Tom Tourwé (email) is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is involved in the IDEALS project, investigating how AOSD techniques can deal with crosscutting concerns in embedded system software. He has been a speaker at several symposia, workshops and conferences, where he addressed the issue of re(verse)-engineering aspects, and has a number of conference and journal publications about the topic. Additionally, he was the main organiser of last year's LATE workshop, is the main organiser of the Workshop on Aspect Reverse Engineering at WCRE, is the co-organiser of the BENEVOL workshops, which have a track on AOSD and evolution, and is an active participant in the RELEASE network, that studies AOSD and evolution, among other topics.
Andy Kellens (email) is a PhD student at the Programming Technology Lab (PROG) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, funded by a scholarship granted by the "Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT Vlaanderen)". His research interests include the application of machine learning and data mining techniques to support software development and evolution. In particular, this has lead him to the field of the identification, documentation and extraction of cross-cutting concerns from source-code. He also is co-organiser of the first LATE workshop, which took place at AOSD'05 in Chicago.
Mariano Ceccato (email) is a PhD student in the Information and Communication Technology International Doctorate School in the University of Trento and he currently works in ITC-irst in Trento in the STAR (Software Technology Advanced Research) group. His Research interests are source code analysis and manipulation, more specifically for the migration of object-oriented code into aspect-oriented programming. He collaborates with King’s College London and Loyola College in Maryland on the automatic support for this migration process. He co-organised the first edition on the LATE Workshop 2005 in Chicago.
David Shepherd (email) is a third year PhD student at the University of Delaware, where he has already received his M.S. He has published several papers on aspect mining and he co-organised the first Workshop on Aspect Reverse Engineering and LATE '05. He recently interned at IBM where he worked on two projects, one on aspect mining. He currently interns (part-time) at Quantum Leap Innovations where he conducts AOP research and performs software engineering duties.