awarded with a post-doc prize
from the University of Freiburg. After finishing his habilitation
at the University of Stuttgart in 2005, he moved to Bonn to
head the Sensor Network and Pervasive Computing group.
Since 2009, he is the head of the Networked Embedded
Systems group at the University of Duisburg-Essen and since
2011 Director of the newly founded European Center for
Ubiquitous Computing and Smart Cities (UBICITEC) and a
lead scientist at Fraunhofer FKIE in Wachtberg. His current
research interests are distributed systems, mobile data
management, location-aware computing, sensor networks and
pervasive systems and this shows in the breadth of European
projects and industrial cooperations lead by his research group.
He is also a member of ACM and GI.
Among several projects, Prof. Marrón is coordinator of
CONET, the Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence that,
with over 40 members and companies like SAP, Boeing and
Telecom Italia, shapes the research in Europe on topics related
to Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical-Systems and Cooperating
Objects. Additionally, Prof. Marrón is coordinator of
PLANET, an Integrated Project that deals with the deployment
of large-scale heterogeneous networks, and GAMBAS, a
STREP that deals with the design and implementation of an
adaptive middleware for context-aware applications. Finally,
Prof. Marrón is also CEO and founder of Locoslab GmbH, a
spin-off of the University of Duisburg-Essen that provides
services for efficient, low-cost indoor and outdoor localization
solutions.
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