Santa Rosa Junior College Engineering & Chemistry 1955 Santa Rosa, California Assoc. in Arts University of California Chemistry & Engineering at Berkeley  Montana State College Chemical Engineering B.S. 1958 Bozeman, Montana State College Major: Chemical Engineering M. Sc., 1959 Bozeman, Montana Minor: Education University of California Advanced Study in Fluid Part Time Davis, California Flow & Heat Transfer 1961 - 1962  Montana State University Major: Chemical Engineering Bozeman, Montana Minor: Education and Psychology Ph.D., 1966  Montana State University Major: Education Bozeman, Montana Minor: Engineering Advanced to Candidacy and Psychology for the Ed.D.

Continuous & discrete systems simulation, High-level programming languages, Numerical methods programming

Dr. Simon Lin is director of the Bioinformatics Consulting Core and an associate professor of research at Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, USA. He earned his MD at Peking University School of Medicine, and finished postgraduate training at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. With interdisciplinary collaborations, Dr. Lin focuses his research on translational genomics and medical data mining. He has published 42 per-reviewed papers, and he was author of 4 books, 6 book chapters, and three R/Bioconductor software packages. He has been teaching at Duke University and Northwestern University and mentored 22 students. He serves the Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics Study Section of the National Institute of Health. He is an elected senior member of the IEEE and Sigma Xi. He served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of system biology and computational genomics. He organized the Critical Assessment of Massive Data Analysis (CAMDA) Conference. He received many awards like the Apple Bioinformatics Computing Award, the caBIG Award of the National Cancer Institute, and the Visual Refection of Science Award of the International Society of Computational Biology.

Bioinformatics, Biomedical ontologies, Genomics

Dr. Bozinovski obtained his degrees from University of Zagreb, Croatia. Currently he is professor of Computer Science at South Carolina State University. He teaches courses on Biocomputing/Bioinformatics, Neuroinformatics, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence. His pioneering achievements in computer science and systems biology include 1) solving the delayed reinforcement learning for neural networks (1981), introducing emotion in neural networks learning (1982), proposing relations between robotics and genetic engineering (1985), proposing robotics and flexible manufacturing metaphor for genetics (1987), proposing operating systems and systems software metaphor for genetics (2000), controlling robots using brains signals only (1988), proposing mathematical model that explicitly relates behavior, emotion, and motivation (2002 and 2003), and proposing the concept of Engineered Psychology to replace the concept of Artificial Intelligence (2008). He obtained two million-dollar grants from NSF, one on Neuroscience and Brain-Computer Interface as PI (2005), and on one on Biorobotics and Biofabrication as Co-PI (2009).

Biocomputing/Bioinformatics, Neuroinformatics, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligence.

Ph.D Rice University Chemical/Biomedical Engineering 1996B.Tech Indian Institute of Technology  Chemical Engineering 

Research in our laboratory lies in the fields of Biomedical Engineering and Vascular Biology. The underlying theme is to apply novel bioengineering techniques and quantitative methodologies in combination with fundamental biological principles, to elucidate the parameters and mechanisms that regulate leukocyte and platelet function. The importance of the studies stem from the fact that ailments of the blood involving these cell types account for a sizable fraction of inflammatory and thrombotic disorders. The focus of our work is on three families of adhesion molecules and their ligands expressed on blood cells and the vascular endothelium. These molecules are members of the selectin, integrin and Ig gene superfamily. Ongoing projects in the laboratory also examine the effects of fluid shear on the structure and function of plasma protein, von Willebrand Factor

Guo Jiang Done his Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics, West Virginia University, 2002 (Advisor: Cun-Quan Zhang) Master of Science in Computer Science, West Virginia University, 2002 (Advisor: Elain Eschen) Master of Science in Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, 1998 (Advisor: Jiongsheng Li) Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, 1996

Software Engineering

Ph.D from  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana M.S.E.E. Purdue University, Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago - 1968-69 EG&G Inc., Las Vegas and Mercury, NV, 1969-70 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Berkeley CA, sabbatical leave in 2005 United Nations Development Program

Song Cao earned his Ph.D. at Zhejiang University, China. Currently, he is a research associate in the physics department at the University of Missouri, USA. He has published several papers on the Journal of Molecular Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, RNA, Biophysical Journal, Physical Review B, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter and Surface Science et. al. He served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of computational biology.

1. Computational studies on cellular events including pre-mRNA splicing, telomerase activity and ribosomal frameshifting.
2.Secondary structure predictions of RNA pseudoknots and RNA/RNA complexes.
3.Thermodynamics and kinetics of RNA folding.
4.Mechanical unfolding of RNA molecule.
5.de-novo prediction of RNA 3D structure.
6.Computational studies of complex adsorption systems.

Department of Biology, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Computer Science

Lalit Ponnala is a research associate of the Biotechnology Institute at Cornell University. He is affiliated with the Cornell Life Sciences Core Laboratories Center and the Center for Advanced Computing. He received a PhD in computational biology from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC in February 2007. He has over 15 publications in international journals and conference-proceedings, and has served as a reviewer for 7 prominent journals.

High-throughput transcriptomics, Quantitative proteomics, Biomolecular structure, Comparative genomics, Genetic diversity and polymorphism

He belongs to Washington University School of Medicine Department of Pathology & Immunology

Proteomics Engineering, Biophysical studies

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Southern California, 2000 M.S. Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1995 B.S. Computer Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990

Bioinformatics/Computational Biology: multiple sequence alignment, motif finding with applications to predicting transcription factor binding sites, biological network analysis, identification of gene clusters within genomes

Dr. Arndt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science. Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1991 M.S., Computer Science, University of Florida, 1985 B.S., Mathematics and Computer Science, Purdue University, 1984

Multimedia Content Indexing and Retrieval, Multimedia Authoring, Social Multimedia, Ubiquitous Multimedia, Personalized and Ubiquitous e-Learning and e-Training, Distributed Mission Training, Social Network Analysis, Semantic Grid, Semantic Business Process Management

2001 Ph.D, Computer Science Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Advisor: Dr. Jennifer L Welch Thesis: Randomized Memory Model and Its Applications in Distributed Computing 1998 M.A, Computer Science Boston University, Boston, MA Advisor: Dr. Abdelsalam A. Heddaya Thesis: Online Stable Matching as a Means of Allocating Distributed Resources 1992 M.S, Computer Science Ewha University (the best womenÂ’s university in Korea), Seoul, Korea Thesis: Intelligent Program Verifier Using Floyd-Hoare Logic 1987 B.S, Computer Science Ewha University, Seoul, Korea.

Wireless Mobile Computing: Design and analysis of distributed algorithms for various problems in wireless, mobile communication systems and wireless sensor networks. Design and analysis of solutions for wireless security problems. Analysis of mobility patterns of the mobile nodes. Spatio-temporal algorithmic models for mobile computing.  Fault-Tolerant Computing and Reliable Computing: Development of practical attack models and defense systems, particularly in Byzantine (arbitrary) faulty computing environments. Development of distributed server systems that can better sustain denial of service attacks.  Distributed and Parallel Algorithms and Systems: Specification, implementation, and application of distributed shared data structures and their consistency models, especially randomized ones for improved fault-tolerance and efficiency. Parallel algorithmic models for multi-core/multi-threaded architectures.

Jyh-haw yeh got my Ph.D. degree from Computer and Information Science and Engineering at University of Florida. 

My research areas are computer security and computer systems, specializing in network access control, security and mobile communication. 

Dr. Wu received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2007. Dr. Wu is now an Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department at Californian State University Long Beach, where he teaches introductory undergraduate courses such as logic design and IC design in the Computer Engineering program.

Research interests include Network on Chip/System on Chip design, IC design, Interconnection Network, and Reliability Modeling, etc.

Bojian Xu had his Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Jan. 2005, Dec 2009 (Research Excellence Award) Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa B.E., Computer Science and Engineering, Aug. 1996 June 2000 Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Developing algorithms and building systems for massive data set processing. I have been working on: managing distributed massive streaming data in the presence of memory and energy constraints;  compressed data structures for indexing and searching large data sets; efficient prefetching/caching strategies for parallel disks. using the aforementioned techniques for data-intensive computational biology

He belongs to Goessmann Lab

Cloud computing for Biological data and tool integration,Biological workflows, Service Oriented Computing,Distributed and Mobile Computing. Distributed Computing, Computational Science including Bioinformatics, and Mobile Computing.

Feng Dong is a professor of visual computing at University of Bedfordshire, UK. Prior to this, he used to work for the DeMonfort university, Lancaster University, and Brunel University in the UK. He obtained his PhD from Zhejiang University, P.R. China. His general research interest is the area of computer graphics, computer vision, image processing and scientific visualization, with specific focus on image based rendering, data optimization, feature detection and extraction, 3D modelling for medical applications.

Feng Dong´ Research Interests includes computer graphics, computer vision, image processing and scientific visualization

william teahan head the Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents research group at Bangor University. The research group carries out theoretical and applied research into artificial intelligence and intelligent autonomous agent systems. The group has broad interests in many areas including knowledge-based systems, logic, multi-agent systems, distributed systems, machine learning, data mining, artificial life, behavioral animation, computational linguistics, natural language processing, information theory and information retrieval.Prior to taking up my lectureship position at Bangor University, I was a Research Fellow with the Information Retrieval Group in the School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences at The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. I was an invited researcher at the Department of Information Technology at Lund University in Sweden in 1999, and a research assistant in the machine learning and digital libraries research groups in the University of Waikato in New Zealand where I completed my Ph.D. in 1998.

William’s Research interests includes Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents, Knowledge based systems, Multi-agent Systems, Machine learning, Information Theory, Information retrieval.

Ying Tan is with Department of Machine Intelligence, Peking University, CHINA. He earned his Ph.D. at Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Now he is a full professor and Ph.D. advisor at Peking University, and director of Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Peking University. He has published more than 200 Reviewed papers, and he was author of 4 book chapters. He has been teaching experience of more than 23 years. He was a senior member in IEEE, ACM and CIE. He served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the area of computational intelligence, pattern recognition and bioinformatics. He organized international conference on swarm intelligence as general chair, and international symposium on neural networks as program chair. He received many awards like 2009 National Natural Science Award, Distinguished Lecture Award.

computational intelligence, swarm intelligence, pattern recognition, data mining and bioinformatics.

He belongs to the INRA-MIG, Domaine de Vilvert Paris, France

Systems Biology and computer graphics

He is an ACM, IEEE member,College of communication engineering of Chongqing University

Robotics and Computers

He is a member of Department of Electromechanics, University of Craiova, Romanian and Department of Automatics and Informatics, University of C-tin Brancusi, Gorj, Romania

Computers Science

Studied in Politechnica University of Timisoara

Computer sciences and engineering

He belongs to Queensland Micro and nanotechnology centreQueensland Microtechnology FacilityGriffith University

Computer Sciences and Biology

Paolo Tieri is a member of the middot Luigi Galvani & middot Interdept Center for Bioinformatics, Biophysics and Biocomplexity, Univeristy of Bologna, Italy, and a postdoc research fellow at the Dept. of Experimental Pathology, University of Bologna, and at the BioPharma Net research network of Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy. He received a M.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Systems Biology at University of Bologna. He is lecturer at the Biotechnology and Bioinformatics M.Sc. courses at University of Bologna, and member of the Linkgroup for network sciences. He served as a reviewer for peer-reviewed journals in the area of Network & Systems Biology and Bioinformatics.

Immunology and Ageing, Systems Biology, Systems Immunology, Network Biology, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Complex Systems, Self-organinzing Systems

Bernd Mayer is Managing Partner of the Life Science R&D company emergentec biodevelopment GmbH, Vienna, Austria. He earned his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University of Vienna, a venia docendi in Structural Biology, and serves as lecturer (adjunct Professor) for applied bioinformatics at the Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna. Bernd is active in graduate teaching for about 10 years, and supervises diploma and PhD students in bioinformatics methods development and application. He has published about 100 articles in peer reviewed journals and books, and is inventor on a number of patents dealing with biomarkers in chronic diseases, and in this disease area he also serves as coordinator of large scale, international research teams.

Research interests include data integration, relations modeling, and the underlying graph theoretical fundaments. Application interests include interpretation of multiple Omics on human diseases for biomarker and target discovery.

Bioinformatics, computational scientists, physicists, and chemists held a workshop to discuss the challenges of providing training for end-users of bioinformatics tools.

Paul Perco is heading the biomarker R&D team at emergentec biodevelopment GmbH, Austria. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna and is currently also associated researcher at the Department of Internal Medicine III at the Medical University of Vienna. He has published more than 40 papers in the field of bioinformatics and computational systems biology with a special focus on kidney diseases and transplantation medicine. He served as a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals in the field of bioinformatics and clinical research. He is currently in the coordinating team of SysKid [www.syskid.eu], a large-integrating five-year project on A Systems biology towards novel chronic kidney disease diagnosis and treatment A funded by the European Commission within the 7th framework programme.

Main research interests include (i) the bioinformatics analysis of ‘omics’ data in the clinical setting, (ii) the identification of biomarker candidates for early disease diagnosis and risk assessment of disease progression, (iii) network biology in disease, as well as (iv) drug repositioning strategies.

Dr. Mehmet Emin Aydin is with University of Bedfordshire, UK, since 2006. After receiving his PhD degree from Sakarya University, Turkey, in 1997, he has worked as research fellow in the University of Aberdeen, London South Bank University and University of the West of England in the UK, mainly investigating distributed problem solving using various distributed computing technologies. He has published journal and conference papers and conducted guest editorial for special issues of internationally well-know journals.

Mehmet’s Research interests include Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics, Distributed and Parallel Computing, Multi agent systems, collective intelligence, swarm intelligence.

Dr Hui Cheng received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Northeastern University, China in July 2001 and March 2004 respectively and his PhD degree in Computer Science from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong in November 2007. From January 2008 to July 2010, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Leicester.  Dr Hui Cheng joined the University of Bedfordshire as a Lecturer in October 2010.

research interests include wireless mobile networks, optical networks, wireless mesh networks, mobile ad hoc networks, Quality of Service routing, multicast communications, dynamic optimization, evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence, etc. He has been involved in a few research projects as the primary researcher and therefore published around 40 high quality research papers in the above areas. He has also been invited as program members for more than 20 international conferences.

Arash Habibi Lashakri obtained his bachelor degree in software engineering from Azad University of Lahijan, Gilan, Iran, followed by master degree of computer system & technology, faculty of computer science and information technology, University of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Now, he is a Senior PHD candidate of University Technology Malaysia (UTM) in Computer Science and Information Security. He is a reviewer and editor of a few International journal and Technical Committee member of some conferences based on computer science and information technology fields. He is also a member of some funded research projects and he has published more than 30 papers in various international conferences and journals and also five books in computer science and security.

He is interested to research in network security, cryptography and especially graphical user authentication (GUA) subjects. He also works on wireless security, mobile communication, and optical network bandwidth allocation systems as a research assistant.

Dr. Bashir Al-Diri Bashir joined the Lincoln School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln in 2009. His main research is concerned with the development of computer vision algorithms to analyse retinal blood vessels for characterization of diabetic retinopathy. Dr. Al-Diri developed a robust fully automated system for retinal vascular segmentation and measurement, which provides a unique combination of good segmentation and superior measurement performance. It is thus uniquely well-suited to act as a base for research into the diagnosis of vascular diseases that cause measurable changes to the geometry of retinal vessels. Dr. Al-Diri research includes computer vision, medical image analysis, automated surveillance, artificial intelligence, speech recognition, language corpus and lexical analysis, and applications of active contour models.

His research includes computer vision, medical image analysis, automated surveillance, artificial intelligence, speech recognition, and applications of active contour models.

Chandra Kambhampati received his Ph.D. degree from City University, London, for his dissertation on algorithms for optimizing control in 1988. He hold positions in the Department of Cybernetics, at the University of Reading, and the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. He is currently a reader in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hull. He also heads the Neural, Emergent and Agent Technologies (NEAT) Group, and has a number of doctoral and graduate students, and research associates. He has authored and co-authored over 100 papers on optimization, adaptive optimization, optimal control, neural networks, and fuzzy logic for control and robotics. He is a member of IEEE and IEE.

His research interests include fault tolerant control, networked control systems, signal processing, neural networks, and multiagent systems

In 2004, Dr Hammami completed his Masters degree in Biochemistry in the Institute Pasteur in Tunis at the University of Tunis El Manar. He received a Joint Doctorate in Biology from the University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia and University of Lille1 - Sciences & Technologies, France. After completing his Ph.D. in 2009, Dr. Hammami started his post-doctoral training at the Department of Food Science and Nutrition in Laval University, Canada.

His research interests include development of databases and data mining methodology, development of bioinformatics tools, systems biology, as well as the development of peptides as novel antimicrobials and anti-infective agents.

Dr. Shigang Yue is a Reader in the School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln, UK. His research interests are mainly within the field of artificial intelligence, computer vision, robotics, brains, and neuroscience. He is particularly interested in biological visual neural systems, evolution of neural subsystems and its applications in collision detection for vehicle/robots, interactive systems and robotics. He has published more than 50 journal and conference papers

computer vision, artificial life, neural systems, neural evolution, vehicle collision detection, robotic navigation, robotic manipulation skills and dynamic simulations

Web Portals, Web Services, Ontologies, Virtual Research Environments, Visualisation, Computer Graphics, Information Systems, Business Process Modelling, Workflow Management, Web design, Automation in Engineering, Process Planning, Databases, Software Engineering, Optimisation Techniques, Artificial Intelligence etc.

Mootanah directs the Medical Engineering Research Group at Anglia Ruskin University in Essex, UK,  and is a Visiting Scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, USA. She obtained her PhD in total hip replacement and MBA at Anglia Ruskin University and completed her B Tech (Hons) and Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Mauritius. Collaborating with national and international institutions on multi-disciplinary projects, Dr Mootanah focuses her research on the computer simulation of reconstructed bones and joints for the treatment of osteoarthritis, as well as experimental studies to investigate the effectiveness of different treatment methods for osteoarthritis, venous ulcers and Parkinson&primes Disease. Dr Mootanah serves as a reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals in the area of Biomechanics and funding bodies.

Computer simulations of surgical fixation techniques and designs of prostheses by finite element methods, osteoarthritis, in vitro, ex vivo and cadaveric studies, movement analysis, pressure and venous ulcers, medical devices and Parkinson&primes Disease.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, has selected Professor Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain, Vice-Chancellor, University of Hyderabad, for the highly prestigious Humboldt Research Award2008. This Award is given to  eminent non-German researchers whose fundamental discoveries, insights or new theories have had alasting impact on their field of specialization and who are expected to produce cutting edge results . The Humboldt Research Prizehonours the academic achievements to date of internationally recognized scientists and is valued at  Euro 60000 (~Rs.37 lakhs).  A not insignificant number of Award Winners has subsequently been granted a Nobel Prize  says the release from the HumboldtFoundation.

Bioinformatics, Computerscience

She is in School of Chemistry in University of Hyderabad

Bioinformatics, Structural proteomics

He has done Ph.D., NUS, Bioinformatics & Immunology; B. Tech (Industrial Biotechnology), Anna University, India.

Bioinformation science, Biotechnology, Molecular evolution, Immunology, Enzymology

Satyaprakash Nayak received his PhD from the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca NY in 2010. He has published articles in the field of Systems Biology of leukemia, breast and prostate cancer and presented in numerous times in the top most conferences in the field. He is currently working as a Principal Research Scientist at Pfizer Inc, in Cambridge, MA.