Organizing Commitee

Steering Chair

Reda Alhajj,   University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Honorary-Chair

Frans N. Stokman,   University of Groningen, Netherlands

General-Chairs

Brahim Ouhbi,   Moulay Ismail University, Morocco
Jon Rokne,   University of Calgary, Canada
Nitin Agarwal,   University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Program Committee Chairs

B. Aditya Prakash,   Georgia Tech, USA
Dong Wang,   University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Tim Weninger,   University of Notre Dame, USA

Industry-Track Chairs

Prantik Bhattacharyya,   Monte Carlo Data Inc, USA
Wei Chen,   Microsoft Research, China

Multidisciplinary Track Chairs

El Habib NFAOUI, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco
Giancarlo Ragozini,   University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Reza Zafarani,   Syracuse University, USA

PhD Forum and Posters Track Chairs

Hanane Grissette,   Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco
Mohamed Bouguessa,   The Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Omair Shafiq,   Carleton University, Canada

Demos and Exhibitions Chairs

Keivan Kianmehr,   realtor.com, Canada
Tansel Ozyer,   Ankara Medipol University, Turkey

Workshops Chairs

Francesca Spezzano,   Boise State University, USA
I-Hsien Ting,   National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Radosław Michalski,   Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

Tutorial Chairs

Andrea Tagarelli,   University of Calabria, Italy
Michalis Faloutsos,   University of California Riverside, USA
Tanmoy Chakraborty,   Indian Institute of Technology, India

Sponsorship Chairs

Jalal Kawash,   University of Calgary, Canada
Mehmet Kaya,   Firat University, Turkey
Peter Peng,   University of Calgary, Canada


Publicity Chairs

Kashfia Sailunaz,   University of Calgary, Canada

Publication Chairs

Min-Yuh Day,   National Taipei University, Taiwan
Panagiotis Karampelas,   Hellenic Air Force Academy, Greece

Registration Chairs

Jalal Kawash,   Canada
Mehmet Kaya,   Turkey

Web Chair

Tansel Ozyer,   Ankara Medipol University, Turkey

Research Track Program Commitee

Shreya Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University
Keyan Guo, University at Buffalo
Abdessamad Imine, Loria
Suman Kundu, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Abiola Akinnubi, COSMOS-UALR
Ashwin Shreyas Mohan Rao, Information Sciences Institute - University of Southern California
Niloofar Yousefi, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Shubham Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Bohan Jiang, Arizona State University
Anggy Eka Pratiwi, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
Jiten Sidhpura, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology
Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, University of Geneva
Hanjia Lyu, University of Rochester
Nur Dean, Farmingdale State College
Orchid Chetia Phukan, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology
Ehsan Ul Haq, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Julio Cesar Soares dos Reis, Federal University of Viçosa
Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu
Young-Woo Kwon, Kyungpook National University
Akira Matsui, Yokohama National University
Zhenrui Yue, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Sankita Patel, SVNIT
Kijung Shin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Casey Doyle, Sandia National Laboratories
Tanvir Amin, Google
Isabel Murdock, Carnegie Mellon University
Humayun Kabir, Microsoft
Tobias Hecking, German Aerospace Center
Sangeeta Lal, Keele University
Muhammad Abulaish, South Asian University
Adnan Hoq, University of Notre Dame
Toshiharu Sugawara, Waseda University
Ulrik Brandes, ETH Zürich
Yifan Ding, University of Notre Dame
Yang Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Billy Spann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Michael Smit, Dalhousie University
Wang-Chien Lee, The Pennsylvania State University
Yue Zhang, Amazon, Inc.
Tuan Le, New Mexico State University
Alexander Rodriguez, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lanyu Shang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Zhenming Liu, College of William and Mary
Kshiteesh Hegde, Western Digital
Mehrdad Jalali, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Trenton Ford, University of Notre Dame
Sharma Chakravarthy, The University of Texas at Arlington
Anurag Singh, National Institute of Technology Delhi, India
Nishant Vishwamitra, Clemson University
Arlei Silva, Rice University
Sajedul Talukder, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University
Hamid R. Rabiee, Sharif University of Technology
Eduard Dragut, Temple University
Rajiv Ramnath, The Ohio State University
Xinyang Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yueqing Liang, Illinois Institute of Technology
Gita Sukthankar, University of Central Florida
Huimin Zeng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bijaya Adhikari, University of Iowa
Mainuddin Shaik, University of Arkansas at little rock
Xueying Liu, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Nayoung Kim, Arizona State University
Sriram Pemmaraju, Department of Computer Science, The University of Iowa
Xinwei Deng, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech
Charalampos Chelmis, University at Albany State University of New York
Courtland Vandam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hitkul Jangra, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
George Panagopoulos, Ecole Polytechnique
Wael Khreich, American University of Beirut
Keith Burghardt, University of Southern California
Nikhil Muralidhar, Stevens Institute of Technology
Siyi Guo, University of Southern California
Zhihao Hu, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech
Debanjan Datta, Virginia Tech
Fernando Terroso-Saenz, Catholic University of Murcia
Hadassa Daltrophe, Shamoon College of Engineering (SCE)
William Power, Temple University
Lara Quijano-Sanchez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Mirela Riveni, University of Groningen
Bing He, Georgia Institute of Technology
Kenji Yokotani, Tokushima University
Yiqiao Jin, Georgia Institute of Technology
Frank Liu, Southern Illinois University
Constantine Dovrolis, Georgia Institute of Technology
Jiaming Cui, Georgia Institude of Technology
Jiamou Liu, The University of Auckland
Raed Alharbi, University of Florida
Alessandro Visintin, University of Padua
Anatoliy Gruzd, Toronto Metropolitan University
Ying Zhao, Naval Postgraduate School
Nicholas Botzer, University of Notre Dame
Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo
Amrit Poudel, University of Notre Dame
Theresa Migler, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Yoshiharu Ichikawa, Keio University/NHK
Lu-An Tang, NEC Labs America
Ankan Mullick, IIT Kharagpur
Christine Largeron, Université de Lyon
Aisling Third, The Open University
Hasan Davulcu, Arizona State University
Rafael Elias De Lima Escalfoni, CEFET-RJ

PhD Track Program Commitee

Huimin Zeng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Skillicorn, Queen's University
Fattane Zarrinkalam, University of Guelph
Bailu Jin, Cranfield
Etienne Gael Tajeuna, Laval University
Anastasios Giovanidis, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Abdessamad Benlahbib, FSDM
Subhodip Biswas, VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Neha Gondal, Boston University