Agostino Cortesi, Ph.D., is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy, and Dean of the PhD programme in Computer Science. He has previously served as Department head, and as Vice-Rector for quality assessment and institutional affairs. His research interests include programming languages theory, software engineering, and static analysis techniques, with particular emphasis on security applications. He serves as coordinator of the H2020 European project “Families_Share” and of the ITALY-INDIA project "Formal Specification for Secured Software System". He published more than 150 papers in international journals and proceedings of international conferences. According to Scopus, his h-index is 19 and his i-10 index is 39. He serves as co-Editor in Chief of the book series "Services and Business Process Reengineering" edited by Springer-Nature.
Khalid Saeed is a full Professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Computer Science at Bialystok University of Technology. He was with Faculty of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Warsaw University of Technology in 2014-2019. He was with AGH Krakow in 2008-2014. He received the BSc Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Baghdad University in 1976, the MSc and PhD (distinguished) Degrees from Wroclaw University of Technology in Poland in 1978 and 1981, respectively. He received his DSc Degree (Habilitation) in Computer Science from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 2007. He was nominated by the President of Poland for the title of Professor in 2014. He has published more than 245 publications including 98 journal papers and book chapters, 87 peer reviewed conference papers, edited 48 books, journals and Conference Proceedings, written 12 text and reference books (h-index 15 in WoS base and 12 in SCOPUS base). He supervised more than 15 PhD and 130 MSctheses from and outside Poland. He gave 50 invited lectures and keynotes in different universities in Canada, China, Colombia, Czech, Germany, India, Japan, Serbia, Slovakia and South Korea on Biometrics, Image Processing and Analysis. He received more than 30 academic awards.
Khalid Saeed is a member of more than 15 editorial boards of international journals and conferences. He is an IEEE Senior Member and has been selected as IEEE Distinguished Speaker for 2011-2016. Khalid Saeed is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Biometrics with Inderscience Publishers.