Yi Pan Editor & Author

James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park received Ph.D. degrees in Graduate School of Information Security from Korea University, Korea and Graduate School of Human Sciences from Waseda University, Japan. From December, 2002 to July, 2007, Dr. Park had been a research scientist of R&D Institute, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea. From September, 2007 to August, 2009, He had been a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea. He is now a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea. Dr. Park has published about 200 research papers in international journals and conferences. He has been serving as chair, program committee, or organizing committee chair for many international conferences and workshops. He is a steering chair of international conferences – MUE, FutureTech, CSA, CUTE, UCAWSN, World IT Congress-Jeju. He is editor-in-chief of Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) by Springer, The Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) by KIPS, and Journal of Convergence (JoC) by KIPS CSWRG. He is Associate Editor / Editor of 14 international journals including JoS, JNCA, SCN, CJ, and so on. In addition, he has been serving as a Guest Editor for international journals by some publishers: Springer, Elsevier, John Wiley, Oxford Univ. press, Emerald, Inderscience, MDPI. He got the best paper awards from ISA-08 and ITCS-11 conferences and the outstanding leadership awards from IEEE HPCC-09, ICA3PP-10, IEE ISPA-11, PDCAT-11, IEEE AINA-15. Furthermore, he got the outstanding research awards from the SeoulTech, 2014. His research interests include IoT, Human-centric Ubiquitous Computing, Information Security, Digital Forensics, Vehicular Cloud Computing, Multimedia Computing, etc. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, KIPS, and KMMS.

Doo-Soon Park received his PhD in Computer Science from Korea University in 1988. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Computer Software Engineering at Soonchunhyang University, South Korea. He is Director of Wellness Service Coaching Center at Soonchunhyang University, and Director of Computer Software Research Group in KIPS. He was President of KIPS(Korea Information Processing Society) from 2015 to 2015, and Director of Central Library at Soonchunhyang University from 2014 to 2015. He was editor in chief of JIPS(Journal of Information Processing Systems) at KIPS from 2009 to 2012, and Dean of the Engineering College at Soonchunhyang University from 2002 to 2003. He has served as an organizing committee member of international conferences including , FutureTech 2018, , WORLDIT 2018, GLOBAL IT 2018, CSA 2017, BIC 2017, MUE 2017, WORLDIT 2017, GLOBALIT 2017, CUTE 2016, FutureTech 2016, MUE 2016, WORLDIT 2016, GLOBAL IT 2016. His research interests include data mining, big data processing and parallel processing. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, KIPS, KMS, and KIISE. Contact him at [email protected].

Young-Sik Jeong is a professor in the Department of Multimedia Engineering at Dongguk University in Korea. His research interests include multimedia cloud computing, information security of cloud computing, mobile computing, IoT(Internet of Things), and wireless sensor network applications. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from Korea University in Seoul, Korea in 1987, 1989, and 1993, respectively. He was a professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Wonkwang University in Korea from 1993 to 2012. He worked and researched to Michigan State University and Wayne State University as visiting professor in 1997 and 2004 respectively. Since 2002, he has been serving as an IEC/TC 100 Korean Technical Committee member, as the IEC/TC 108 Chairman of Korean Technical Committee, and as an ISO/IEC JTC1 SC25 Korean Technical Committee member. Also He is an EiC(Editor-in-Chief) of Journal of Information Processing Systems, an associate editor of JoS(Journal of Supercomputing), IJCS(international Journal of Communication Systems) and an editor of JIT(Journal of Internet Technology), finally an associate editor of Journal of Human-centric Computing(HCIS) and so on. He is also a member of the IEEE.

Dr. Yi Pan is currently a Regents’ Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Georgia State University, USA. He has served as an Associate Dean and Chair of Biology Department during 2013-2017 and Chair of Computer Science during 2006-2013. Dr. Pan joined Georgia State University in 2000, was promoted to full professor in 2004, named a Distinguished University Professor in 2013 and designated a Regents' Professor (the highest recognition given to a faculty member by the University System of Georgia) in 2015.

Dr. Pan received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in computer engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1991. His profile has been featured as a distinguished alumnus in both Tsinghua Alumni Newsletter and University of Pittsburgh CS Alumni Newsletter. Dr. Pan's research interests include parallel and cloud computing, wireless networks, and bioinformatics. Dr. Pan has published more than 330 papers including over 180 SCI journal papers and 60 IEEE/ACM Transactions papers. In addition, he has edited/authored 40 books. His work has been cited more than 8300 times in GoogleScholar. Dr. Pan has served as an editor-in-chief or editorial board member for 15 journals including 7 IEEE Transactions. He is the recipient of many awards including IEEE Transactions Best Paper Award, 4 other international conference or journal Best Paper Awards, 4 IBM Faculty Awards, 2 JSPS Senior Invitation Fellowships, IEEE BIBE Outstanding Achievement Award, NSF Research Opportunity Award, and AFOSR Summer Faculty Research Fellowship. He has organized many international conferences and delivered keynote speeches at over 50 international conferences around the world.