Department of Computer Science

Brief Curriculum Vitae

Alexander Kocian received the Dipl. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering with majors in Telecommunications from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2003.
Doctoral dissertation: "EM based joint data detection and channel estimation of DS/CDMA signals" (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Bernard H. Fleury).

He is currently Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy, working on numerous projects funded by the Tuscany and Liguria Regions in Italy, the European Space agency, and the Italian National Research Council. He has co-authored dozens peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and he has been member of numerous program committees of international conferences. He holds 4 patents.

Dr. Kocian is IEEE Senior Member and EAI fellow. He is currently General Chair of the EAI Int. Conf. Intelligent Transport Systems (INTSYS) 2024. He also serves as member of Editorial Board for Stats (MDPI), Signals (MDPI) and Artificial Intelligence and Applications (Bon View Publishing).

Current research interests

• Agro Informatics
• Machine Learning
• Internet-of-Things
• Health Informatics
• Real-time embedded systems

Selected Professional Services

Conferences

General Chair EAI Int. Conf. on Intelligent Transport Systems (INTSYS): 2024

Steering Committee Member of EAI Int. Conf. on Intelligent Transport Systems (INTSYS): 2023

Technical Program Chair of EAI Int. Conf. on Intelligent Transport Systems (INTSYS): 2019 - present.

Program Committee Member of Int. Symposium DataMod - From Data to Models and Back (DataMod): 2024.

Program Committee Member of IEEE 4th workshop on Human-Centered Computational Sensing (HCCS): 2024.

Program Committee Member of 17th Int. Conference on Health Informatics (HEALTHINF): 2024.

Program Committee Member of IEEE ICT Solutions for eHealth (ICTS4eHealth): 2021 - present.

Program Committee Member of Int. Conf on Data Analytics for Business and Industry (DASA): 2020.

Program Committee Member of ACM Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM): 2019.

Program Committee Member of IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Geoscience (AGERS): 2019 - present.

Program Committee Member of International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI): 2018 - present.

Program Committee Member of IEEE Int. Conf. on Aerospace Electronics and Remote Sensing Technology (ICARES): 2014, 2018 - present.

Journals

Editorial Board member of Stats (ISSN 2571-905X): 2019 - present.

Editorial Board member of Signals (ISSN 2624-6120): 2020 - present.

Editorial Board member of Artificial Intelligence and Applications (ISSN 2811-0854): 2022 - present.