BIOCOMP'07: Members of Program & Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs

• Dr. Hamid R. Arabnia (Chair, Steering Committee)
  Professor, Computer Science
  Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
  Director of Graduate Programs (Computer Science)
  The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
  
• Dr. Jack Y. Yang (Chair, Program Committee)
  Harvard University
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  
• Dr. Mary Qu Yang (Chair, Advisory Committee)
  National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD, USA
  and Purdue University Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory
  School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
  

Distinguished International Advisory Board/IAB (Vice-Chairs) of BIOCOMP'07 (provisional)

• Dr. Laura L. Elnitski
  Head of Genomic Functional Analysis Section
  National Human Genome Research Institute
  National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
  
• Dr. Philip E. Bourne
  Editor-in-Chief, PLoS Computational Biology
  Co-Director, Protein Data Bank
  Director and Professor of Pharmacology and Bioinformatics Lab.
  University of California, San Diego, USA
  
• Dr. Lotfi A. Zadeh
  Member of National Academy of Engineering and IEEE Fellow
  University of California, Berkeley, USA
  
• Dr. Keith A. Cranadall
  Executive Associate Editor, Bioinformatics (Oxford University Press)
  Director and Distinguished Professor, Integrative Biology and Bioinformatics
  Brigham Young University, Utah, USA
  
• Prof. Jun Ni
  Director, Medical Imaging HPC and Informatics Lab
  University of Iowa, USA
  
• Dr. Nikolaos G. Bourbakis
  IEEE Fellow. Ohio Board of Regents (OBR)
  Distinguished Professor and Director of Ohio Information Technology Research Institute
  Associate Dean, Wright State University College of Engineering and Computer Science, USA
  Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on AI Tools, the Editor-in-Charge, Research Series of Books in AI (WS Publisher), Editor- in-Chief, IJBB.
  
• Dr. Jun S. Liu
  Director and Professor, Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory
  Professor of Broad Institute of Harvard University
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  
• Prof. Andrzej Niemierko
  Director, Biomathematics, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard University
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  
• Dr. A. Keith Dunker
  T. K. Li Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  Indiana University School of Medicine
  Director and Distinguished Professor of School of Informatics
  Director of Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatic
  Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
  
• Dr. Cliff Shunsheng Han
  Group Leader, Bioscience Division
  Los Alamos National Laboratory, DOE, USA
  
• Dr. Liangjiang Wang
  Co-Director of Bioinformatics Lab. (at Kansas State University)
  Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
  
• Dr. Okan K. Ersoy
  IEEE Fellow and OSA Fellow
  Director and Distinguished Professor of Statistical and Computational Intelligence Lab.
  School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
  
• Dr. Chung-Kuan Cheng
  IEEE Fellow and Professor
  University of California, San Diego
  San Diego (La Jolla), California, USA
  
• Dr. Joydeep Ghosh
  IEEE Fellow, Director and Distinguished Schlumberger Centennial Chair
  Professor of Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Lab and Chair, IEEE DMTC, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
  
• Dr. Cihan H. Dagli
  Director and Professor, Boeing Systems Engineering Graduate Program
  Director, Smart Engineering Systems Lab (SESL)
  Area Editor, International Journal of General Systems
  University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, Missouri, USA
  
• Dr. Manolis Kellis
  Distinguished Alumnus Career Development Chair Assistant Professor
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
  
• Dr. Walker Land
  IEEE Fellow. Director, Professor and Principal Investigator; Computational Intelligence Research Group
  Binghamton University - The State University of New York, Binghamton, USA
  
• Prof. Mark J. Embrechts
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
  
• Dr. Tony Xiaohua Hu
  Director, Data Mining and Bioinformatics Lab
  Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
  Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  
• Dr. Zoran Obradovic
  Director and Professor, Information Science and Technology Center
  Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  
• Dr. Matthias Dehmer
  University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  
• Dr. Frank Emmert-Streib
  University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
  
• Dr. Yanqing Zhang
  Editorial Board of IJDMB and Associate Editor of JCIB. Georgia State University
  Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  
• Dr. Yuehui Chen
  Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
  Professor and Associate Dean, School of Information Science
  Jinan University, Jinan, P. R. China
  
• Prof. Jorge H. Rodriguez
  Director of Bio-molecular Physics Group, Purdue University
  West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
  
• Dr. David W. Corne
  Director and Distinguished Professor, Bioinformatics Lab. Co-Chair, IEEE Task Force on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
  Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
  
• Dr. Zuojie Luo
  Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs, Guangxi Medical University
  Chief Physician and Distinguished Professor, The First Affiliated Hospital
  Nanning, Guangxi, China
  And Joslin Diabetes Center
  Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA
  
• Dr. Yi Pan
  Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Application
  Chairman and Professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  
• Dr. Thomas Knudsen
  Editor-in-Chief, Reproductive Toxicology (Elsevier Journal)
  Professor and Principle Investigator
  National Center for Birth Defects
  University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
  
• Dr. Corrado Priami
  IEEE Fellow, Editor-in-Chief, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Transactions on Computational Systems Biology (Springer)
  President and CEO of The Microsoft Research - University of Trento. Italy.
  
• Dr. Carmelina Ruggiero
  IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Professor and Head, Bioingineering and Medical Informatics
  Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on NanoBioScience
  University of Genoa, Italy
  

Publicity Chair

• Ashu M. G. Solo
  Principal/R&D Eng., Maverick Technologies America Inc
  Wilmington, DE, USA
  

Members of International Program Committee

• Prof. Mohammad S. Alam, ISA Fello, SPIE, IEE (UK), Chair, ECE, University of South Alabama, AL, USA
• Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, Georgia, USA (Coord. and Co-Chair)
• Prof. Asai Asaithambi, Chair, CS, University of South Dakota, USA
• Prof. Nazeih M. Botros, Chair, CE, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL, USA
• Prof. Nikolaos G. Bourbakis, Distinguished Professor and Director, Ohio Information Technology Research Institute, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
• Dr. Hikmet Budak, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
• Prof. Jianer Chen, Head, Graduate Adm., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
• Prof. Yaobin Chen, Chair, ECE, Associate Dean, Purdue School of Engineering, Indiana University Purdue University, Indiana, USA
• Dr. Yu Chen, Bioinformatics Team/Biotechnology, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO, USA
• Prof. Yuehui Chen, Jinan University, Jinan, P. R. China (IAB)
• Zhongxue Chen, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA and Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA
• Dr. Zizhong Chen, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama, USA
• Prof. Chung-Kuan Cheng, IEEE Fellow, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA (IAB)
• Prof. David W. Corne, Co-Chair, IEEE Task Force on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland (IAB)
• Prof. Cihan H. Dagli, Director, Boeing Systems Engineering Graduate Program, Director, Smart Engineering Systems Lab (SESL), University of Missouri-Rolla, Rollam, Missouri, USA (IAB)
• Prof. Kevin Daimi, Chair, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA
• Prof. Suash Deb, National Institue of Science and Technology, Berhampore, India
• Dr. Matthias Dehmer, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (IAB)
• Prof. A. Keith Dunker, Director, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Director of Bioinformatics, Indiana University Purdue Univiversity, Indiana, USA (IAB)
• Prof. Mark J. Embrechts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA (IAB)
• Dr. Frank Emmert-Streib, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA (IAB)
• Prof. Okan K. Ersoy, IEEE Fellow and Fellow of OSA, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA (IAB)
• Prof. Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
• Prof. Jose Alfredo Ferreira Costa, Federal University, UFRN, Brazil
• Prof. Arif Ghafoor, IEEE Fellow, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
• Prof. Joydeep Ghosh, IEEE Fellow, The Schlumberger Centennial Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA (IAB)
• Dr. George A. Gravvanis, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
• Dr. Shunsheng (Cliff) Han, Los Alamos National Laboratory, DOE, USA (IAB)
• Prof. Ray R. Hashemi, Yamacraw Prof., Armstrong Atlantic State University, Georgia, USA
• Prof. Katherine G. Herbert, Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA
• Prof. Rattikorn Hewett, Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
• Prof. Sun-Yuan Hsieh, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
• Dr. Tony Xiaohua Hu, Director, Data Mining and Bioinformatics Lab., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA (IAB)
• Prof. Eric Jakobsson, Director, National Center for Biomimetic Nanoconductors; Director, NIH Bioinformatics Program, National Institute of General Medicine, University of Illinois at Urabna Champaign, IL, USA and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, USA
• Dr. Yufang Jin, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, USA
• Dr. James B. D. Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Dr. Carlos Juiz, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Despatx, Spain
• Dr. Ted Kalbfleisch, Director, Bioinformatics Operations, Center for Genetic Molecular Medicine, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA
• Dr. Arpad Kelemen, Niagara University, New York, USA
• Dr. Manolis Kellis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA (IAB)
• Dr. Stefan C. Kremer, Chair, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
• Prof. Vladimir Kvasnicka, Slovak Technical University, Slovakia
• Prof. Walker Land, Director and PI, Computational Intelligence Research Group, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, USA (IAB)
• Dr. Yulan Liang, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA
• Prof. Jun S. Liu, Director, Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory and Professor of Broad Institute of Harvard University - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (IAB)
• QingZhong Liu, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico, USA
• Dr. Yunlong Liu, Indiana School of Medicine, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA
• Ping Lu, Iowa State University, USA
• Dr. Meihua Luo, M.D., Indiana University, Medical School, Indiana; and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indiana, USA
• Prof. Qun (Marc) Ma, Co-Director of Applied Bioinformatics Lab., New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA
• Dr. Tommaso Mazza, University 'Magna Graecia' of Catanzaro, Italy
• Dr. Kayvan Najarian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
• Prof. Andrzej Niemierko, Director, Biomathematics, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (IAB)
• Prof. Zoran Obradovic, Director, Information Science and Technology Center, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA (IAB)
• Prof. William Osborne, IEEE Fellow, Dean of Engineering and Distinguished Professor, Distinguished Professional Engineer, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois, USA
• Prof. Mathew Palakal, Dean, Graduate Studies and Research; Director, Informatics Research Institute; Associate Dean, System Schools of Informatics; Chair, Purdue School of Science; Indiana University Purdue University, Indiana, USA and Indiana University, USA
• Prof. Yi Pan, Chair, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Prof. R. Ponalagusamy, National Institute of Technology, Tamilnadu State, India
• Prof. Jiri Pospichal, Slovak Technical University, Slovakia
• Prof. Allam Appa Rao, Dean, Andhra University College of Engineering, India
• Prof. Michael L. Raymer, Director, Bioinformatics, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
• Prof. Maher E. Rizkalla, Associate Chair, ECE, Purdue School of Engineering, Indiana University Purdue University, Indiana, USA
• Prof. Jorge H. Rodriguez, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA (IAB)
• Prof. Carmelina Ruggiero, Head, Bioingineering and Medical Informatics, University of Genoa, Italy (IAB)
• Dr. Meena K. Sakharkar, Head, Pharmacogenomics Group, Nanyang Technological University
• Prof. Bruce R. Schatz, Director, CANIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
• Amar V. Singh, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
• Ashu M. G. Solo, Principal/R&D Eng., Maverick Technologies America Inc., Wilmington, USA (Publicity Chair)
• Prof. Andrew Sung, Chair, New Mexico Tech., New Mexico, USA
• Dr. Yuchun Tang, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Prof. Jason T. L. Wang, Distinguished Professor and Director, NJIT Data and Knowledge Engineering Lab, New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA
• Dr. Liangjiang Wang, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA (IAB)
• Prof. Yuhang Wang, J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee (Chair Professor), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
• Prof. Layne T. Watson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
• Dr. Jongwook Woo, California State University, Los Angeles, California, USA
• Dr. Li Xiaoli, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Dr. Jack Y. Yang, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (Co-Chair)
• Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
• Dr. Mary Qu Yang, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Purdue University, USA (Co-Chair)
• Dr. Illhoi Yoo, University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Medicine, Columbia, MO, USA
• Dr. Yanqing (Y-Q) Zhang, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (IAB)
• Dr. Yizhi Zhang, M. D., Johns Hopkins University Medical School and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes (JHMI), Maryland; and University of Louisville, KY, USA
• Dr. Wei Zhong, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA
• Prof. Yaoqi Zhou, Indiana University of School of Informatics, IUPUI Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
• Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, P. R. China
• Members of WORLDCOMP Task Force for High-Performance Computing
• Members of WORLDCOMP Task Force for Scientific Computing
• Members of WORLDCOMP Task Force for Genetic and Evolutionary Computing
• Members of WORLDCOMP Task Force for Pattern Recognition
• Members of WORLDCOMP Task Force for Data Mining
• Members of WORLDCOMP Task Force for Knowledge Engineering
• Members of WORLDCOMP Task Force for Frontiers in Education (CS and CE)