Lenore Blum
Lenore Blum (PhD, MIT) is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Founding Director of Project Olympus, an innovation center that works with faculty and students to bridge the gap between cutting-edge university research/innovation and economy-promoting commercialization for the benefit of our communities.
Lenore is internationally recognized for her work in increasing the participation of girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields. She was a founder of the Association for Women in Mathematics and served as its third president. She was founding co-Director of the Math/Science Network and its Expanding Your Horizons conferences for middle and high school girls. At Carnegie Mellon, Lenore founded the Women@SCS program and CS4HS. In 2016 women comprised over 48% of new majors in computer science at Carnegie Mellon.
Lenore’s research, from her early work in model theory and differential fields (logic and algebra) to her more recent work in developing a theory of computation and complexity over the real numbers (mathematics and computer science), has focused on merging seemingly unrelated areas. Lenore is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an inaugural Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Andreas Bollin
Andreas Bollin studied telematics at Graz University of Technology and habilitated in the field of applied computer science at the Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt. Within the scope of his activities he has done research in the field of computer science education with a focus on teaching complex topics of computer science in an adequate way. He was also part projects in the area of new media in the classroom. He is currently professor of computer science didactics at the Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt. Apart from teaching in the field of teacher training, he is also involved in competency and maturity degree models in teaching as well as questions of university idiocy.
Martin Ebner
Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. techn. Martin Ebner is the head of the organizational unit for teaching and learning technologies at the Technical University of Graz, where he is also responsible for all e-learning matters. Furthermore, he researches and teaches as a media information technologist at the Institute for Interactive Systems and Data Science around technology-based learning. His main focus is e-learning, m-learning, social media, learning analytics and open educational resources. He blogs at http://elearningblog.tugraz.at and further details can be found at http://www.martinebner.at
Michael Goedicke, Universität Duisburg Essen, GER
Michael Goedicke is Professor for Computer Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He has obtained his academic degrees (Diploma, Dr. rer nat., Habilitation ) all at the University of Dortmund and worked as a research fellow at Imperial College London in 1989. In 1993 he started work at the UDE and is now member of the board of directors of paluno, The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology. Currently he also is Vice Dean of the faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Chair of the GI Software Engineering Specialist Group and Chair of IFIP TC2 and member of the IFIP board. http://www.s3.uni-duisburg-essen.de/team/leitung/prof-dr-michael-goedicke/
Georg Kapsch
President of the Federation of Austrian Industries. He received a degree in business administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In 1982 he started his career in the marketing department of Kapsch AG. Seven years later Kapsch joined the Executive Board. As of October 2001 he has been CEO of Kapsch Group and took over the position as CEO of Kapsch TrafficCom AG in December 2002. Georg Kapsch also served as Vice President of the Austrian Electrical and Electronic Industries Association (2000-2012) and as Vice President of the Austrian Electrotechnical Association (2003-2008). Between 2002 and 2012 he was chairman both of the University of Applied Sciences (“Technikum Wien”) and the Austrian Electronic Association.
Maria Klawe
Klawe became Harvey Mudd College’s fifth president in 2006. A renowned computer scientist and scholar, she is the first woman to lead the college. Klawe is a North American expert on diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics; gender and gaming; utilizing lessons from her own career in STEM industry and education. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, she was ranked 17th on Fortune’s 2014 list of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders. Klawe is on the boards of the nonprofits Math for America and EdReports.org. She was previously dean of engineering and professor of computer science at Princeton University and dean of science, vice president of student and academic services, and head of the computer science department at the University of British Columbia. Klawe spent eight years with IBM Research in California and two years at the University of Toronto. She received a PhD and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Alberta.
Sabine T. Köszegi
Sabine T. Köszegi is Full Professor at the Institute of Management Science at the TU Wien and Academic Director of the MBA Program Entrepreneurship & Innovation from WU and TU Wien. She received her PhD from the University of Vienna in business economics. Her research interests are management of conflict and diversity in organizations, the development of negotiation and mediation support systems, and more recently institutional innovation and new forms of organizing. From 2010 – 2013, Sabine led the research project “Leaky Pipeline” at TU Wien where she analyzed with her team female careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), including the analysis of student drop-out, entry barriers for female students into academic positions, and coping mechanisms of female scientists in academia.
Raymond Lister
Raymond Lister is an Australian computer scientist and researcher on computer science education research. During his research and academic career he has specialised in understanding the learning and teaching of computer programming and is an associate professor at the University of Technology, Sydney. His primary research interest is in the cognitive development of the novice computer programmer. He has pursued his research on the mental development of the novice programmers since 2004, when he led an international ITiCSE working group, comprised of eleven other members from six countries: USA, UK, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and New Zealand. Thus, unlike most academics, his research is located at the nexus with his teaching. He tries to approach all teaching problems as research issues. Consequently, he is very active in the international computer science education research community. He has given five keynote/invited presentations at various national and international conferences and published over 70 papers on aspects of computing education.
Alan Mislove
Alan Mislove is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 2009. Prof. Mislove’s research concerns distributed systems and networks, with a focus on using social networks to enhance the security, privacy, and efficiency of newly emerging systems. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2011), a Google Faculty Award (2012), and his work has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the CBS Evening News.
Linda Werner
Linda Werner has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, was a former software engineer and has extensive experience as an educator and researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), community college, high school, and junior high levels. She is actively involved in working to increase the numbers of female computer science students. Dr. Werner has been PI, co-PI and consulted on multiple NSF-funded projects that focus on: middle school computer game design and computational thinking; game design to increase girls’ interest, skills, and confidence in technology; middle school pair programming, and community college computer science students.
Hannes Werthner
He is Professor of e-commerce at TU Wien (University of Technology Vienna). Since 2016 he is also Dean of the largest Faculty of Informatics in Austria. Hannes Werthner has masterminded the concept and development of the Tyrolean tourism platform Tiscover, among other large projects. In his function as Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, Werthner frequently addresses the societal responsibility of universities in public, focusing on the role of Informatics in the process of digital transformation.