Thomas Michael Bohnert is Professor at Zurich University of Applied Sciences and is the founder of the ICCLab and SPLab.

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His interests are enabling ICT systems, coarsely ranging across cloud computing infrastructures and platforms, cloud-native applications, as well as cloud-robotics and network function virtualization as specific application domains.

Prior to ZHAW he was with SAP Research (Technical Director) and SIEMENS Corporate Technology (Senior Researcher).

During his tenure he was visiting scholar at NEC Research (Germany), Tampere University of Technology and VTT Research (Finland), and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China). He completed his PhD at University of Coimbra (Portugal).

He owns a ICT consultancy and contributes to several expert groups of the European Commission on the future of ICT. The same applies to his role as regular proposal evaluator and project reviewer for the EC, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the DAAD.

The Future Internet Public-Private-Partnership (www.fi-ppp.eu) appointment him as Deputy Chief Architect, presiding the FI-PPP Architecture Board and the FI-WARE project. He was technical coordinator of the Mobile Cloud Networking project and has a history of projects at European and national level.

He is founder of the IEEE Broadband Wireless Access Workshop (www.bwaws.org) and holds many project and conference chairs. From 2009-2011 he was on the steering board of the European Technology Platform Net!Works and co-chairs the EC DG NET FUTURES Future Internet Cluster. He acts as president of the Cloud Computing SIG of the Swiss Association of Computer Science as well as board member of the association at large.

His works have been published in several books, journals, and conferences. He serves as regional correspondent (Europe) for the IEEE Communication Magazine’s news section (GCN).

Contact: thomas.bohnert /at/ zhaw.ch

Andy Edmonds is a  senior researcher in the InIT Cloud Computing Lab. He acts as the deputy head of the ICCLab, where he is responsible for the IaaS research theme. His research interests include distributed and system architectures, virtualization, service-oriented architectures, and cloud computing. He has a research master’s degree in distributed systems from Trinity College Dublin.

He worked in industrial and academic positions in Siemens, Infineon, Intel and the Distributed Systems Group in Trinity College Dublin. He has been involved in several European FP6 and FP7 projects, including DBE, iClass, SLA@SOI and the FI-PPP FI-Ware. Currently he works on the FP7 project, MobileCloud Networking.

He currently co-chairs the Open Grid Forum’s Open Cloud Computing Interface working group.

Christof Marti is Senior Lecturer (Docent) and Researcher at Zurich University of Applied Sciences lecturing in the areas of Software Engineering, Programming, Web-Technologies, ICT-Infrastructure, Operating System Technologies and Cloud Computing. He is responsible for the PaaS research theme at the ICClab.

Christof is the ad interim head of the InIT Service Engineering Focus Area.

His intrests are on enabling ICT-Services and Enterprise Applications to run on modern cloud computing technologies and infrastructure.

He has FH-diploma degrees in Electrical Engineering (Electronics and Communications Engineering) and Software Engineering.

Prior to joining ZHAW he was IT director (CIO) at the Winterthur School of Polytechnic (TWI), which is a predecessor organization of ZHAW. He is also a co-founder of the Software Engineering Startup SENAG, which provides Information Management Systems with a special focus on semantic and genetic data analysis.

Fabrice Manhart is a research assistant in Zurich University of Applied Science working for the Institute of Applied Information Technology. He is new in the Service Engineering area and very interested to discover new fields. Currently he is involved in the area of Infrastructure as a Service and has been instrumental in deploying OpenStack.

Fabrice finished his degree in Telecommunication and Computer Science in 2006 and started working as Project Engineer at Nexus Telecom AG, Zurich. There he was involved in many customer projects. Later he took over the Group Manager position and was responsible for the deployment.

He currently pursuing his Master of Science in Engineering degree at ZHAW.

Fasika Daksa is research assistant in Zurich University of Applied Science (ZHAW, InIT).

She is working under Information Engineering, Information Retrieval and Data Warehousing department. She is working as a bridge between Data Warehousing and ICCLab department. Her research interest is due to the rapid growth of data volumes, improving the management of big data and analytics using the idea of Cloud Computing with Hadoop and SAS.

She has Bachelor degree in Information Systems from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. She worked in database management in an international company JHU-TSEHAI (John Hopkins University).