Keynote Speakers
Mats Viberg
Symposium opening address
Professor Mats Viberg received the PhD degree in Automatic Control from Linköping University, Sweden in 1989. He has held academic positions at Linköping University and visiting positions at Stanford University, Brigham Young University and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Since 1993, Dr. Viberg is a professor of Signal Processing at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, where he has also served as Chair of the Departments of Applied Electronics and Signals and Systems. Since 2011, he holds a position as First Vice President at Chalmers.
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Dr. Viberg’s research interests are in Statistical Signal Processing and its various applications, including Antenna Array Signal Processing, System Identification, Wireless Communications, Radar Systems and Automotive Signal Processing. Dr. Viberg has served in various capacities in the IEEE Signal Processing Society, including Chair of the Technical Committees on Signal Processing Theory and Methods and Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing as well as member at large of the Board of Governors. Dr. Viberg has received 2 Paper Awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Excellent Research Award from the Swedish Research Council (VR) and the EURASIP European Group Technical Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg (KVVS). He has published over 200 journal and conference papers and graduated 26 Ph.D. students.
Elena Fersman
Keynote talk: Digitalization of Industry and Society: Challenges and Opportunities
Elena Fersman, Management and Operations of Complex Systems, KTH / Ericsson Research
Elena Fersman is a research leader in the area of Machine Intelligence at Ericsson Research and an adjunct professor in Cyber-Physical Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She received a PhD in computer science at Uppsala University in 2003 and worked as a postdoc at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan in 2004 before starting her industrial career. While working at Ericsson, Elena had various positions including product management, portfolio management and research leadership. Currently she has responsibility of setting research direction of multiple research groups based in several countries. Elena has co-authored 20+ scientific publications and 20+ patent families, participated in several PhD grading committees and served as reviewer at many international conferences.
Doctoral symposium co-chairs
Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas
Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Mälardalen University, guillermo.rodriguez-navas@mdh.se
Diana Arellano
Diana Arellano, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, diana.arellano@filmakademie.de
Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers
Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers
The Doctoral Symposium at the 2017 IS4SI Summit brings together PhD students and academics from the disciplines of computer science, information technology and information society, to discuss research topics around the main theme of the conference: DIGITALISATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY. Embodied, Embedded, Networked, Empowered through Information, Computation & Cognition!
The symposium offers the participants the opportunity to:
- Present their research projects and receive constructive feedback and mentoring from senior experts and peers.
- Interact with other students and with participants at the main conference, expanding their contact network and fostering a sense of community.
- Gain new understanding about their own research by exposure to a vast diversity of perspectives.
- Reflect on future trends and how their research can shape the future of digitalisation for a sustainable society.
Who should apply?
The symposium encourages applications from doctoral students in any stage of their PhD, as well as young researchers (post-docs) who have received their PhD degree within the last two years.
Students are welcomed to submit the current state of their PhD research, portions of work developed during a PhD course, an opinion/position about digitalisation and sustainability, or artistic ideas (see Artistic Track) that express the student’s thinking and feeling about topic at hand.
Application instructions
In the first step, extended abstracts 2-4 pages long IN TEXT FORMAT should be submitted through the conference submission site.
After acceptance, formatted abstracts should be submitted according to instructions under http://is4si-2017.org/submissions/.
The support letter must be signed by the main academic supervisor and must include:
- Name of the student
- Assessment of the current dissertation research status
- Why attendance at this Doctoral Consortium would be particularly beneficial to the student
- Expected date of defense of the dissertation (if applicable, not for post-docs)
Artistic Track
Because scientists are not only thinking machines, but also full sentient beings, as a novelty of this doctoral symposium, we invite participants to submit their own artistic creations together with their research proposal.
We do not limit in any way the format, style or message of these creations, as long as they are connected to the theme of the symposium: digitalization for sustainable society.
Artistic work should not be submitted through the conference submission site. Please contact the symposium chairs to learn about submission alternatives.
Participation in this track is by no means mandatory, but we really want to be amazed by your creativity!
Evaluation criteria
All applications containing the two documents mentioned above will be reviewed by the doctoral symposium panel and evaluated according to quality, originality and adequacy to the conference scope. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
All accepted authors will receive further instructions for preparing the camera-ready version of the proposal as well as more detailed information about the symposium activities.
Important dates
The Doctoral Symposium will take place on June 13, 2017.
Please find all the information about important dates on the summit web page.
Summit Secretariat
Sweden MEETX AB is the conference bureau handling the summit secretariat for IS4SI 2017 Summit.
E-mail: is4si-2017@meetx.se
Phone: +46 31 708 86 90
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