CASCADE Leadership Team

Center Director, K. Selçuk Candan, is a President's 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. His research spans various scalable data management and analysis challenges and he has published over 250 journal and peer-reviewed conference articles, one book, and 16 book chapters. He has 9 patents. Prof. Candan served as an associate editor for the Very Large Databases (VLDB) journal, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Journal of Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Database Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Communications Research Highlights, Proceedings of the VLDB (PVLDB), and the Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (PACMMOD). He also served as a founding Managing editor for ACM PACMMOD journal.  He has successfully served as the PI or co-PI of numerous grants, including from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Army Corps of Engineers. Air Force Office of Research, Army Research Office, Mellon Foundation, Johnson Control, and HP Labs. He also served as a Visiting Research Scientist at NEC Laboratories America for over 10 years. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of ACM SIGMOD for 10 years and is a member of the advisory committee for ACM ICMR and is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. You can find more information about his research and an up-to-date resume at http://kscandan.site.

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/