Committee

Organizers and Technical Programme Committee:

General and Scientific Chair: Patty Kostkova, UCL, London, UK
Programme Chair: Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK
DH 2015 & WWW 2015 Liaison Chair: Stefano Leonardi, Sapienza University, Italy
Industry Chair: Daniel Hulme, Satalia, UK
Deputy Industry Chair: Andreea Molnar, University of Portsmouth, UK
Start-up Chair: Tim Barnes, UCL, UK
Web Chair and Deputy Media Chair: Rosie Webster, UCL, UK
Media Chair: Connie St Louis, City University, UK
Poster and Demo Chair: Ed de Quincey, Keele University, UK
Publication Chair: Yean Hoon Ong, UCL, UK

Senior TPC & Track Chairs:

  • Big data analytics and crowdsourcing for public health surveillance and emergencies

Philip Abdelmalik, Public Health Canada, Canada
Carlos Castillo, QCRI, Qatar
Luis Fernandez-Luque, NORUT, Norway
Vittoria Colizza, INSERN, France

  • Web 2.0, online medical/patient communities of practice and persuasive technology

John Powell, University of Oxford, UK
Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK

  • Smart Health and intelligent ubiquitous technologies for health and wellbeing

Andreas Holzinger, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Martina Ziefle, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Carsten Röcker, Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, Germany

  • Tracking/wearable and mobile technology for personal, public and global health

Nuria Oliver, Telefonica, Spain
Matthew Bonam, AstraZeneca, UK

  • Digital Prevention and Interventions

Rosie Webster, UCL, UK
Alberto Tozzi, Bambino Gesu Hospital, Rome, Italy
David Hansen, CSIRO, Australia

  • Semantic Web, Knowledge Management/Extraction, Web Science and Health

Albert Burger, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Claudio Eccher, FBK, Italy
Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research, Israel

  • E-learning, training and serious games for health

Baltasar Fernández Manjón, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Arnold Bosman, ECDC, Sweden

  • Industry and Start-Up Track

Tim Barnes, UCL, UK
Daniel Hulme, Satalia, UK

Programme Committee

Philip Abdelmalik, Public Health Canada, Canada
Saeed Abdullah, Cornell University, US
Eyhab Al-Masri, University of Waterloo, Canada
Navid Amini, UCLA, US
Elske Ammenwerth, UMIT, Austria
Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsberg, Germany
Nabil Alshurafa, UCLA, US
Andrea Apolloni, LSHTM, London
D K Arvind, Edinburgh University, UK
Julia Bailey, UCL, UK
László Balkányi, ECDC, Sweden
Nadia Berthouze, UCL, UK
Timothy Bickmore, Northeastern University, US
Olivier Bodenreider, NLM, US
Matthew Bonam, AstraZeneca, UK
Arnold Bosman, ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden
Jonas Brant, Tephinet, Brazil
Pam Briggs, Northumbria University, UK
Ellen Brox, Northern Research Institute, Norway
Albert Burger, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy
Leslie Carr, University of Southampton, UK
Carlos Castillo, QCRI, Qatar
Rumi Chunara, Harvard Medical School, US
Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo, Canada
Vittoria Colizza, INSERN, France
Olivier Corby, INRIA, France
Ulises Cortés, UPC, Spain
Aaron Crandall, Washington State University, US
Maciej Dabrowski, DERI, Ireland
Karen Day, University of Auckland, NZ
Omid Dehzangi, University of Michigan-Dearborn, US
Ed de Quincey, Keele University, UK
Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France
Jim Duggan, National University of Ireland, Galway
Claudio Eccher, FBK, Italy
David Farrell, Caledonian University, UK
Susan Ferebee, University of Phoenix, US
Luis Fernandez-Luque, NORUT, Norway
Baltasar Fernández Manjón, University of Madrid, Spain
Ana Franco, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Reva Freedman, North Illinois University, US
Ophir Frieder, Georgetown, US
Yaara Goldscmidt, IBM Research Lab, Haifa
Nazli Goharian, Georgetown University, US
Bruno Goncalves, CNRS, France
Floriana Grasso, University of Liverpool, UK
Marco Guerini, Trento RISE, Italy
Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland
Jaap Ham, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
David Hansen, CSIRO, Australia
Hermie Hermens, University of Twente, Netherlands
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Helmut Horacek, Saarland University, Germany
Ming-Chun Huang, UCL, UK
Daniel Hulme, Satalia, UK
Muhammad Imran, QCRI, Qatar
Jim Keller, University of Missouri, US
Jeonggil Ko, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea
Patty Kostkova, UCL, UK
Kp Lam, Keele University, UK
Vasileios Lampos, UCL, UK
Sunghoon Lee, Harvard Medical School, US
Peter Lucas, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Jordi Luque, Telefonica Research, Spain
Cecil Lynch, Accenture, US
Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, UK
Mark Matthews, Cornell University, US
Sandro Meloni, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Jochen Meyer, OFFIS, Germany
Deborah McGuinness, RPI, US
Kenneth McLeod, HW University, UK
Toni Moreno, Universidad Rovira i Virgilli, Tarragona, Spain
Bobak Mortazavi, UCLA, US
Andreea Molnar, University of Portsmouth, UK
Wendy Moncur, University of Aberdeen, UK
Parashkev Nachev, UCL, UK
Thomas Neligwa, Keele University, UK
Nicola Newhouse, UCL, UK
Nuria Oliver, Telefonica, Spain
Rita Orji, Yale University, US
Hans C Ossebaard, University of Twente, Netherlands
Helen Pain, University of Edinburgh, UK
Fabio Paglieri, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Andre Panisson, ISI Foundation, Italy
Cecile Paris, CSIRO, Australia
Pasi Penttinen, ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden
Domenico Pisanelli, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy
Isabella Poggi, University of Rome, Italy
Mohammad Pourhomayoun, UCL, US
John Powell, University of Oxford, UK
Rob Procter, University of Warwick, UK
Sebastien Riedel, UCL, UK
Carsten Röcker, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, US
Sara Rubinelli, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Patrick Saint Dizier, IRIT-CNRS
Marcel Salathé, Penn State, USA
Carlos Sanchez
Melina Santos, Ministry of Health, Brazil
Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe, Washington State University, US
Heiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland
Steven Simske, Hewlett Packard, US
Aneesha Singh, UCL, UK
Jacopo Staiano, Telefonica Research, Spain
Katarzyna Stawarz, UCL, UK
Charlotte Tang, University of Michigan-Flint, US
Adel Taweel, KCL, UK
Matthew Taylor, Washington State University, US
Paul Taylor, UCL, UK
Michelle Tizzoni, ISI Foundation, Italy
Javier Torrente, UCL, UK
Alberto Tozzi, Bambino Gesu Hospital, Rome, Italy
Erik Van der Goot, JRC, Italy
Ielka Van Der Sluis, Trinity College Dublin
Krishna Venkatasubramanian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US
Jan Vejvalka, Charles University, Czech Republic
Michael Weber, Ulm University, Germany
Rosie Webster, UCL, UK
Karen Wilson, Wilsonhealth360, UK
Marcel Winandy, Huawei, Germany
Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft, US
Yeliz Yesilada, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Martina Ziefle, RWTH Aachen, Germany