Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Esteban Zimányi is a professor and the director of the Department of Computer & Decision Engineering (CoDE) at ULB. He is also the academic director of the Computer Science program at the Faculty of Applied Sciences. He started his studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Centro América, Costa Rica. He received a B.Sc. (1988) and a doctorate (1992) in computer science from the Faculty of Sciences at the ULB.

Associate Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Full professor, specialist in computational learning theory, support vector machines and data mining algorithms; member of LARCA group;

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Generally, I am interested in Internet scale systems, networked distributed systems, collaborative systems, scalable Internet services, Grid and Peer-to-Peer systems, economics based algorithms and systems applied to grids and peer-to-peer, collaborative learning and networking. I am part of the Distributed Systems group that I coordinate as part of the CNDS group

Luleå University of Technology

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Specialist in neural networks, support vector machines and feature selection algorithms; member of SOCO group.

Faculté d'ingénierie biologique, agronomique et environnementale, Université Catholique de Louvain.

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Delft University of Technology

Marie-Aude Aufaure who obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Paris 6, is full professor at Ecole Centrale Paris (MAS Laboratory) and head of the SAP Business Objects Chair in Business Intelligence. She is also scientific partner at INRIA in the Axis project. Her research interests deals with the analysis, retrieval and querying of unstructured data, and the combination of structured and unstructured data.

Associate professor. Dept. of Applied Mathematics 3, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.

Associate Professor Signal Processing. KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Paulo Lourenço is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal. Professor Lourenço is experienced in the fields of NDT, advanced experimental and numerical techniques, innovative strengthening techniques and earthquake engineering. He is a specialist in structural restoration and has worked as consultant on more than forty monuments, including World Heritage sites such as Cathedral of Porto, Monastery of Jeronimos (Lisbon), and Qutb Minar (New Delhi).

University professor, PhD in Civil engineering. Resarch lines: Edification and conservation of the structural heritage; numerical and experimental analysis of structures. Universitat politècnica de Catalunya.

Prof. Dr. Philippe Gourbesville is, since 2007, the Director of Polytech Nice Sophia, the engineering school of Nice Sophia University (NSU), France. Philippe is a professor for Hydroinformatics and Water Engineering at NSU and is a visiting professor at various European and international universities. Since 2004 and under the Erasmus Mundus, Philippe has developed the first joint master degree EuroAquae focused on Hydroinformatics and water management with 5 European leading universities. This program has been review in 2009 and is now extended to 11 partners covering all continents.

Universität des Saarlandes

Associate Professor, specialist in multivariate descriptive analysis, clustering, decision trees, data fusion and consumer satisfaction indexes; coordinator of LIAM group; Representative of the UPC in the consortium.

Prof Fransson is Chair of the Division of Heat and Power Technology, and Head of Department of Energy Technology at KTH.

Lecturer in Computational Hydraulics. Newcastle University

Lecturer, College of Engineering. Swansea University Prifysgol Abertawe

Associate Professor. Marine Civil Engineering. Norwegian University of Science and Technology