Archives of Information Science and Technology

Dr. Godwin E Mbamalu serves as Associate Vice President for Research and Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, and Environmental Health Science, Benedict College and Concurrent Professor at the Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina. He is a member of the South Carolina Statewide Cancer Prevention and Control and South Carolina Cancer Research Task Force. Dr. Godwin's research interests are in health disparities, and contaminant-physico-chemical interactions and has served/serve as associate editor of diverse public health and environmental journals, NIH scholar and visiting professor –Intelligent Materials, University of Wollongong NSW, Australia, Mellon Foundation Scholar, Salzburg, Austria, O'Herron Foundation Endowed and Distinguished Professor and recipient of many other disciplinary and professional awards.

Dr. Moshe Dror is the Professor of Systems & Industrial Engineering at Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. He conducted research in a Telecommunication Research Center (INRS Telecommunications, Canada). Was as a member for 4-5 years (invited researcher) at the CRT (Centre de Recherche sur les Transports) at the University of Montreal, sabbatical year at Ecole Central Paris, (2003-05), sabbatical year at Warton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Moshe Dror initiated research on arc routing (1979), inventory routing (1983), routing with stochastic demands (1986), split-delivery routing (1989), scheduling with state dependent processing rates (1987), cost allocation in TSP (1990), cooperative inventory games (supply chain) (1996), and agent theory application in project management (1999). He has published numerous book chapters and over 100 papers in the primary refereed journals which focus on management of operations. Dr. Dror's research interests are diverse and primarily triggered by new insights encountered in real-life problems in transportation, logistic/supply chain, or manufacturing.

Dr. Ouri Wolfson's is a Professor at The University of Illinois, Chicago. He received his B.A. degree in mathematics, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He is currently the Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is the founder of Mobitrac, a high-tech startup that was acquired by Fluensee Co. in 2006; and the founder and president of Pirouette Software Inc. which specializes in mobile data management. He served as a consultant to Argonne National Laboratory, US Army Research Laboratories, DARPA, and NASA. Before joining the University of Illinois he has been on the computer science faculty at the Technion and Columbia University, and a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories. Dr. Wolfson's main research interests are in database systems, distributed systems, and mobile/pervasive computing.

Prof. Neal N Xiong is current a Professor at School of Computer Science, Colorado Technical University, Colorado Spring, CO, USA. He received his both PhD degrees in Wuhan University (about software engineering), and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (about dependable networks), respectively. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Security and Dependability, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Networks, and Optimization Theory. Prof. Xiong published over 200 international journal papers and over 100 international conference papers. Prof. Xiong is the Chair of "Trusted Cloud Computing" Task Force, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), and the Industry System Applications Technical Committee, He is a Senior member of IEEE Computer Society. He is serving as an Editor-in-Chief, Associate editor or Editor member for over 10 international journals, Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Parallel & Cloud Computing (PCC)), and a guest editor for over 10 international journals. Prof. Xiong's research interests include (1) Big Data: Multi-Fields Query Processing, Online Aggregation, Cloud-based Data Management Systems; (2) Cloud Computing, Data Mining, Mobile computing systems; (3) Embedded System Design, Fault-tolerant embedded systems; (4) Basic Method: Optimization, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computational mathematics, Information theory.

Dr. J. Michael Hardin is the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Samford University. Dr. Hardin has a B.A. in Math and Philosophy from the University of West Florida, M.S. in Research Design and Statistics from Florida State University, and M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Alabama. He earned a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from The University of Alabama. He has authored or co-authored over 80 papers in various journals. He is the author or co-author of over 150 abstracts presented at national meetings and has given over 75 invited lectures or talks. Dr. Hardin has authored several book chapters dealing with database design and decision support systems. He often serves as a consultant to healthcare organizations in the areas of data mining, sampling, and program integrity.

Dr. Bonnici is an Associate Professor at The University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences. Her research is focused in two areas: information technologies for universal access as well as social media use in education and advocacy forums. Research methods expertise centers on interpretivist approach to investigate user interaction with information and communication technologies for information access. Employing a strong theoretical approach, theories applied include Innovation Diffusion, TAM, Social Support among other sociological approaches. She has served as an investigator on federal and state-funded grants. Dr. Bonnici holds a Master of Library Science degree from the University of South Florida (1996) and a Ph.D. in Information Science from Florida State University School of Information (2001). Dr. Bonnici's research focuses on the interpretation of non-verbal and physiognomic signals to discover disconnects in ICT use posed by physiological impairments, specifically in aging populations. Methods employ facial action coding of video-captured user behavior. In addition she also conducts research in the area of semiotics for e-communication as well as social media metrics for the academic environment.

Dr. Andrzej Bialas is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Innovative Technologies EMAG, Katowice, Poland the leader of the national and EU R&D projects on: risk management, business continuity and information security management, security assurance, design and evaluation of IT security, knowledge management and cryptographic applications, e.g.: EU FP7 ValueSec, EU FP6 CI2RCO, OSCAD, CCMODE, DG Home CIRAS. Dr. Bialas graduated from the Silesian University of Technology, Fac. of Automatic Control, Electronics and Computer Science in 1979 (PhD-1986, DSc-2012). He has been in charge of numerous R&D projects and has carried out ICT security trainings certified by the Agency of State Defence and an Associate Professor at the University of Economics in Katowice, providing lectures on software quality, network security, risk management, information security management, cryptography and its applications. Author of more than 120 scientific publications. Member of the IFIP WG11.1 Information Security Management group and EU IMGS TA4 – Protection Neutralisation and Restoration group. He represents EMAG Institute in the Polish Technological Platform of Security Systems.

Dr. Yoshihiro Uesawa is an Associate Professor at Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Uesawa received his Ph.D degree from the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. His major areas of research are related to computational toxicology, adverse effect analysis with large scale database, pharmaceutical interactions between medications and foods, analyses of quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR), machine learning, and data mining. In September 2009, he became one of the first-pass winners in the Environmental Toxicity Prediction Challenge, organized by ICANN: International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, European Neural Network Society (ENNS), and the CADASTER project. In January of 2015, furthermore, he became one of the winners in the 'Tox21 DATA Challenge 2014', organized by NIH, USA.

Dr. Ken Aoshima is an Executive Director, Data Science Laboratory, hhc Data Creation Center at Eisai Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. He received a Ph.D in Applied Physics from Tokyo Institute of Technology. His main research interests are in real world health care big data analysis, biostatistics, bioinformatics and biomarker researches. He has held the responsibilities for biostatistics and leading translational medicine using biomarkers in clinical development. Dr. Aoshima has been a director, head of Biomarker & Personalized Medicine Unit and focusing on bioinformatics and biomarker researches in preclinical research for more than 9 years, since 2016 he is in charge of leading ICT and data driven drug discovery by combining various types of big data and utilizing advanced data analysis technologies including artificial intelligence (AI). Dr. Aoshima's mainresearch interests include Biomarker, Bioinformatics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Biostatistics, Drug discovery, Clinical Research, Clinical Trial.

Dr. R. Logeswaran serves as the Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor in Computer & Engineering at the Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU) and chairs the Postgraduate and Research Committee (PARC). Dr. Loges is an academic with over lecturing experience in a number of institutions both locally and abroad. He studied his B.Eng (Hons) Computing at Imperial College London, United Kingdom, and completed his Master of Engineering Science (M.Eng.Sc.) as well as Ph.D. (Engineering) at Multimedia University, Malaysia. He is a Novell Certified Linux Professional, and also a certified IC Digital Citizen and trainer. A recipient of several scholarships, including Telekom Malaysia, he was recognized as the JCS 75th Anniversary Scholar for his Masters achievements and later went on to do his post-doctoral research in Seoul, Korea under the Brain Gain Malaysia international fellowship & post-doctoral programme as well as a Brain Korea21 post-doctoral scholar. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), he is actively involved as the Secretary of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Malaysia chapter and is a reviewer of numerous journals and conferences. Dr. Loges areas of interests are mainly in multimedia data processing, data compression, neural networks, natural user interfaces and big data, with over a hundred publications in books, peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings.

Dr. Luay Fraiwan is currently an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, Jordan University, Jordan; and also associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, Abu Dhabi University, UAE. He received his M.S. Biomedical Engineering from The University of Akron and Ph D. Degree from the University of Akron, Ohio, in 2005. Dr. Fraiwan's research interests include biomedical signal processing and medical electronics. He has been engaged in research related to sleep analysis and automated sleep stage identification in both adults and newborns.