Advisory Board and Editors Computer Networks & Communications
Peter Denning
Distinguished professor of computer science at Naval Postgraduate School. Past president of ACM. Past editor in chief of Communications of ACM. Currently editor of ACM Ubiquity. Author of ten books, most recent Great Principles of Computing (MIT Press 2015). Author of over four hundred scientific papers and articles.
Shanmuga Sundar Dhanabalan
Dr. Shanmuga Sundar Dhanabalan is an accomplished researcher with a proven track record in designing, developing, and translating micro- and nano-scale devices. CIA’s primary objective is to advance the field of medical and healthcare by creating next-generation products that enhance quality of life and well-being, making a significant contribution to society. He is currently leading a team developing ‘wearable and connected sensors’ at RMIT University, focusing on materials, flexible and stretchable devices, wearables, optics, and photonics. CIA graduated with a Ph.D. in flexible electronics in June 2017. He secured a competitive Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Chilean government from 2018 to 2021. In 2021, he joined as a Research Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne. CIA studies have led to 38 publications in referred international journals, 1 provisional patent, 1 Indian patent, 10 book chapters, and 7 books in progress as editor. He has presented at 19 national and international conferences. Several outcomes have been highlighted by scientific websites (such as Photonics Media, USA). CIA's research work has led to securing grants from Australian government research schemes, such as the Cooperative Research Centres Projects, the ARC Research Hub for Connected Sensors for Health, Victorian Medical Research Acceleration Fund, and the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre's Commercialisation Fund.
Shi Dong
Shi Dong is currently a Professor (Graduate Supervisor) at School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou, China. Professor, Master's advisor, postdoctoral fellow, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Washington University, St. Louis, USA.
His current research focuses on network security, pattern recognition, deep learning, blockchain, Internet of things, edge computing, including network measurement, network behavior analysis, network traffic identification, etc., deep learning in the field of network security applications, as well as the privacy protection of edge computing.
Prof. Dong has published more than 60 papers in related academic journals and conferences (about 35 papers by first author or correspondence author, and about 20 papers by top SCI journals and top international conferences in JCR I) , and granted 9 patents for invention. He is a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking(SCI journal); IEEE ACCESS (SCI journal); Computer Networks(SCI journal); IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering(SCI journal); IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics(SCI journal);IEEE Internet of Things Journal(SCI journal);Journal of Internet Technology (SCI journal); Computers & Electrical Engineering (SCI journal); KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (SCI journal); Journal of Xi'an Jiaotong University and Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
He is an associate Editor for IEEE Systems Journal(SCI index), Physical Communication(SCI index), IET Wireless Sensor Systems(EI index), IET Networks(EI index), IEICE Transactions on Communications(SCI index), Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research(SCI index) and International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools(SCI index) and member of the Editorial Board for International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, Progress in Human Computer Interaction, Journal of Modern Mechanical Engineering and Technology, Journal of Cyber Security Technology, Acta Scientific Computer Sciences, Digital Technologies Research and Applications, International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (IJSIP).
Prof. Dong was awarded the Third Prize of Henan Science and Technology Progress Award (2018) and the academic technology leader of Henan Education Department (2019) . He is currently the leader of the innovative network and Information Security Science and technology team of Henan Province, the leader of the provincial key discipline of computer application technology of Henan Province, a senior member of the Wuhan Textile University, and a supervisor of the master's degree students of the Hubei University of Technology.
Magda Elzarki
Magda El Zarki received the B.E.E. from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt in 1979 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York City, NY. Magda El Zarki currently holds the position of Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, where she is involved in various research activities related to telecommunication networks and networked computer games. She is the Director of the Institute for Virtual Environments.
Markus Endler
Markus Endler obtained his Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin (1992), and the Professor Livre-docente title (Habilitation) from the University of São Paulo (2001). From 1989 to 1993 he worked as a researcher at the GMD Research Institute Karlsruhe (Germany), and from 1994 to 2000 as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2001 he joined the Department of Informatics of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica in Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), where he is currently Associate Professor. His main research interests include Mobile and Pervasive Computing, IoT Middleware Architectures. Distributed Algorithms for Cooperation and Consensus, Online Data Analytics, and Data Stream Processing. As of 2020, he has supervised 13 PhD thesis and 30+ M.Sc. dissertations.
Xiao-Zhi Gao
Prof. Xiao-Zhi Gao is a Professor in the Faculty of Science and Forestry, School of Computing at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland.
His research interests include soft computing, machine learning, data mining and communications networks.
Lalit Garg
Prof. Lalit Garg is an Associate Professor in Computer Information Systems at the University of Malta, Malta, and an honorary lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has been a researcher at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Ulster University, UK. Prof Garg has supervised 200+ Masters' dissertations, 2 DBA and 5 PhD theses and published 150+ high-impact publications in refereed journals/conferences/books, 17 edited books and 22 patents. He has delivered numerous keynote speeches, organised/chaired international conferences, and consulted countless public and private organisations for information systems implementation and management. His research interests are business intelligence, machine learning, data science, deep learning, cloud computing, mobile computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), information systems, management science and their applications, mainly in healthcare and medical domains. He participates in many EU and locally funded projects, including a one million euro Erasmus+ Capacity-Building project in Higher Education (CBHE), titled Training for Medical Education via Innovative eTechnology (MediTec) and Malta Council of Science and Technology's Space Research Funds. The University of Malta has awarded him the 2021-22 Research Excellence Award for exploring Novel Intelligent Computing Methods for healthcare requirements forecasting, allocation and management (NICE-Healthcare).
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.
Susan C. Herring
Professor of Information Science and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington. Director, Center for Computer-Mediated Communication, Indiana University Bloomington. Editor, Language@Internet. Past editor, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Dr. Herring’s first intellectual passion was foreign languages. After being employed as a Graduate Student Instructor in the French Dept. and then the Linguistics Dept. at U.C. Berkeley in the 1980s, she was appointed as an Instructor in the Special Languages Program at Stanford University to teach Tamil in 1989. She was subsequently hired as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Cal State University, San Bernardino, to teach discourse analysis, in 1989, and promoted to Associate Professor in 1992. In the same year, she moved to the University of Texas, Arlington, where she was an Associate Professor in Linguistics until 2000. During that time the Internet was expanding rapidly, and her research interests shifted from traditional linguistics towards computer-mediated communication. In 2000, she joined the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, and was promoted to Professor in 2002. She also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Linguistics Dept. at Indiana University and is a Fellow in the Center for Research on Learning Technologies and a Fellow in the Center for Social Informatics.
Polly Huang
Polly Huang is a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University. Polly received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Southern California. Her research interest includes multimedia networking, sensor networking, and mobile computing. Polly has co-authored over 100 technical articles and 9 US patents. She has served as a TPC member for several high-profile network/system conferences, and as an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.
Biju Issac
Dr Biju Issac is a Computer Science academic staff working at Northumbria University, UK. He has done PhD in Networking and Mobile Communications, MCA (Master of Computer Applications) and BE (Electronics and Communications Engineering). He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Senior IEEE member and Fellow of HEA. His research interests are in Wireless Networks, Cybersecurity, AI/Machine Learning applications (security, image processing, text mining etc) and Bio-inspired metaheuristic algorithms. His personal research website: https://www.bijuissac.com/
Farrukh Aslam Khan
Farrukh Aslam Khan is a Professor of Cyber Security at the Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience at various institutions. He received the M.S. degree in Computer System Engineering from the GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Jeju National University, South Korea, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. He also received professional trainings from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, IBM, and other institutions. He has published over 135 research articles in refereed international journals and conferences. He has supervised/co-supervised 6 Ph.D. students and 20 M.S. thesis students. Prof. Khan is on the editorial board of several prestigious international journals. He has co-organized several international conferences and workshops and has delivered many keynote and invited speeches. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) and a Senior Member of the IEEE.