1. C. L. Philip Chen, FIEEE, FAAAS, FIAPR, FCAA, FHKIE, EiC, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics：Systems, Chair Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, China

2. Tak Wu Sam Kwong, Professor, IEEE Fellow, Chair Professor of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, China

3. MengChu Zhou, Professor, Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, AAAS and CAA, The Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

4. Martin Dresner, Professor, Chair of the Logistics, Business and Public Policy Department, R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA

5. Sabah Mohammed, Professor, Senior Member of IEEE, Professional Engineer of Ontario, Information Processing Professional with CIPS, Editor in Chief of the IJEACH, Associate Editor of the IEEE Access, Founder of the JETWI, Supervisor of the Smart Health FabLab at Lakehead University, Canada

6.Francisco Saldanha da Gama, Professor, Departamento de Estatística e Investigação Operacional, Centro de Matemática, Aplicações Fundamentais e Investigação Operacional, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal

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C. L. Philip Chen

Email: Philip.Chen@ieee.org

FIEEE, FAAAS, FIAPR, FCAA, FHKIE

EiC, IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics： Systems

Chair Professor

Faculty of Science and Technology

University of Macau, Macau, China

Dr. Chen’s research areas are in systems, cybernetics and computational intelligence. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, and IAPR. He was the President of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) (2012-2013), where he also has been a distinguished lecturer for many years and received Outstanding Service Awards 4 times. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (2014-). He has been an Associate Editor of several IEEE Transactions, and currently he is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Trans on Cybernetics, and IEEE/CAA Automatica Sinica. He was the Chair of TC 9.1 Economic and Business Systems of IFAC (2015-2017). He is also a Fellow of CAA and Fellow of HKIE and an Academician of International Academy of Systems and Cybernetics Science (IASCYS). In March 2018, he is listed in world top 14 having the most highly cited paper in computer science area by WoS. In addition, he is an ABET (Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology Education, USA) Program Evaluator for Computer, Electrical, and Software Engineering programs. University of Macau’s Engineering and Computer Science programs receiving HKIE’s accreditation and Washington/Seoul Accord is his utmost contribution in engineering education for Macau as the former Dean. During his deanship, the engineering and computer science programs both have been ranked at world top 200 in the Times Higher Education (THE) world university ranking. The computer science program is also ranked at world top 161 in the US News and World Report global university ranking. Dr. Chen received Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering Award in 2016 from his alma mater, Purdue University, West Lafayette, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1988, after he received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1985.

 

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Tak Wu Sam Kwong

Professor, IEEE Fellow, Chair Professor of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, China

Dr. Tak Wu Sam Kwong joined City University as a lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering in 1989. Before joining City University, he worked for Control Data Canada and Bell Northern Research as diagnostic engineer and member of Scientific Staff, respectively. At present, he is the associate editor of the IEEE transactions on Industrial Informatics and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Journal of Information Sciences. He is also the Admissions Officer for the graduate programme in the Department. His research interests are evolutionary algorithms, pattern recognition, digital watermarking, video coding and network intrusion systems.

 

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MengChu Zhou

Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, AAAS and CAA The Helen and John C. Hartmann Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA

Dr. MengChu Zhou received his B.S. degree in Control Engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China in 1983, M.S. degree in Automatic Control from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1986, and Ph. D. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 1990.  He joined New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ in 1990, and is now a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in Petri nets, intelligent automation, Internet of Things, big data, web services, and intelligent transportation.  He has over 800 publications including 12 books, 500+ journal papers (400+ in IEEE transactions), 12 patents and 29 book-chapters. He is the founding Editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Systems Science and Engineering and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. He is presently Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Internet of Things Journal and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. He is a recipient of Humboldt Research Award for US Senior Scientists from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Franklin V. Taylor Memorial Award and the Norbert Wiener Award from IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and Excellence in Research Prize and Medal from NJIT. He has been among most highly cited scholars for years and ranked top one in the field of engineering worldwide in 2012 by Web of Science/Thomson Reuters and now Clarivate Analytics. His work has been cited for over 32,000 with his H-index being 88 according to Google Scholar. He is a life member of Chinese Association for Science and Technology-USA and served as its President in 1999. He is a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Chinese Association of Automation (CAA).

 

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Martin Dresner

Martin Dresner is Professor of Logistics and Transportation at the R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland.  He received his Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the University of British Columbia.  Dresner has published over 80 papers in refereed journals, with research focusing on two broad areas, air transport economics and supply chain management. Professionally, he is President of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) and former president of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group (TPUG) of the Allied Social Sciences Association, and of the Transportation Research Forum (TRF).

 

 

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Sabah Mohammed

Dr. Mohammed is full Professor at the department of Computer Science at Lakehead University (Ontario Canada) since 2002 and core professor at the BioTechnology program at Lakehead. Dr. Mohammed efforts in establishing healthcare related programs at Lakehead are notable like the specialization Health informatics, BioTechnology and the Bioinformatics programs at Lakehead. With a research background in industry and academia, he has a strong international research reputation for his work on clinical decision support systems supporting remote areas, ubiquitous and extreme environments. Dr. Mohammed is the Editor in Chief of the of the IGI Global International Journal of Extreme Automation and Connectivity in Healthcare (IJEACH), Associate Editor of the IEEE Access and the founding EiC of the Int. J. of Emerging Technologies of Web Intelligence (JETWI) .

 

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Francisco Saldanha da Gama

Departamento de Estatística e Investigação Operacional

Centro de Matemática, Aplicações Fundamentais e Investigação Operacional

Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal