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Andrei Rybin has been a researcher and senior researcher at the Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, since 1990. Between 2001 and 2004, he pursued part-time MBA studies at the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration and Manchester Business School, UK. Since 2006, he has served as a Professor at ITMO University, within the Center of Optical Information Technologies.

His research interests span sustainable development, climate change, risk and change management, finance, marketing, climate change mitigation, country and political risk, and intercultural communication and negotiation. He also has significant expertise in the Theory of Solitons and Quantum Optics.

Education:

• MIT Fintech: Future Commerce, online course, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016)
• MBA, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland, and Manchester Business School, UK (2004)
• Doctor of Philosophy ("eximia cum laude approbatur"), Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (1997)

Ashok is a researcher at LUT School of Engineering Science within the Lappeenranta University of Technology Finland. His primary research focuses is on sustainability education in software engineering, targeted both at academia and industry. As part of this ongoing work Ashok contributes to the ongoing Green ICT project at TIEKE

(https://tieke.fi/en/projects/green-ict-project/, https://tieke.fi/hankkeet/greenicthanke/).

His earlier research work looked into disruptive information & communications technology (DIT) based solutions to study and mitigate climate change. Prior to joining research at LUT, he has 8 years of industry experience at Oracle LLC, working primarily on development and support of enterprise solutions.

Education:

M.Sc. - Intelligent Computing, LUT University, Finland.

Bachelor of Engineering – Information Science, VTU, India.

Inna Sosunova is a researcher at the LUT School of Engineering Science within Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, boasting a recently conferred Doctor of Science in Technology degree (2023) from LUT University. With a career spanning 15 years in software engineering, she has garnered a lot of expertise in the domain. Having previously worked as a programmer at St. Petersburg State University, an Engineer at the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies at ITMO University, and a Leading Engineer at the Software and Network Systems Laboratory of the National Center of Quantum Internet, ITMO University. During her tenure at ITMO University, she actively contributed to various projects, showcasing her versatility in decision support systems, IoT-enabled waste management systems, smart transport, and quantum cryptography. In last years, while working at LUT, Inna has diligently directed her research focus towards the engineering of Decision Support Systems (DSSs), Green ICT, IoT-enabled waste management, Context-driven systems, and Knowledge representation. She also has experience of participation as a mentor in hackathons, organizing hackathons and workshops for students, conducting interviews with representatives of Finnish companies and city administration. Inna Sosunova developed context-driven decision support systems (DSSs) in 4 international projects (bIoTope project; CroBoDDIT; AWARE project; Createch progect). The developed DSSs aimed to help with decision making, choose and use of modern technologies (IoT, AI, etc.) for various stakeholders of waste management process (city administration, city residents, waste truck drivers, janitors, dispatchers) and representatives of the small and medium sized business in Finland.

Dr Arkady Zaslavsky is Professor of Distributed Systems and Security at the School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Burwood campus, from 1 October, 2018. Before he was a Senior Principal Research Scientist with Data61, CSIRO. He is leading R&D projects in Internet of Things, mobile analytics and context-awareness science areas. He is a technical leader of the EU Horizon-2020 project bIoTope - building IoT Open Innovation Ecosystem for connected smart objects. Professor Arkady Zaslavsky holds Adjunct-
Professorship appointments with a number of Australian and International universities, including University of Luxembourg and ITMO University, St Petersburg. Arkady Zaslavsky has published more than 400 research publications throughout his professional career and supervised to completion more than 35 PhD students. Arkady Zaslavsky is a Senior Member of ACM, a Senior Member of IEEE Computer and Communication Societies.

Jari Porras D.Sc (Tech) is a Professor of Software Engineering (especially Distributed Systems) at the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT. Prof. Porras received the DSc. (Tech.) degree from the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland in 1998 about modelling and simulation of communication networks in a distributed computing environment. He's a visiting professor at Aalto University, Finland, and at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has supervised and examined 500+ Master’s Thesis works and 27 Dissertations and acted as an external evaluator for 28 doctoral thesis works since the start of his professorship in 2000. He has researched parallel and distributed computing, wireless and mobile systems and services, and sustainable ICT. In the last few years, he has focused his research on the human and sustainability aspects of software engineering. He is actively working in international networks and organizations.

Researcher in Software Engineering LUT School of Engineering Sciences Lappeenranta, Finland

Shola Oyedeji is a postdoctoral researcher at LUT University, Finland. His research focuses on software sustainability by design, aimed at integrating human, societal, environmental, technical, and economic concerns into software systems design and development.