Contributor Biographies

Dr. Christian DeFeo has worked in the information technology industry since 1994, when he was a management intern with International Computers Limited. He has since had roles as a webmaster, developer, and project manager; he was the Site Producer for Ebookers.com, the Web Development Manager for the Marine Trader Media branch of Trader Media Group, and had the opportunity to work with leading Digital Economy thinkers while working as a Collaboration Manager at the University of Southampton. He presently works as the Global Community Supplier Manager for the element14 community; he is responsible for working with leading electronics manufacturers, including Texas Instruments, Cisco, and Würth Elektronik and finding new means to increase user engagement and generate innovation. Among his successful projects were extensive community marketing and education programs involving webinars, product road tests, and competitions to publicize the advent of new Wireless Power technologies (http://www.element14.com/beyondthephone), Energy Harvesting technologies (http://www.element14.com/community/groups/energy-harvesting-solutions), Smarter Homes technologies (http://www.element14.com/smarterlife), and the Internet of Things (http://www.element14.com/forgetmenot). He is also the program manager for a unique "crowdsourced" project to develop a mobile application for the Bath Institute for Medical Engineering (http://www.element14.com/project-nocturne).

Dr. Azad Camyab has held senior business development and project management roles in the energy sector for over 25 years. He started his career with CEGB and National Power in the UK where he was involved in the development and construction of a number of CCGTs in the early 1990s and developing and managing IPP (Independent Power Producer) projects globally.

Azad is currently the CEO of Pearlstone Energy Limited and an Associate of the Laing O'Rourke Centre for the Masters course in Construction Engineering & Technology, and the Masters programme in Sustainability Leadership, at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Visiting Professor at the London Met Business School.

Azad is a Fellow of The Institute of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a member of the Renewable Energy World Europe (Power-Gen Europe) Executive Advisory Board, and a Fellow of the Leeds Sustainability Institute Advisory Board.

Kiran Voderhobli is a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University who specializes in teaching Network Management and Network Security, among other areas related to networking systems. He is the course leader for Masters in Networking and Masters in Computer Science at Leeds Beckett. Before becoming an academic, Mr. Voderhobli also worked in industry, developing secure commercial VoIP solutions. His research areas include network security and sustainable computing. He received the MPhil degree from Leeds Beckett University after undertaking research into ubiquitous paradigms for network security. He is currently working toward a PhD in the area of sustainable networks and green ICT. He is an active researcher in the sustainability research group at Leeds Beckett University.

Dr. Nick Cope is currently Associate Dean for Enterprise and Employability in the Faculty of Arts, Environment and Technology, Leeds Beckett University. Nick holds a BSc in Bio-Medical Electronics from the University of Salford and a PhD in Human Interface/Assistive Technology from the Department of Electronics at Southampton University. Dr. Cope's research interests include 3-D computer graphics, the application of 3-D print technologies, computer simulation, computer game technologies, augmented reality, 3-D motion capture, 3-D scanning technologies, and digital applications in medical technology. Previously Dr. Cope had a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Aston University, Department of Mechanical Engineering (Manufacturing Systems and Factory Simulation); he was also Senior Research and Development Software Engineer, Ferranti Computer Systems, Human Interface Technology Group.

Dr. Stephen Wilkinson worked in industry in the design office, designing very large machine tools, before entering academia. He has been a lecturer for more than 32 years, having taught a range of subjects from Robotics and Automation to 3-D Visualization in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He used this experience while obtaining his PhD on 3-D simulation of flexible manufacturing systems and in his research on augmented reality for the 3-D simulation of hand operations. This work has enabled him to co-author two books in the areas of manufacturing technology and e-manufacture. His current research and course development have concentrated on eco engineering using 3-D printing as an advanced manufacturing technology. His other interests include the development of new engineering courses.

Professor Eric Rondeau is a full professor at the University of Lorraine, France. His research domain is Networked Control Systems (NCS) and green ICT. He was the coordinator of the FP6 NeCST STREP project. He is the coordinator of Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in PERCCOM (Pervasive Computing and Communications for Sustainable Development). He is participating in an Ecotech ANR (Research National Agency) project on indoor pollution in designing a new smart formaldehyde sensor. He is a member of IFAC TC 1.5 on Networked Systems. He has supervised 10 doctoral students, and he is co-author of more than 100 conference or journal papers.

Professor Francis Lepage is a full professor at Lorraine University in Nancy, France. His research interest previously focused on time-driven systems, especially critical real-time controlled systems. Now he studies time-constrained communication networks and large wireless sensor networks. He has supervised 25 PhD theses, and he is author or co-author of six books and about 100 publications.

Dr. Jean-Philippe Georges received his PhD in network engineering from the University of Lorraine (France) in 2005. In 2006, he worked as a researcher at Aalto University, Finland. He is currently an associate professor with the Research Centre for Automatic Control of Nancy at the University of Lorraine. He has conducted research in areas such as ethernet-based real-time networks and performance evaluation of embedded networks, especially for spatial launchers. He has published more than 50 journal and conference papers. His current research interests include performance evaluation, dependability and sustainability of wired and wireless networks with quality of service, and green IT metrics. He is also involved in the Complex Systems Engineering master program and in the Erasmus Mundus Master PERCCOM (Pervasive Computing and Communications for Sustainable Development).

Professor Gérard Morel is a full professor at the University of Lorraine. He has supervised about 30 PhD theses and Accreditations to Supervise Research and published more than 150 articles in the area of systems and automation engineering. He has held scientific positions in national and international research networks and served in several positions in IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), as well as working as the journal editor for Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and for Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. He has also held evaluator positions for the European Commission and for the French Agency for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education. He has also served as vice-chairman of AFIS, the French chapter of the International Council on Systems Engineering.

Professor Hamid Jahankhani recently joined the Department of Digital Technology and Computing, Faculty of Social Sciences, Law and Technology, GSM-London.

He obtained his PhD from Queen Mary College, University of London. In 2000 he moved to the University of East London, and he became the first Professor of Information Security and Cyber Criminology at the university in 2010.

Over the last 10 years Hamid has also been involved in developing new and innovative programs and introducing the "block mode" delivery approach at UEL, including MSc Information Security and Computer Forensics (block mode delivery), Professional Doctorate Information Security.

Hamid's principal research area for a number of years has been in the field of information security and digital forensics. In partnership with key industrial sectors, he has examined and established several innovative research projects that are of direct relevance to the needs of UK and European information security, digital forensics industries, Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), and law enforcement agencies.

Professor Jahankhani is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics published by Inderscience, www.inderscience.com/ijesdf, and general chair of the annual International Conference on Global Security, Safety and Sustainability (ICGS3). Professor Jahankhani has edited and contributed to more than 10 books and has more than 100 conference and journal publications.

Dr. Michael Engel is currently a Senior Lecturer for Computer Systems Engineering at the School of Computing, Creative Technologies and Engineering at Leeds Beckett University. Before this, he was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at TU Dortmund, Germany. In 2006/2007, he was interim Professor for Operating Systems at TU Chemnitz, Germany. He received his doctoral degree in...