GEM'07: Members of Program & Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs

• 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
  
• 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 GEM'07 (provisional)

• 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. 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. 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. Laura L. Elnitski
  Head of Genomic Functional Analysis Section
  National Human Genome Research Institute
  National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
  
• Dr. Yanqing Zhang
  Editorial Board of IJDMB and Associate Editor of JCIB
  Georgia State University
  Atlanta, Georgia, 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. 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
  
• 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. Yunlong Liu
  Indiana School of Medicine
  Indiana University Purdue University
  Indianapolis, USA
  
• Dr. Zoran Obradovic
  Director and Professor, Information Science and Technology Center
  Professor, Computer and Information Sciences Department
  Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  
• Dr. Matthias Dehmer
  University of Vienna
  Vienna, Austria
  
• Dr. Frank Emmert-Streib
  University of Washington
  Seattle, Washington, 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. 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
  
• 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. Benyettou Abdelkader, Vice-Director, USTO University, Oran, Algeria
• Prof. Jose L. Aguilar, Head, Science and Technology Bureau of the Merida State, Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela
• Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA (Co-Chair)
• Prof. Asai Asaithambi, Chair, CS, University of South Dakota, USA
• Dr. Sudhirkumar V. Barai, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
• Dr. Zafer Bingul, Kocaeli University, Turkey
• Prof. Nazeih M. Botros, Chair, CE, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL, 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 (IAB)
• 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)
• Dr. Matthias Dehmer, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (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. 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
• Kamran Fatahi, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
• Dr. Leopoldo Grajeda Fernandes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
• Prof. Arif Ghafoor, IEEE Fellow, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
• Dr. Chang-Wook Han, Yeungnam University, Gyongbuk, South Korea
• Prof. Ray R. Hashemi, Yamacraw Prof., Armstrong Atlantic State University, Georgia, USA
• Dr. Haibo He, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA
• Dr. Wei-Chiang (Samuelson) Hong, Oriental Institute of Technology, 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. Seddik Khemaissia, Riyadh College of Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 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. Yunlong Liu, Indiana School of Medicine, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA (IAB)
• Ping Lu, Iowa State University, USA
• Prashant Nair, Amrita University, India
• Dr. Kayvan Najarian, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA
• Prof. Zoran Obradovic, Director, Information Science and Technology Center, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA (IAB)
• 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. Jiri Pospichal, Slovak Technical University, Slovakia
• Dr. Junfeng Qu, Clayton State University, Georgia, USA
• Shahryar Rahnamayan, University of Waterloo, Canada (PhD Student Member)
• Prof. Maher E. Rizkalla, Associate Chair, ECE, Purdue School of Engineering, Indiana University Purdue University, Indiana, USA
• Prof. Carmelina Ruggiero, Head, Bioingineering and Medical Informatics, University of Genoa, Italy (IAB)
• 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)
• Dr. Yuchun Tang, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Dr. Liangjiang Wang, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 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. 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 Artificial Intelligence
• Members of WORLDCOMP Task Force for High-Performance Computing
• Members of WORLDCOMP Task Force for Scientific 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)