Research Group Steering Committee and Officers

The latest elections to the SPEC RG Steering Committee and Officer positions were performed in March 2024. The elected officers are:

• Chair: Samuel Kounev, University of Würzburg, Germany
• Vice Chair: Cristina Abad, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador
• Secretary: Diego Elias Costa, Concordia University, Canada
• Release Manager: Michele Tucci, University of L’Aquila, Italy
• Publicity Officer: Weiyi Shang, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Newsletter Editors: Matthijs Jansen and Jesse Donkervliet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The elected members of the steering committee are (in alphabetical order):

• Cristina Abad, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral, Ecuador
• Diego Elias Costa, Concordia University, Canada
• Nikolas Herbst, University of Würzburg, Germany
• Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Samuel Kounev, University of Würzburg, Germany
• Klaus-Dieter Lange, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, USA
• Alex Podelko, Amazon Web Services (AWS), USA
• Weiyi Shang, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Michele Tucci, University of L’Aquila, Italy
• Petr Tůma, Charles University, Czech Republic