ICAI'07: Members of Program & Organizing Committee

General Chair

• Dr. 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
  

Program 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 ICAI'07 (provisional)

• Dr. Lotfi A. Zadeh
  Member of National Academy of Engineering and IEEE Fellow
  University of California, Berkeley, 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 and 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
  
• Dr. Laura L. Elnitski
  Head of Genomic Functional Analysis Section
  National Human Genome Research Institute
  National Institutes of Health (NIH), 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. Andrew Sung
  Chairman and Professor of Computer Science
  New Mexico Tech., New Mexico, 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, 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. Zoran Obradovic
  Director and Professor, Information Science and Technology Center
  Professor, Computer and Information Sciences Department
  Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  
• Dr. Yanqing Zhang
  Editorial Board of IJDMB and Associate Editor of JCIB
  Georgia State University
  Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Dr. Terry Wipf
  Professor and Head of Division of Infrastructures
  Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
  
• Dr. Matthias Dehmer
  University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  
• Dr. Frank Emmert-Streib
  University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
  
• Prof. Halil Ceylan
  Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
  
• Prof. Guo-Zheng Li
  Co-Director of Intelligent Information Processing
  Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics
  Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
  
• Dr. Craig W. Codrington
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana USA
  
• 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(s)

• 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. Saleem Abuleil, Chicago State University, Illinois, USA
• Prof. Mohammad S. Alam, OSA Fellow, SPIE, and IEE, Chair, ECE, University of South Alabama, AL, USA
• Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia, University of Georgia, GA, USA (Coord. and General Chair)
• Dr. Mehran Asadi, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA, USA
• Prof. Asai Asaithambi, Chair, CS, University of South Dakota, USA
• Dr. Sudhirkumar V. Barai, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
• Dr. Arijit Bhattacharya, Patent Office, Bouddhik Sampada Bhawan, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India
• Prof. Nazeih M. Botros, Chair, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL, USA
• Dr. Halil Ceylan, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA (IAB)
• 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
• Prof. Chung-Kuan Cheng, IEEE Fellow, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA (IAB)
• Prof. Kam-Hoi Cheng, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
• 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. 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. 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. 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
• Prof. Rattikorn Hewett, Texas Tech University, Texas, 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
• 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, Buffalo, NY, USA
• QingZhong Liu, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico, USA
• Dr. Yunlong Liu, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA
• Ping Lu, Iowa State University, USA
• Dr. Kayvan Najarian, University of North Carolina at 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 College, 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. Jiri Pospichal, Slovak Technical University, Slovakia
• 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)
• Prof. James E. Stine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
• Prof. Andrew Sung, Chairman and Professor, New Mexico Tech., New Mexico, USA (IAB)
• Dr. Yuchun Tang, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Dr. Liangjiang Wang, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
• Prof. Terry Wipf, Professor and Head, Division of Infrastructures, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA (IAB)
• Dr. Li Xiaoli, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Prof. Bin Xu, Lotus Scholar, Hunan University, Hunan, P. R. China
• 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)
• Prof. Sule Yildirim, Head, CS, Hedmark University College, Rena, Norway
• Ji Zhang, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada (PhD Student Member)
• Dr. Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (IAB)
• 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 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)