November 5, 2025

Keynote speakers

Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria
https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/informatik/news/news-archive/welcome-univ-prof-dr-radu-prodan/
Radu Prodan is University Professor in distributed systems at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he heads the newly established research group “AIM AT Endowed Chair for Edge AI”. He is an internationally recognised leading researcher in the fields of distributed and parallel systems, applied artificial intelligence, big data processing and analytics. He coordinated and participated in numerous national and international projects.  He is the author of one book, over 150 journal and conference publications, and is the recipient of two IEEE best paper awards.
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
https://staff.fmi.uvt.ro/~dana.petcu/
Dana Petcu (Mrs., PhD) is Professor at Computer Science Department of West University of Timisoara, and Director of Institute for Advanced Environmental Research and of the research spin-off Institute e-Austria Timisoara . Her interest in distributed and parallel computing is reflected in more than two hundred papers about Cloud, Grid, Cluster or HPC computing. She is and was involved in several projects funded by European Commission and other research funding agencies, as coordinator, scientific coordinator, or local team leader.