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.
Ee-Peng Lim
Ee-Peng Lim received Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 1994 and B.Sc. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore. His research interests include social network and web mining, information integration, and digital libraries. He is currently an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM Transactions on the Web, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
Ernst Moritz Hahn
I am assistant professor at the University of Twente in the group FMT working in probabilistic model checking. Previously Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, Marie-Curie fellow at University of Liverpool, associate professor at Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PostDoc at University of Oxford, PhD at Saarland University.
Jianchao Yang
Research scientist at Adobe Research. Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Focuses on computer vision, deep learning, and image processing.
Harini Srinivasan
Working for 20+ years in industry on a variety of innovative topics - programming languages, run-time environment, tools including performance analysis, parallel distributed systems, service-oriented and business process architectures, deployment of large systems, e-commerce and social media analysis.
Jeffrey O Kephart
IBM Research scientist known for seminal work on computer virus epidemiology and immunology, emergent behavior of economies involving software agents, and autonomic (self-managing) computer systems. Author of over 150 refereed papers (h-index > 50) and over 30 issued patents. Led data center energy initiative resulting in multiple commercial offerings from IBM's software, systems and services divisions. Awarded IEEE Fellow for leadership and technical contributions to autonomic computing.
Diego Calvanese
Professor at the KRDB Research Centre for Knowledge and Data. Research interests include knowledge representation and reasoning, ontology languages, description logics, conceptual data modeling, data integration, graph data management, data-aware process verification, and service modeling and synthesis. In 2012-2013 visiting researcher at the Technical University of Vienna as Pauli Fellow of the "Wolfgang Pauli Institute". Program chair of PODS 2015 and KR 2020, and general chair of ESSLLI 2016. ACM Fellow, EurAI Fellow.
Jian Pei
Jian Pei is currently Professor of Computing Science at the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Yuqing Mao
Dr. Mao is currently a research scientist in Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to joining the NLM, he was a Professor at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine in China. Dr. Mao has received a Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2012), and B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Nanjing University in China in 1997 and 2000, respectively.
Kenneth W Church
I have worked on many topics in computational linguistics including: web search, language modeling, text analysis, spelling correction, word-sense disambiguation, terminology, translation, lexicography, compression, speech (recognition and synthesis), OCR, as well as applications that go well beyond computational linguistics such as revenue assurance and virtual integration.
Hamed Taherdoost
Dr. Hamed Taherdoost is a Full Professor and Chair of the RSAC at University Canada West, Canada. He also holds adjunct appointments as Adjunct Professor at Westcliff University, USA; Adjunct Professor and Thesis Supervisor at Gisma University of Applied Sciences, Germany; and Adjunct Professor at the Victorian Institute of Technology, Australia. In addition, he is a GUS Fellow with Global University Systems in the UK.
With over 20 years of combined experience in academia and industry, Dr. Taherdoost has worked and taught extensively across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Australia, Europe, and North America, bringing a truly global perspective to his teaching, research, and editorial leadership.
He is a prolific scholar with more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters, and journal articles, in areas such as digital innovation, cybersecurity, blockchain, and technology adoption. His research impact is reflected in an h-index exceeding 55, and his textbooks on E-Business and Digital Transformation are adopted at universities worldwide.
Dr. Taherdoost is Series Editor of Mastering Academic Excellence (Routledge, Taylor & Francis) and the Quantum Computing series (Jenny Stanford Publishing). He serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals, including Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, PLOS ONE, PeerJ Computer Science, and Discover Computing, and is Area Editor of the IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
In addition, he has acted as guest editor, and advisory board member for journals published by Taylor & Francis, Springer, Elsevier, Emerald, IEEE, MDPI, IGI Global, and Inderscience. His global experience and editorial expertise reflect his commitment to advancing impactful scholarship across disciplines.
Giorgio Delzanno
Prof. Giorgio Delzanno graduated in Computer Science in 1992. He defended his PhD thesis in Computer Science in 1998 (Doctorate program in the Genoa, Udine and Pisa consortium) and was Post-Doc at the Max Planck Institut in Saarbruecken until the end of 1999. He got a position In 2005 Associate Professor at the University of Genoa. He is Full Professor at the University of Genoa since 2018.
Prof. Delzanno is currently the Coordinator of the PhD in Computer and Systems Engineering at the University of Genoa. Since 2012 he has been a member of the Orientation Commission of the Computer Science Degree Program and deputy coordinator of the Master's Degree in Computer Science.
The research activity was mainly carried out in the following areas: AI and Computational Logic: Logic Programming, Constraints, Multiagent Systems; Formal Methods: Model Checking, Abstract Interpretation, Parameterized Verification; Concurrent and Distributed Systems, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Internet of Things; Computer Science Education: Computational Thinking and Coding.
He has participated in numerous program and organized committees
conferences, workshops and doctoral schools. Recently he was co-chair of the APCSE 2020 workshops of UMAP 2020 and HCVS of ETAPS 2020.
He is co-founder of Druidlab, a joint laboratory with the FOS Group of Genoa, and a member of GRIN, of the INSTM, of the CINI laboratory on Smart Cities and of the Indam GNCS group.
Leonilde Varela
The main research interests of Leonilde Varela rely on the Manufacturing Management domain: Production Planning, Control and Optimization and in Collaborative Paradigms, Networks and Decision Making Models, Methods and Tools, and Systems, Web Applications and Services for supporting Engineering and Production Management. She focuses on exploring international scientific collaborations, mainly in terms of joint publications, projects, and special issues proposals, with colleagues from several institutions. She is an active member in the organizing and scientific committees of several internationa conferences and integrates several research networks and organizations, such as: Euro Working Group of Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS); Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); Industrial Engineering Network (IE Network); Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE); Machine Intelligence Research Labs, Scientific Network for Innovation and Research Excellence (MirLabs).