TEACHERS - BUILDING THE INTERNET OF THINGS
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Carlo Maria Medaglia
Professor - CATTID University Di Roma Sapienza (Italy) |
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Maria Medaglia was born in Rome, Italy in 1974, he had his degree in
physics at “Sapienza” University of Rome in 1999. He has got his PhD in
Remote Sensing at the Engineering faculty of “Sapienza” University of
Rome in 2004. Since 1999 he has been working at several international
research institutions around the world as ISAC-CNR (Institute for
Atmospheric Sciences and Climate), NASA (National Atmospheric and Space
Administration), ESA (European Space Agency), NOA (National Observatory
of Athens) and NOAA (National Oceanic and Admospheric Administration).
He also worked as visiting professor in several universities as:
University of Madison-Wisconsin, University of Baltimore, University of
Washington. Now he is working as consultant in the RFID/Wireless Group
of the CNIPA (National Center for Informatics in the Public
Administration), as full professor of Human Computer Interaction at
Mass Communication Department of “Sapienza” University of Rome
and as Coordinator of the RFID Lab of CATTID (Centre for the
Applications of Television and for Distance Learning Techniques) of
“Sapienza” University of Rome. He has more than 70 contribution in
peer-reviewed journal and conference proceedings. His principle
research activities are RFID, Geolocalization, satellite remote sensing
and mobile/wireless communication. |
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Leandro Agro
WideTag, Inc. CEO |
Leandro has more than 10 years of experience as an Interaction Designer and manager of IxD teams. As designer and manager he specializes in Eye-Tracking, Emotional UI and Multimodal UI. Mentioned by WIRED as one of 24 ITaliens, blogger from 2000 Leandro is a prolific writer on topics from IxD, usability, and UX to natural, multimodal user interfaces. He was the founder of Idearium.ORG, (the first Italian eZine/community for designers) and the coProducer of the Frontiers of Interaction ShowConference.
Leandro is Founder & CEO at WideTag Inc. A Californian Company focused on Massive Data Collection (Internet of Things) and Business Partner (former Advanced Design Director) at SrLabs, The Eye Tracking Company.
Previously, he was the UX Director at WebEgg Group (An Olivetti/TelelcomItalia ICT Firm), he during the New-Economy Era, he was co-founder and Vice President of Altoprofilo SpA (the User Experience Company), a large eConsultancy with offices in Milan and Boston. |
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Patrick Guillemin
ETSI, Strategy and New Initiatives |
Patrick Guillemin is responsible within the ETSI Secretariat for
development, co-ordination and management of new standardization initiatives
including the Internet of Things, RFID and related fields. Patrick has 22
years of experience in IT and Telecommunications Project Management and 16
years in Standardization. Patrick is Coordinator of the EU CERP-IoT Cluster
of research projects on RFID and IoT and participates directly in 3 EU
Projects related to RFID and the Internet Of Things: CASAGRAS, GRIFS and
RACE networkRFID. He was previously ETSI Technical Officer in charge of
ETSI's RFID standardization committees, worked previously for 2 years as
ETSI Plugtests Technical Manager (25 Plugtests events managed in 2 years)
and was ETSI IT System Group Manager & Security Technical Manager. He
organized the first ETSI RFID Plugtests in March 2005. Patrick supported the
creation of ETSI TC GRID. In parallel, he was Software Engineering Teacher
at Nice University (France) for 14 years. Between 1985 and 1993, he worked
as CIO for the French Stock Exchange in Paris and for Digital Equipment
Corporation in Sophia Antipolis as Project Manager and consultant. Patrick
has an Engineer Dipl. from the French University ENSAM (Ecole Nationale des Arts et Métiers) and a Master Degree in Software Engineering. |
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Manfred Aigner
Professor, TU GRAZ |
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Alessandro Serbanati
IOT Project Manager, RFID Lab, University of Rome "Sapienza" |
Alexandru Serbanati is currently responsible of the Internet of Things research area at the RFID Lab of “Sapienza” University of Rome and contract professor at the same university. He was born in 1980 in Bucharest, Romania. He completed his Physics studies at “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy in 2005 with a thesis held at ISAC - CNR (Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate – National Research Centre) that involved the development and evaluation of a morphing-based algorithm for nowcasting in orographically complex environments.
He then joined as researcher the RFID Lab, a research center mainly targeted to the study of the Radio Frequency Identification technology and its applications. After initial studies on the security of RFID systems, he participated in the design and development of mobile RFID projects for visually impaired people, most notably as chief of the SeSaMoNet software development team. In the past years he has been involved in the design and development of applications and FP7 projects based on Wireless Sensor Networks, with interests also in RTLS, security and mobile. |
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Marco Sgroi
Berkeley WSN Lab |
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