Robert Wrembel is an associate professor in the Faculty of Computing, at Poznan University of Technology, in Poland. In 2008 he received a post-doctoral degree in computer science (habilitation), specializing in database systems and data warehouses. He has been a deputy dean of the Faculty of Computing, in terms 2008-2012 and 2012-2016. Involved in 8 research and 8 industrial projects in the area of data processing technologies; consultant at software house Rodan Systems (2002-2003); lecturer at Oracle Poland (1998-2005). Currently, he leads at his University the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Programme "Information Technologies for Business Intelligence - Doctoral College" (2013-2020). In 2013 he has done an internship at a BI company Target (USA). In 2010 he received the IBM Faculty Award for highly competitive research, in 2011 he was awarded the Medal of the Committee of National Education (from the Minister of National Education), in 2016 - the Silver Medal for Long-lasting Service (from the President of the Republic of Poland), in 2019 - IBM Shared University Research Award, and in 2019 - International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Service Award. He is a member of ACM, a country representative in IFIP Technical Committee TC 2 - Software: Theory and Practice, and a member of IFIP Working Group 2.6 (Database). Since Apr 2018 he is a regular editorial board member of the Data & Knowledge Engineering journal.

Sonya Coleman joined the Computer Science Research Institute and School of Computing and Intelligent Systems in 2002 and was appointed Head of the Research Graduate School in 2012. Sonya is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teaches at the undergraduate level. Sonya received a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics, Statistics, and Computing (first class) from Ulster University, UK in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Ulster University, UK in 2003. She is the Cognitive Robotics team leader within the Intelligent Systems Research Centre. Sonya has publications primarily in image processing, robotics, computational intelligence, and financial engineering. Her research has been supported by funding from various sources such as EPSRC, The Nuffield Foundation, The Leverhulme Trust, and the European Commission. In 2009 she was awarded the Distinguished Research Fellowship by Ulster University in recognition of her contribution to research and she is currently secretary of the Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society.

Perkowski received his M.S. degree in electronics in 1970 and his Ph.D. degree in automatic control in 1980 He has been on the faculty of Warsaw Technical University, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea. He has been a Visiting Faculty Member at the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the University of Montpellier, France, and Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan. He worked as a Summer Professor at Intel, GTE, and Sharp, and was a consultant to several companies including Cypress Semiconductor. Dr. Perkowski is the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multiple-Valued Logic. Dr. Perkowski has published over 100 journal and conference papers. Senior Member IEEE and Member Association for Computing Machinery.

Roy H. Campbell is a professor at the University of Illinois, and work in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Operating system, Security, Networking, Database and Information system, Parallel/High-performance computing, Architecture, compilers, and parallel computing. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in May 1977. His primary research area is Operating systems. He got the Pervasive 2012 Ten Year Impact Award, IEEE Certificate of Appreciation 2009 in recognition and appreciation of services and contributions to IEEE Central Illinois Section, UIUC National Training Standards for Information Systems Security (INFOSEC), 2003-2006, 2007-2010, Information Technology Committee to the Illinois Terrorism Task Force, 2002, 2003, Advanced Technologies Group, Apple External research Accelerating Innovation Award 1991, Aug. 1982-Aug. 1983: Senior Visiting Research Fellowship at University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Science and Engineering Research Council of Great Britain, May 1981-Aug. 1981: Senior Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Science and Engineering Research Council of Great Britain, Technical Brief, "Path Pascal," June 1982, Certificate of Recognition for the Creative Development of a Technical Innovation, Published in NASA.