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Marco Zennaro
Marco is a Research Officer at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics. His research interest is in the use of WSN for Development. He holds a PhD from KTH-The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Alvaro Vives
Alvaro is currently based in the Netherlands where he works for the RIPE NCC. He started working with IPv6 back in 2002. As a trainer since 2006 has given more than 65 workshops in more than 20 countries. He holds a Master in Telecommunications from Universidad de Vigo and an MBA from Universidad de Almería.
Sandor Markon
Sandor is a Professor at Kobe Institute of Computing, Japan.His interest in ICT4D is mostly sensors and signal processing. He also works in AI, optimization, and new human-machine interfaces. He holds a PhD from Kyoto University.
Stephen Hailes
Steve is the Director of Studies and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, University College London. He is interested in all aspects of mobile systems and security. But most particularly in the hard bits: ad hoc systems, pervasive/ambient computing environments, and how to secure these things.
Franck Albinet
Franck is a Geographical Information System and Data analyst who has been providing for the last decade support to emergency responses in various areas including Humanitarian and Nuclear Emergency.
Ermanno Pietrosemoli
A graduate from Stanford, Ermanno has been a professor in Telecommunications at University de Los Andes in Venezuela. He is now a researcher at ICTP. He holds the world record for the longest WiFi Link: 383 km.
Pietro Manzoni
Pietro Manzoni is a Professor of Computer Networks at the “Universitat Politècnica de València”, Spain. His research activity is related to Networking and Mobile Systems and applied to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), Opportunistic Networking for Smart Cities and the Internet of Things, and Community Networks. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Martin Saint
Martin is a Scholar in Residence at Carnegie Mellon University in Rwanda. He currently teaches and researches in the areas of telecommunications, network engineering, cyber-physical systems, financial technology, and digital financial services. Martin has an MS and PhD candidacy in Telecommunications at the University of Colorado.
Antoine Bagula
Antoine obtained his doctoral degree in 2006 from the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He held lecturing positions at the University of Stellenbosch and the University of Cape Town before joining the Computer Science department at the University of the Western Cape in January 2014. He has authored/co-authored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals and book chapters. His current research interest is in ICT with a specific focus on the Internet-of-Things, Cloud Computing, Data Science Analytics and Technologies and Communication Networks.
Marco Rainone
Marco has been a collaborator of the ICTP Wireless Lab since 2014. He is a freelance technical consultant since 2003, in the areas of embedded and mobile systems,
integration of embedded systems in industrial automations and test systems,
remote monitoring of systems for maintenance management, development of communication drivers for specialized hardware equipment.
He developed the software used in the TVWS Analyzer which has spectrum data from 30 different countries.
