N.B. Since Feb. 2022, all activities of the FRUCT Association have been on hold due to the current political situation. For this period, the role of the Advisory Board members is limited to participation in the Technical Program Committee of the FRUCT conferences.
The FRUCT advisory board is a team of experts that direct and guide FRUCT Association. The main responsibility of the Advisory Board members is to form Technical Program Committee of FRUCT conferences. The board consists of recognized experts in the field that at least have PhD (for people from academia) or 10 international publications and 2 patents (for industrial experts). The conference review procedure is organized at EasyChair tool using single-blind principle.
Also the advisory board provides technical comments and recommendations about quality and relevance of the FRUCT projects, help to identify the new cooperation niches and assist student teams to solve the most difficult questions, which are outside of scope of the main competences of the project supervisor and tutor. Management of the FRUCT activities performed by the Executive team.
Members of the Advisory board
| Name | Title/Position | Affiliation | Areas of competences |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yevgeni Koucheryavy (Chair) | Dr/Professor | Tampere University, Finland | Wireless networking for moving objects, network architectures, services, content distribution, future internet |
| Nazim Agoulmine | Dr/Prof/MsC/SM IEEE | University of Evry Val d’Essonne, France | Ubiquitous e-Health, Networking, Service Management, Context Awareness |
| Sergey Balandin | Dr/Adjunct Professor | FRUCT, Finland | Smart spaces, embedded networks, open innovations, peer-to-peer, routing and load balancing, simulators |
| Alexey Dudkov | Dr | NRPL Group, Finland | Telecommunications, CDMA, Primary and Secondary Air Surveillance, Radar Technology |
| Jan-Erik Ekberg | Dr/Director of Advanced Development | Huawei, Finland | Security, Linux kernel |
| Michel Gillet | Senior Architect | Nokia, Finland | Embedded Networks, SDL, SystemC simulations, Protocol architectures |
| Andrei Gurtov | Dr/Professor | Linkoping University, Sweden | Network Security, Wireless Internet, Medical ICT |
| Timo Hamelainen | Dr/Professor | University of Jyvaskyla, Finland | Networking security and anomaly analysis, Internet of Things, Software Defined Networks, Mobile broadband communication technologies and services |
| Kari Heikkinen | Dr/Associate Professor | Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland | User-centric service design, user experience, technology-enhanced learning |
| Alexey Kashevnik | Dr/Senior Reseacher | SPCRAS, Israel | Smart Spaces, IoT |
| Yrvin Knut | Project Manager | Skolelinux Drift, Norway | User Participatory Design, System Development, Free Software and Open Source Communities |
| Dmitry Korzun | Dr/Adjunct Professor | Expert | Distributed systems, P2P networks, Internet applications, modeling, smart spaces, algorithms, software engineering |
| Vadim Kramar | Researcher | Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Finland | Smart Living, Ambient Assisted Living, Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing; mobile, web and domestic technologies, services and applications |
| Kirill Krinkin | Dr/Department chair | Startup, Cyprus | IP Networks, Routing Algorithms, Mesh Networks, Storage Technologies, Qt, Software Engineering |
| Oleg Medvedev | Professor | Expert | Cardiology, pharmacology, human physiology, m-Health, IT in Medicine |
| Dmitri Moltchanov | Senior Researcher | Tampere University, Finland | Teletraffic, wireless networks, P2P networks |
| Valtteri Niemi | Dr/Professor | University of Turku, Finland | Network Technologies, Security |
| Jarkko Paavola | Dr/Lecturer | Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland | Wireless communications, networking, information security |
| Michele Pagano | Dr/Associate Professor | University of Pisa, Italy | Network performance evaluation, QoS architectures, Intrusion Detection |
| Ilya Paramonov | Dr/Associate Professor | Expert | Computer Linguistics, Software Development, Mobile Technologies and Services |
| Kiran Kumari Patil | Dr/Director | University Industry Interaction Center, REVA University Bengaluru, India | eHealth, Communications |
| Jari Porras | Dr/Professor | Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland | Wireless, mobile and p2p networking, parallel and distributed computing, SOA |
| Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues | Dr/Professor | Instituto de Telecomunications, University of Beira Interior, Portugal | Mobile Healthcare |
| Luca Roffia | Dr/Assistant Professor | University of Bologna, Italy | Semantic Web, Linked Data, IoT, Information Interoperability, Smart Spaces |
| Roberto Saracco | Dr/Director Telecom Italia Future Centre | Telecom Italia, Italy IEEE ComSoc, Italy | Network architectures, Economics of Telecommunications, Services, Autonomic Systems, Complex Systems, Ecosystems |
| Alexander Semenov | Dr/Postdoctoral researcher | University of Florida, USA | Social Network Analysis, Big Data, Web Crawling |
| Anton Shabaev | Dr | Expert | Control systems |
| Charalabos Skianis | Dr/Lab Director | University of the Aegean, Greece | Novel Internet Architectures and Services, Cloud Computing & Networking, Energy & Context aware Next Generation Networks and Services, mobile and wireless networks |
| Alexander Smirnov | Dr/Professor | Expert | Ontology Management, Context Management, Operational Decision Making, Smart Space, Dynamic Logistics, Flexible Supply Networks, Virtual Organizations |
| Olav Tirkkonen | Dr/Professor | Aalto University, Finland | Wireless communication |
| Timofey Turenko | Dr/Research Engineer | MariaDB, Finland | MeeGo/Maemo, control theory, micro-controllers, embedded systems, real-time systems, software quality |
| Weider Yu | Dr/Associate Professor | San Jose State University, USA; IEEE ComSoc | u-Healthcare in security and privacy, mobile & wireless eHealth, Electronic Health Record (EHR), experimental software engineering, wireless mobile and web based systems, performance related QoS, modern software processes, SOA engineering |
| Liang Zhou | Dr/Professor | Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China; IEEE ComSoc | Internet of Things, Multimedia Communications, Wireless Networks |