Dr. Sebastian FELD, LMU Munich, QAR-Lab, Germany
Acad. Michail ZGUROVSKI, “Igor Sikorsky” Kiev Politehnic University
Prof. Dr. Mihai DATCU, DLR Germany
Prof. Dr. İhsan YILMAZ, COMU, Turkey

Prof. dr. Nicolae ȚĂPUȘ, “Politehnica” University of Bucharest

Nicolae TAPUS is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Department, PhD supervisor, University Politehnica of Bucharest.

Is Honorary Member of Romanian Academy, Member of Romanian Technical Science Academy and President of Information Technology and Communication Section.

Has expertise in Distributed Systems, Local Area Networks, Computer Architecture and Grid Computing. He is director of the National Center for Information Technology. Published more than 300 articles and papers at international conferences. 

He was a visiting professor in European and US Universities, such as: Grenoble, Free University of Amsterdam, Politecnico di Torino, and Maryland University. Was chair of IEEE Romania Section and chair of Romania Computer Society Chapter. He is director of ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest for Southeaster Europe since 1994. His activities were awarded by Romanian Academy and Education Ministry. He is member of Program Committees in several International Conferences.

 

 

Prof. dr. Eden MAMUT, “Ovidius” University of Constanța

Short resume:

Present positions:

Secretary General of the Black Sea Universities Network, Professor for Engineering Thermodynamics and Advanced Energy Systems and Director of the Institute for Nanotechnologies & Alternative Energy Sources at “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Romania.

Main field of research: Multi scale thermo-fluid modeling, Analysis and optimization of complex energy systems, Renewable Energy Sources, Multi Criteria & Multi Scale Methods on Sustainable Development, Sustainable Transport Systems.

Main achievements: 95 papers, 12 books (as author or editor), 2 registered patents (Germany), 3 registered patents (Romania).

Affiliations:

• Member in the European Technical Committee CEN/CLC/JTC 6 Hydrogen in Energy Systems since September 2019
• Member in the ECHA Expert Group on Nanomaterials, since April 2019
• Member of the Scientific Council of the International Centre of Heat and Mass Transfer, since 2008
• Member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of Romanian Association of Water, since 2013
• Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Cluster MEDGreen specialized on ecotechnologies and alternative energy sources, Romania, since 2015
• Chair of the Scientific Committee of Fuel Cell & Hydrogen – Joint Undertaking (FCH2JU), Brussels, 2015 – 2017

Honors:

• Honorary Professor at Zaporozhye National Technical University, Ukraine, 2015
• Honorary Professor at Crimean Engineering & Pedagogical University, Crimea, 2010
• Knight of the National Order “Star of Romania”, 2000

Prof. Dr. İhsan YILMAZ, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale

Prof. Dr. Mihai DATCU, DLR Germany

Mihai Datcu (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and telecommunications from University Politehnica Bucharest (UPB), Bucharest, Romania, in 1978 and 1986, respectively, and the Habilitation a diriger des recherches degree in computer science from University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, in 1999. From 1992 to 2002, he had a longer Invited Professor Assignment with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Zurich, Switzerland. He has held Visiting Professor appointments with the University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain; University Louis Pasteur; International Space University, Strasbourg; the University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany; University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; University of Alcala, Alcala de Henares, Spain; University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Madrid, Spain; University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy; and the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing, Manno, Switzerland. Since 1981, he has been a Professor with the Department of Applied Electronics and Information Engineering, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, UPB. Since 1993, he has been a Scientist with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Wessling, Germany.

He is developing algorithms for model-based information retrieval from high-complexity signals and methods for scene understanding from very-high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and interferometric SAR data. Since 2011, he has been leading the Immersive Visual Information Mining Research Laboratory, Munich Aerospace Faculty, and he is Director of the Research Center for Spatial Information, UPB. Since 2001, he had been initiating and leading the Competence Center on Information Extraction and Image Understanding for Earth Observation, ParisTech, Paris Institute of Technology, Telecom Paris,Paris, France, a collaboration of DLR with the French Space Agency (CNES). He has been a Professor of the DLR-CNES Chair, ParisTech, Paris Institute of Technology, Telecom Paris.

He has initiated the European frame of projects for image information mining (IIM) and is involved in research programs for information extraction, data mining and knowledge discovery, and data understanding with the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA, and in a variety of national and European projects. He and his team have developed and are developing the operational IIM processor in the Payload Ground Segment systems for the German missions, TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X, and the ESA Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2. He is a Senior Scientist and the Data Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery Research Group Leader with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute, DLR. He is involved in research related to explainable and physics aware Artificial Intelligence, smart sensors design, and qauntum machine learning with applications in Earth Observation. Dr. Datcu is a member of the ESA Working Group Big Data from Space (BiDS).

He received the Best Paper Award and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Prize in 2006, the National Order of Merit with  the rank of Knight, for outstanding international research results, awarded by the President of Romania in 2008, and the Romanian Academy Prize Traian Vuia for the development of the SAADI image analysis system and his activity in image processing in 1987. He was awarded the Chaire d’excellence internationale Blaise Pascal 2017 for international recognition in the field of Data Science in Earth Observation. He has served as a Co-Organizer for international conferences and workshops and as guest editor for a special issue on AI and Big Data of the IEEE and other journals.