Shaping the Future of IoT with Edge Intelligence (PDF)

Rute C. Sofia (Ph.D. 2004) is the Industrial IoT Head at fortiss - research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software intensive services and systems. She is also an Invited Associate Professor of University Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, and an Associate Researcher at ISTAR, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Rute's research background has been developed in an industrial and academic context. She was a co-founder of the COPELABS research unit, and the COPELABS scientific director (2013-2017), where she was a Senior Researcher (2010-2019). She co-founded the Portuguese startup Senception Lda (2013-2019), a startup focused on personal communication platforms. Her current research interests are: network architectures and protocols; IoT; Edge computing; in-network computing; network mining. Rute has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles in her fields of expertise and 9 patents. She is an ACM Europe Councilor, an ACM Senior member, and an IEEE Senior Member. She was an IEEE ComSoc N2Women Awards co-chair (2020-2021). She is also a member of the Expert Group of the Networld ETP.

John Soldatos (http://gr.linkedin.com/in/johnsoldatos) holds a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (2000), is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK (2014-present), and an Innovation Delivery Specialist with Netcompany-Intrasoft. He has significant experience in working closely with large multi-national industries as R&D consultant and delivery specialist, while being scientific advisor to high-tech startup enterprises. Dr. Soldatos is an expert in Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies and applications. He has played a leading role in the successful delivery of more than seventy projects, for both private and public sector organizations, including complex integrated projects. He is co-founder of the open source platform OpenIoT. He has published more than 200 articles in international