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Zoran Obradović is an Academician at the Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe) and a Foreign Academician at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a L.H. Carnell Professor of Data Analytics at Temple University, Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences with a secondary appointment in Department of Statistical Science and is the Director of the Center for Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics. His research interests include data science and complex networks in decision support systems. Zoran is the editor-in-chief at the Big Data journal and the steering committee co-chair for the SIAM Data Mining conference. He is also the editorial board member at 13 journals and was the general chair, program chair or a track chair for 11 international conferences. He has published more than 370 articles and is cited more than 21,000 times (H-index 54). For more details see

http://www.dabi.temple.edu/~zoran/

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Slobodan N. Vukosavic graduated with honours at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Belgrade. He got his diploma in Power engineering in 1985, and his diploma in Electronics in 1986. He defended the magisterial thesis entitled “Control algorithms for the voltage source inverters” in 1987. The doctoral dissertation “Adaptive digital control of induction motors” is defended 1989. with the same University.Since 1985, he worked as an R/D engineer with “Nikola Tesla” Institute in Belgrade, engaged with research, development and design of static power converters, electrical drives and digital control systems for industrial and military applications. Relevant projects were closely related with his magisterial thesis, PhD thesis, and his first papers. In 1988, he joined Electronic Speed Control Division of Emerson-Electric in St. Louis, where he developed and patented sensorless controller for brushless permanent magnet motors in HVAC applications. He also developed asymmetrical switched reluctance machines and original power converter topology for SRM supply. Invited by VickersElectric, manufacturer of hydraulic actuators, he joined their new R/D team, developing electric actuators for industrial robots. As the team leader, he developed motion control products for the car manufacturers and automotive industry in Europe.

He started teaching at the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Belgrade part-timein 1993. and full time from 1995. He was elected associate professor in 1998. and full professor in 2003, teaching Electrical machines, Digital control of electrical drives, Electrical propulsion, Motion control systems and Power converters in renewable energy sources. He served as the Head of the Power Engineering Department in two successive terms, contributing to improving the learning standards, developing new curricula and increasing the enrollments. In 2003, he was elected adjunct professor at the North Eastern University, Boston. In cooperation with Imperial College, London, he developed a new curriculum in Mechatronics. He was a guest lecturer at several Universities, where he also participated in supervising and examining PhD thesis. Along with his work at the University of Belgrade, he taught undergraduate and postgraduate power engineering courses at universities in Sarajevo, Banja Luka and Novi Sad, where he supervised PhD thesis of 5 assistants. He established two R/D laboratories: Laboratory for digital control of electrical drives and Laboratory for electrical vehicles. In cooperation with other universities and companies, the laboratories completed 13 international and 20 national R/D projects. He mentored 74 diploma thesis, 17 magisterial thesis, 12 master thesis and 12 PhD thesis.His research interests include electromechanical energy conversion, digital control, industrial robotics and power electronics. Most contributions in electrical machines, motion control and control of energy conversion are available as patents, journal papers and monographs. The results of his studies include theoretical background and practical solutions for designing electrical machines and power converters with reduced iron- and copper-weight and improved efficiency. Developed in early cooperation with Emerson-Electric-ESCD, asymmetrical topologies of switched reluctance machines, along with corresponding power converter topologies provided an extended torque-speed characteristic and enabled practical use of SRM drives. With the same group, he developed patented solutions for sensorless control of brushless permanent magnet motors. He conducted research and design of motion control algorithms, servo-amplifiers and servo motors for production automation and industrial robots. As the team leader in R/D departments of Vickers-Electric and Moog, he conducted design and deployment of motion control solutions and several original methods and devices. Developments include one of the first multi-axis servo-amplifiers with proprietary algorithms for the suppression of the mechanical resonance and torsional oscillations, the algorithms for trajectory optimization and the control laws that reduce the losses and increase the energy efficiency. In his monograph Digital Control of Electrical Drives (Springer), he develops digital motion controllers with well-damped, time-optimized response, and an improved disturbance suppression. Developed motion control products and devices are mainly used at European car
manufacturers, accounting for more than 80.000 servo axis. Large power, high reliability servoamplifiers developed in cooperation with Moog are widely used for running the flight simulators and high-pressure injection molding machines. Since 1995, he was involved in R/D and design of grid-side power converters, electrical generators and static power converters for renewable sources and micro-grids. A number of bilateral research projects related to multiphase electrical machines and multilevel inverters was completed with Liverpool John Moores University. He developed and designed first industrialized multi-phase matrix power converter for the needs of TAMUQ University of Qatar and LJMU. He completed
IRADK10 project for IR, the first demonstration of the IRAMS high voltage integrated circuit (HVIC). He also delivered design and consultancy services to companies and universities such as International Rectifier, Emerson-Ceset, Ferrari, Texas A&M and others.

Manolis Kellis is a Professor of Computer Science at MIT, an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, and head of the MIT Computational Biology Group (compbio.mit.edu). His research spans an unusually broad spectrum of areas, including disease genetics, epigenomics, gene circuitry, non-coding RNAs, comparative genomics, and phylogenetics. He has helped direct several large-scale genomics projects, including the Roadmap Epigenomics project, the ENCODE project, the Roadmap Epigenomics Project, the Genotype Tissue-Expression (GTEx) project, and comparative genomics projects in mammals, flies, and yeast. He received the US Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) by US President Barack Obama, the NSF CAREER award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Technology Review TR35 recognition, the AIT Niki Award, and the Sprowls award for the best Ph.D. thesis in computer science at MIT. He has authored over 180 journal publications, which have been cited more than 68,000 times. He lived in Greece and France before moving to the US, and he studied and conducted research at MIT, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and the Cold Spring Harbor Lab. For more information, please visit: http://compbio.mit.edu and http://kellislab.com/

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Marija Stanojevic is a PhD student and Research Assistant at Center for Data Analytics and Biomedical Informatics, Temple University, Philadelphia, US. Her main research focus is language representation and understanding in spatio-temporal space using NLP and complex networks. Marija’s interests are natural language processing, machine learning, data mining, statistics, deep learning and education. Before coming to Temple, she worked for two years in industry as software engineer. Marija finished master studies in signal processing and bachelor studies in software engineering at School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Frank McManamon is the executive director of the Center for Digital Antiquity (Digital Antiquity) in the School for Human Evolution and Social Change (SHESC) at Arizona State University. Digital Antiquity is devoted to improving the discoverability and access to archaeological data and documents for research, education, and public outreach activities, and ensuring their long term preservation and availability for future uses. Digital Antiquity develops and maintains the tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record) international domain repository for archaeological and cultural heritage data.

Before joining ASU in November, 2009, he was the chief archeologist of the US National Park Service and the Department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. He has been involved in the development of policy, regulations, and guidance for archaeology in National Park system and throughout the government. He has special interests and expertise in archaeological resource management, the long-term access to and preservation of archaeological data, laws and regulations related to cultural resource management and historic preservation, and public outreach and education about archaeology and archaeological resources. He has conducted archeological investigations in eastern North America, western Europe, and Micronesia.

He is the general editor of Archaeology in America (Greenwood, 2008), a four-volume encyclopedia with over 350 articles by specialists on individual sites or groups of related sites dating from 20,000 years ago through the twentieth century. The essays cover topics on the history of human habitation and the variety of cultural adaptations in North America during ancient and historic times. McManamon’s most recent book is an edited volume, New Perspectives on Cultural Resource Management (Routledge, 2018).

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