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.
Meng Wang
Dr. Meng Wang is a professor at the Hefei University of Technology, China. His current research interests include multimedia content analysis, search, mining, recommendation, and large-scale computing. He received the best paper awards successively from the 17th and 18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia. He is the recipient of ACM SIGMM Rising Star Award 2014.
Paul Syverson
Inventor of onion routing, designer of Tor. Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2012. Co-founder: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, and IFIP Working Group 1.7 on Theoretical Foundations of Security Analysis and Design. Past Program Chair: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium, IFCA Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference. Fellow of the ACM.
Julia Stoyanovich
Julia Stoyanovich is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, and the Center for Data Science. She was previously Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Drexel University, and a postdoctoral researcher and a CIFellow at the University of Pennsylvania. After receiving her B.S. Julia went on to work for two start-ups and one real company in New York City, where she interacted with, and was puzzled by, a variety of massive datasets. Julia’s research focuses on developing novel information discovery approaches for large datasets in presence of rich semantic
Ahmad Elkhateb
Dr Ahmad Elkhateb is a Lecturer in Power Electronics at Queen's University Belfast.His research interests span several areas in Power Electronics, including microgrid, distributed energy generation, grid integration, and DC-to-DC converters for Electric Vehicles. Dr Elkhateb is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK, Senior Member of the IEEE, Full College Member of the EPSRC and Associate Editor for the IEEE Access, and the IET Power Electronics.
Yifan Hu
Yifan Hu is a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs. Previously he worked at AT&T Labs, Wolfram Research, and Daresbury Lab. He is a contributor to the Graphviz graph drawing system. His research interests include information visualization, machine learning, and numerical and combinatorical algorithms mining.
Isaac Triguero
I received my M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Granada, Spain, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. I am an Associate Professor of Data Science at the School of Computer Science of the University of Nottingham. In my research, I aim to make fundamental advances in data science, specifically in data mining, data reduction, semi-supervised learning, extreme classification and big data learning. I am Section Editor-in-Chief of the Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction journal, Associate Editor of IEEE Access and Associate Editor of Neurocomputing.
Brian Blake
M. Brian Blake, PhD is Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Drexel University. As the highest ranking academic officer, he oversees all academic programs across the 15 schools and colleges and over 26,000 students. Blake came to Drexel from the University of Miami, where he set research and teaching priorities and led faculty enhancement efforts as vice provost for academic affairs, and oversaw 155 graduate programs serving more than 5,700 students as dean of the Graduate School. Previously he was associate dean for research and graduate studies in the University of Notre Dame College of Engineering, and chaired the Georgetown University Department of Computer Science as it launched its first graduate program. Blake has directed computer science labs funded by more than $10 million in sponsored research awards; authored 170-plus publications and chaired six conferences; edited major journals including his current service as editor-in-chief of IEEE Internet Computing. Blake is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM Distinguished Scientist. Blake’s industry experience includes six years as a software engineer and architect at Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and The MITRE Corporation before entering academia full time. Blake also holds appointments in the College of Engineering (as professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) and in the College of Medicine (as professor of neuroengineering).
Nancy Griffeth
I taught at Lehman College and the CUNY Graduate Center for 12 years, from 2003 to 2015. I am now retired.
My research specialty when I arrived was Computer Networks and I taught Computer Networks as often as I could. Subsequently, I collaborated with Prof. Stephen Redenti, a biologist at Lehman, on a computational biology project to simulate migrating cells. We introduced computational biology courses and a new minor in Quantitative and Systems Biology at Lehman.
Karl Aberer
Karl Aberer is a full professor for Distributed Information Systems at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, since 2000; from 2005 to 2012 the director of the Swiss National Research Center for Mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS, www.mics.ch); since September 2012 he is Vice-President of EPFL responsible for information systems; member of the editorial boards of VLDB Journal, ACM Transaction on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems and World Wide Web Journal.
Richang Hong
Dr. Richang joined School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology (HFUT) as a Professor. His current research interests include multimedia content analysis and social media. He has authored over 100 journal and conference papers in these areas and the Google Scholar citations for those papers is more than 7000. He served as editor of the IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Information Sciences, Signal Processing and Neural Processing Letter, and the guest editors of several international journals, a steering committee member of MMM (international conference on multimedia modeling) conference series since 2019, and the technical program chairs of the 22th International conference on Multimedia Modeling 2016 and the 9th ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Services 2017. He served as area chairs of ACM Multimedia 2017,2018,2019, 2020 and a technical program committee member of over 20 prestigious international conferences, and a reviewer of over 20 prestigious international journals. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award in ACM Multimedia 2010, Best Paper Award in ACM International Conf. on Multimedia Retrieval 2015 and Best Paper Honorable Mention Award of IEEE trans. Multimedia 2015. Dr. Hong is the CCF technical committee member on multimedia and the secretary of the ACM SIGMM China Chapter.
Florentin Smarandache
Florentin Smarandache, PhD, PostDoc, is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of New Mexico, United States. He obtained his MSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Craiova, Romania, his PhD in Mathematics from the State University of Kishinev, and Postdoctoral in Applied Mathematics from Okayama University of Sciences, Japan, and The Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Prof. Smarandache is the founder of neutrosophy (generalization of dialectics), neutrosophic set, logic, probability and statistics since 1995. He has published a substantial number of books and papers in peer-reviewed international journals on subjects including; neutrosophic physics, superluminal and instantaneous physics, unmatter, quantum paradoxes, absolute theory of relativity, redshift and blueshift due to the medium gradient and refraction index besides the Doppler effect, paradoxism, outerart, neutrosophy as a new branch of philosophy, Law of Included Multiple-Middle, multispace and multistructure, HyperSoft set, TreeSoft Set, IndetermSoft Set and IndetermHyperSoft Set, SuperHyperGraph, SuperHyperTopology, SuperHyperAlgebra, Neutrosophic SuperHyperAlgebra, degree of dependence and independence between neutrosophic components, refined neutrosophic set, neutrosophic over-under-off-set, plithogenic set / logic / probability / statistics, neutrosophic triplet and duplet structures, quadruple neutrosophic structures, extension of algebraic structures to NeutroAlgebra and AntiAlgebra, NeutroGeometry & AntiGeometry, Dezert-Smarandache Theory and so on.
Prof. Smarandache has presented papers and plenary lectures to many international conferences around the world. In addition, he has published many books focusing on poetry, dramas, children’ stories, translations, essays, a novel, folklore collections, traveling memories, and art albums.
Md Zia Uddin
DR. MD ZIA UDDIN received his bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, in 2004. He then completed his MS Leading to PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from Kyung Hee University, South Korea, in 2011. Currently, he is a senior research scientist
in the human-computer interaction group at SINTEF Digital, Oslo, Norway, where he continues contributing to his research field. His research primarily focuses on data and feature analysis, physical and mental healthcare, human-machine interaction, pattern recognition, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. His innovative work has been published in prestigious journals such as Information Fusion, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, and Future Generation Computer Systems, showcasing his peers’ high regard for his research. His research outcomes have earned him best/outstanding paper awards at several peer-reviewed international conferences. He received a Gold Medal Award in 2008 for academic excellence in his undergraduate studies. He was also awarded the Korean Government IT Scholarship and the Kyung Hee University President Scholarship from March 2007 to February 2011 to pursue his PhD. He has extensive teaching experience, having taught more than 20 computer science-related courses at various academic levels, from bachelor’s to PhD, and supervised many students’ research works at these levels as well. He is a senior member of IEEE. He has been editors any several prestigious journals such as PLOS One, Sensors, IEEE Access, and the International Journal of Computers and
Applications, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and a keynote speaker at various international conferences. Dr. Zia has over 170 research publications (around half as the leading author), including international journals, conferences, book chapters, and single-authored books. His Google Scholar citations are more than 6000. He has led work packages and tasks in many national and international research projects. His significant contributions
have earned him recognition in the World’s Top 2% Scientists (career-long and single-year-based), a list by Stanford University and Elsevier BV.