CASCADE Leadership Team

MEMBERS OF THE CASCADE LEADERSHIP TEAM HAVE EXTENSIVE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND A LONG HISTORY OF PRODUCTIVE, NATION-WIDE, COLLABORATIONS WITH  LEADERS IN THE DATA MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY, LEADING IT COMPANIES IN A WIDE SPECTRUM OF SECTORS (INCLUDING BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, SECURITY, DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT, AND FRAUD MANAGEMENT) AND FINANCIAL SERVICES CORPORATIONS.

Center Director, K. Selçuk Candan, is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at ASU. He is also a founding member of ASU’s Information Assurance Center and a senior sustainability scientist at ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS), one of whose missions is to connect researchers with businesses and industry. Candan’s primary research interests are in the area of efficient and scalable management of heterogeneous (such as sensed and streaming media, web and social media, scientific, and enterprise) data and data clouds. He has published over 170 journal and peer-reviewed conference articles, one book on multimedia retrieval, and 16 book chapters. He has 9 patents. At ASU, he  led an effort to establish a “Big Data Systems” concentration for the CS MS Program. He has successfully served as the PI or co-PI of numerous grants, including from NSF (5 ongoing), AFOSR, Army Research Office, Mellon Foundation, HP Labs, and JCI. He also served as a Visiting Research Scientist at NEC Laboratories America for over 10 years.  He is a member of the Executive Committee of ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. You can find more information at http://aria.asu.edu/candan 

co-Director, Dragan Boscovic, has 25 years of high tech experience acquired in an international set up (i.e. UK, France, China, USA) and is uniquely positioned to help data-driven technical advances within today’s global data intensive technology arena. He is a lateral thinker with broad exposure to a wide range of scientific methods and business practices and has a proven track record in conceiving strategies and managing development, investment and innovation efforts as related to advanced data analysis services,  user experience, and mobile and IoT solutions and platforms. Before joining CASCADE, he has lead a consortium of companies that brings together Data Analytics and Interactive Video Solutions, Security, and wireless SDN competencies and technology enablers to jointly address new business opportunities as related to Smart Cities, Smart Energy/Grid and Smart Health applications and services. You can find more information at https://www.linkedin.com/in/draganboscovic 

International Liaison, Maria Luisa Sapino, is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Arizona State University and a Professor of Computer Science at University of Torino, Italy.  Her initial contributions to computer science were in the areas of logic programming and artificial intelligence, specifically semantics of negation in logic programming and abductive extensions of logic programs, with applications to the challenges associated with database access control and with heterogeneous data management. Her current research interests are in the areas of heterogeneous (including multimedia) data management, with strong emphasis on tackling the so called "Big Data challenges", including aspects related to the development of efficient techniques for tensor based big data analysis, and on various aspects related to indexing, classification, and querying of a large spectrum of data types. She is currently active in multiple interdisciplinary projects, including building energy data management, epidemic data management, smart cities, and sustainable environments. You can find more information at http://www.di.unito.it/~mlsapino/