Advisory Board and Editors Environmental Health
Rommel T J Ramos
The Rommel Ramos Professor of Bioinformatics of Federal University of Para (Brazil) affiliated member of Brazilian Science Academy and CNPq Researcher (level 1-D). Since 2008 works with genome assembly and RNA-Seq analysis, he is the leader of the bioinformatic development group of the Biologic Engineering Laboratory in Park of Science and Technology (Pará/Brazil).
Venkatramanan Senapathi
Dr. Venkatramanan Senapathi, Assistant Professor in Department of Geology at National College, India. Former, Postdoc (Brain Korea BK21) at Pukyong National University in South Korea. Previous, Research faculty at Ton Duc Thang University in Vietnam.
His publications include more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and a Google Scholar H-index of 37. His research interests includes: Environmental Geochemistry, Hydrogeological Processes, Sediment dynamics, Remote sensing and GIS, Environmental Toxins. Microplastics
Syed Hassan Shah
Syed Hassan Shah is a Wi-Fi connectivity subject matter expert with the Qualcomm Inc. product management team, where he is involved in Consumer and Compute Wireless products with a focus on Mi-Fi, CPE, and UWB technologies. In addition to that, Dr. Shah is also an adjunct faculty member at California State University, Fullerton Campus, where he teaches computer science courses to graduate classes. Over the past decade, Dr. Shah held multiple industrial & academic roles such as a Product Specialist for Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), CBRS, Private LTE, Digital Electricity, and open RAN product lines. Dr. Shah was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia Southern University, USA followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. Before moving to the United States, he completed his BS with honors in CS from Kohat University of Science & Technology (KUST), Pakistan, and his Ph.D. Degree (combined with Masters) from the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Kyungpook National University (KNU), Republic of Korea (South Korea). During the summer of 2015, he was invited as a distinguished visiting researcher at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA to investigate MAC layer findings in IEEE 1609.4 protocol stacks. Overall, Dr. Shah has authored/co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed international publications including Journal articles, Conference Proceedings, Book Chapters, and 05 books. In 2016, his work on robust content retrieval in future vehicular networks won the Qualcomm Innovation Award at KNU, South Korea. Dr. Shah's research interests include Wireless and Ad hoc Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Cities, Connected Vehicles, and Future Internet architectures.
Furthermore, Dr. Shah is a Senior IEEE and ACM member, served as a TPC Member or Reviewer in over 100 International Conferences and Workshops including IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICNC, IEEE VTC, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CoNEXT, ACM MobiHoc, ACM SAC, and many more. Furthermore, he has been reviewing papers for over 50 different International Journals including IEEE Magazines on Wireless Communications, Networks, Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Sensors Letters, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and Vehicular Technologies, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Big Data, and Mobile Computing. Moreover, Dr. Shah has been an editorial member of more than 60 Special Issues with top-ranked journals in Communication Society and served as an editorial board member of KSII Transactions on Internet & Information Systems, Wiley's Internet Technology Letters, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, IEEE Newsletters on Internet Initiative, Future Directions, and Software Defined Networks. Dr. Shah has been an appointee of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society as liaison to IEEE Young Professionals society for the year 2018-2019. Since 2018, he is also an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Aditya Singh
Aditya Singh is a researcher and academician, presently serving as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography in Banaras Hindu University. He is also an External Research Collaborator at the GIRL Centre, Population Council, New York. Dr. Singh has a strong academic background, including a PhD in Health Sciences and Social Work from the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, an MPhil in Demography from the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, and an MA and BA in Geography from Banaras Hindu University. Prior to his current position, Dr. Singh held research positions at the University of Portsmouth, UK, Oxford Policy Management, IIPS Mumbai, and Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi. Dr. Singh's research work is focused on the geographies of health and healthcare, social determinants of health, and socioeconomic inequalities in health and healthcare. He has published over 30 papers in national and international journals, including Lancet Psychiatry, Health Policy and Planning, PLOS One, Journal of Public Health, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Biosocial Science, and BMC Health Services Research, among others. He has also co-edited a book on 'Urban Poverty in India' with Dr. Olivier Brito, his collaborator from the University of Paris. He has delivered numerous oral and posters presentations in international conferences held in various countries such as USA, UK, Brazil, France, Italy, and UAE. He is currently a member of the editorial boards for several prestigious public health journals, including PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS One, PeerJ Life & Environment, Frontiers in Public Health, and BMC Public Health.
Johannie M. Spaan
Dr. Johannie Spaan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Northwest (Western University of Health Sciences). Her research interests focus on stress physiology, disease ecology, eco-immunology and parasitology.
More specifically, Dr. Spaan's research within the Steinauer lab is focused on a neglected tropical disease, Schistosomiasis, a helminth infection that affects over 200 million people. Research carried out within the lab focuses on uncovering potential mechanisms that can be manipulated to break the life cycle of this pathogen in order to reduce or eliminate schistosome transmission to humans.
In addition to this, Dr. Spaan is also involved in a project investigating the effect of schistosome infections in a mouse model system and the links among parasite infection, behavioral and cognitive changes, microbiome alteration, and systemic inflammation.
Gengxin Sun
Dr.Gengxin Sun is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Qingdao University. He has published more than 60 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He servers Editor in Chief for Revue d' Intelligence Artificielle (Scopus indexing). He has served Lead Guest editor for many journals including Multimedia Tools and Applications, Frontiers in Psychology, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Journal of Sensors, Mathematical Problems in Engineering and so on. His current research interest lies in Big data, Artificial intelligence, Complex network and Social computing.
Durga N Tripathi
Durga Nand Tripathi works at the Baylor College of Medicine in Center for Precision Environmental Health (CPEH), Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Houston, TX, USA. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center at Science Park, Smithville, TX and Institute of Bioscience and Technology at Texas A&M University Health Science at Houston. He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmacology & Toxicology from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, India. He is also serving as Editorial Board Member in the journal 'Medicine' and as a peer reviewer for various journals such as Cancer Letters, Scientific Reports, Autophagy, Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Nutrition Research, Toxicology Reports and Journal of Pineal research etc.
Haikun Zhao
I am a full Professor in the College of Atmospheric Science at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST), China. I received my Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from NUIST in 2012. I have been working on tropical cyclones and climate change, seasonal and intra-seasonal tropical cyclone forecasts since 2007. I have published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Nature Communications, Journal of Climate, and Geophysical Research Letters.