ISIF - Key Persons
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- Multitarget Tracking and Multisensor Fusion Associate Editor
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- Senior Research Engineer at Thales
Claire Laudy is a senior research engineer at Thales since 2000. She first worked in the domain of Human-machine interaction and then obtained her PhD from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France in 2010 in the field of symbolic information fusion.
Her research interests include knowledge representation and modeling (ontologies, conceptual graphs), symbolic fusion and graph algorithms for high-level information management.
She was involved in several research projects dealing with the new usage of social media for emergency and crisis management and invasive species monitoring. More recently, she focused her work on the evaluation and validation of high level information fusion algorithms. She proposed the first High Level Information Fusion, HLIF2024, organized jointly with the 27th International Conference on Information Fusion.
Claire is much involved in the international research community on information fusion through her presence at the yearly organized International Conference on Information Fusion and the publication of several book chapters and numerous scientific papers in this domain. She was elected member of ISIF board of directors in January 2023.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Emre Özkan received his BS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Between 2009 and 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral associate in the Division of Automatic Control, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden. Between 2011 and 2015 he worked as an Assistant Professor in the same group. In 2015, he was a visiting researcher at the Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Since 2016 he has been a Faculty member of the Control group at METU.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Tracking, Multistatic Radar Tracking Associate Editor / Contact
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- Professor and Chair of the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George
Paulo Costa is Professor and Chair of the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University. He is also Director of Mason's C5I Center and Vice President for Securing Automation and Supply Chain Security of the DOE's Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII). He is an expert in integrating semantic technologies and uncertainty management, and is a pioneer in the field of probabilistic ontologies. Dr. Costa developed PR-OWL, a probabilistic ontology language for the Semantic Web, and is a key contributor to UnBBayes-MEBN, a Java-based, open source implementation of Multi-Entity Bayesian Networks and the PR-OWL language. Dr. Costa has been involved in various initiatives in the areas of cyber security of mission critical systems. These include actively developing algorithms and methodologies to improve the safety and security of railways, airways, and healthcare systems. His career as a researcher includes extensive community service as reviewer in diverse academic journals and peer-reviewed conferences, guest area editor at the Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, organizer of workshops, medium and large conferences (e.g. chair of Fusion 2015), NSF panelist, invited expert at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and other activities. He is an IEEE Senior Member and elected member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Information Fusion. At ISIF, he acted as VP for Working Groups between 2016 and 2018, and ISIF President in 2019, being re-elected in 2020.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Simon Maskell (Member, IEEE) received the M.A., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, in 1998, 1999, and 2003, respectively. Prior to 2013, he was a Technical Manager of command, control, and information systems with QinetiQ, UK. Since 2013, he has been a Professor of Autonomous Systems with the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. His research interests include Bayesian inference applied to signal processing, multitarget tracking, data fusion, and decision support with particular emphasis on the application of sequential Monte Carlo methods in challenging data science contexts.
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- Chief Scientist at Systems & Technology Research
Stefano Coraluppi is a Chief Scientist at Systems & Technology Research (STR), an IEEE Fellow, and an IEEE AESS Distinguished Lecturer. He received the BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University (1990) and MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland (1992, 1997). He has held research staff positions at ALPHATECH (1997-2002), the NATO Undersea Research Centre (2002-2010), Compunetix (2010-2014), and STR (since 2014). His research interests include multi-target tracking, multi-sensor data fusion, distributed detection and estimation, nonlinear filtering, and stochastic control. He serves on the IEEE AESS Board of Governors (VP Industry Relations) and on the ISIF Board of Directors (VP Awards). He has served as Associate Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Editor-in-Chief for the ISIF Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, General Co-Chair (with Peter Willett) for the 9th FUSION conference in Florence, Italy (2006), and General Co-Chair (with Lauro Snidaro) for the 27th FUSION conference in Venice, Italy (2024). He lectures regularly for the NATO Science and Technology Organization.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
Uwe D. Hanebeck received the Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University in Munich, München, Germany, in 1997 and 2003, respectively. He is a Chaired Professor of Computer Science with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, and the Director of the Intelligent Sensor Actuator-Systems Laboratory, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany. His research interests are in the areas of information fusion, nonlinear state estimation, stochastic modeling, system identification, and control with a strong emphasis on theory-driven approaches based on stochastic system theory and uncertainty models. He is an author and coauthor of more than 550 publications in various high-ranking journals and conferences and is an IEEE Fellow.
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- Media Contact
- Member of the Executive Committee
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Principal Research Engineer With the Georgia Tech Research Institute
William Dale Blair is a principal research engineer with the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and a GTRI Fellow. He is senior member of the Sensors & Electromagnetic Applications Laboratory (SEAL) staff and supports the lab as a subject matter expert in multisensor-multitarget tracking, radar data processing, data fusion, modeling and simulation, and algorithm assessment. He recently completed an assignment as the Technical Director for the C2BMC Knowledge Center of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). He received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1985 and 1987. In January 1998, he received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia. Prior to joining GTRI, Dr. Blair was with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) in Dahlgren, Virginia. At NSWCDD, he originated two benchmark problems for target tracking and radar resource allocation. He also led a project that demonstrated through a real-time tracking experiment that modern tracking algorithms can be utilized to reduce the radar time and energy required by a phased array radar to support surveillance tracking. Since joining GTRI in 1997, Dr. Blair has led a multiorganizational team in the development of multiplatform-multisensor-multitarget benchmarks to both air defense and ballistic missile defense. His projects at GTRI focus mostly on the modeling and simulation and algorithm assessment associated with the sensor netting for the battle management, command, and control for the ballistic missile defense system.
Dr. Blair is a Fellow of the IEEE and recipient of the 2001 IEEE Nathanson Award for Outstanding Young Radar Engineer and the 2023 IEEE Warren D. White Award for major technical advances in the art of radar engineering. He served as the Editor for Radar Systems for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (T-AES) 1996-99 and Editor-In-Chief (EIC) for IEEE T-AES from 1999-2005. He was recently appointed founding editor of the new IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering. Dr. Blair also served on the Board of Governors of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) from 1998-2003, 2005-2010, 2012-2017, and 2020-2025. While a member of the IEEE AESS BoG, he served as Vice President for Publications and Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, originated the Target Tracking Systems Panel. Dr. Blair's research is reported in over three hundred articles which include 38 refereed journal articles. He originated and coordinates three short courses, Target Tracking in Sensor Systems, Target Tracking Concepts, and Advanced Target Tracking for Ballistic Missile Defense, for the Professional Education Department of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Blair is coeditor and coauthor of the book, Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Advances and Applications III, and the coauthor of chapter 18 "Radar Measurements" and author of chapter 19 "Radar Tracking Algorithms" of the new edition of Principles of Modern Radar. He has also served as the coordinator of the ONR/GTRI Workshop on Target Tracking and Sensor Fusion for 1998 through 2011.