Karl AbererCo-Founder of LinkAlong Sarl, 2017.Vice-president EPFL for Information Systems, 2012 –2016.Director of the Swiss National Centre for Mobile Information and Communication Systems NCCR MICS (mics.ch), 2005 -2012.Member of the Swiss Research and Technology Council SWTR, consulting the Swiss Federal government, 2004 - 2011.
Dominique BonvinDominique Bonvin is Professor and Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory of EPFL. He received his Diploma in Chemical Engineering from ETH Zürich, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He worked in the field of process control for the Sandoz Corporation in Basel and with the Systems Engineering Group of ETH Zürich. He joined the EPFL in 1989, where his current research interests include modeling, control and optimization of dynamic systems. He served as Director of the Automatic Control Laboratory for the periods 1993-97, 2003-2007 and again since 2012, Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department in 1995-97 and Dean of Bachelor and Master Studies at EPFL for the period 2004-2011.
Stefano SpaccapietraStefano Spaccapietra is a full professor at EPFL, Switzerland, where he has been heading the database laboratory. He has been in academic positions all along his career. He got his PhD from the University of Paris VI, in 1978, where he first had his master in Computer Science in 1969. At that time, he has been teaching file systems, later turned into teaching database systems. He moved to the University of Burgundy, Dijon, in 1983 to take a professor position at the Institute of Technology. He left Dijon for EPFL in 1988.
Prof. Spaccapietra is a Fellow of the IEEE and recipient of the IFIP Silver Core Award and ER Award. He is an ER fellow.
He has been Editor-in-chief of the Journal of Data Semantics (LNCS subline), Springer.
He is member of the editorial boards of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal (Elsevier), the
Internet and Web Information Systems Journal (Kluwer), the Revue Internationale de Géomatique (Hermes), and the Computing Letters Journal (CoLe), VSP/Brill.
He was former Chair of the IFIP Working Group 2.6 "Databases" and of the ER Conferences Steering Committee.
Boi FaltingsProfessor Faltings joined EPFL in 1987 as professor of Artificial Intelligence. He holds a PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a diploma from the ETHZ. His research has spanned different areas of intelligent systems linked to model-based reasoning. In particular, he has contributed to qualitative spatial reasoning, case-based reasoning (especially for design problems), constraint satisfaction for design and logistics problems, multi-agent systems, and intelligent user interfaces. His current work is oriented towards multi-agent systems and social computing, using concepts of game theory, constraint optimization and machine learning. In 1999, Professor Faltings co-founded Iconomic Systems, a company that developed a new agent-based paradigm for travel e-commerce. He has since co-founded 5 other startup companies and advised several others. Prof. Faltings has published more than 150 refereed papers on his work, and participates regularly in program committees of all major conferences in the field. He has served as associate editor of of the major journals, including the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and the Artificial Intelligence Journal. From 1996 to 1998, he served as head of the computer science department.
Rémy GlardonNé en 1950, originaire de Vallorbe (VD). Il étudie à l'EPFL où il obtient un diplôme d'ingénieur en 1973 et le titre de docteur es sciences techniques en 1977. Il rejoint en janvier 1979 l'University of California à Berkeley où il entreprend des travaux dans le domaine de l'usure et de la mécanique de rupture. A partir de 1982 il occupe différents postes dans le management, d'abord dans l'assurance de qualité, puis dans la production et la logistique au sein de la société Mettler-Toledo à Greifensee, ZH.
Il rejoint, en 1990, l'entreprise Amysa à Yverdon où il occupe le poste de directeur technique.
En 1993, il est nommé directeur des opérations et membre du comité de direction du groupe Portescap à La Chaux-de-Fonds. Il y dirige toutes les unités opérationnelles de l'entreprise et, en tant que tel, entreprend une réorganisation visant à améliorer les performances de la logistique et de l'outil de production de manière à mieux répondre aux besoins du marché.
Depuis 1995 il est professeur extraordinaire de gestion et processus de production au Département de génie mécanique. Ses travaux de recherche portent en particulier sur la modélisation et la simulation de la production et de la logistique interne, sur le développement des techniques de Rapid Manufacturing et Rapid Tooling, ainsi que sur l'intégration de procédés d'usinage non-traditionnels (EDM, ECM).
