Levent Yilmaz is Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University with a joint appointment in Industrial and Systems Engineering. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. His research interests are in agent-directed simulation, cognitive computing, and model-driven science and engineering for complex adaptive systems. He is the founding organizer and general chair of the Agent--Directed Simulation Conference series. 

Intelligent Agent Technology, Cognitive Systems, Complex Adaptive Systems, Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

Jyh-haw Yeh was born in Taiwan in 1966. He received a B.A. degree in Applied Mathematics from National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan in 1988, a M.S. degree in Computer Information Science from Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio in 1993, and a Ph.D degree in Computer and Information Science and Engineering from University of Florida in 1999. Currently he is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science,Boise State University, Boise, Idaho. He joined Boise State University since 2000. His major research field is in computer security in general. In recent years, he is interested in applied cryptography, and cloud security.

Computer Security, Network Security, Cloud Security, Applied Cryptography

R. P. Loui was educated at Harvard, Rochester, and Stanford. He is the leading active US advocate of defeasible reasoning, especially in artificial intelligence and law.  Cited in eighteen languages, his lectures have been given on five continents in a dozen countries.  Loui has advised start-ups, worked with patent attorneys, consulted with and been recruited by venture capitalists and funding agencies, and generated a long record of innovative software prototypes. 

Medical and Legal Informatics, Cyberwar and Computer Surveillance, Engineering Team Dynamics and Education, Scripting Languages.

Qiang Cheng received the BS and MS degrees in mathematics, applied mathematics and computer science from Peking University, China, and the PhD degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Currently he is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He previously worked as an AFOSR Faculty Fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson, Ohio, and a Senior Researcher and Senior Research Scientist at Siemens Medical Solutions, Siemens Corporate Research, Siemens Corp., Princeton, New Jersey. His research interests include data science, big data and data  analytics, data mining, pattern recognition, machine learning, signal and image processing, and biomedical informatics. He was the recipient of various awards and privileges. He was on the organizing committee of a number of international conferences and workshops. He has a number of international patents issued or filed with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, Yorktown Heights, Siemens Medical, Princeton, and Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

Data Mining, Data Science, Pattern Recognition, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Image/Video Processing, Computer Vision, Algorithms and Computing for Biomedical Research, Biomedical Informatics, Engineering Informatics, Healthcare Systems and Informatics.

I am a Professor at Southeastern Louisiana University.  I have been teaching at this institution for the past 23 years.  I have earned my Masters and Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (LSU).  I enjoy teaching the project classes because of the challenges that it present to the students and the professor.  Software Engineering and Information Systems are my favorite subjects to teach.

Software Engineering, Information Systems, Project Management, Team Dynamics, CS Pedagogy and OO Design Metrics

Dr. Deepak Khazanchi is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis in the College of Information Science & Technology at the University of Nebraska in Omaha.  Deepak’s current research interests are focused in the areas of virtual project management, trust in virtual teas, virtual worlds, and mixed method research.  His research has been published in various peer-reviewed journals including IEEE IT Professional, Communications of the Association of Information Systems, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Management, Journal of Information Technology Management, and ACM's DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. 

He received the Ph.D. degree with a specialization in Management Information Systems from Texas Tech University. Prior to this, he completed the MBA degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and obtained an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (India). He has also served as a visiting IS faculty for the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway and the Management Center Innsbruck (Austria). 

Virtual Project Management, B2B EC Assurance and Risk Management in Extended Enterprises, Best Practices in IT Project Management, Project Management Assurance, Application of 3D Immersive Environments such as Second Life in VPM, Technology-Enabled Language Learning, Knowledge Management and Representation, Mutual Knowledge, Pattern Theory; and Philosophical, Methodological, Pedagogical & Ethical Issues in IT Education & Research.

Dr. Chunlei Liu is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Valdosta State University. He received his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from Wuhan University in China, and his Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University, with a major in computer networks and minors in Scientific Computing and Computer Graphics.Dr. Liu has extensive teaching and working experience. He was an Assistant Professor at Wuhan University from 1991 to 1995 and worked as a System Architect from 2000 to 2003 in Lucent Technology Bell Labs. He was an Assistant Professor from 2003 to 2005 at Sorrell College of Business at Troy University where he taught various information systems and business courses.He joined Valdosta State University in 2005 and have been teaching various computer science, information systems and e-commerce courses. Dr. Liu is a certified Quality Matters online course peer reviewer. He was the ABET Accreditation Coordinator for VSU’s Computer Science program and led the program’s successful initial accreditation in 2016. He has published more than 85 journal articles, conference papers and book chapters, and received 13 internal and external grants. He served in the editorial board of several journals and many conference committees.

Computer Networks, Scientific Computing, Computer Science Education, Accreditation and Assessment. 

Dr. Arun Kulkarni is Professor of Computer Science, has been with The University of Texas at Tyler since 1986. He has more than seventy refereed papers to his credit, and he has authored two books. His awards include the Office of Naval Research (ONR) 2008 Senior Summer Faculty Fellowship award, 2005-2006 President's Scholarly Achievement Award, 2001-2002 Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching award, 1997 Piper Award Nominee, and 1984 Fulbright Fellowship award. He has been listed in who's who in America. He has successfully completed eight research grants. Dr. Kulkarni obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Virginia Tech.

Machine Learning, Data Mining, Soft Computing, Remote Sensing and Computer Vision.

Dr. E. A. Yfantis is professor of Computer Science Department at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, (B.S.   Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece, 1969, M.S.  Mathematics, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, N.J., 1972 , M.S.  Statistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1973, Pilot’s License Teteboro School of Aeronautics, N.J.  1974, Ph.D. Statistical Signal Processing, University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1978). Full Professor:  Computer Science Department University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Has been a consultant for : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Naval Ocean Systems Center, Lockheed, U.S. Air Force, Sandia Labs., Los Alamos Scientific Lab., Lawrence Livermore Lab., NASA, U.S. EPA, U.S. DOE, Northrop, EG&G, Exxon Corp., Shell Oil Co., NSTec, SGI, Clark County, City of Las Vegas Waste Water Management agencies, and many other companies and U.S. agencies. Dr. Yfantis, has published over 200 research papers and technical reports, in refereed journals and international conferences, and various companies and government agencies. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Deming award. He has been a reviewer for many scientific and technical journals and conferences, as well as in the organizing committee of many conferences.

Computer Vision-Robot Vision and Machine Intelligence, Robotics, Digital Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Computational  Fluid Dynamics.

Haklin Kimm received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma. Currently he is a professor in the Computer Science Department at the East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, East Stroudsburg in USA, where he teaches mobile computing, embedded systems, computer architecture, networks and operating systems. His major research interests are in the area of Embedded Systems, Automotive Software Engineering, Image Processing, Distributed and Parallel Systems, Multilevel Security with SELinux. Currently he works on Android Payload Development for High-altitude Balloons, CAN Bus Networks using Promela, Multilevel Security with SELinux, Edge Detection and Linking using OpenMPI/OpenACC. He also leads the Space Systems Software Lab, Computer Science Department at East Stroudsburg, PA, where PocoSAT1 and PocoSAT2 had been built in 2012, and BalloonSAT launched in 2014. He had been invited as exchange visiting faculty from University of Guam, Korea University and Hirosaki University, Japan. He gave talks and tutorials at various institutions and research centers, i.e., Samsung SDS and ETRI in Korea. He has experiences doing research at Oak Ridge National Lab, NASA Goddard Space Center, and ETRI.

Mobile Computing, Distributed and Parallel Systems, Multilevel Security with SELinux, Automotive Software Engineering.

Ramon A. Mata-Toledo is a tenured Professor of Computer Science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia (U.S.A.) and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University  at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Professor Mata-Toledo is also the Computer Science Editor of the McGraw-Hill Access Science (formerly the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and its corresponding yearbooks).He is the author of four books published by the Schaum’s Outline Series of the McGraw-Hill and author or co-author of over 100 refereed publications. He has also served as chair or co-chair of several national and international conferences. 

Databases, Discrete Mathematics, Compiler Design, Natural Languages, and Data Science.

Wuxu Peng received his B.E degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 1983 and Ph.D. in computer science from The Pennsylvania State University, 1990. He joined Texas State University in 1990 and currently he is a professor of computer science at Texas State University. His research main interests include specification and verification of communication protocols and computer software/systems; wireless networks and communications; performance evaluation and enhancement of communication protocols; and cloud computing. He has published peer reviewed technical papers in many venues including ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPAS) and Acta Informatica. He has served as technical committee members and reviewers of numerous technical conferences and journals. His research has been supported by agencies including NSF and Texas Advanced Research Programs.

Verification of Communication Protocols and Computer Software/Systems, Wireless Networks and Communications, Performance Evaluation and Enhancement of Communication Protocols, Cloud Computing such as Bandwidth as a Service, Cyber-Physical Systems.

Dr. Kamel is currently a Professor of Computer Science at TSU. He worked as full time faculty and administrator for 22 years at the University of Louisville Engineering School. He was a Professor and the chair of the Computer Engineering and Computer Science department from August 1987 to January 2001.  He also was the founding dean of the College of IT at the United Arab Emirates University and the College of CS & IT at the Abu Dhabi University. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, a BS in Mathematics from Ain Shams University, an MS in CS from Waterloo University, and a Ph.D. in ECE from the University of Cincinnati. He worked as principle investigator on several government and industry grants.  He also supervised over 100 graduate research Master and Doctoral students in the past 25 years. His current research interest is more interdisciplinary in nature but focuses on the use of IT in Industry and systems. He recently coauthored two books with McGraw Hill; “Programmable Logic Controllers: Industrial Control” and “Hands-On PLC Programming using RSLogix500 and LogixPro”.

Computer Control, Sensory Fusion, and Distributed Computing. 

Sazzad Hossain has been working as Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh since December 2009. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Portland State University, Oregon, USA. His doctoral dissertation in Quantum Computing takes background and ideas from several fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, computer engineering and biology. He completed his  Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the same university in USA. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical System Network Engineering from Moscow Technical University (Popularly known as Moscow Power Institute), Moscow, Russia. Dr. Sazzad taught several advanced courses, such as Introduction to Quantum Computing, VLSI Design, Artificial Intelligence and Human Robot Interaction.  He also lent his teaching and research experiences in many universities and institutes as a visiting faculty/researcher/guest speaker. His work is motivated by the believe in Darwinian Evolution, how the Darwinian Evolution evolved from some earlier evolution which could be only chemical and physical? Did Darwinian Evolution exist before the first living cell arrived? Can something be created from nothing? Therefore he believes that Darwinian Evolution results from Quantum Mechanical Evolution and may be other evolutions (chemical, physical) that were created in between. It is found in Nature that the structure of all organisms has been designed to provide the capability of solving a multitude of complex problems for both survival and growth, through instinctual, experiential, and intellectual means.  Over the millennia, it is these capabilities that have proven an effective method of sustaining the existence and the propagation of natural organisms.  Even as environmental conditions change, it is the continuous adaptation process of natural organisms adjusting to their environment, through evolutionary processes, which sustains life. Nature itself has proven its development of robust system design. Based on his research findings over 15 papers have been published in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings. He is the author of a book named “Programming in C”. He is also Adviser to ULAB IT Division.

Quantum Computer, Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Entanglement, De-Coherence, Natural Computing, Fault-Tolerant Computing, Biological Computing, Theoretical Computer Science, Nano Technology, Low Power VLSI Design, Reversible Logic, Software Engineering, Social Computing, Big Data Analytics, Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligent, Robotics, Human Robot Interaction, Renewable Energy.

Mostafa Gadal-Haqq M. Mostafa is a Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He received a B.Sc. (Honor) in 1984 and an M.Sc. in 1989 in Physics from the Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, and a Ph.D. in 1996 in Computational Physics through joint supervision between Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), USA, and Ain Shams University in the period from 1993 to 1995. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Louisville, USA, as a Postdoc in the period 1998-2000. He also joined the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia in the period from 2001-2009.

Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Data Mining, Medical Image Analysis, Arabic Optical Character Recognition, Bioinformatics, and Information Security.

M. A. H. Akhand received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Bangladesh in 1999, the M.E. degree in Human and Artificial Intelligent Systems in 2006, and the Doctoral degree in System Design Engineering in 2009 from University of Fukui, Japan. He joined as a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at KUET in 2001, and is now a Professor. He is also head of Computational Intelligence Research Group of this department. He is a member of Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB). 

Machine Learning, Bio-Inspired Computing Techniques and Pattern Recognition, Swarm Intelligence and other Bio-Inspired Computing Techniques, Evolutionary Computation and Population based Methods, Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Neural Networks Ensemble (NNE), Solving Real Life Problems through Computational Intelligence, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

Networking, Internet and Cloud Computing, System Engineering and Optimization.

Professor Chin-Chen Chang obtained his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from National Chiao Tung University. His first degree is Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and master degree is Master of Science in computer and decision sciences. Both were awarded in National Tsing Hua University. He served in National Chung Cheng University from 1989 to 2005. His current title is Chair Professor in Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, from Feb. 2005. A researcher of acclaimed and distinguished services and contributions to his country and advancing human knowledge in the field of information science, he has won many research awards and honorary positions by and in prestigious organizations both nationally and internationally. He is currently a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IEE, UK. And since his early years of career development, he consecutively won Institute of Information & Computing Machinery Medal of Honor, Outstanding Youth Award of Taiwan, Outstanding Talent in Information Sciences of Taiwan, AceR Dragon Award of the Ten Most Outstanding Talents, Outstanding Scholar Award of Taiwan, Outstanding Engineering Professor Award of Taiwan, Top Fifteen Scholars in Systems and Software Engineering of the Journal of Systems and Software, Top Cited Paper Award of Pattern Recognition Letters, and so on. On numerous occasions, he was invited to serve as Visiting Professor, Chair Professor, Honorary Professor, Honorary Director, Honorary Chairman by universities and research institutes. He also published over serval hundred papers in Information Sciences. In the meantime, he participates actively in international academic organizations and performs advisory work to government agencies and academic organizations.

Database Design, Cryptography and Network Security, Image processing.

Wei Wei,  received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2011and 2005, respectively. Currently I am an assistant Professor at Xi’an Unviersity of Technology. My academic interests in the following areas: Wireless Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks Application, Mobile Computing, Wireless Network Security, Image Processing, Distributed Computing. 

Wireless Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks Application, Mobile Computing, Wireless Network Security, Image Processing, Distributed Computing. 

Vishnu Narayan Mishra Received his PhD. at  I.I.T. Roorkee. He is currently working as Associate Professor of Mathematics at Dept. of Mathematics, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Lalpur, Amarkantak 484 887, India. He got more than 12 scientific excellence awards. He has published more than 150 publications. His research interests are Linear Positive Operators, Approximation theory, Measure of non-compactness, Functional Analytic aspects in Summability, Fourier Analysis, Quantum Calculus, Asymptotic expansions, Fixed point theory and applications in dynamic programming, Inequalities, Non-linear analysis, Special Functions, Variational inequality, q-series and q-polynomials and Operator Theory, Fractals and Wavelets, Signal Analysis and Image processing.

Linear Positive Operators, Approximation theory, Measure of non-compactness, Functional Analytic aspects in Summability, Fourier Analysis, Quantum Calculus, Asymptotic expansions, Fixed point theory and applications in dynamic programming, Inequalities, Non-linear analysis, Special Functions, Variational inequality, q-series and q-polynomials and Operator Theory, Fractals and Wavelets, Signal Analysis and Image processing.

Dr. Manik Sharma is MCA and UGC-NET qualified, and received his PhD degree in Distributed Query Optimization. He has more than 12 years of teaching experience, having previously worked as head of the Department of Computer Science and Application and officiating principal at Sewa Devi S.D. College, India. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applications at DAV University, Jalandhar, India.

His main research work focuses on query optimization, data mining, soft computing and machine learning. Currently, he is working in the area of data mining, machine learning and soft computing, with a specialization in the diagnosis of diseases and modeling of DSS query optimizers. The thrust area of his research is to improve predictive accuracy in early diagnosis of several fatal human disorders.

He has published four books related to computer networks, internet applications, management information systems and database theory. In addition, he has published 20 research papers in various journals of international repute including some indexed by Scopus and Thomson Reuters. He also presented more than 10 research articles in various national and international UGC and IEEE conferences, and has given several talks on query optimization, data mining and health informatics. He is an active member of the international program committees, technical program committees, and advisory committees of several academic conferences.

Query Optimization, Data Mining, Machine Learning and Soft Computing with specialization in the diagnosis of diseases and modeling of DSS query optimizer.