Antonio Liotta

Antonio Liotta (www.derby.ac.uk/staff/antonio-liotta ) is Professor of Data Science and the founding director of the Data Science Research Centre, University of Derby, UK. He is the director of the Joint Intellisensing Lab (with nodes in the UK, Netherlands, Italy, Australia and China); and a Guest Professor at Shanghai Ocean University, China and at Eindhoven University of Technology, NL. His team is at the forefront of research in network and data science, specifically in the context of Smart Cities, Internet of Things, and smart sensing. He studies the complexity of modern systems from the viewpoints of complex networks, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Antonio is a member of the U.K. Higher Education Academy, IEEE Senior Member, and serves the Peer Review College of the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Internet of Things book series; associate editor of the Journals JNSM, IJNM, JMM, and IF; and editorial board member of 6 more journals. He has 6 patents and over 280 publications to his credit, and is the author of the book Networks for Pervasive Services: six ways to upgrade the Internet.