Committee

Denise Marie Hradecky (LL.M., MSc., B.H.) is a researcher and lecturer specializing in health law, policy, and management. Her work focuses on international health systems, legal frameworks for healthcare governance, and the intersection between public administration and medical management. She has contributed as an expert to international reform and development projects in the fields of health policy, organizational management, and workforce development. Her interdisciplinary background combines legal, economic, and healthcare expertise, supported by practical experience in leadership and advisory roles within both academic and governmental contexts. Denise Hradecky is the author of several books published by Springer Gabler and Springer Nature, including Transparenz im Gesundheitswesen (2025) and Internationale Pflegefachkräfte für kommunale Krankenhäuser gewinnen (2024). She holds a Master of Laws in Business Law, a Master of Science in Health Care Management, and a Bachelor of Health in Medical Diagnostics and Radiotherapy. Her current research interests lie in transparency and accountability in healthcare, international workforce integration, and the role of legal frameworks in modern health governance.

Xiaochun Cheng won full scholarship for all his university education, received the BEng Degree in Computer Engineering with first class degree, PhD in Computer Science with distinction. One project was funded with 16 Million Euro budget. He contributed for five times best conference paper awards so far. 6 his papers were in the top 1% of the academic field by Data from Essential Science Indicators. He won 3 times national competitions. He won national award for research. Two solutions were adopted nationally. He serves 7 IEEE Technical Committees and 3 BCS Specialist Groups. He has been a Senior Member of IEEE. He currently works at Swansea University, UK.

Prof. Patrick Siarry was born on May 28, 1952, in Pertuis. His research area is relatively (since 1982) new “metaheuristic” optimization such as simulated annealing, which are indicated for the so-called problems of “hard optimization” because of their ability to avoid in principle, trapping in sub-optimal solutions. This topic is multidisciplinary in nature, both by the source of the methods studied (physics, biology, ethology). Much of his work is explicitly one or the other keywords – in particular, modeling, identification, learning rule bases (artificial intelligence), control, nondestructive testing and maintaining the biological and medical engineering.

Pascal Lorenz has received his M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, France, since 1995. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks. He is the author/co-author of 3 books, 3 patents and 200 international publications in refereed journals and conferences. He was Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board (2000-2006), IEEE Networks Magazine since 2015, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2017, Chair of IEEE ComSoc France (2014-2020), Financial chair of IEEE France (2017-2022), Chair of Vertical Issues in Communication Systems Technical Committee Cluster (2008-2009), Chair of the Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee (2003-2009), Chair of the Communications Software Technical Committee (2008-2010) and Chair of the Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure and Networking (2016-2017), Chair of IEEE/ComSoc Satellite and Space Communications Technical (2022-2023), IEEE R8 Finance Committee (2022-2023), IEEE R8 Conference Coordination Committee (2023). He has served as Co-Program Chair of IEEE WCNC'2012 and ICC'2004, Executive Vice-Chair of ICC'2017, TPC Vice Chair of Globecom'2018, Panel sessions co-chair for Globecom'16, tutorial chair of VTC'2013 Spring and WCNC'2010, track chair of PIMRC'2012 and WCNC'2014, symposium Co-Chair at Globecom 2007-2011, Globecom'2019, ICC 2008-2010, ICC'2014 and '2016. He has served as Co-Guest Editor for special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine, Networks Magazine, Wireless Communications Magazine, Telecommunications Systems and LNCS. He is associate Editor for International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS-Wiley), Journal on Security and Communication Networks (SCN-Wiley) and International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA-Elsevier). He is senior member of the IEEE, IARIA fellow and member of many international program committees. He has organized many conferences, chaired several technical sessions and gave tutorials at major international conferences. He was IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour during 2013-2014.

Grigorios Beligiannis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1974. He graduated from the Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics of the University of Patras in 1997. He finished his postgraduate studies in “Computer & Information Technology” in 2000 and his doctoral dissertation in 2002 at the same time Department. In 2007 he was elected to the lecturer's degree with knowledge area “Management Information Systems”. In 2011 he has evolved at the rank of Assistant Professor, in 2016 at the rank of Associate Professor and in 2020 at the rank of Professor with subject “Intelligent Information Systems”. He has 62 published research papers in international scientific journals, 50 published papers in scientific conferences and 4 chapters in edited book series. He is Associate Editor of International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Member of the Editorial Board of Applied Soft Computing, Helyion, Journal of Intelligent Communication, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Journal of Advances in Artificial Intelligence and International Journal of Cyber Forensics and Advanced Threat Investigations. He has been a member of the Technical Committee at more than 220 international scientific conferences. His research interests focus on Intelligent Algorithms of Decision Theory, on Intelligent Algorithm Applications to System Identification, Parameter Estimation and Operations Research problems and on Business Intelligence Systems.He has over 21 years of experience in teaching in Greek universities in undergraduate and post graduate courses. He has over 26 years of experience in participating in research projects.He has been Chairman of the Department of Business Administration of Food & Agricultural Enterprises, University of Patras,from September 2016 till August 2020. Since September 2022 he is the Chairman of The Department of Food Science & Technology, University of Patras.

Yung-Yao Chen received his B.S. (2004) and M.S. (2006) degrees in Electrical and Control Engineering from the National Chiao Tung Universityfrom Hsinchu, Taiwan, and his Ph.D. (2013) degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, USA. Before being a faculty, he has worked in HP Labs - Printing and Content Delivery Lab (HPL - PCDL) about one year. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and the Co-Director of Taiwan Tech Smart Electric Vehicle Research Center, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. His current research interests include vision-based automation, automated/wisdom factory, self-driving car, and human-computer interaction.

DOMENICO DESIATO received from the University of Salerno an MSc (cum laude) in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science and Information Engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor and post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Department of Computer Science. He regularly serves as a Reviewer for conferences and journals, including Information Sciences (Elsevier), Computer & Security (Elsevier), Big Data Research (Elsevier), IEEE Access, the 12th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering, and the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering. He is a program committee member of the 29th International DMS Conference on Visualization and Visual Languages and the IEEE International Conference on AI x Data & Knowledge Engineering. Moreover, he served as guest editor for the Special Issue on Data Security in IoT Networks and the Special Issue on Artificial Neural Network and Deep Learning in Cybersecurity in Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). His research interests include Data Privacy, Data Security, Data Anonymization, Big Data, Privacy-preserving Machine Learning, Social Network Data Sharing, Improving users privacy awareness on social network platforms, Cybersecurity, Fake account identification, and Cyberbullying detection.