Invited Speakers 

Prof. Vladimir Estivill
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
 

Bio: Vladimir Estivill-Castro is currently a full professor of the Department of Engineering at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), and a visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He has worked professionally in Mexico, the United States, Australia, Spain and Canada as a scholar, academic, consultant, programmer, project leader, and teacher. He holds a bachelor’s in mathematics and a master's in mathematics, as well as a master's in education and a doctorate in computer science. He pioneered privacy-preserving data mining. He received the Best PhD supervisor Award for Computer Science from the Australian Teaching and Learning Council in 2010. He is an expert in artificial intelligence, data science, robotics, and software engineering. His current research interests are machine ethics and model-driven engineering.

Assoc. Prof. Lorenzo Bettini
DISIA, Univ. Firenze, Italy
 

Bio: Lorenzo Bettini is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at DISIA Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni `Giuseppe Parenti', Università di Firenze, Italy, since February 2016.
Previously, he was an Assistant Professor (Researcher) in Computer Science at Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Italy.
His research interests cover design, theory and implementation of programming languages with IDE support (in particular Object-Oriented languages and Network aware languages).
He is a committer of the Eclipse projects Xtext and SWTBot, and the project lead of the Eclipse project EMF Parsley.
Contact him at lorenzo.bettini@unifi.it, or visit https://www.lorenzobettini.it.