Prof. Chase Wu, IEEE Senior Member, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Chase Wu is currently a Professor and the Associate Chair in the Department of Computer Science and the Director of the Center for Big Data at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He joined NJIT in fall 2015 from the University of Memphis, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include big data, high-performance networking, parallel and distributed computing, sensor networks, scientific visualization, and cyber security. His research in networking develops fast and reliable data transfer solutions to help users in a wide spectrum of scientific domains move big data over long distances for collaborative data analytics. His research in computing develops high-performance workflow solutions to manage the execution of and optimize the performance of large-scale scientific workflows in heterogeneous computing environments. Dr. Wu's work has been supported by various funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he is a research staff and works on a number of high-performance networking projects and big-data computational science projects. He has published over 250 research articles in highly reputed conference proceedings, journals, and books, and won best paper awards at many conferences.

Prof. Xiaodong Liu, IEEE Senior Member, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Prof X. Liu received his PhD in Computer Science from De Montfort University and joined Napier in 1999. He is currently leading the Software Systems research group in the SoC, Edinburgh Napier University. He was the director of Centre for Information & Software Systems. Prof Liu is an active researcher in software engineering with internationally excellent reputation and leading expertise, focusing on its emerging themes including pervasive systems (Internet of Things), Cyber-Physical Systems, services-oriented architecture, evolution of cloud services, and intelligence-driven software engineering. He has meanwhile a successful track record of teaching in a number of software engineering courses which are widely informed by his research activities. He has led 12 externally funded projects as the PI, and published over 160 papers in established international journals and conferences, 5 book chapters and 3 research handbooks. He is the inventor of 1 patent registered in UK and USA and the founder of a spin-out company. He has been the chair, co-chair or PC member of a number of IEEE and IASTED International Conferences. He is the editorial board member of 4 international journals, associate editor for 2 international journals, and editor of 3 research books and 3 journals special issues. He is a senior member of IEEE Society and a member of British Computer Society.

Prof. Hong Lin, ACM Senior Member, University of Houston-Downtown, USA

Dr. Hong Lin holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science. His graduate work includes theoretical and empirical studies of parallel programming models and implementations. Dr. Lin has worked on large-scale computational biology at Purdue University, active networks at the National Research Council Canada, and network security at Nokia, Inc. Dr. Lin joined UHD at 2001 and he is currently a professor in computer science. He has worked on parallel computing, multi-agent systems, and affective computing since he joined UHD. He established the Grid Computing Lab at UHD through an NSF MRI grant. He has been a Scholars Academy mentor, an REU faculty mentor, and a CAHSI faculty mentor. He is a senior member of ACM. A faculty member at University of Houston-Downtown since 2001.

Prof. Zoran Bojkovic, IEEE Life Senior Member, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Prof. Dr Zoran Bojkovic, Life Senior Member IEEE, is Full Professor of electrical engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Full Member of Engineering Academy of Serbia. Also, he is a permanent visiting professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, TX, USA; EE Department, Multimedia Systems Lab. He was a visiting researcher at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, Information System Lab., hosted by Prof. Robert M. Gray.His areas of expertise are: digital multimedia signal processing (audio, image, video), data compression by various techniques, wire/wireless multimedia communications and computers networks. He was and still is a visiting professor worldwide (universities and institutes in 25 countries). He has taught a number of courses, seminars, tutorials, keynote/plenary/ invited lectures and speeches at international conferences. Also, he is the co-author of 7 international books, published by Prentice -Hall, Wiley, CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group......and translated in China, Singapore, India, Canada. He is co-editor in 77 international books, conference proceedings and has published more than 450 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences proceedings. He participated in more than 70 scientific research and industrial projects all over the world and has been consultant to industry, research institutes and academia. The European Commission Service identify his profile a good match for specific expertise requirements. His activities included serving as Editor-in- Chief for 5 International Journals, Associate Editor for 4, as well as Guest Editor for the Special Issue in one International Journal.

Prof. Harris Wu, Old Dominion University, USA

Harris Wu was born in Shenyang, China. He received the Ph.D. degree from University of Michigan.,He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences, College of Business and Public Administration, Old Dominion University. He has published some articles on Decision Support Systems, Information and Management, and Applied Soft Computing Journal. His research interests include data analytics, social media, cybersecurity, text mining, enterprise information systems, and system integration.

Prof. Carson K. Leung, ACM & IEEE Senior Member, University of Manitoba, Canada

Carson Kai-Sang Leung (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. (Hons.), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from The University of British Columbia, Canada. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the Founder and the Director of the Database and Data Mining Laboratory. His research interests include data mining and analysis, machine learning, data science, big data, databases (including image databases), data management, data warehousing, data visualization and visual analytics, bioinformatics, health informatics and electronic health, web technology and services, social computing, and social network analysis. He has contributed more than 300 refereed publications in these areas. He has served on organizing committees for international conferences, like ACM SIGMOD, IEEE ICDM, IEEE DSAA, IEEE/ACM ASONAM, and ACM CIKM. He has also served on the Steering Committee for IEEE SmartData and the Advisory Committee for IEEE CBDCom. Moreover, he has served as an Associate Editor for Springer journals, like Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) and Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (NetMAHIB).

Prof. Jianping Zhao, Changchun College of Electronic Technology, China

Zhao Jianping, national second-level professor, doctoral supervisor, Jilin Province Changbai Mountain skills teacher, Changchun City outstanding talent, Jilin Province top innovation talent second batch of third-level candidates, Jilin Province, the 12th provincial CPPCC member, Changchun University of Science and Technology university laboratory director, director of the computer department, deputy dean of the School of Computer Science and technology, dean. He has been engaged in scientific research and teaching in the field of computer science for more than 30 years, and has guided more than 150 doctoral and master's students. He has made a series of achievements in teaching research and teaching reform, and has won the first prize of Jilin Province teaching achievement for three times. He is the head of "National Experimental Teaching Center of Computer Information Security and Network Attack and Defense Virtual Simulation" and the national first-class professional leader. Presided over and participated in more than 30 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. He has published more than 80 papers in the fields of database technology, network security, image processing, intelligent algorithms, and more than 50 papers have been included by SCI and EI. As an instructor, he has won many national, provincial and ministerial awards in student competitions.