Silvia Rossi Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI); Amsterdam, NL
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Workshop Chair
Silvia Rossi is a PostDoc (ERCIM fellow) of the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at Centrum Wiskunde &
Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands. She received her BSc and MSc degrees, both in Electronic and Telecommunication
Engineering from the University of Bologna - Cesena (Italy) in 2013 and 2016, and her Ph.D from UCL, London (UK) in
2022. Her PhD topic was “Understanding user interactivity for the next-generation immersive communication: design,
optimisation, and behavioural analysis”. She is also an active member of the multimedia community being part of the
Special Interest Group of Multimedia (SIGMM) Records team. Truly passionate about multimedia and technology, her
research interests are at the crossroad between multimedia processing, data processing and analysis, machine learning,
and communication systems.
Débora Christina Muchaluat-Saade Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF); Niterói, BR
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Technical Program Chair
Débora Christina Muchaluat-Saade holds a Computer Engineer bachelor's degree (1992), MsC in Computer Science (1996) and PhD in Computer Science (2003)
from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). She is a full Professor at the Department of Computer
Science of Fluminense Federal University (UFF). She was the vice-Dean of the Graduate Program in Computing at UFF from
2017 to 2021 and was the Dean of the Undergraduate Program in Computer Systems Technology from 2014 to 2019. She was the
coordinator of the Special Committee on Computing Applied to Healthcare (CE-CAS) of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)
from 2017 to 2019. She was the founder of the MídiaCom Research Lab (www.midiacom.uff.br) in 2003 and since then she is
one of the lab deans. She is a member of the technical committee of the Brazilian Digital TV Forum. Her research
interests are multimedia, mulsemedia, computer networks, wireless networks, smart grids, IoT, interactive digital TV and
digital healthcare. She has contributed to the development of NCL (Nested Context Language) and Ginga-NCL, used in the
Brazilian Digital TV Standard (ABNT NBR 15606-2) and IPTV services (ITU-T H.761).
Thomas Röggla Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI); Amsterdam, NL
Web Chair
Thomas Röggla is a senior scientific software engineer in the Distributed & Interactive Systems (DIS) group at
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He received a Bachelor's degree in Software
Engineering (cum laude) and a Master's degree in Internet & Web Technologies from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU).
He has had permanent appointment with CWI since 2018 and worked as a software developer in various European and national
research projects, as well projects with international industry partners. The topics of these projects covered wide
areas including, among others, Physiological & Affective Computing, Immersive Multimedia Systems and Media Production.
Steering Committee
- Jean Botev - University of Luxembourg
- Herman Engelbrecht - Stellenbosch University
- Shun-Yun Hu - Imonology Inc.
- Wei Tsang Ooi - National University of Singapore
- Niall Murray - Technical University of the Shannon
Technical Program Committee
- Evangelos Alexiou - Xiaomi Technology
- Roberto Azevedo - Disney Research
- Federica Battisti - Università degli Studi di Padova
- Jean Botev - University of Luxembourg
- Pablo Cesar - CWI
- Alexandra Covaci - University of Kent
- Sam van Damme - Ghent University
- Herman Engelbrecht - Stellenbosch University
- Mylene Farias - UNB
- George Ghinea - Brunel University
- Alan Guedes - UCL
- Jesus Gutierrez - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Marina Josué - Fluminense Federal University
- Conor Keighrey - Technical University of the Shannon
- Tanja Kojic - TU Berlin
- Yao Liu - Rutgers University
- Niall Murray - Technical University of the Shannon
- Wei Tsang Ooi - National University of Singapore
- Marta Orduna - Nokia
- Pablo Perez - Nokia Bell Labs
- Celso Alberto Saibel Santos - UFES
- Joel dos Santos - CEFET
- Irene Viola - CWI
- Sara Vlahovic - University of Zagreb