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.
Catherine F Higham
Dr. Catherine Higham works at the interface between mathematics, deep learning and experimental science. Her first degree was in mathematics and her PhD involved mathematical modelling and statistical inference applied to somatic genetic mutations arising in myotonic dystrophy and Huntington's disease. Subsequent areas of research include Bayesian inference in nonlinear ODEs and the circadian clock. Currently, she is developing and applying deep learning techniques to inverse problems arising in novel quantum imaging technologies such as the single pixel camera and lidar. She also has an interest in quantum machine learning and framing problems for quantum annealing.
Neil P Chue Hong
Neil Chue Hong is the founding Director and PI of the Software Sustainability Institute, a collaboration between the universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Oxford and Southampton. He enables research software users and developers to drive the continued improvement and impact of research software. From 2007-2010, he was Director of OMII-UK at the University of Southampton, which provided and supported free, open-source software for the UK e- Research community. In addition to sitting on several project advisory committees, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Research Software, chair of the Met Office / UKRI ExCALIBUR Steering Committee, past chair of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team on e-Infrastructure, co-author of "Best Practices for Scientific Computing" and "An Open Science Peer Review Oath", and co-organiser of the Software Engineering for Science workshop series.
Eyke Hüllermeier
Eyke Hüllermeier is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Paderborn, Germany, where he heads the Intelligent Systems group. He studied mathematics and business computing, received his PhD in computer science from the University of Paderborn in 1997, and a Habilitation degree in 2002. Prior to returning to Paderborn in 2014, he held professorships at the Universities of Dortmund, Magdeburg and Marburg.
Helder Nakaya
Prof. Helder Nakaya is Deputy Director of School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of São Paulo, Brazil, Associate Professor at University of São Paulo, Brazil, and Adjunct Professor of the School of Medicine, Emory University, USA. He has a PhD in Molecular Biology with extensive training in Bioinformatics. He is an expert in Systems Vaccinology, an interdisciplinary field that combines systems-wide measurements, networks, and predictive modelling in the context of vaccines and infectious disease. Dr. Nakaya has developed systems biology approaches to understand and predict the mechanisms of vaccine induced-immunity for Yellow Fever, seasonal Influenza, Meningococcal, and Tularemia vaccines. His lab is focused on investigating the basis of infectious diseases using computational systems biology.
Antonio Jesus Diaz-Honrubia
Antonio J. Díaz-Honrubia is an Associate Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, to which he joined after holding an Assistant Professorship at Universidad de Oviedo and a part time Professorship at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (a job that he combined with a position in the R&D department of a private company in the telecommunications field).
He received his Ph.D. in 2016 from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, where he had also received his B.Sc. (Spanish National Extraordinary Award) and M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering.
His research interests include video transcoding, perceptual video coding, multimedia standards, scalable video coding, and simultaneous video coding. More recently, he is moving forward to the topic of data analysis and validation.
He has been a visiting researcher at Ghent University (Belgium) for 4 months, the Florida Atlantic University (USA) for 3 months, and the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) (Germany) for 6 months.
He has more than 30 publications in these areas in international refereed journals and conference proceedings.
Hongfei Hou
Hongfei Hou, a senior scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has attained a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Washington State University. His research area includes cloud computing and machine learning.
Elena Marchiori
Elena Marchiori received a MSc in mathematics and a PhD in computer science from the University of Padua, Italy. She was employed at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Amsterdam and at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science. Since 2008 she is associate professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She published 100+ scientific papers on methods and applications in computer science. Her current research interests include machine learning methods and applications.
Michele Pasqua
Michele Pasqua is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona, Italy. His main research interests include abstract interpretation, program verification, static analysis, software testing, theoretical foundations of programming languages and software engineering, language-based security, and distributed systems.
He works actively in the software engineering and programming languages communities, being (co)author of more than 30 publications in international scientific journals and conference proceedings with peer review and regularly serving on international conferences and workshops program committees.
Aurora Saibene
Aurora Saibene is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca, whose research activities are mainly focused on brain-computer interfacing, human-machine interaction, multimedia signal processing, and neuroinformatics.
She took her Bachelor's, Master's Degree, and PhD in Computer Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2015, 2018, and 2022, respectively.
Her PhD thesis in Computer Science focused on the design of a Flexible Pipeline for Electroencephalographic Signal Processing and Management, wanting to provide a set of suggestions and technical procedures to pre-process, normalize, manage features, and classify a particularly tricky signal like the electroencephalographic one in different contexts. She has especially focused on the field of motor movement and imagery as well as on emotion recognition and she is now facing the challenge of employing wearable technologies with a multimodal approach to provide efficient and reliable brain-computer interfacing and human-centric systems in different fields of application.
Alexander C Nwala
Dr. Alexander C. Nwala is an assistant professor of Data Science at William and Mary (W&M). Before joining W&M, he was a postdoc at the Observatory on Social Media, Indiana University, Bloomington, with a research focus on dis/misinformation diffusion, detection, and countering of online manipulation. He received his PhD in Computer Science at Old Dominion University and has contributed multiple important tools and datasets to the data/web science, social media, (local) news, and web archiving communities.
Dr. Nwala has taught Computer Science courses to High School, Undergraduate, and Graduate students and has collaborated across disciplines and institutions, including with computer scientists/journalists at IU, archivists at the National Library of Medicine, and lawyers at Harvard. And his research has been published in multiple peer-reviewed Journals and Conferences.
Shengchao Qin
Dr Shengchao Qin has been a Professor (Chair) of Computer Science since 2011.
He received his PhD in 2002 from Peking University. From July 2002 to December 2004, he was a Research Fellow under the Computer Science Programme in the Singapore-MIT Alliance, affiliated with National University of Singapore. He became a University lecturer in Durham University in January 2005. In June 2010, he joined Teesside University as a Reader and became a full Professor in June 2011. From August 2016 to September 2019, he also acted as the Associate Dean (Research & Innovation) for School of Computing, School of Computing, Media & the Arts, and then School of Computing & Digital Technologies.
Shengchao is a full member of the UK EPSRC Peer Review College and a member of the UKRI FLF (Future Leaders Fellowships) Peer Review College. He is also a senior member of IEEE and ACM.
Simone Fontana
Prof. Simone Fontana is an assistant professor at Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca.
His main research activity is in the field of 3D robot perception, with special attention to point clouds registration, a problem for which he has developed a benchmark. More recently, Dr. Fontana's research has focused on the use of informatics techniques for neuropsicology and neuroscience.
He is a co-investigator of the DriveWin project, which aims to investigate the effects of different types of non-invasive neurostimulation on attention while driving. Attention was assessed on a driving simulator and two age groups were compared.
Prof. Fontana is also a lecturer at the School of Law and at the Advanced Specialization School in Neuropsychology.