University of British Columbia, Canada.
Cristina Conati is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. She received her M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Milan, Italy (1988), and an M.Sc. (1996) and Ph.D. (1999) in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Conati's areas of interest include Adaptive Interfaces, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, UserModeling, and Affective Computing. She published over 50 strictly refereed articles, and received best paper awards from the international conferences on User Modeling, AI in Education, Intelligent User Interfaces, and the Journal of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction.
David Garlan is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of Software Engineering Professional Programs in the School of computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon in 1987. His interests include software architecture, self-adaptive systems, formal methods, and cyber-physical systems.
David Barkai is an HPC computational architect for Intel Corporation, involved in interfacing between the HPC users' community and Intel. He also held a number of positions within Intel research labs involving peer-to-peer and investigations of the impact of emerging technologies on society. Before joining Intel in 1996, David worked for over 20 years in the field of scientific and engineering supercomputing for Control Data Corporation, Floating Point Systems, Cray Research Inc., Supercomputer Systems Inc., and NASA Ames Research Center.
