Organizing Committee

General Chairs

Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland

Marc Langheinrich, USI,  Switzerland

Technical Program Chair

Albrecht Schmidt , Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany

Vice Technical Program Chairs

Jie Liu, Microsoft Research, USA

George Roussos, Birkbeck Univ. of London, UK

Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs., USA

Steering Chair

Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy

Workshops Chairs

Pedro Jose Marron, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Marius Portmann,  Univ. of Queensland/NICTA, Australia

Work In Progress Chairs

Franca Delmastro, IIT-CNR, Italy

Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA

Luo Xun, Qualcomm, USA – industrial liason

Demo Chairs

Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland

Anand Ranganathan, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Igor Curcio, NOKIA, Finland – industrial liason

Panel Chair

Anita La Salle, National Science Foundation, USA 

Publicity Chairs

Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy

Peizhao Hu, National ICT Australia, Australia

Brent Lagesse, Rayheon BBN Technologies, Massachusetts, USA

Pushpendra Singh, IIIT Delhi, India

Alireza Sahami,  Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany

Publications Chairs

Peizhao Hu, National ICT Australia, Australia

Keynote Chair

Mohan Kumar, UTA

PhD. Forum Chair

Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia

Finance and Registration Chair

Gergely Záruba, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Travel Grant Chair

Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Local Organization Chair

Anna Förster, SUPSI, Switzerland

Website Chair

Steven Mudda, SUPSI, Switzerland