CSC'07: Members of Program & Organizing Committee

Coordinator and General Chair

• Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
  Professor, Computer Science
  Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
  Director of Graduate Programs (Computer Science)
  The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
  hra@cs.uga.edu
  

Co-Chairs

• Dr. Jack Y. Yang
  Harvard University
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  
• Dr. Mary Qu Yang 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 CSC'07 (provisional)

• Prof. Jun Ni
  Director, Medical Imaging HPC and Informatics Lab
  University of Iowa, USA
  
• Dr. Lotfi A. Zadeh
  Member of National Academy of Engineering and IEEE Fellow
  University of California, Berkeley, USA
  
• Dr. Laura L. Elnitski Ph.D.
  Head of Genomic Functional Analysis Section
  National Human Genome Research Institute
  National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
  
• Dr. Jun S. Liu
  Director and Professor, Harvard Statistical Genomics and Computational Biology Laboratory
  Professor of Broad Institute of Harvard University and 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
• Prof. Guo-Zheng Li
  Co-Director of Intelligent Information Processing
  Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
  Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
  
• 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 Bioinformatics
  Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana, 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 (La Jolla), California, 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. Walker Land, IEEE Fellow
  Director, Professor and Principal Investigator; Computational Intelligence Research Group
  Binghamton University - The State University of New York
  Binghamton, New York, USA
  
• Dr. Yuhang Wang
  J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee (Chair Professor)
  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
  
• Prof. Mark J. Embrechts
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Troy, New York, USA
  
• Dr. Tony Xiaohua Hu
  Director, Data Mining and Bioinformatics Lab
  Founding Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
  College of Information Science and Technology
  Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  
• Dr. Matthias Dehmer
  University of Vienna
  Vienna, Austria
  
• Dr. Frank Emmert-Streib
  University of Washington
  Seattle, Washington, USA
  
• Dr. Zoran Obradovic
  Director and Professor, Information Science and Technology Center
  Professor, Computer and Information Sciences Department
  Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  
• Prof. Jorge H. Rodriguez
  Director of Bio-molecular Physics Group
  Purdue University
  West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
• Dr. George A. Gravvanis
  Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
  
• 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
• Gulsah Altun, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, Georgia, USA (Co-Chair)
• Prof. Asai Asaithambi, Chair, CS, University of South Dakota, USA
• Dr. Sudhirkumar V. Barai, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
• 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. Steve C. Chiu, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
• Prof. Yaobin Chen, Chair, ECE, Associate Dean, Purdue School of Engineering, Indiana University Purdue University, Indiana, USA
• Prof. Yuehui Chen, Jinan University, Jinan, P. R. China
• Dr. Zizhong Chen, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama, USA
• Prof. Chung-Kuan Cheng, IEEE Fellow, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA (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)
• 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. Arif Ghafoor, IEEE Fellow, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
• Dr. George A. Gravvanis, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece (IAB)
• Prof. Katherine G. Herbert, Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA
• 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. Arpad Kelemen, Niagara University, New York, USA
• 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
• 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
• Prof. P. K. Mahanti, Chair, CSAS Dept., University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada
• Prof. Mohammad Riaz Moghal, Dean and Chairman, Ali Ahmad Shah-University College of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
• Dr. Kayvan Najarian, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
• 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. R. Ponalagusamy, National Institute of Technology, Tamilnadu, India
• Prof. Jiri Pospichal, Slovak Technical University, Slovakia
• 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. Sattar B. Sadkhan, Director, Scientific Affairs and Cultural Relations, Babylon University, Iraq
• Prof. Bruce R. Schatz, Director, CANIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, 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
• Prof. Yuhang Wang, J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee (Chair Professor), Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA (IAB)
• Prof. Layne T. Watson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
• 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, Missouri, USA
• 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. Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, P. R. China
• Members of WORLDCOMP Task Force for High-Performance 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 Foundations of Computer Science
• Members of WORLDCOMP Task Force for Frontiers in Education (CS and CE)