Keynote Speakers

Biography

Albert-László Barabási is the Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research. He is also a member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University. Born in Transylvania, and educated in Bucharest and Budapest, he received a Ph.D. in Physics in 1994 from Boston University. After a year at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center he joined Notre Dame in 1995. His research has lead to the discovery and understanding of scale-free networks, capturing the structure of many complex networks in technology and nature, from the World Wide Web to the cell. His current research at Northeastern University, focuses on applying the concepts developed by his group for characterizing the topology of the www and the Internet to uncovering the structural and topological properties of complex metabolic and genetic networks. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a foreign member of Academia Europeae. He is the recipient of the 2005 FEBS Annual Award for Systems Biology and the 2006 van Neuman Prize for Computer Science. His recent general audience book entitled Linked: The New Science of Networks (Perseus, 2002) is currently available in 12 languages.

For more information see http://www.nd.edu/~alb/

Biography

Lei Guo is currently the President of the Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He obtained his Ph.D degree from CAS in 1987, and was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1998, Member of the CAS in 2001, Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) in 2002, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2007, and Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2007.

He is currently a Council Member of IFAC, a Vice-President of the Chinese Society for Industry and Applied Mathematics, and a Vice-President of the Chinese Association of Automation. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, and is on the editorial boards of a number of journals in the areas of systems, control and mathematics.

He has worked on problems in adaptive control, system identification, stochastic systems, non-stationary time series analysis and adaptive signal processing. His current research interests include feedback and uncertainty, multi-agent systems, complex adaptive systems and quantum control systems.

For more information see http://lsc.amss.ac.cn/~lguo/

Biography

Alessandro Vespignani is currently a Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science and adjunct professor of Physics and Statistics at Indiana University. He has obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Rome "La Sapienza." After holding research positions at Yale University and Leiden University, he has been a member of the condensed matter research group at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (UNESCO) in Trieste. Before joining Indiana University Vespignani has been a faculty of the Laboratoire de Physique Theorique at the University of Paris-Sud working for the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) of which he is still member at large. Vespignani is also scientific supervisor of the Complex Network Lagrange Laboratory (CNLL) at the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Torino, Italy.

Recently Vespignani's research activity focuses on the interdisciplinary application of statistical and numerical simulation methods in the analysis of epidemic and spreading phenomena and the study of biological, social and technological networks. Vespignani is author of the books Evolution and Structure of the Internet and Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks, both published by Cambridge University Press.

For more information see http://alexves.googlepages.com/