Keynote Speaker
 Dr. Anand Deshpande Founder, Chairman and Managing Director & BOG Chairman IIT Patna, |
Dr. Anand Deshpande is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Persistent Systems since its inception and is responsible for the overall leadership, strategy and management of the Company. Anand holds a B. Tech. (Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. As a true technology visionary, Anand’s strengths lie in identifying and investing in next-generation technologies and encouraging internal entrepreneurship to ensure that Persistent Systems stays at the forefront of technology innovation. Anand has been the driving force in growing Persistent Systems from its inception in 1990, to the publicly-traded global Company of today. He has been recognized by his alma mater, IIT Kharagpur, as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2012 and by the School of Informatics of Indiana University with the Career Achievement Award in 2007. Prior to founding Persistent Systems, Anand began his professional career at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California, where he worked as Member of Technical Staff from May 1989 to October 1990. Anand has served numerous positions at various professional and non-profit organizations viz. NASSCOM’s Executive Council, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) India, where he was the first President, SEAP (Software Exporters’ Association of Pune), Pune Chapter of CSI (Computer Society of India), CII’s Pune Zonal Council, Trustee in the Computer History Museum, Dean’s Advisory Council in the School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering of Indiana University, and Member of the Executive Committee of MCCIA. Anand is a founding member of iSPIRT, India’s first product think tank, started with the vision of creating a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem in India and is a founder member of Inter Institutional Inclusive Innovations Centre (i4C). i4C is an independent, non-profit entity which acts as a platform to pro-actively scout, showcase and handhold technology innovations, especially aimed at the base of the pyramid. Currently, he serves as a Trustee of the VLDB Endowment (www.vldb.org), Trustee of BAIF and as a Trustee of Persistent Foundation. With members of his family, he has established DeAsra Foundation (http://www.deasra.in), a non-profit entity which focuses on creating self-employment at scale. For more information |
 Prof. Hans Vandierendonck, Professor of high-performance and data-intensive computing School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queen's University Belfast UK |
Hans Vandierendonck is a Professor in High-Performance and Data-Intensive Computing in the school of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, at Queen's University Belfast. He is a member of the Centre on Data Science and Scalable Computing (DSSC) in the Institute for Electronics, Communications and Information Technology. His research interests are in compilers, runtime systems and architectures for parallel systems with special attention to the programmability of such systems. Hans also has a vested interested in computer architecture, and particularly in cache architecture, prediction and performance evaluation. He has co-authored over a 100 papers and has supervised PhD dissertations of 4 students, one of whom, Dr Jiawen Sun, is finalist in the EPSRC Connected Nation Pioneers competition. Hans received the IBM Belgium Prize for Computer Science in 2000 for his graduation thesis on "Bank prediction in multi-bank caches" and in 2004 for his PhD dissertation on "Avoiding mapping conflicts in microprocessors". His graduation thesis also received the Jozef Plateau prize from the Alumni Engineers Ghent in 2000. Hans was finalist in the 2004 Championship Branch Prediction competition. Hans is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Senior Member of ACM, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the EPSRC College of Peer Reviewers. He served as Programme Track Chair for Track 9 at Euro-Par 2017, Financy Chair for IEEE CLUSTER 2018, Student Travel Grant Co-Chair for HPCA 2016, publicity chair for the HiPEAC conference 2009 and for ISCA 2010. He has served on programme committees of major conferences in computer architecture and high-performance computing, including ISCA, SC, ICS, CCGrid, IPDPS, ICPP, DATE and Euro-Par. He regularly reviews for journals and transactions, including ACM TACO, IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TSE, IEEE Micro, ACM TOPLAS, ACM ToDAES, Wiley CCPE, Elsevier JPDC, Elsevier Parallel Computing, Elsevier JSA, and Elsevier Sustainable Computing. Prior to joining Queen's, Hans was Fellow with the Research Foundation Flanders and placed at Ghent University. He was visiting researcher at the Foundation for Reseach and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) in the Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory in 2010-2011. He was visiting researcher in the Amdahl's Law is Forever (ALF) team at INRIA Rennes in 2005 and he was visiting researcher at the Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors at the Universitat Polytècnica de Catalunya in 2001. For more information |
 Professor Ian Davidson, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis USA |
Prof. Ian Davidson is Full Professor at University of California. For more information |
 Prof. Yann Busnel, IMT Atlantique, Bretagne-Pays de la Loire France |
Prof Yann Busnel is Full Professor at IMT Atlantique, Bretagne-Pays de la Loire. Since January 1st 2017, he's also head of SRCD department (Network Systems, Cybersecurity and Digital Law), on Rennes Campus. After his PhD in Computer Sciences at University of Rennes (France) in November 2008, he spent one year at University"La Sapienza" in Roma, Italy (2008-2009). Then, he has been assistant professor (Matre de Conferences) at University de Nantes, in the computer sciences department at UFR Sciences et Techniques (2009-2014). Following, he has been associate-professor at ENSAI (National Graduate School on Statistics and Data Analysis), where he has acted as Head of the Computer Sciences department (2014-2016). He finally obtained his "Habilitation diriger les recherches" (HDR) in Computer Sciences from Ecole Normale Superieure de Rennes (France) in December 2016. His research topics are mainly related to Data stream analysis over Big Data and model for large-scale distributed systems and networks. For more information |
 Prof. Rajiv Ranjan Chair and Professor of Computing Science Newcastle University, UK |
Dr. Rajiv Ranjan is a Chair Professor in Computing Science and Internet of Things at Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He has received two IEEE research excellence awards (2018 IEEE TCCPS Early Career Award and 2016 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing), which recognised his leading expertise in algorithms, resource management models and distributed system architectures for Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Science. Additionally, he also serves on the editorial boards of top quality international journals including IEEE Transactions on Cloud computing, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, IEEE Transactions on Computers (2014-2016), IEEE Cloud Computing, Springer Computing, The Computer Journal, among many others He is one of the highly cited authors (top 0.05%) in computer science and software engineering worldwide (h-index=46, g-index=122, and 12800+ google scholar citations). For more information |
 Dr Lam Siew Kei School of Computer Science and Engineering Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Lam Siew Kei is an Associate Professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He currently serves as the Associate Editor for the IET Circuits, Devices and Systems. His research focuses on custom computing techniques to meet the challenging demands of energy-efficiency, security, and reliability in edge intelligence, with applications in embedded vision and smart urban mobility. For more information |
