INSIDE Scientific Council

The members of the Scientific Council have been selected for their scientific and technical expertise to cover INSIDE Focus areas and provide support on collaborative R&D&I programs along the entire value chain of the European electronic components and systems (ECS).

Meet The INSIDE Scientific Council

Dimitrios Serpanos

In addition to serving as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras (Greece) and the president of the Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus”, Dimitrios Serpanos is the chair of the Scientific Council. His research interests include embedded and cyber-physical system architectures, cybersecurity, Internet of Things and industrial systems & networks.

Jon Perez 

As a Principal Researcher on dependable and autonomous systems at IKERLAN (Spain), Jon Perez serves as a team leader for the development of multidisciplinary safety-critical systems. Bringing over 15 years of experience in R&D projects in domains such as railway signalling and semiconductors, his primary research interests are functional safety, machine learning and cybersecurity for dependable intelligent systems.

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Markus Tauber

Markus Tauber works as Chief Scientific Officer at Research Studios Austria, where he focuses on core digital technologies in the area of Edge-AI, Cyber Security and Autonomous Cyber Physical Systems. In addition to this Markus is a Guest Professor at the Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He brings many years of experience, e.g.as Researcher at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), or Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Burgenland. Markus received a PhD in computer science with a focus on autonomic management in distributed storage systems from the University of St Andrews. 

Stefan Van Baelen

Having joined IMEC (Belgium) in 2012 (via the research centre iMinds, which was merged with IMEC in 2016), Stefan Van Baelen is currently Senior Manager Public Funding with a focus on digital and user-centric solutions and the enablement of digital transformations. He is currently engaged in European initiatives in the fields of data, AI, distributed AI, edge computing and connectivity.

Gianluigi Ferrari 

At the University of Parma (Italy), Gianluigi Ferrari focuses on the study and design of innovative communications systems. As an associate professor, his specialities include signal processing, communication and networking, Internet of Things and smart systems. He is also the coordinator of the Internet of Things (IoT) Lab within the Department of Engineering and Architecture and a co-founder of a spin-off company.

George Nikolakopoulos 

George Nikolakopoulos works as a Chair Professor in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) while heading the Robotics Team at Luleå University of Technology (Sweden). In addition to his work as a member of the Scientific Council of Inside, George is a member of the Board of Directors at euRobotics and an elected expert for the permanent working group of A.SPIRE.

Kaspars Ozols

Dr. Kaspars Ozols is a deputy director of development, a Member of the scientific council, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Electronics and Computer Science (EDI), where he leads teams of engineers and researchers. He holds a Ph.D. in Electronics from Riga Technical University. He has been involved in various international projects dedicated to pioneering innovative data acquisition, transmission, and signal processing methods and devices across various applications, encompassing fields such as transport, health, and manufacturing. 

Andrea Pinna

He was an Associate Professor from  2004 to 2022 at Sorbonne University (previously Pierre and Marie Curie University) in Paris, France. Between 2006 and 2011, he worked in the industrial and semiconductor sector as a Project Manager for innovative and technology transfert projects. He joined the Lip6 laboratory at Sorbonne University in 2011 and has been a full professor since September 2023. His main research works are designing intelligent medical devices based on embedded systems to support data analysis and diagnosis. Reconfigurable and edge-computing architectures and Vision System-on-Chip are also explored to develop new co-design methods to design new IA embedded systems.

“As the Scientific Council, we soon realised that we needed a source of feedback from members and I believe that we should be working on stronger ties with them. Although our mission relates to supporting the Steering Board, all those activities and tasks have an effect on the Inside community in the sense that the SRIA sets up their directions and pointers. It’s actually one of the major tools used as input by the Commission in setting up funding areas, which definitely benefits our members directly. Our dissemination activities also have an impact on the community because they can learn about the tools and opportunities that exist. Up to now, I think that we have delivered strong messages about research and development that relate to the subject areas of INSIDE.”