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Murat Arcak (S’97-M’00-SM’05-F’12) received the B.S. degree from the Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1996 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 1997 and 2000, respectively.

He is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. His research is in dynamical systems and control theory with applications to biological networks, power systems, communication networks, and cooperative robotics. Prior to joining UC Berkeley in 2008, he was a faculty member at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Dr. Arcak received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2003, the Donald P. Eckman Award in 2006, and the SIAM Control and Systems Theory Prize in 2007. He is Fellow of IEEE and a member of SIAM.

Charles Backof (S’70-M’76-SM’98) received the BESE degree from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, and the MSEE degree from the University of Illinois, USA.

He retired from Motorola as Vice President and Director of Strategic Growth Engines for the Chief Technology Office. His responsibilities included technology planning, patents, and standards in support of current and future communications and embedded electronic systems. In prior assignments, he held the positions of Director of Advanced Technology, Director of Core Process Redesign, Director of Research, Manufacturing Operations Manager, Product Manager, and Engineering Manager. He was elected to Motorola SABA in 1993 and served as the Vice Chairman of the Science Advisory Board. He retired from the US Army Reserve as a Major in the Signal Corps. He now serves on the International Advisory Board of MIMOS Berhad, a strategic agency for the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.

Mr. Backof holds 11 US patents and a Professional Engineering license.

John Baillieul (M’83-SM’89-F’93) has held appointments in three departments at Boston University, Boston, MA, USA. He is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the former chairman of two departments.

Prof. Baillieul is active in the IEEE Control Systems Society where he served as President in 2006. He has also served in various capacities on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. From 1992 to 1998, he was Editor-in-Chief of this journal, which was the most highly cited of all journals in Electrical Engineering in both 2006 and 2007. He is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to onlinear control theory, robotics, and the control of complex mechanical systems. He received the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is also a Fellow of SIAM and a Fellow of IFAC. He also has held leadership positions in both TAB and PSPB, including past IEEE Vice President of the Publication Services and Products Board.

Ruzena Bajcsy (“buy chee”) (M’81-SM’88-F’92-LF’08) received her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, in 1957 and 1967, respectively. She received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, in 1972.

She taught during the 1950s and 1960s as an instructor and assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science at Slovak Technical University, Bratislava. Since 1972, she has been teaching and doing research at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. She was appointed Director of CITRIS and Professor of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, on 1 November 2001. Prior to coming to Berkeley, she was Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) between 1 December 1998 and 1 September 2001. As head of National Science Foundation’s CISE directorate, she managed a $500 million annual budget. She came to the NSF from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2004, she became a CITRIS director emeritus, and now she is a full-time NEC Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. Bajcsy is a pioneering researcher in machine perception, robotics, and artificial intelligence. She is an NEC Distinguished Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at UC Berkeley. She was also Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory, which she founded in 1978. She has done seminal research in the areas of human-centered computer control, cognitive science, robotics, computerized radiological/medical image processing, and artificial vision. She is highly regarded not only for her significant research contributions but also for her leadership in the creation of a world-class robotics laboratory, recognized worldwide as a premier research center.

Dr. Bajcsy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the Institute of Medicine. She is a recipient of Franklin Medal 2009 and has been a member of the American Philosophical Society, established by Benjamin Franklin, since 2005. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1998. She is especially known for her wide-ranging, broad outlook in the field and her cross-disciplinary talent and leadership in successfully bridging such diverse areas as robotics and artificial intelligence, engineering, and cognitive science. She began as an assistant professor and within 13 years became chair of the department. She has served as advisor to more than 50 Ph.D. recipients. In 2001 she received an honorary doctorate from University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. In 2001, she became a recipient of the ACM A. Newell Award. In 2012, she received an honorary degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, and an honorary degree from Technical University in Stockholm (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.

Paul Y.S. Cheung received the B.Sc. (Eng) and Ph.D. degrees from the Imperial College, University of London, both in Electrical Engineering, in 1973 and 1978, respectively. His research interest and experience include biomedical engineering, computer architecture and applications, signal processing and pattern recognition, E-commerce technology and the Internet, and VLSI design.

He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and former Dean of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong. He is concurrently Director of Technology Transfer and Managing Director of Versitech, the technology transfer arm of the University of Hong Kong. He also serves as Director of Biomedical Engineering Research Centre, the Program Director of the Medical Engineering Program and the Master of Science in E- Commerce and Internet Computing Program in the University. He was on secondment from the University to the Hong Kong government as Policy Advisor of the Innovation and Technology Commission from 2002 to 2004. Prior joining the government, he was Corporate Senior Vice President in technology at Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW), responsible for the strategic development in technology for the group while on leave from the University from 2000 to 2002. Since 1978, Prof. Cheung has spent 29 years as a scholar and educator in academia and was the Dean of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong from 1994 to 2000. He has served as General Chair, Technical Chair, and member of a number of major international and regional conferences.

Jan Chorowski (M’12) received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland, and is expected to graduate with the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA, in 2012.

In 2009, he received a competitive University of Louisville Fellowship, when he joined the Computational Intelligence Laboratory. In summer 2011, he was the intern at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA. His research interests include the development and study of machine learning algorithms, especially using neural networks, classification methods, dimensionality reduction, and decomposition methods in data analysis.

Mr. Chorowski has published his work in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and has several papers pending with other journals. In addition, his papers have been accepted at conferences in the US (2012), Finland (2011), Italy (2012), and Switzerland (2012). He received the Best Graduate Student Award in 2009 and the Outstanding EE Graduate Student Award at UofL in 2011.

Gerard H. (Gus) Gaynor (M’87-SM’96-F’99-LF’05) brings experiences from a career that spanned the technical and management disciplines. Early career involved upper atmosphere research at the University of Michigan, MI, USA; product development; a personal entrepreneurial venture; and 25 years of service at 3M in major engineering and executive assignments. During seven years of residence in Europe, Gaynor served as Chief Engineer of 3M Italy and Director of Engineering for 3M Europe and on the 3M Italy Board of Directors and 3M Europe Executive Committee. After retiring from 3M as Director of Engineering, Gaynor organized G. H. Gaynor and Associates, Inc., concentrating on managing engineering and technology.

Dr. Gaynor has published five books related to managing technology; over 40 papers; had two Fulbright Scholar appointments; served as Adjunct Professor at St. Thomas University, St. Paul, MN, USA; and served as lecturer with the graduate programs on Managing Technology and Innovation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Hamid Gharavi (M’79-SM’90-F’92-LF’13) received the Ph.D. degree from Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, in 1980.

He joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA, in 1982. He was then transferred to Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) after the AT&T-Bell divestiture, where he became a Distinguished Member of Research Staff. In 1993, he joined Loughborough University as Professor and Chair of Communication Engineering. Since September 1998, he has been with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), US Department of Commerce, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. His research interests include smart grid, wireless multimedia, mobile communications and wireless systems, mobile ad-hoc networks, and video/image transmission.

Dr. Gharavi received the Charles Babbage Premium Award from the Institute of Electronics and Radio Engineering in 1986, and the IEEE CAS Society Darlington Best Paper Award in 1989. He holds eight US patents related to these topics. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

Lawrence O. Hall (S’85-M’86-SM’98-F’03) received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA, in 1986 and the B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA, in 1980.

He is a Distinguished University Professor and the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA. His research interests lie in distributed machine learning, extreme data mining, bioinformatics, pattern recognition, and integrating AI into image processing. The exploitation of imprecision with the use of fuzzy logic in pattern recognition, AI, and learning is a research theme.

Dr. Hall has authored or co-authored 70 papers in journals, as well as many conference papers and book chapters. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a fellow of the IAPR.

Bin He (S’87-M’88-SM’97-F’04) is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medtronic-Bakken Chair, and Director of Institute for Engineering in Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. His major research interests include neuroengineering and functional biomedical imaging.

Dr. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed journal articles and delivered over 250 keynote, plenary, and invited talks and seminars in international conferences and institutions worldwide. He served as the President of International Society for Functional Source Imaging (2007-2008) and International Society for Bioelectromagnetism (2002-2005). Dr. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the Institute of Physics, and the International Society for Functional Source Imaging. Dr. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and on the Governing Council of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

David A. Hodges (S’59-M’65-SM’71-F’77-LF’03) is the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1970. He served as Dean of Berkeley’s College of Engineering from 1990 to 1996 and retired from regular service in 1998. He held research and management positions at Bell Laboratories from 1966 to 1970.

An IEEE Fellow since 1977, he was a co-recipient of the 1983 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Technical Field Award and was the 1997 recipient of the IEEE Education Medal. Dr. Hodges is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and has served in the past as a corporate Director for Megatest, Mentor Graphics, and Silicon Image, and as a Trustee of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the International Computer Science Institute.

Suganda Jutamulia (M’89-SM’95) was born in Indonesia. He received the B.S. degree in Physics from Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia, the M.S. degree in Opto-Electronics from Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia, and Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan.

He was a post-doctorate fellow at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA; a principal investigator for small-business innovation research at several companies; a manager at Kowa Company Ltd.; a senior engineer at Blue Sky Research; and CTO at Newtonics Spectra Inc., prior to serving as an in-house patent agent previously at Oplink Communications Inc. and currently at OmniVision Technologies Inc. He teaches part time at San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, USA. He is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at University of Northern California, Petaluma, CA, USA.

Dr. Jutamulia has 12 patents, over 125 publications, and eight books to his credit. He is a Senior member of IEEE and a Fellow of Optical Society of America, and SPIE – the International Society for Optical Engineering.

Jan Kallberg received the J.D./LL.M. from Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, and the M.A. degree in Political Science and the Ph.D. degree in Public Affairs, both from The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.

He is an Assistant Professor at Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, AR, USA, and a researcher at the Cyber Security Research and Education Center, The University of Texas at Dallas. He firmly believes that cyber research is to seek the unknown and seek ways to utilize cyber as a policy option.

Dr. Kallberg has been published in Strategic Studies Quarterly, Joint Forces Quarterly (forthcoming), Air and Space Power Journal, and IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine. He co-authors, with Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham, on a 2013 forthcoming book titled Digital National Security – Cyber Defense and Cyber Operations.

Shahidul Islam Khan (S’86-M’86-SM’89) received the Ph.D. degree from Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, on power electronics in 1986.

He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Ramna Dhaka, Bangladesh. He served as the Head of the Department and the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and the Director of the Centre for Energy Studies, BUET. He has also been a visiting faculty member at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia. His research is focused on renewable energy (solar PV, wind energy, and hybrid systems) and sustainable technologies. He authored over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and at international and national conferences. He has led projects on solar energy and energy efficiency funded by the Government of Bangladesh and international agencies such as USAID, German Development Cooperation (GIZ), European Union, etc. He served in numerous governmental committees on energy projects and makes regular national media appearances on power, energy, and technology policy issues.

Diego Krapf (M’08) received the B.S. degree in Physics in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics in 2004, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

During his Ph.D. studies, he worked on infrared optics on nanostructured materials in the lab of Amir Sa’ar. His dissertation focused on the electronic structure of semiconductor quantum dots and quantum wells. He then joined the research group of Cees Dekker in The Netherlands as a postdoctoral researcher where he focused on single-molecule biophysics using solid-state nanopores. Since August 2007, he has served as Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and the School of Biomedical Engineering at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. His current research interests include cellular biophysics at the single-molecule level, with particular emphasis on membrane and cytoskeleton dynamics and super-resolution imaging.

Cheruvu Siva Kumar (M’12) was born in India in 1966. He received the Bachelor of Technology degree in Manufacturing Science and Engineering in 1987 and the doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1995, both from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

He is currently a faculty member of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He works primarily in the area of Robotics and Intelligent Systems and also in areas of CAD-CAM and Computer Networks. He worked briefly in the manufacturing industry in 1987 and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Science and Technology Agency (now JSPS) at AIST (formerly Electro Technical Laboratory), Tsukuba, Japan, in 1999. His research areas span control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, flexure-based micro-grippers, humanoid robots, and direct digital manufacturing of metals using additive processes and in computer networks.

Dr. Kumar is a member of professional international organizations, namely IEEE, ASME, and AUVSI. In India he is serving in national bodies as an expert member in the Marine Systems panel of the Naval Research Board, as an advisor for the Additive Manufacturing Society of India, and member of a telecom engineering center working group on QoS networks. He has over 50 archived publications in international journals, conferences, and book chapters and has filed two patents.

Khaled Ben Letaief (S’85-M’90-SM’97-F’03) received the Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in 1990.

He is currently Dean of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong. He has over 450 IEEE papers, 13 US patents, and six technical contributions to IEEE standards. He served as founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications-Wireless Communications Series.

Dr. Letaief was instrumental in organizing IEEE flagship conferences (e.g., WCNC’07, ICC’08; ICC’10). He is the recipient of six teaching awards and nine IEEE Best Paper awards. He is Fellow of IEEE, ISI Highly Cited Researcher, and recipient of 2007 IEEE ComSoc Publications Exemplary Award. He has received the 2009 IEEE Marconi Prize Award, 2010 Purdue University Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer Award, and 2011 IEEE Communications Society Harold Sobol Award. He served IEEE in many functions including Chair of the 2008 IEEE TA/MGA Visits Program; IEEE ComSoc Vice President for Conferences; ComSoc and VT Fellow Evaluation Committees; IEEE TAB/PSPB Products & Services Committee; and member of IEEE PSPB.

José M. F. Moura (S’71–M’75–SM’90–F’94-LF’12) received the Electrical Engineering degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, and the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.

He is a University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, USA; was on the faculty at IST; and has been Visiting Professor at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. In 2010, he was elected University Professor at CMU. His interests include statistical and algebraic signal and image processing. He directs a large education and research partnership between Carnegie Mellon and nine Universities in Portugal. He founded at Carnegie Mellon two research institutes, the Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research and the Information and Communications Technologies Institute.

Dr. Moura is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a Member of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal. He received the Signal Processing Society (SPS) Technical Achievement Award and the Meritorious Service Award from SPS; he was awarded by CMU the 2008 Philip L. Dowd Fellowship Award for Contributions to Engineering Education and the 2007 CIT Outstanding Research Award. He received in 2006 an IBM Faculty Award.

John Naber (S’81-M’85-SM’95) received the B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1983 and 1985, respectively, from the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA, in 1992.

He worked in industry as an integrated circuit designer at General Electric (Syracuse, NY, USA) and ITT (Roanoke, VA, USA) from 1985 through 1995. In 1995, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA, and is currently employed in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as Professor and Associate Chair.

Dr. Naber currently supports two full-time research engineers, five Ph.D. students, and two M.S. students. He has over 60 journal and conference publications in the areas of integrated circuits, sensors, RFID, wireless, and implantable biomedical systems. He also has eight granted US patents and five granted international patents. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and a Senior member of IEEE.

Saeid Nahavandi (M’92-SM’07) received B.Sc. (Honors), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Engineering from Durham University, Durham, UK in 1985, 1986, and 1991, respectively.

He then joined Massey University, Palmerstown North, New Zealand, where he taught and led research in robotics and intelligent systems. In 1998, he joined Deakin University, Geelong, Vic, Australia, where he currently holds the titles of Alfred Deakin Professor and the Chair of Engineering. He is the director for the Center for Intelligent Systems Research at Deakin University with 60 researchers.

Prof. Nahavandi has been an active researcher in the area of intelligent systems since the late 1980s. He received the Prince & Princess of Wales Science Award in 1994 and won the title of Young Engineer of the Year in 1996. He has carried out industry-based research with companies and organizations such as ABB, Air-International, Australian Defence Force, BNP, Boeing, Bosch, FESTO, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Nissan, Omron, Pacifica, Siemens, Sun Microsystems, and Vestas.

Ali Pezeshki (S’95–M’05) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 1999 and 2001, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, in 2004.

In 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Colorado State University. From January 2006 to August 2008, he was a postdoctoral research associate with The Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. Since August 2008, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University. Since October 2012, he is also an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University. His research interests are in statistical signal processing and coding theory and their applications to distributed sensing, active/passive sensing, and bioimaging.

Gianluca Setti (S’94-M’97-SM’02F’06) received the Dr.Eng. degree (honors) and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1992 and in 1997, respectively.

Since 1997, he has been with the School of Engineering, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, where he is currently a Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He held several positions as Visiting Professor/Scientist at EPFL (2002, 2005), UCSD (2004), IBM (2004, 2007), and at the University of Washington (2008, 2010). He is also a permanent faculty member of ARCES, University of Bologna (2001-present). He co-authored three books,12 book chapters and over 200 journal papers and conference contributions.

Dr. Setti is (co)recipient of the 2004 IEEE CAS Society Darlington Award, Best Paper Award at ECCTD, 2006, Best Student Paper Award at EMCZurich, 2005, and at ISCAS, 2011, as well as the Best Italian Ph.D. Thesis Award in Neural Networks, 1997. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Bing Sheu (S’81-M’85-SM’91-F’96) received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

He taught at University of Southern California from 1985 to 1998 and became Full Professor in 1997. He moved to industry in 1999 and joined TSMC in 2006 as a Director at R&D. He was the original creator of the BSIM (Berkeley Short-channel IGFET Model) that was widely used in microelectronics industry.

Dr. Sheu is an IEEE Fellow, 1998 Senior Fulbright Scholar from US Information Agency, and Honorary Chair Professor at National Chiao Tung University and at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. He is co-recipient of IEEE Transactions on Very Larege Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems Best Paper Award in 1995, IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Award in 1997, and recipient of IEEE CAS Society Golden Jubilee Award in 2000, IEEE CAS Society Meritorious Service Award in May 2004, and Education Contribution Award from Ministry of Education (Taiwan) in 2006.

Marwan A. Simaan (S’69-M’72-SM’79-F’88-LF’12) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois (UI), Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, in 1972.

His academic experience includes faculty appointments at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and the University of Central Florida, Tampa, FL, USA. His industrial experience includes research appointments and consultancies with Bell Labs, Shell, Gulf Oil, and ALCOA. At Pitt (1976-2008), he served as Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department and held the position of Bell of PA/Bell Atlantic Professor of Electrical Engineering. At UCF (2008-present), he served as Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science and holds the position of Florida 21st Century Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Dr. Simaan served on numerous professional committees and editorial boards and received several awards including three best papers awards, a Distinguished Alumnus Award from ECE at UI (1995), and a Distinguished Engineering Service Award from the College of Engineering at UI (2008). He is a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania, a member of NAE, a Life Fellow of IEEE, and Fellow of ASEE and AAAS.

Satrajit Sinha received the M.B.B.S. degree from the Medical College Kolkata, Kolkata, India. He received the Ph.D. degree in biochemistry from the University of Texas at Houston, Houston, TX, USA, under the supervision of Dr. Benoit de Crombrugghe.

He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, with Dr. Elaine Fuchs, where he developed his interest in epithelial biology, especially skin keratinocytes. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo. His research interest is in transcriptional control mechanisms of epithelial cell development and differentiation. His laboratory utilizes biochemical and genetic approaches and genome-wide interrogation techniques to answer fundamental questions about differentiation of progenitor/stem populations and to examine molecular consequences of altered expression of transcription factors.

Dr. Sinha serves on the editorial board of journals and is a reviewer for several NIH study sections, and his research is funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Ah-Hwee Tan (M’04-SM’04) received the Ph.D. degree in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, and the B.S. (First Class Honors) and M.S. degree in Computer and Information Science from the National University of Singapore, Singapore.

He is an Associate Professor and the Head of Division of Software and Information Systems at the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NYU), Singapore. Prior to joining NTU, he was a Research Manager at A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research I2R, leading the Text Mining and Intelligent Agents groups. His research interests include cognitive and neural systems, intelligent agents, machine learning, and text mining.

Dr. Tan has published more than 120 technical papers and six patents and has successfully commercialized a suite of business-intelligence technologies. He serves on the editorial boards of Applied Intelligence, Journal of Database Management, and Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. He is a member of ACM and INNS and a Senior member of IEEE.