Advisory Board and Editors Human-Computer Interaction
Michael C Hout
Michael C. Hout is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, where he directs the Vision Sciences and Memory Laboratory and co-directs the Addison Care Virtual and Augmented Reality Lab. He is also the Associate Director of the NMSU Discovery Scholars Program, and an Associate Editor at the journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. He recently finished a two-year position as Program Director at the National Science Foundation, co-directing the Perception, Action, and Cognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience programs. He has won several awards for research and teaching, including the Rising Star award from the Association for Psychological Science, as well as the Early Career Award for Exceptional Achievements in Creative Scholarly Activity and the Donald C. Roush Award for Teaching Excellence from NMSU.
Joemon Jose
Joemon Jose is a professor at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. His research interests are in information retrieval, multimedia retrieval, and affective search systems.
Zhaojie Ju
Zhaojie Ju (M'08-SM'16) received a BSc degree in automatic control and a MSc degree in intelligent robotics from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He received a Ph.D. degree in intelligent robotics from the University of Portsmouth, U.K. He held research appointments at University College London, London, U.K., before he started his independent academic position at the University of Portsmouth, in 2012. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and received five Best Paper Awards, one book award, and one Best AE Award in ICRA2018. His research interests include machine intelligence, pattern recognition and their applications on human motion analysis, multi-fingered robotic hand control, human–robot interaction and collaboration, and robot skill learning.
Pengcheng Liu
Pengcheng Liu is a member of IEEE, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He is also a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Bio Robotics, Soft Robotics, Robot Learning, and Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics. Dr Liu is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, PeerJ Computer Science, and he received the Global Peer Review Awards from Web of Science in 2019, and the Outstanding Contribution Awards from Elsevier in 2017. He has published over 70 papers on flagship journals and conferences. He was nominated as a regular Funding/Grants reviewer for EPSRC, NIHR and NSFC and he has been leading and involving in several research projects and grants, including EPSRC, Newton Fund, Innovate UK, Horizon 2020, Erasmus Mundus, FP7-PEOPLE, NSFC, etc. He serves as reviewers for over 30 flagship journals and conferences in robotics, AI and control. His research interests include robotics, machine learning, automatic control and optimization.
Pattie Maes
Pattie Maes is the Alexander W. Dreyfoos (1954) Professor at MIT's Media Laboratory and the academic head for the Program in Media Arts and Sciences. She directs the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces research group, whose goal is to design and develop computer interfaces that are a more natural extension of our minds, bodies and behavior. She holds bachelor's and PhD degrees in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.
Federico Manuri
Federico Manuri received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, in 2008, 2011, and 2017, respectively all in computer engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino.
Robert H McDonald
Robert H. McDonald is Dean of University Libraries and Professor of Library Administration. He is responsible for leading the Boulder campus library system in fulfilling their mission to inspire learning, research, and discovery by connecting knowledge, information, and people.
His expertise and interests include teaching and learning technologies that enable libraries to better support researchers at all levels, open source software development, scholarly communications, and new model publishing. Robert has also been an active proponent of diversity initiatives in libraries throughout his career and is committed to creating library spaces that are welcoming, diverse and inclusive for all of our Library users.
Shane T Mueller
Associate Professor in Applied Cognitive Science, Cognitive Modeling, and Human Factors. Studies Memory, Decision making, and knowledge representation. Developer of PEBL, the Psychology Experiment Building Language.
M Murugappan
Prof. Dr. M. Murugappan is currently a Full Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Kuwait College of Science and Technology (KCST), Kuwait. In India, Malaysia, and Kuwait, he taught and conducted research for more than 15 years. Stanford University researchers ranked him in the top 2-percent of scientists worldwide in 2020, 2021, and 2022 for Experimental Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive Neuroscience.
He has authored 70 articles in SCI/SCOPUS journals, 58 conference proceedings, seven book chapters, and edited eight books. Google Scholar records a maximum score of 5654+ citations, along with an H index of 37 and an i10 score of 81 (Ref: Google Scholar). He has been awarded nearly $2.5M for his research by the Malaysian government and the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS).
Prof. Murugappan is a member of professional international societies such as IEEE, IET, IACSIT, IAENG, IEI and a Charted Engineer (C.Eng). He has given expert talks in Affective Computing, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, and Affective Neuroscience. He is currently the IEEE Kuwait Section's Chair of Educational Activities. Affective Computing, Affective Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain-Computer Interface, Neuromarketing, Neuroeconomics, Medical Image Processing, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence are his primary interests. He has also guided 14 postgraduate students, 9 Ph.D., and 5 M.Sc.
He is currently an Editorial Board member for PLOS ONE (Q2), Human Centric Information Sciences (Q1), the Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (Q4), and the International Journal of Cognitive Informatics. He is serving as an editor in several peer-reviewed journals such as PlosOne, HCIS, JMIHI
Elizabeth D Mynatt
Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology and Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Tech. Her research program, known as Everyday Computing, examines the human-computer interface implications of having computation continuously througout everyday life. She is a member of the SIGCHI Academy, a Sloan and Kavli research fellow, and serves on Microsoft Research's Technical Advisory Board. Mynatt is also the Vice-Chair of the Computing Community Consortium.
Binh P. Nguyen
Senior Lecturer in Data Science at the School of Mathematics and Statistics in Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). Former Scientist at the Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR (Singapore). Former Research Fellow at Duke-NUS Medical School and National University of Singapore (Singapore).
Pierpaolo Pani
Dr. Pierpaolo Pani is a Associate Professor within the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, SAPIENZA, University of Rome. He received a MSc in Experimental Psychology and PhD in Neurophysiolgy (Behavioral and Integrative) at Sapienza University (Rome), and was a post-doc in KULeuven (Laboratory for Neuro- and Psychophysiology).
Dr. Pani's main topics of investigation include Cognitive control, executive functions, goal-oriented behavior and decision making. These topics include behavioral and psychophysiological investigations in humans; behavioral and neuronal dynamics investigations in mammals; characterization of executive functions control in psychiatric conditions.