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.
Xianye Ben
Xianye Ben received a Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system from the College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, in 2010. She is currently working as a full Professor in the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, China. She has published more than 100 papers in major journals and conferences, such as IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-CSVT, IEEE T-MM, PR, CVPR, etc. Her current research interests include pattern recognition and image processing. She received the Excellent Doctoral Dissertation award from Harbin Engineering University. She was also enrolled by the Young Scholars Program of Shandong University.
Irfan Ahmad
Dr. Irfan Ahmad is an Assistant Professor in Information and Computer Science department at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD in Computer Science from TU Dortmund, Germany in 2017.
Dr. Ahmad's research interests are in the areas of pattern recognition especially in document-image analysis, handwriting recognition, and machine-printed text recognition. In addition, he is also interested in machine learning and its applications including deep learning and natural language processing (NLP).
Hemant Rathore
Hemant Rathore received his B.E. and M.E. in computer science from RGTU, India, and BITS Pilani, India, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He is currently associated to Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Pilani, India; and has strong academic and industry research experience in the field of security, and currently works in the domain of adversarial learning and explainability in malware detection models based on machine learning and deep learning.
Hemant has published many research papers in various reputed SCI journals and CORE-ranked (A*, A, and B) conferences. He also won the prestigious K Shankar Meritorious Paper Award 2021 in the journal category. Hemant was selected to present his work in the 11 IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium 2021, and he received multiple travel and registration grants from a number of reputed conferences such as NDSS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE PerCom, IEEE S & P, IACR Eurocrypt, etc. Hemant has also been invited to various venues (e.g. BDA, TENCON, etc.) for invited tutorials, talks, and seminars.
His teaching credentials include taught courses in the areas of Network Security, Advanced Data Mining, and Data Mining to undergraduate and postgraduate students; in addition to guiding and supervising numerous students in short-term projects.
Hemant is a member of the IEEE and ACM.
Wasif Afzal
Professor in Computer Science at Mälardalen University, Sweden, specialising in research areas such as software testing, software quality, software metrics and empirical software engineering in general.
Sivaramakrishnan Rajaraman
Dr. Sivarama Krishnan Rajaraman is working as a research scientist at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Rajaraman received his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering from Anna University, India. He is involved in projects that aim to apply computational sciences and engineering techniques toward advancing life science applications. These projects involve the use of medical images for aiding healthcare professionals in low-cost decision-making at the POC screening/diagnostics. He is a versatile researcher with expertise in machine learning, data science, biomedical image analysis, and computer vision. He has more than 15 years of experience in academia where he taught core and allied subjects in biomedical engineering. He has authored several national and international journal and conference publications in his area of expertise. Dr. Rajaraman is an Editorial Board member of the PLOS ONE, PeerJ Computer Science, MDPI Knowledge, and MDPI Electronics journals. He is reviewing manuscripts for more than 75 journals including those published by Nature, LANCET, IEEE, MDPI, Elsevier, and other conferences including CVPR, EMBS, CBMS, and MICCAI. Dr. Rajaraman is a Life Member of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), a regular member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS), and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES).
Ahmed E Hassan
Ahmed E. Hassan is the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Software Analytics, and the NSERC/BlackBerry Industrial Research Chair in Software Engineering for Ultra Large Scale systems at the School of Computing in Queen's University.
He spearheaded the organization and creation of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) conference and its research community. He is the named inventor of patents at several jurisdictions around the world including the United States, Europe, India, Canada, and Japan.
Marcin Maciej Grynberg
Assistant Professor in The Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Graduate from The University of Warsaw. Former post-doc at The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, CA. Co-founder of the social scientist movement Citizens of Academia.
Jingbo Wang
Prof Wang's research spans several disciplines including quantum dynamics theory, quantum computation and information, atomic physics, and computational science. She has published extensively, including a recent book published by Springer, four book chapters, and numerous journal papers. Prof Wang currently leads the quantum dynamics and computation group at The University of Western Australia. She and her research team have developed advanced numerical techniques to solve problems in both quantum and classical domain.
Gui-Bin Bian
Gui-Bin Bian is a Professor of Robotics, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Nicolas P Rougier
I’m a full-time research scientist at Inria. This is a public scientific and technological establishment (EPST) under the double supervision of the Research & Education Ministry, and the Ministry of Economy Finance and Industry. I’m working at the frontier between integrative and computational neuroscience in association with the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases, the Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique, the University of Bordeaux and the CNRS. My research deals with decision-making, self-organization, spatial computing, artificial neural networks & open science.
Yonghong Peng
Dr. Peng is a Professor of Data Science at the University of Sunderland. He is a Principal Investigator in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology and Medicine, and Principal Data Scientist working on Big Data Integration, Data Mining and Computational Intelligence. Dr. Peng's Data Science and BioMedical informatics (DS & BMI) research group focuses on development of innovative data analytics approaches to enable systematical analysis of biological data, medical images, and healthcare data and to gain new knowledge and insights from the integrative analytics of diverse data sources.
Abdel Hamid Soliman
Dr Soliman has over 30 years of experience in the academic and industrial fields. He has a multidisciplinary academic/research experience in digital signal processing, telecommunications, data acquisition systems, WSN, IoT, Fibre Optics communication and image/video processing. He is working to harness and integrate different technologies towards implementing smart systems to contribute to smart cities and real-life applications. His research activities are not limited to the national level within the UK but are internationally extended to many partner Universities in various countries. His research has produced over 50 refereed papers.
In addition to his research activities, he is involved in several enterprise projects and consultancy activities for national and international companies. Since 2007 he has been leading and involved in several externally funded projects on national, European and international levels totalling more than £20M.
Dr Soliman’s work has been recognised through several awards such as: Lord Stafford award “Impact through Innovation”, for Designing and developing a smart monitoring and controlling system for diabetic people. The AWM ICT Excellence awards for “Best Knowledge Transfer project” category, for Designing and developing an electronic bladder diary, and UHNS “Clinical Innovation” award, for Designing and developing an online multimedia-based training system for surgeons.