Academic Editors

The following people constitute the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ Computer Science. These active academics are the Editors who seek peer reviewers, evaluate their responses, and make editorial decisions on each submission to the journal. Learn more about becoming an Editor.

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Meeyoung Cha

Meeyoung Cha is an associate professor at Graduate School of Culture Technology in KAIST. Her research interests are in the analysis of large-scale online social networks. She received the best paper award from the Usenix/ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2007 for her work on YouTube and the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media 2012 for her work on social conventions. Her research has been featured at NYT and HBR.

Iftikhar Ahmed

Dr. Ahmed is a Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Germany. His research interests lie in Responsible AI, Explainable AI, and Social Network Analysis. Dr. Ahmed holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Saarland University, Germany, and a Master's degree in the same field from Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany.

Álvar Arnaiz-González

Dr. Álvar Arnaiz-González is an Associate Professor within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Burgos.

His main research interests include Machine Learning, Data Mining, ensemble classifiers and instance selection.

Farrukh Aslam Khan

Farrukh Aslam Khan is a Professor of Cyber Security at the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience at various institutions. He received the M.S. degree in Computer System Engineering from the GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Jeju National University, South Korea, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He also received professional trainings from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, IBM, and other institutions. He has published over 135 research articles in refereed international journals and conferences. He has supervised/co-supervised 6 Ph.D. students and 20 M.S. thesis students. Prof. Khan is on the editorial board of several prestigious international journals. He has co-organized several international conferences and workshops and has delivered many keynote and invited speeches. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Héctor Alaiz Moretón

Héctor Alaiz-Moretón received his degree in Computer Science, performing the final Project at Dublin Institute of Technology, in 2003. He received his PhD in Information Technologies in 2008 (University of Leon). He has worked as a lecturer since 2005 at the School of Engineering at the University of Leon.

His research interests include knowledge engineering, machine and deep learning, networks communication, and security.

He has several works published in international conferences, as well as books, more than 90 scientific publications between JCR papers, Lecture Notes and Scientific Workshops. He has been a member of scientific committees in conferences. He has headed several PhD Thesis and research competitive projects. He is also the vice main of RIASC (Institute of Applied Sciences to Cybersecurity).

Kjiersten Fagnan

Kjiersten Fagnan joined the JGI in 2012 after completing a petascale postdoctoral fellowship at NERSC and CRD. In 2014 Fagnan became the JGI-NERSC Engagement Lead with a focus on adapting JGI workloads to run on supercomputing hardware. She is also working to understand the data-intensive nature of JGI workloads. Fagnan earned her PhD in Applied Mathematics at the University of Washington in 2010 and her BA from UC Berkeley in 2002.

Luc Moreau

Luc Moreau is a Professor of Computer Science, Head of the Web and Internet Science group (WAIS), and Deputy Head (Research and Enterprise) of ECS-Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.

Luc was co-chair of the W3C Provenance Working Group, which resulted in four W3C Recommendations and nine W3C Notes, specifying PROV, a conceptual data model for provenance the Web, and its serializations in various Web languages.

Stephen Marsland

Stephen Marsland is a professor of mathematics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He works on mathematics of conservation biology, particularly birdsong analysis, on differential geometry of machine learning, diffeomorphic shape analysis, and game theory.

Juro Gregan

- associate professor, Dept. of Genetics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
- group leader, MFPL, Dept. of Chromosome Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- postdoctoral researcher, IMP (Research Institute of Molecular Pathology), Vienna, Austria (K. Nasmyth lab)
- postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK (S. Kearsey lab)
- PhD study, Dept.of Microbiology and Genetics, Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (R. Schweyen lab)

Xiaolong Li

Dr. Xiaolong Li is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology at the Indiana State University. He received his PhD from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cincinnati in 2006. He obtained his Bachelor degree and Master degree from Department of Electronic and Information Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Dr. Li began his teaching and research with the Morehead State University in 2006 where he taught various courses in electronics and wireless communications. In 2008, Dr. Li joined the Indiana State University where he taught courses in Electronics and Computer Engineering, such as C programming, digital electronics, computer networking, networking security, etc. Dr. Li’s primary areas of research including modeling and performance analysis of Data mining, Internet of Things, Wireless Ad Hoc networks and sensor networks. He has published more than forty journal and proceedings articles in the above fields. He has served as topical editor and special issue editor for multiple journals. He also served as general chair and technical program committee chairs for multiple international conferences.

John D Owens

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis. At Davis, I lead a research group of amazing students with a focus on GPU computing, including fundamental algorithms and data structures; applications; multi-GPU computing; and programming models and implementations.

Daniel Grosu

Daniel Grosu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Wayne State University. His research focuses on cloud and edge computing, parallel and distributed algorithms, approximation algorithms, and topics at the intersection between computer science, game theory and economics.