At its recent General Assembly in Portugal, IFIP awarded six Fellowships to IFIP members who have served above and beyond the call of duty, distinguishing themselves in their diverse fields of expertise.
Congratulations to Philippe Palanque, Rossouw von Solms, Vincenzo Piuri, Simone Barbosa, Ryohei Nakatsu and Lukasz Stettner on achieving this highly prestigious status.
Philippe Palanque
IFIP Councillor and AMB chair, Philippe Palanque has made numerous contributions with a significant impact on the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community pushing fundamental concepts for the development of Safety Critical Systems. He worked to disseminate these concepts in many domains, in particular Command and Control Systems and Flight Cockpits. According to Google-Scholar, his cumulative production yields 8,691 citations and he has an H-index of 50. He is also internationally recognised for his personal commitment and promotion of the HCI field as well as for his research activities, receiving multiple awards from scientific societies including ACM, IFIP TC13 and SEE.
Rossouw von Solms
Prof Rossouw von Solms is a leading internationally acclaimed scientist with outstanding contributions to the fields of information and cybersecurity, as well as IT governance, over a period more than thirty years.
Prof Rossouw von Solms has had a long and distinguished career as an academic and researcher. He is considered one of the leading researchers internationally in the field of information and cyber security as well as IT governance. With a primary focus on the human and management aspects of information and cybersecurity, he has been determined to instil a culture of e-safety through education, tackling such issues as safe banking habits, avoiding email scams, cyber-bullying, and the risks associated with social networking sites like Facebook.
Vincenzo Piuri
Vincenzo Piuri has made seminal research contributions to artificial intelligence, biometrics, distributed systems and their industrial applications. His work couples strong theoretical foundations with algorithmic and architectural innovations, has been recognized with several awards and deployed in practice by large national/international corporations. He has led many large EU research collaborations and developed educational initiatives bridging Italy, Europe, and the world. He is an outstanding mentor, a tireless advocate for informatics and engineering, and has founded a company in the area of intelligent systems.
Simone Barbosa
Simone Barbosa is a prominent figure in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) with a specific expertise in semiotic engineering, information visualization, and digital storytelling. Her current research interests extend to model-based interactive systems design, data science, visual analytics, and increasing the quality of use of interactive systems in diverse domains, by means of adaptation, analogy-making mechanisms, and other artificial intelligence techniques. She is an award-winning scientist who is actively involved in various capacities in major international organizations.
Ryohei Nakatsu
Professor Nakatsu has a strong value and contribution in the Entertainment Computing field, with a vast production through his career. He has being recognized by many prizes and awards and was invited in many universities as visitor professor. Among many achievement, he is one of the responsibles for the existence of the IFIP TC14, the International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC) and the Elsevier Entertainment Computing Journal, which is the most important journal in the field.
Lukasz Stettner
Łukasz Stettner is a former Chair of IFIP TC 7 and an expert in stochastic control theory and its applications. A professor in the Department of Probability Theory and Mathematics of Finance at the Polish Academy of Sciences, his main contributions deal with the long run behaviour of stochastic functionals and related long-term behaviour of stochastic dynamical systems. In particular he:
- Solved Bellman equations for partially observed controlled Markov processes with average reward per unit time functional as well as with long run risk sensitive functional. In addition, he made essential contribution to ergodicity of controlled filtering processes.
- Solved Bellman equations for risk sensitive long run control problems both in discrete and continuous time with application for risk sensitive portfolio analysis
- Contributed to ultimate solutions of problems with general discounting which in general are time inconsistent and showed that in a number of long run cases the optimal strategy is the one for time consistent problem; similar problem was also shown for long run utility maximization
- Solved several problems concerning financial markets with frictions in particular markets with proportional or general transaction costs
- contributed to computational and numerical aspects of various stochastic control problems.
His results concern both discrete and continuous time problems and have applications in finance, economics and banking.