Carlos Baquero is a Professor in the Department of Informatics Engineering within FEUP, and area coordinator at the High Assurance Laboratory (HASLab) within INESC TEC. From 1994 till mid-2021 he was affiliated with the Informatics Department, Universidade do Minho, where he concluded his PhD (2000) and Habilitation/Agregação (2018). He currently teaches courses in Operating Systems and Large Scale Distributed Systems. Research interests cover data management in eventual consistent settings, distributed data aggregation and causality tracking. He worked in the development of data summary mechanisms such as Scalable Bloom Filters, causality tracking for dynamic settings with Interval Tree Clocks and Dotted Version Vectors and predictable eventual consistency with Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types. Most of this research has been applied in industry, namely in the Riak distributed database, Redis CRDBs, Akka distributed data and Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB.
Antonio Fernández Anta is a Research Professor at IMDEA Networks. Previously he was a Full Professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) and was on the Faculty of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). He has been awarded the Premio Nacional de Informática "Aritmel" in 2019. He has more than 25 years of research experience, and more than 200 scientific publications. He was the Chair of the Steering Committee of DISC and has served in the TPC of numerous conferences and workshops.
Carla Ferreira is a Full Professor at NOVA University Lisbon and a researcher at NOVA LINCS research centre. Her research focuses on developing formal calculi, techniques, and tools to express and reason about concurrent and distributed systems with the ultimate goal of helping programmers build trustworthy and efficient systems. Currently, she leads the TaRDIS project, a Horizon Europe project centered around the correct and efficient development of applications for swarms and decentralized distributed systems.
Davide Frey has been a researcher at Inria Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique since 2010. He received his PhD from Politecnico di Milano in Italy in 2006; he then worked as a post-doctoral researcher both at Washington University in St. Louis (MO), and at Inria Rennes before being recruited as a permanent researcher in 2010. Davide's research interest focus on distributed systems and algorithms with theoretical and practical contributions. On the practical side, Davide's contribution span areas such as content dissemination, social networks, blockchain, and decentralized recommendation and machine-learning systems. On the theoretical side, Davide has worked on combinatorial optimization and distributed algorithms, particularly in the context of designing lightweight alternatives to blockchains for a variety of applications. Davide co-supervised 6 PhD students to completion and is currently supervising and co-supervising 3 PhD students on blockchain, privacy, and decentralized identity management. Davide has been active in several national and International projects. At the European level, Davide is currently involved in SOTERIA, an H2020 project, led by AriadNext, for which Davide is Inria's scientific lead. At the national level, Davide is currently involved in the Byblos ANR project on Beyond-blockchain data structures, and he coordinates the PriCLeSS Cominlabs projects which sees a collaboration of computer scientists and law researchers to address the privacy and legal implication of the storage of personal data on blockchain-like infrastructures.
Elisa Gonzalez Boix is a professor of Computer Science at the Software Languages Lab (SOFT) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) leading the Distribution and Concurrency (DisCo) research group. Her research focusses on language technology to support the design of both programming languages and tools with a focus on mobile and cloud systems, internet of things and Big Data applications.
Guido Salvaneschi is leading the Programming group at the School of Computer Science, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He holds a PhD in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has been an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. His research has been supported, among others, by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). He has published papers in a number of programming languages and software engineering venues, including OOPSLA, PLDI, POPL, ECOOP, ICSE, FSE, and ASE.
Tom Van Cutsem is Associate Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium. He leads a research team focused on Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers within the DistriNet research group in the Department of Computer Science. Tom’s expertise is situated at the boundary of distributed systems and programming languages research. Prior to joining KU Leuven Tom led research on software systems at Nokia Bell Labs and contributed to projects focused on AI-assisted software development and real-time data streaming platforms. He also contributed novel metaprogramming features to the JavaScript (ECMAScript) standard, now shipping in all major browsers. Tom holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
