Markus Helfert is a full Professor at Maynooth University, Innovation Value and the Director of the Business Informatics Group at Maynooth University. He is a Principle Investigator at Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre and at the Adapt Research Centre. His research is centred on Digital Service Innovation, Smart Cities and IoT based Smart Environments and includes research areas such as Service Innovation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Smart Services, Building Information Management, FinTech, Data Value, Enterprise Architecture, Technology Adoption, Analytics, Business Process Management. Prof. Helfert is an expert in Data Governance Standards and is involved in European Standardisation initiatives. Helfert has received national and international grants from agencies such as European Union (FP7; H2020), Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, was project coordinator on EU projects, and is the Project coordinator of the H2020 Projects: PERFORM on Digital Retail.
Dr. Joe Timoney studied Electronic Engineering, completing his PhD in Adaptive signal processing at TCD, Ireland. He joined the Dept. of Computer Science at Maynooth University in 1999. His research interests are based in the area of Software Engineering, systems analysis, and musical audio signal processing. He has supervised several PhD and MSC students. He was a member of the MU consortium on the EU FP7 BeathHealth project, and also led an EI Commercialisation project on Watermarking. He regularly works with industry through EI innovation vouchers. In 2003 he spent a 3-month research visit to ATR laboratory in Kyoto, Japan, and ino 2010 made a visit to the College of Computing at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He also is a keen DIY electronics enthusiast and has built a few synthesizers.
Dr. Hao Wu is an assistant professor at Computer Science Department of Maynooth University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Maynooth University. He is actively looking for highly motivated students doing research in Software Engineering. His research aims to create automated software and tools for verifying different kinds of models used in software engineering. He has strong interests in formal methods, programming languages design, program synthesis, relational database and software testing. Many his work is based on using SAT/SMT solvers , those super well-engineered solvers that make it easier to create fully automated tools for program verification and more.
Viviana Bastidas is a Ph.D. student at Maynooth University, and member of Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. Her research focuses on modelling the alignment in Smart City architectures. Viviana received her B.Sc. in Systems Engineering from Universidad Mariana, Pasto, Colombia, and her M.Sc. in Information Technologies Architectures from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. She has experience working in Enterprise Architecture and Software Engineering.