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Prof. Alex Shenfield is Professor of Machine Learning at Sheffield Hallam University and Research Theme Lead for Digital Connectivity and Technology at the Advanced Food Innovation Centre (AFIC). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (SMIEEE) and a technical committee member of the IEEE Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee (BBTC) (part of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society). His main research interests are in the field of machine learning and particularly in its application to real-world problems in healthcare and food and drink manufacturing.

Dr. Carlos Eduardo da Silva is a senior lecturer in software engineering with the School of Computing and Digital Technology of Sheffield Hallam University (UK), where he leads the Applied Software Engineering Research Group (ASERG). He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK (2011), an MSc by research in Systems and Computing (2007), and a BSc in Computer Science (2005) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. He was senior lecturer/reader (2012–2019) at the Metropole Digital Institute (IMD) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil, where he was the Head (2017–2019, and 2015–2016) and deputy Head (2013–2015) of the Post-graduate Programme in Software Engineering (PPgSW) of IMD, now Post-graduate Programme in Information Technology (PPgTI). He is actively involved in R&D in the area of Software Engineering and its interplay with Information Security, exploring topics like self-adaptive software systems, AI planning and scheduling, service-orientation and business process, secure by design, digital identity management, and access control.