Jonathan C. Roberts is a professor in the School of Computer Science, Bangor University, UK., He was a lecturer (Kent 1999), Senior Lecturer (Kent 2004, Bangor 2007) and became a professor in 2015. His research is focused on data visualization, visual analytics, human computer interaction and computing pedagogy. He is interested in how to analyse, visualise and interact with data, and how to sketch designs and make appropriate designs. He is the creator of the Five Design-Sheet methodology, and author of the book Five Design-Sheets: Creative Design and Sketching for Computing and Visualisation, Springer Nature, June 2017. He focuses on heritage and archaeology, oceanography, pedagogy, and social networking domains, Prof Roberts’ hypothesis is that by displaying the data in several different ways, and allowing the user to highly interact with it, then the user gains a better understanding of their data.

Professor Andrew Ware, Professor of Computing, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Science, University of South Wales, UK.

As Professor in Computing, Andrew is engaged in both teaching and research. He is currently supervising eight PhD students and leading on a number of initiatives with local companies.

Beyond the University, Professor Ware is currently working as external examiner in Computing for Staffordshire University, with particular responsibility for helping to oversee the development of new provision in Ghana. In terms of international work, Professor Ware is currently the USW representative on two European Funded Intensive Programmes and involved with projects in Singapore, Norway and Canada.

High Performance Computing (HPC) Wales is an innovative collaboration that gives businesses and researchers access to world-class, secure and relatively easy to use HPC technology. USW is one of the partners in the collaboration and has devolved targets in terms of industrial usage, student engagement, as well as research and curriculum development. Professor Ware is the lead academic from USW on this exciting and dynamic project.

Andrew has supervised nearly 30 PhD students and has lead on collaborative projects both within the UK and Europe. He has lectured in many parts of the World including the USA, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong. His main research interest is the application of AI techniques to help solve real world problems.

Abdullah Uz Tansel received his BS in management, and his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the Middle East Technical University, in Ankara Turkey. He has also received his MBA degree at the University of Southern California. After being a faculty member at the Middle East Technical University, Dr. Tansel joined Baruch College, the City University of New York (CUNY) where he is currently a professor of information systems and also a professor of computer science at The Graduate Center of CUNY. Professor Tansel’s research focus is on temporal databases and he has made significant contributions in this field. He also headed the editorial board that published the first book on temporal databases ‘Temporal Databases: Theory, Design, and Implementation’ (1993). Dr. Tansel has a patent on adding temporality to RDF. His research interests are Database Management Systems, Temporal Databases, Semantic Web, and Blockchain Databases. Dr. Tansel has published many articles in the conferences and journals of the ACM, IEEE and other associations. He is a frequent speaker on time in databases and blockchain as a database. He is also a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.

Bekim Fetaji is Full Professor of Informatics (Computer Sciences). He works at Mother Teresa University (MTU) – Skopje, North Macedonia. He is Vice Rector for Science & Research at MTU since 2017. Former head of Research group in Programming and software Engineering. Previously Dean of Faculty of Informatics at UMT (2016-2018) and Dean of Computer Science Faculty (2008-2012) and before that vice-dean for academic issues in computer Sciences (2005-2008) at South East European University. He was the Vice President of Macedonian Board of Accreditation of Higher Education in Macedonia.

Received his PhD in Computer Sciences at the Faculty of Computer Sciences in Graz University of Technology in with the dissertation thesis “E-learning indicators- a multidimensional model for designing and developing e-learning software solutions”. He received his Master Degree from Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England UK. He served as Visiting Professor in Staffordshire University UK, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Engineering, Japan, Polytechnic University, Tirana, Albania, University of Novi Pazar, Serbia and other Universities. He has taught in these Universities in English, Albanian, Macedonian and Serbian language.

Participated in several project within different programs such as Tempus, Erasmus and other national and international research projects. Published more than 140 scientific papers in international conferences most of them in IEEE and ACM and more than 30 international journals, some of them with ISI Web of Science impact factor.

Published 7 (seven) academic textbooks and 2 (two) books in English that can be found online at Amazon.

Main research interest and published work is in enhanced technology education, virtual learning environments, software engineering, and lately data science with machine learning, and closely related fields..