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.
Marco Lapegna
In 1991 Marco Lapegna received his PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Naples Federico II (Italy), and since 2001 is a professor of Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Applications of the same university.
His main research interests concern methods, algorithms, and software for parallel and distributed computing environments applied to computational mathematics and machine learning, taking into account the influence of the technological evolution on them (cluster computing, multicore computing, grid computing, cloud, and edge computing). He has an active academic life with several institutional coordination duties.
Syed M. Anwar
Associate Professor at the Department of Software Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila. PhD from University of Sheffield, UK and Fulbright Fellow at University of Central Florida, USA
Krista H Lagus
Krista H. Lagus is a Finnish professor and researcher specializing in artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and digital social science. She currently serves as a Professor of Digital Social Science at the University of Helsinki, where she integrates AI and digital methods with social sciences to analyze complex social behaviors.
Lagus earned her M.Sc. in Computer Science in 1996 and her Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences in 2000 from Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University). She has held various research positions, including Academy Research Fellow at the Finnish Academy of Sciences from 2006 to 2012. In 2019, she co-founded the Center for Social Data Science (CSDS) at the University of Helsinki and became its first director.
University of Helsinki
Her notable projects include WEBSOM, a method for visualizing large text collections using self-organizing maps; Citizen Mindscapes, which examines digital communication to gauge public opinion and societal trends; and Morfessor, an algorithm for unsupervised morphological analysis widely used in NLP. Her publications have appeared in leading journals such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Information Sciences, Neurocomputing, Artificial Intelligence Review, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, and Cognitive Science.
In addition to her research, Lagus teaches and supervises students in AI and digital social science, contributing to interdisciplinary research and education that leverages AI for societal benefit.
Ari Melo Mariano
Ari Melo Mariano is a Data Scientist, Post-Doctorate in Data Science, Post-Doctorate in Scientific Methodology and Quantitative Methods, Doctor in Administration, Master in Administration, and Bachelor in Administration. A specialist in data science, he also has an MBA in European consumer law. He is currently a professor and researcher in production engineering at the University of Brasilia (UNB), Brazil. Professor of the Professional Master of Applied Computing in the Department of Computer Science and Collaborating Professor of 6 doctorate programs in Latin America.
Ari is the Director of DataLab at the Production Engineering Course at the University of Brasilia. As a researcher, he works in data science, behavioral big data, bibliometrics, analysis via structural equation models, and text mining. The most related areas of his research are the acceptance and use of technology, consumer behavior, active methodologies, learning styles, Industry 4.0 and 5.0, smart and shared cities, and interculturality.
Patricio Ramirez-Correa
Patricio Ramirez-Correa is an accomplished Professor at the Catholic University of the North in Chile, with a Ph.D. in Business, an M.Sc. in Marketing, an M.A. in Management, and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering. His expertise lies in information technology, specifically in understanding its impact on organizational and individual levels. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Seville and the University of the Bío Bío.
Dr. Ramirez-Correa's research focuses on technology acceptance models and data science, and he has collaborated with researchers worldwide throughout his career. His contributions to the field of information technology are significant, having authored over one hundred papers in international journals, including highly reputable publications such as Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Computers & Education, Telematics and Informatics, Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing, and Industrial Management & Data Systems.
Dr. Ramirez-Correa's experience as an academic editor, guest editor, and reviewer for various journals has further solidified his knowledge and expertise in the field. In 2022, he was recognized by Stanford University as one of the top 2% most-cited researchers, a testament to his commitment to advancing the field of information technology through rigorous research and collaboration with colleagues worldwide.
Kezhi Wang
Kezhi Wang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Warwick, U.K. He was a Senior Research Officer in University of Essex, U.K. Currently He is a Senior Lecturer with Department of Computer Science, Brunel University, U.K.
Shuo Wang
Shuo Wang is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science, at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests include data stream classification, class imbalance learning and ensemble learning approaches in machine learning, and their applications in social media analysis, software engineering and fault detection. Her work has been published in internationally renowned journals and conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). In addition, she was a guest editor of Neurocomputing and Connection Science and the workshop organizer of IJCAI'17 and ECML/PKDD'21, '22. She is currently in the editorial board of International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications.
Maria Navarro-Caceres
Dr. Maria Navarro-Caceres is an Associate Professor and Computer Scientist at the University of Salamanca.
She is interested in ML and DL proposals, and also in the application of computing technologies to artistic and musical perspectives.
Tamara Sumner
I lead an interdisciplinary research and development lab that studies how computational tools - combining cognitive science, machine intelligence, and interactive media - can improve teaching practice, learning outcomes and learner engagement. Inquiry Hub, formerly known as Digital Learning Sciences, is a mission-centered, research-practice partnership involving faculty and students from the University of Colorado Boulder, scientific and technical staff from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and educators and administrators from Denver Public Schools. Our research and development team combines expertise in cognitive science, learning sciences, science education, user-centered design and evaluation, digital content management, software engineering, educational data mining, and machine learning/natural language processing.
I am also a Professor at the University of Colorado, with a joint appointment between the Institute of Cognitive Science and the Department of Computer Science. I am currently serving as the Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science. My research and teaching interests include personalized learning, learning analytics, cyber learning environments, educational digital libraries, scholarly communications, human centered computing, and interdisciplinary research methods for studying cognition. I have written 140 articles on these topics, including over 80 peer-reviewed scholarly publications.
Giancarlo Succi
Prof. Giancarlo Succi is a Professor within the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is also the Dean at Constructor University in Bremen, Germany.
His research interests include Software Engineering and Visual Analytics.
Jose Maria Luna
Dr. Luna is an associate professor at the University of Cordoba, Spain. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Granada, Spain. He has published more than 30 papers in top ranked journals, most of them in the pattern mining field. He is author of two books, related to pattern mining, published by Springer: "Pattern Mining with Evolutionary Algorithms" and "Supervised Descriptive Pattern mining”
Arthur Gruber
Prof. Arthur Gruber received his Bachelor’s in Veterinary Medicine, PhD in Biochemistry, Associate degree in Animal Pathology from the University of São Paulo. He is Associate Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, affiliated member, European Viral Bioinformatics Center, and member of the directory board, Brazilian Association for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (AB3C). Prof. Gruber is PI of the Viral Genomics and Bioinformatics research group, developing bioinformatics methods and tools for viral detection, classification and discovery.