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Irene Viola is a tenure-track researcher within the Distributed and
Interactive Systems (DIS) at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI). She
received her MSc in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University
of Turin, Italy, in 2015, and her PhD in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
(EPFL), Switzerland, in 2019. Her research interest lay in compression,
transmission, and QoE metrics and methodologies for immersive multimedia
systems. She has served as a QUALINET chair for the task force in
Immersive Media Experiences since 2017, and is actively involved in
standardization bodies such as MPEG and ITU.
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Silvia Rossi is a PostDoc (ERCIM fellow) of the Distributed and
Interactive Systems (DIS) group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
in the Netherlands. She received her BSc and MSc degrees, both in
Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of
Bologna - Cesena (Italy) in 2013 and 2016, and her Ph.D from UCL, London
(UK) in 2022. Her PhD topic was “Understanding user interactivity for the
next-generation immersive communication: design, optimisation, and
behavioural analysis”. She is also an active member of the multimedia
community being part of the Special Interest Group of Multimedia (SIGMM)
Records team. Truly passionate about multimedia and technology, her
research interests are at the crossroad between multimedia processing,
data processing and analysis, machine learning, and communication
systems.
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Thomas Röggla is a senior scientific software engineer in the Distributed & Interactive Systems (DIS) group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering and a Master’s degree in Internet & Web Technologies from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). He has had permanent appointment with CWI since 2018 and worked as a software developer on various European and national research projects, covering areas including Physiological & Affective Computing, Immersive Multimedia Systems and Media Production.
As Director of Science at TNO ICT, Omar Aziz Niamut guides TNO
researchers in the development of key enabling digital technologies,
such as AI, cyber and crypto, data sharing, digital infrastructure
and quantum. He has led the research on social XR at TNO and has
build a solid knowledge and technology position for Dutch companies
to become active around metaverse developments. He has over 20 years
of experience in developing media technologies and has over 40 patent
applications. His research on streaming 360-degree video to VR
headsets led to TNO start-up Tiledmedia. He recently was awarded a
grant from Meta's XR Programs and Research Fund to study the impact
of the metaverse on the future of work.
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Pablo Cesar has led the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group
at CWI since January 2014 and is Professor of Human-Centered Multimedia
Systems in the Department of Intelligent Systems (INSY) at TU Delft. He
has received the prestigious 2020 Netherlands Prize for ICT Research. He
is IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Senior
member, the highest grade for which IEEE members can apply, and ACM
(Association for Computing Machinery) Distinguished Member, cited for
significant achievements across the computing field recognizing up to 10
percent of ACM worldwide membership. His research focuses on measuring
and evaluating the way users interact and communicate with each other
using a wide range of decentralized digital systems. Cesar has
co-directed over 15 externally funded research projects (H2020, FP7, FP6,
PPP, NWO).
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