Information Technology, Data Science and Digital Health

Jean X. Gao is a professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas, Arlington. She received her Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Medical University, her Master's degree from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University. Her research interest includes Data Sciences, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Pattern Discovery, Computational Biomedical Data Analysis and Bioinformatics, Macro/Micro Medical Image Processing, Computer Vision, Image Processing

Data Sciences, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Pattern Discovery, Computational Biomedical Data Analysis and Bioinformatics, Macro/Micro Medical Image Processing, Computer Vision, Image Processing

George Spanoudakis (BSc, MSc and PhD) is full Professor in the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering at City University London and Director of the Research Centre on Adaptive Computing Systems (CeNACS). He is also a member of the Council of the University of Piraeus in Greece (2013-). Prior to his current posts, he had been Head of the Department of Computing at City University (2004-07) and Associate Dean for Research of the School of Informatics (2010-14). He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Crete, Essen, Malaga, and the London School of Economics and ICS-FORTH. His research interests are in the field of software systems engineering with a current focus on service and cloud computing and software systems security. Within the wider field of his research, he has published more than 140 peer-reviewed scientific papers and books and has attracted research funding in excess of €6m, including R&D projects funded by the EU, national research councils, ENISA and directly by the industry. Prof. Spanoudakis has served in the program committees of more than 170 international conferences and workshops, and has chaired/co-chaired several of them (e.g., SEKE ’06, SEKE ’07, CISIS ’11, NTMS ’14, ACG ‘14). He is also a member of the editorial boards of 10 international journals. Beyond research, he is providing advisory services to private companies, universities, public funding and standardization organisations in the UK and overseas. S)

service oriented computing, cloud computing and software systems security

Robert S. Laramee received a bachelors degree in physics, cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (ZooMass). He received a masters degree in computer science from the University of New Hampshire, Durham. He was awarded a PhD from the Vienna University of Technology (Gruess Gott TUWien), Austria at the Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms in 2005. From 2001 to 2006 he was a researcher at the VRVis Research Centerand a software engineer at AVL in the department of Advanced Simulation Technologies.Currently he is an Associate Professor at the Swansea University (Prifysgol Cymru Abertawe), Wales in the Department of Computer Science (Adran Gwyddor Cyfrifiadur). His research interests are in the areas of scientific visualization, information visualization, and visual analytics. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals and conferences.

scientific visualization, information visualization, and visual analytics

Jingsong Wang is a Principle Software Developer at Oracle. He has rich design and development experience in building software systems, especially intelligent systems based on data and machine learning technologies. He has research interests in various areas, including logical and probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, and ontology. He received his Ph.D. in the area of artificial intelligence from the University of South Carolina.

He has research interests in various areas, including logical and probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, and ontology

Jeff Lei is a full professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas, Arlington. He received his Bachelor's degree from Wuhan University (Special Class for Gifted Young), his Master's degree from Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University. He was a Member of Technical Staff in Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. for about three years. His research is in the area of automated software analysis, testing and verification, with a special interest in software security assurance at the implementation level.

I am interested in developing methods, techniques, and tools to increase the productivity of software practitioners so that they can develop better software faster. In particular, I am interested in automated software analysis, testing, and verification techniques, currently with a special focus on software security assurance.

Dr. Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner has over 26 years of research experience in various areas within the field of Computer Engineering. Additionally, she has worked in the area of patent law for several years. She has published numerous scientific papers, including two books, and has handled the prosecution and infringement analysis of many complex U.S. and international patents. Dr. Eshaghian-Wilner currently is a Professor of Engineering Practice at the Electrical Engineering-Systems Department at the University of Southern California (USC), and since 2004 has been an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to joining UCLA, she was a tenured full Professor and Department Head at the Computer Engineering Department of Rochester Institute of Technology

Computing Architectures and Interconnects: Bio-inspired and Nanoscale Computing, MEMS, Optical Interconnects, VLSI and Reconfigurable chips Computing Networks and Algorithms: Heterogeneous/Cluster/Grid/Cloud Computing, Mapping and Scheduling paradigms/algorithms/tools Biomedical Applications: Nanomedicine, Bioinformatics, Sequence Alignment, Image-Processing, Computer Vision Technology Law: Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, Patent Reform, Digital Rights, Cyber Law/Crimes, Internet Privacy

Dr. Akbar Namin is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Texas Tech University. His research focuses on Software Engineering, Program Analysis, Cyber Security, Statistical analysis and Machine Learning. He also works on privacy issues in data and information leakage. Dr. Namin has authored over 50 technical articles published in premier Software Engineering venues including ACM/IEEE International Conference in Software engineering, ACM International Symposium in Software Test and Analysis, Journal of IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering .He has served on program committees of numerous conferences in empirical Software Engineering, Cybersecurit Dr. Namin’s research is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Namin received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He also worked as a guest researcher at the National Research Council in Canada (NRC) for two years.

Software Engineering, Program Analysis, Cyber Security, Statistical analysis and Machine Learning

Dr. Yu Zhuang is an Associate professor in Department of Computer Science at the Texas Tech University. He received his Bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University, his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Louisiana State University. He is a member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society, and SIAM.

His research interests include high-dimensional data learning, modeling, searching, and application to semiclassical molecular dynamics, high-performance computing, performance-focused memory and I/O algorithms and scientific computing.

Dr. Jingshan Huang is an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Computer Science in the School of Computing (SoC) at the University of South Alabama (USA). Dr. Huang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Carolina in 2007. Prior to his current position, Dr. Huang was an Assistant Professor at Benedict College and a Research Specialist at the Medical University of South Carolina, respectively.Dr. Huang has published over 50 refereed papers including those in mainstream journals such as PLOS ONE, Pharmaceutical Research, and BMC Genomics, as well as leading bioinformatics conferences such as BIBM and BCB. Dr. Huang established and has been supervising the South Biomedical Informatics (SBI) Research Group housed in the USA SoC. He has also participated in a wide variety of professional service, including: NSF panelists, Journal Editorial/Review Board members, Conference Steering Committee members, Conference and Workshop Co-Chairs, Book Editorial Advisory Board members, and invited journal/book editors, as well as serving as Program Committee members for many top international conferences. Dr. Huang's research has been supported by the NIH, NSF, and DOE.

Data Semantics and Web Data; Artificial Intelligence and Big Data; and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, with a unifying theme of the semantics and analysis of data and information, as well as their innovative applications on human genomics and transcriptomics

Professor Fairouz Kamareddine's research is at the interface of Mathematics, Logic and Computer Science where she has been involved in a number of worldwide consultancy assignments, especially on education and research issues working for the United nations and the EU. She has held numerous invited positions at universities worldwide. She has well over 100 published articles and a number of books. She has played leading roles in the development, administration and implementation of interdisciplinary, international, and academic collaborations and networks.

Digitization and Automation of text data, formal verification, syntax and semantics of programming, type theory and logic, the correctness of programs and specification.

Liz Bacon is Immediate Past President of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, and a Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Greenwich in London, with a University-wide remit leading the development of technology enhanced learning. She is a past Chair of the BCS Academy of Computing, and the CPHC (Council of Professors and Heads of Computing) national committee. Liz is a Professor of Software Engineering with over a hundred publications and a Co-Director of the eCentre research group. She is an experienced journal and conference reviewer, editorial board member, and PhD supervisor, and has been involved in several EU research projects, including being Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator for two EU FP7 projects in the past four years. She is an experienced systems designer and developer and has applied her research in technology enhanced learning, software engineering, artificial intelligence and cyberterrorism to a range of application areas such as crisis management and health. Within technology enhanced learning her research has focussed on the following areas: smart games-based learning environments; metacognition and learning strategies; and adaptable, adaptive and personalised systems.

Big Data, Data Mining

Dr. Xianghua Xie is an Associate Professor in the Visual Computing Group at the Department of Computer Science, Swansea University. He held an RCUK Academic Fellowship between September 2009 and March 2012, and he was a Senior Lecturer between October 2012 and March 2013. Prior to his position at Swansea, he was a Research Associate in the Computer Vision Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, where he obtained his PhD in Computer Science and MSc in Advanced Computing (with commendation) in 2006 and 2002, respectively. He has strong research interests in video analysis, stereo systems, active contour models, level set methods, texture analysis, and medical image understanding. He leads a team of researchers at Swansea University in these areas, and has published over 100 papers in computer vision and pattern recognition. He is associate editor of IET Computer Vision, and general chair of BMVC2015 and MIUA2012. He is a senior member of IEEE.

video analysis, stereo systems, active contour models, level set methods, texture analysis, and medical image understanding

Alexandra I. Cristea is an associate professor (Reader) and head of the Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Research Group at the University of Warwick. She is also the deputy chair of the Graduate Studies Committee of the Faculty of Science and director of postgraduate research in computer science. Her research interests include user modeling, personalization, the Semantic Web, and the social Web. Cristea has a PhD in computer science from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. She is a British Computer Society (BCS) fellow, a Higher Education Academy (HEA) associate fellow, and a member of IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.

modeling, personalization, the Semantic Web, and the social Web

Marcelo Milrad is a Full Professor of Media Technology at the Faculty of Technology at Linnaeus University (LNU) in Sweden. He is also the director of the Center for Learning and Knowledge Technologies (CeLeKT). His current research interests include the design of learning environments to support learning about complex domains, collaborative discovery learning and the development of mobile and wireless applications to support collaborative learning. Professor Milrad teaches undergraduate courses in media technology and computer science with a special focus on XML, web 2.0 and mobile technologies. He teaches also at the international master program on Social Media and Web technologies at LNU. In addition, Professor Milrad is actively involved in doctoral courses in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning.

His current research interests include the design of learning environments to support learning about complex domains, collaborative discovery learning and the development of mobile and wireless applications to support collaborative learning

Dr. Seung Hyun Baek is an professor of Division of Business Administration in College of Economics & Business Administration at Hanyang University ERICA campus. He received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Myongji University and an M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Information Engineering from University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Dr. Baek’s research interests are total quality management, supply chain management, operations management, management science, business intelligence & analytics, statistical data mining, and machine learning, business consulting methodology

Dr. Galina Momcheva is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Varna Free University “Chernorizets Hrabar”, Bulgaria. She was the Head of Department of Computer Science (2013-2015) and now she is the Head of Department of Computer Science and Economics (since 2015) after some structural reforms. After strong background (more than 15 years) in Programming and Data Structures and Algorithms including preparation of competitors in informatics in Bulgaria, she is still a supervisor of research projects of young scientists (Bioinformatics, Computer Vision). Now she has strong research interests in data mining, semantic data, visualizations and UI/UX. She develops at VFU and leads master degree programs in ‘Data Science’ (2016), ‘Software Engineering and Management’ (2016) and ‘Computer Games and Animation’ (2014). Dr. Momcheva is a member of ACM (since 2006), the member of the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians and its executive board in Varna region (1995-2016) and also she is the Charman of ICT Cluster-Varna (since 2016). She is an Oracle Academy lecturer and an initiator of a lot of activities for computer science for fun and visual programming for students’ classes in the country. She participates in national educational standards developing teams of experts.

Data Science, Data Visualizations, Semantic Data, Social Network Analysis, UI/UX, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems’ Development, Computer Science Education

Prof (Dr.) N.V. Subba Reddy was working as the professor and Head of the Department, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University, Manipal from September 2001 to September 2007.He is well versed with regulatory requirements of Technical Education of State and Central Governments (DTE and AICTE/MHRD). His experience in Government Engineering College: Familiar with state government cadre and recruitment rules, stores and purchase rules, and AG rules for finance management. He is also capable of assessing technical research projects and Ph.D. research protocols. He is well versed with State Government University Act and UGC Act and has served in many University academic and administrative committees as Chairman/ Member. He is the recipient of Best Paper Award for the session “Intelligent Systems and Tools”, in the 8th World Multi-conference on Systemic, Cybernetics and Informatics, held in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Machine Learning, Data mining, Pattern Recognition, Document Image Processing for the development of intelligent Systems for real world applications