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Bilal Alatas

Prof. Alatas received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Firat University. He works as a Professor of Software Engineering at Firat University and he is the head of same department. He is the founder head of the Computer Engineering Department of Munzur University and Software Engineering Department of Firat University. His research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining, social network analysis, metaheuristic optimization, and machine learning. Dr. Alatas has published over 250 papers in many well-known international journals and proceedings of the refereed conference since 2001. He has been editor of twelve journals five of which are indexed in SCI and reviewer of seventy SCI-indexed journals.

Diego R Amancio

Diego Raphael Amancio is an Associate Professor at University of São Paulo (Brazil). His research interest includes complex networks, machine learning, data mining, science of science, scientometrics, natural language processing and complex systems.

Sophia Ananiadou

Sophia Ananiadou (PhD) is Professor in Computer Science at the School of Computer Science, the University of Manchester. She is also Director of the UK National Centre for Text Mining, Turing Fellow and a founding member of the SIG in BioNLP, ACL.

Alexander Bolshoy

Dr. Bolshoy has completed his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1993. He is the author of the book "Genome Clustering: from linguistics models to classification of genetic texts", Springer-Verlag, 2010, and many scientific articles. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, Computational Biology and Chemistry, ISRN Bioinformatics; and Linguistic Frontiers.

Tossapon Boongoen

Dr Tossapon Boongoen obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Cranfield University, UK (in 2003), and his 2-year PostDoc in Aberystwyth University, UK (2007-08). His research interest includes AI, machine/deep learning, image analysis and pattern recognition, fuzzy systems and security. He serves as an Associate Editor for several international journals like IEEE Access.

Maria Csernoch

Received her teacher degree in mathematics, descriptive geometry, informatics and English, her B.Sc. in software engineering and lean management, Ph.D. in mathematics and computer sciences, and Dr. habil. degree in applied linguistics from the University of Debrecen, Hungary. She currently works as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen. Her research interests include didactics of Informatics, specializing in developing computational thinking skills, knowledge-transfer, subject integration, digital sustainability, and lean computing education.

Harry Hochheiser

My research has covered a range of topics, including human-computer interaction, information visualization, bioinformatics, universal usability, security, privacy, and public policy implications of computing systems. I am currently working on a variety of NIH-funded projects, including areas such as bioinformatics research portals, visualization for review of chart records, and tools for aiding the discovery of animal models of human diseases.

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. ​
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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. ​

Vijay Mago

Vijay Mago received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Panjab University, India, in 2010. In 2011, he joined the Modeling of Complex Social Systems Program at The IRMACS Centre, Simon Fraser University. He is currently the Chair and an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, where he teaches and conducts research in areas, including big data analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, medical decision making, and Bayesian intelligence. He has published extensively on new methodologies based on soft computing and artificial intelligence techniques to tackle complex systemic problems, such as homelessness, obesity, and crime. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

Ana G Maguitman

Ana Gabriela Maguitman is a Principal Researcher at the National Council for Science and Technology (CONICET) of Argentina and an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina). She obtained her PhD in Computer Science at Indiana University (USA). Dr. Maguitman leads the Knowledge Management and Information Retrieval Research Group at Universidad Nacional del Sur. Her main research areas include Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Information Retrieval.

Koji Miwa

Dr. Koji Miwa is Associate Professor at Nagoya University. He is a psycholinguist, who takes an experimental approach in linguistics to study how language is “done” in the mind. Dr. Miwa is primarily investigating (1) how complex words are represented/processed in the mind and (2) how bilinguals read in one language with two languages in the mind.

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.