Dr. Daphne Economou is senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Westminster since January 2006.

Academic qualifications:  Fellow of Higher Education Academy, since 2014, PhD in Virtual Reality Systems Design from the Manchester Metropolitan University in 2001, MA. in Design for Interactive Media (Multimedia), Middlesex University in 1996.

She has published a long list of journal papers, peer-reviewed international conference papers and she served as program committee member in several international conferences. She has industrial experience as Human Factors Engineer at Sony Broadcast and Development Research Labs, Basingstoke UK and she is member of British Computer Society, IEEE and British Interactive Media Association (BIMA). She has been involved in the programme committee of several international conferences and she has organised and chaired workshops in IEEE international conferences related to serious games.

Sophie Triantaphillidou is a Professor in Imaging Science at the University of Westminster, UK, where she leads the Computational Vision and Imaging Technology research group. She studied Computer Science in Athens, Greece and later obtained a BSc in Imaging Science and a PhD (2001) in the field of Digital Image Quality, both from the University of Westminster. Her group’s research is interdisciplinary, exploring interrelationships between imaging system performance and image quality, image content, and image perception by human and machine vision systems.
She has developed, led and taught in several courses in imaging related fields; she is currently the module leader if the Final Year Project module in CSE department. She has led research collaborations with the Royal Photographic Society (RPS, UK), Nokia (Finland), Ministry of Defence (UK), Home Office (UK), Transport for London (UK), Huawei (China). She is the recipient of several research awards, including the Davies Medal for “significant contribution to digital imaging science”, awarded by the RPS.

Tamas Kiss is a Professor of Distributed Computing at the School of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the University Research Centre for Parallel Computing. Since 2020 he is an Editor in Chief at the Journal of Grid Computing published by Springer Nature.  He holds a PhD in Distributed Computing, and MSc Degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering. The leading research outputs of his team (in collaboration with various research groups in Europe) in the past few years have been the MiCADO cloud orchestrator solution that enables the automated deployment and run-time management of microservices-based applications in heterogeneous cloud infrastructures, and the CloudSME and CloudiFacturing platforms that support manufacturing and engineering companies to utilise cloud-based high-performance computing services to run simulation and optimisation applications.

Russell McMahon has been teaching IT related subject matter since 1980 and has been a faculty member in the School of Information Technology at the University of Cincinnati since 1999. He is the assistant director for the undergraduate BSIT program. Prior coming to UC he has taught at several area high schools and spent more than 8 years in the IT world. He is very active in the IT-related user group community having served on the boards of multiple groups. Since 2018, he has served as the host chair for the local Cincinnati SQL Server annual conference. In 2014, he spent 6 months working at three universities in three different countries (Rwanda, Kenya, and South Africa) in Africa doing IT curriculum development and giving talks on creative problem solving. In the past 2 years, he has given workshops on improvisation for scientist and technologist to enhance their communication and teamwork skills. He spoke at the 2018 eLearning Africa conference held in Kigali and he was a keynote speaker at the 2019 Congreso Internacional de Ingeneria de Systems (CIIS) in Lima, Peru. In February-2019 served as a Fulbright Specialist at Miras University in Shymkent, Kazakhstan where he worked with the computing faculty to help with their technical English and teaching as well as he taught improvisation techniques to students and faculty.

After receiving a PhD from North Carolina State University (USA) in Probability and Stochastic Processes, Thierry started his career in the UK as a lecturer in Decision Sciences. With a growing interest in modelling health and social care, he co-founded in 1998, with Professor Peter Millard, the Health and Social Care Modelling Group at the University of Westminster, and became Professor of Healthcare Modelling in 2007. His research interests are quantitative modelling of management processes, intelligent data driven methods for informed decision making and performance management, and data science for resources planning and management.

Thierry serves on the Editorial Board of various healthcare modelling and informatics journals, and has edited several special issues of internationally recognised journals. He is member of the NIHR Peer Review panel, and was a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College 1996-2016 and expert evaluator for the EU FP7 ICT programme (2013). Keen promoter of the use of data driven modelling and simulation approaches for the management of healthcare, he is also Chair of the Operational Research Health and Social Services Special Interest Group, and founding member of the Cumberland Initiative, and MASHnet, the UK network for Modelling And Simulation in Healthcare.