Håkan Grahn is a professor in Computer Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology. He received a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 1990 and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 1995, both from Lund University. His main interests are computer architecture, multicore systems, parallel computing, performance evaluation, image processing, machine learning and data mining. He has published more than hundred papers on these subjects. He is heading the research project ”Scalable resource-efficient system for big data analytics”, financed with 36 MSEK by the Knowledge Foundation during 2014-2020. From January 1999 to June 2002 he was Head of Department for the Dept. of Software Engineering and Computer Science, and during 2011-2013 he was Dean of research at the Faculty of Engineering.

Veselka Boeva is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BTH. She received her M. Sc. in mathematics with specialization in computer science from the Plovdiv University and Ph. D. in computer science from the Technical University of Sofia-branch Plovdiv (Bulgaria). She is Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Systems and Technologies of the Technical University of Sofia-branch Plovdiv (Bulgaria). She has a long teaching experience in computer science and research experience in the field of data analysis, machine learning, decision making, bioinformatics, expertise retrieval and formal methods in software systems. Veselka has visited on different research fellowships several European universities as the Slovak Technical University, the Stockholm University, the Ghent University (Belgium), the Max Planck Institute for Human Development of Berlin and Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden).

Dr. Hüseyin Kusetoğulları received his PhD degree from the University of Warwick, UK, in 2012 and received his MSc and BSc degrees from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus in 2005 and 2007, respectively. After completing his PhD, he worked as a Post-Doc researcher in the Image Processing and Expert Systems Laboratory in the School of Engineering at Warwick University, UK. In 2013, he joined Department of Computer Engineering at Gediz University as Asst. Prof. and he gave technical core and elective courses for BSc and MSc students as well as doing research in his interested research area. After that, he worked on multiobjectivisation problems at the Department of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University as a Research Associate. He is currently working as a Post-Doc researcher for the Big Data project led by Prof. Håkan Grahn and Prof. Niklas Lavesson in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology.

Shahrooz Abghari is a PhD student in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. He hold a Master in Computer Science from Blekinge Institute of Technology in 2013. His research interests are machine learning and data mining, and time series prediction.

Stefan is currently a research engineer within the BigData@BTH project. He received a BSc and an MSc in computer science from Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). Stefan is a lecturer at BTH since 2007 and since 2011 also program manager for the Master of Science in Game and Software Engineering and Master of Science in Computer Security programs at BTH. His current interests include computer graphics, image processing and GPGPU. Stefan have been involved in 2 international conference papers, 2 patent applications and a book chapter.

Siamak Khatibi is associate Professor of Computer Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Department of Communication Systems. He received his MSc in Electrical Engineering and his PhD for investigation in 3D reconstruction of brain cells using conventional microscopy and fluorescence illumination at Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden. His research interests are computer vision, image analysis, multimedia interaction and assessment, robotic vision, optical and sensory advancement, and human centered computing. He has also extensive experience with industry projects; resulting to several new patents and an innovation award, Der Deutsche Innovationspreis, in 2013 for a novel autostereoscopic 3D display technology.

Christine Niyizamwiyitira completed her PhD 2018-09-21 in Computer science at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) in Sweden in Computer Science and Engineering Department. She completed her masters in 2010 in computer engineering from Korea university of Technology (KUT) in South Korea. Her research interests includes Real time systems, cloud computing, high performance computing, Database performance, and Voice based application. Her current Research focuses on Scheduling of real time systems on Virtual Machines (uniprocessor & multiprocessor) and Big data processing.