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[17] Zhitao Ying, Dylan Bourgeois, Jiaxuan You, Marinka Shihan Xiao received a B.Eng.
Zitnik, and Jure Leskovec. “Gnnexplainer: Gener‑ degree in electronic and infor‑
ating explanations for graph neural networks”. In: mation engineering from the
Advances in neural information processing systems. Beijing University of Posts and
2019, pp. 9244–9255. Telecommunications, Beijing,
[18] Network Modeling Datasets. https : / / China, in 2012, and a Ph.D.
github . com / knowledgedefinednetworking / degree from the Department
NetworkModelingDatasets. Jan. 2020. of Computer Science and Tech‑
nology, Tsinghua University, China. He is currently a
[19] Steven Gay, Renaud Hartert, and Stefano Vissic‑
senior engineer with Huawei 2012 NetLab. His research
chio. “Expect the unexpected: Sub‑second opti‑ interests include machine learning in networking, data
mization for segment routing”. In: IEEE INFOCOM
center networking, and cloud computing.
2017. 2017, pp. 1–9.
Bo Wu received his Bachelor’s
degree from the School of Soft‑
AUTHORS ware at Shandong University,
China, in 2014, and his Ph.D.
David Pujol‑Perich is an MSc degree from the Department of
student in advanced comput‑ Computer Science and Technol‑
ing from UPC (2020‑2022), ogy at Tsinghua University in
where he is also received his 2019. Currently, he works in
Bachelor’s degree in computer the Network Technology Lab‑
science (2016‑2020). He is cur‑ oratory at Huawei Technologies. His research inter‑
rently employed by Barcelona ests include network architecture, network security, and
Neural Networking center blockchain.
(BNN‑UPC) as a machine learning junior researcher. Albert Cabellos‑Aparicio is an
During his Bachelor’s, he did an academic stay in ETH assistant professor at Univer‑
Zürich (2019‑2020) and was awarded as inalist of the sitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Best Bachelor Thesis of the Year. (UPC), where he obtained his
In addition, the project resulting from his bachelor thesis, PhD in computer science in
IGNNITION, received an EU grant (H2020‑871528‑NGI‑ 2008. He is director of the
POINTER; 1st open call). His research focuses on the Barcelona Neural Networking
development of tools that allow non‑expert users in ML Center (BNN‑UPC) and scien‑
to easily implement complex graph neural networks.
ti ic director of the NaNoNet‑
Furthermore, he is also working on novel techniques
working Center in Catalunya. He has been a visiting re‑
to explain the knowledge that graph neural networks
searcher at Cisco Systems and Agilent Technologies and a
automatically acquire to accurately make predictions.
visiting professor at KTH, Sweden, and MIT, USA. His re‑
José Suárez‑Varela received search interests include the application of machine learn‑
his M.Sc. degree in telecommu‑ ing to networking and nanocommunications. His re‑
nication engineering from the search achievements have been awarded by the Catalan
Universidad de Granada (UGR) Government, the University, and INTEL. He also partici‑
in 2017, and his Ph.D. from pates regularly in standardization bodies such as IETF.
the Universitat Politècnica de Pere Barlet‑Ros is an asso‑
Catalunya (UPC) in 2020. He ciate professor at Universitat
is currently a post‑doctoral
researcher at the Barcelona Neural Networking Cen‑ Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
and ic director of the
ter (BNN‑UPC), and co‑Principal Investigator of the Barcelona Neural Networking
EU‑funded project IGNNITION (H2020‑871528‑NGI‑ Center (BNN‑UPC). From 2013
POINTER; 1st open call). to 2018, he was co‑founder and
During his Ph.D., he was a visiting researcher at the chairman of the machine learn‑
University of Siena, under the supervision of Prof. Franco
Scarselli. His main research interests are in the field of ing startup Talaia Networks, which was acquired by Au‑
arti icial intelligence applied to networking, and traf ic vik Networks in 2018. He was a visiting researcher at En‑
dace (New Zealand), Intel Research Cambridge (UK) and
monitoring and analysis.
Intel Labs Berkeley (USA). His research interests are in
machine learning for network management and optimiza‑
tion, ic ication and network security. He re‑
ceived the 2nd VALORTEC prize (2014) for the best busi‑
ness plan awarded by the Catalan Government (ACCIO).

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