Alvanou, Maria
ITSTIME Italian Team for Security, Terroristic Issues & Managing Emergencies- Catholic University of Milan
Dr. Maria Alvanou is a criminologist (PhD University of Trento) specialized in terrorism.
She is a member of the ITSTIME Italian Team for Security,
Terroristic Issues & Managing Emergencies of the Catholic University in Milan
and a Senior Analyst at the RIEAS Research Institute for European and American Studies in Athens.
A defence lawyer appointed at the Hellenic Court of Appeals, she is also a special court evaluator for terrorism cases and a lecturer at the Police Officers' Post Educational Academy-
Department of Thessaloniki for crimes of special violence, national security and terrorism.
Her LLM in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law was acquired at the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki.


Amidror, Yaakov
Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror served in the IDF for more than thirty years holding various positions, primarily in the Intelligence Directorate. Most recently was Military Secretary to the Minister of Defense
and Commander of the IDF’s Colleges.
Upon retirement, he was a senior research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
He published a book on military and security affairs and has received an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Haifa.
 

Aviran, Gadi
CEO, Hazard Threat Analysis Ltd., Israel
Gadi Aviran is one of Israel's leading authorities in the field of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and Improvised Explosive Devises (IED) Disposal, and nowadays gains excellent reputation in the small community of technical terror threat analysts worldwide.

Gadi has spent over seven years in the field of technical intelligence analysis, serving as the head of the technical intelligence analysis desk in the production division of the IDF's Military Intelligence directorate (five years in active duty and three in reserve).
He was personally responsible for the threat research and assessment deriving
from post incident information and classified & unclassified intelligence information. 
 

Buhmann, Joachim
Institute of Computational Science – ETH - Zurich
Joachim M. Buhmann is a professor for Information Science and Engineering in the Institute of Computational Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. His main research interests are in machine  learning and applied statistics with applications in computer vision,
computational biology and acoustics.


Craswell, Nick
Microsoft Research, United Kingdom
Nick Craswell is a researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge, in the field of Web Information Retrieval. 
He has worked on projects such as the TREC Web Track,
TREC Enterprise Track and the image search system at http://search.live.com. 
 

Cormack, Gordon
University of Waterloo, Canada
Gordon V. Cormack is a professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo. 
His research interests involve technologies in support of computer-supported human activities such as:  information storage and retrieval,  programming language design and implementation, data compression and text processing, and distributed groupware systems. 
His work on spam filtering is featured in Communications of the ACM, February 2007.


Elovici, Yuval
Deutsche -Telekom Laboratories in Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Yuval Elovici is the director of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories at BGU, and a senior lecturer at the department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben-GurionUniversity.
He holds B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Computer and Electrical Engineering from the Ben-GurionUniversity of the Negev, and Ph.D in Information Systems from Tel-Aviv University.
His main research interests are information warfare, data mining, information retrieval, and detection of malicious code.


Goldberg, Mark
Computer Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Mark Goldberg received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Science (Russia).
After 1979, he held  positions in: the University of Waterloo (Canada); the University of  Toronto (Canada); South Carolina State University; Clarkson University;  and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Department of Computer Science), where he has been since 1985.

 
Golubev, Vladimir
Computer Crime Research Center (CCRC), Ukraine
Dr. Golubev is the Founder and Director of the Computer Crime Research Center (CCRC), the Reader of the Department of operative and detective activity, special equipments and informational technologies(DUI), professor at the Criminal process and criminalistics department of the Zaporizhzhya National University(ZNU), independent expert, member of the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council, member of the UN "Prevention of crimes and criminal justice" program(ISPAC), member of International Police Association.
He has more than 12 years experience of scientific teaching work, he is the author of eight books, over 115 journal articles and book chapters, and numerous conference papers.
His area of research is organizational legal problems of counteraction to computer crime and cyber terrorism, issues of cyber crime investigation. 


Grossman David
University of Illinois, USA
Dr. Grossman is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
He earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Clemson University, his M.S.in Computer Science from American University
and a Ph.D. in Information Technology from George Mason University.
He has co-authored a textbook: Information Retrieval:
Algorithms and Heuristics and is currently the associate director of the IIT Information Retrieval Lab.
He teaches information retrieval and data mining courses.
His research focuses on the problems surrounding the integration of structured and unstructured data, XML search, and data mining.


Hanani, Uri, Ph.D
MindCite, Ltd., Israel
Uri Hanani is Founder and ex-CTO of MindCite Ltd., is an operations research and information scientist, specializing in Information
Retrieval, NLP, AI and application to complex ontological-based system such as the Semantic Web organization and Anti-terror activities. 


Kantor, Paul – Co-Chair
Rutgers University, NJ, USA
Paul Kantor is Professor of Information Science at Rutgers the State
University of New Jersey,
where he is a member of the DIMACS center, and of the new DyDan Center for Dynamic Data Analysis, sponsored by the US Dept. of Homeland Security.
His research deals with indexing and retrieval of texts and images, and with the development of systems to supprot the ork of intelligence analysts.

 

Carmon, Yigal

Head, The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
Yigal Carmon is the president and founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), and organization which monitors and translates Arabic and Farsi publications, radio and
TV broadcasts and religious sermons into many languages and circulates them over the Internet.
He served as a Colonel in the  IDF Intelligence from 1968-88, was the acting head and adviser on Arab affairs, Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria, 1977-1982.
Yigal Carmon served as a counterterrorism adviser to prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin, and was a delegate, Israeli peace negotiations with Syria in Madrid and Washington in 1991-92 "
                                                                                                                                       

Keim, Daniel

Data Mining and Information Visualization Research Group
University of Konstanz, Germany
Prof. Daniel Keim is full professor and head of the Information Visualization and Data Analysis Research Group at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
He has been actively involved in information visualization and data analysis research for more than 10 years and developed a number of novel visual exploration techniques for very large data sets.
He has been program co-chair of the IEEE InfoVis and IEEE VAST symposia as well as the SIGKDD conference, and he is member of the IEEE InfoVis steering committee.
He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (since 2002) and Palgrave’s Information Visualization Journal (since 2001), Knowledge and Information System Journal (since 2006), and has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (1999 – 2004).
Dr. Keim got his masters degree in computer science from the University of Dortmund and his Ph.D. and habilitation degrees in computer science from the University of Munich.
Before joining the University of Konstanz, Dr. Keim was associate professor at the University of Halle, Germany and Technology Consultant at AT&T Shannon Research Labs, NJ, USA. 
 

Koppel, Moshe

Computer Science Department, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Moshe Koppel is Associate Professor of Computer Science in Bar-Ilan University.
He received his PhD in Mathematics from New York University and did post-doctoral work at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
In recent years his research has focused on text categorization, authorship attribution and speaker recognition,
including applications in the area of security. He consults in industry
on technical and financial matters and serves as an advisor in the
Knesset on constitutional affairs. He has also published books and
papers on Jewish law. 

Koychev, Ivan
University of Sophia, Bulgaria
Dr Ivan Koychev is an Associate professor in Artificial Intelligence at
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at University of Sofia "St. Kliment Ohridski".
His research interests are in the areas of Data Mining, Information Retrieval and User Modeling.


Levene, Mark
University of London, UK
Dr. Mark Levene is a  Professor in the School of Computer Science and Information Systems at Birkbeck, University of London, where he is a member of the Information Management and Web Technologies research group. 

His main research interests are web search and navigation and web data mining, with a focus on developing computational methods to gain a better understanding how the web is being used, and to help users cope with the overwhelming amount of available information.
He has published extensively in the areas of database theory and web technologies,and has recently published a book called An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation.


Luks,  Janusz
GROM Group, Polland
Lt. Col. Janusz Luks (ret'd) is a former Deputy Director for Intelligence and later Director of Polish Intelligence Service.
Formerly he was an advisor to the President of Optimus S.A. (largest IT company in CEE).
Janusz Luks also performed the function of Vice – President for business development for the Optimus –

Lockheed Martin
j.v. company.
Recently he worked for the Industrial Development Agency as a Director of the Offset Office (F16 Offset negotiator).
Janusz Luks also coordinated the Technology Accelerator at FIRE Foundation.
Since his retirement as Head of  the Polish Intelligence Service in 1995 he has been active in business, doing business intelligence and risk management services as well as business consulting for major international and Polish companies.
Mr Luks is involved with the formulation of the National Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, coordinated by the Polish Ministry of the Interior and is a Standing Advisor to the Special Services Committee of the Polish Parliament (intelligence oversight equivalent).


Paass, Gerhard

The Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, Germany
Gerhard Paass has a degree in mathematics and computer science and is head of the text mining group at Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS).
Currently his group is involved in two activities related to the workshop topic.
They develop filtering algorithms to detect spam and phishing emails in massive email streams with an emphasis on adaptive filters.
In addition they are involved in a long-term research effort to extend algorithms for entity extraction, semantic annotation and relation extraction to new domains and improve their capabilities

 
Prange, John

President, Language Computer Corporation, MD, USA
Dr. John Prange, is President of Language Computer Corporation (LCC).
Previously he was with the United States Department of Defense, serving most recently as a Program Manager in the Advanced Research and
Development Activity (ARDA)


Roth, Dan
University of Illinois, USA
Dan Roth is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (UIUC) and a Willett Faculty Scholar of the College of Engineering.
He is also the Director of MIAS, a DHS Institute of Discrete Science Center for Multimodal Information Access & Synthesis.
His work is in machine learning and knowledge representation and reasoning, with a focus on natural language processing and information access.
He has published broadly in these areas and have developed several machine learning based natural language processing systems that have been used and licensed widely.
He has won a number of paper, software and other research and teaching awards.

Shapira, Bracha – Co-chair
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Dr. Bracha Shapira is a senior lecturer at the department of Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research interests include information retrieval and filtering specializing in user profiling and modeling using stereotypes and its applications to many domains including modeling terrorists activities on the Web and was involved in the development of a system aiming to detect terrorists on the Web . She is also a project manager in the Deutsche-Telekom Laboratories at Ben-Gurion University working on personalization and filtering.
 
Shoniregun, Charles
University of East London,UK
Prof. Dr. Charles A. Shoniregun is Reader in Computing.
He has taught in many universities and colleges in the UK and abroad.
He is a member of the research committee at the School of Computing and Technology and an elected member of the University of East London Academic Board.
He is a member of many professional bodies and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Infonomics (IJI), International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (IJITST), an author, co-author, adjunct and distinguished visiting professor in “Applied Internet Security and Information Systems” and External Assessor/Examiner to Manchester Metropolitan University, UK;  London Metropolitan University, UK; Wessex Institute of Technology, UK; and Florida International university, USA.

 
Silke, Andrew
University of East London, UK
Professor Andrew Silke (BSc Hons, AFBPsS, PhD) is the Field Leader for Criminology and the Director of Terrorism Studies at the University of East London . He has a background in forensic psychology
and has worked both in academia and for government.
Professor Silke has published extensively on issues to do with terrorism, crime and policing in journals, books and the popular press.
His previous books include 'Terrorists, Victims & Society: Psychological Perspectives on Terrorism and Its Consequences' (Wiley, 2003) and 'Research on Terrorism: Trends, Achievements and Failures' (Frank Cass, 2004). His latest books Suicide Terrorism (Wiley), and Terrorism Informatics (Springer) are due to be published in the coming year. He is the author of over 80 articles and papers on subjects relating to terrorism,organised crime, policing and criminal behaviour and has given numerous papers and invited lectures on these topics at conferences and universities across the world. 


Wrobel, Stefan
Director, the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, Germany
Prof. Wrobel is institute director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent
Analysis and Information Systems (Fraunhofer IAIS)
and Professor of Computer Science at University of Bonn in Germany. 

The major focus of his research is on Machine Learning and Data Mining.
Fraunhofer IAIS is extensively involved in research and customer projects in these areas, with a particular focus on text, graph and spatial mining.

Some other participants (partial list)
Dr. Doron Havazelet Ministry of Defense, Israel

Dr. Roman Englert, DT Germany

Dr Judit Bar-Ilan, Bar-Ilan University

Yuval Dror, Yediot Aharonot

Dr. David Carmerl, IBM Haifa

Oded Margaliot, IBM Haifa

Dr. Mark Last , Ben-Gurion University

Ms. Yael Yehoshua,  Memri, Israel

Ms. Drora Hazan, Memri, Israel

Dr. Eli Alshech, Memri, Israel

Ben-Mustaki Yoseph – Foreign Ministry, Israel

Prof. Yuval Shahar – Ben-Gurion University