Data Science and Big Data Analytics in Smart Environments (ePub)

Marta Chinnici graduated in Mathematics (2004) magna cum laude at the University of Naples (Italy), where she received her PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science (2008) with a thesis on stochastic self-similar processes and applications in non-linear dynamical systems. Currently, she is a Senior Researcher at the ENEA's Department of Energy Technologies and Renewable Energy Sources, ICT Division, where she works on ICT for Energy Efficiency issues. She is a European Commission Expert in the field of ICT and a review/evaluator for several European programs on the same topic. She is Member of Technical Programme Committees of various international conferences and workshops, and Editor/Referee of relevant journals in the fields of computer science, data science and energy. To date, she authored more than 50 scientific articles and books, and presented in leading national and international conferences on ICT and energy topics.

Florin POP is professor at the Department of Computer and Information Technology, the Politehnica University of Bucharest. He also works as a 1st degree scientific researcher at National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI) Bucharest. His general research interests are: distributed systems (design and performance), grid computing and cloud computing, peer-to-peer systems, Big Data management, data aggregation, information retrieval and classification techniques, Bio-inspired optimization methods.

Catalin NEGRU is a system engineer and researcher at the Department of Computer and Information Technology at University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB). He obtained his PhD from UPB in 2016. His research interests include distributed systems, energy efficiency, cloud storage, cyber- physical systems, GIS. His research has led to the publishing of numerous papers and articles at prestigios journals and conferences. He is involved in several national and international research projects.