Author: Jong Hyuk Park

Ji Su Park received his B.S., M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Korea National Open University, Korea, in 2003, 2005, respectively and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science Education from Korea University, 2013. He is currently a Professor in Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering from Jeonju University in Korea. His research interests are in Mobile grid computing, Mobile cloud computing, Cloud computing, Distributed system, Computer education, and Io T.  He is employed as editor-in-chief of KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering and managing editor of Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), the Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS). In addition, he has been serving as a Guest Editor for international journals by some publishers: Springer, MDPI, KIPS. He has received “best paper” awards from the CSA2018, BIC2021, CSA2021 conferences and “outstanding service” awards from CUTE2019 and BIC2020. He has also served as the chair, program committee chair or organizing committee chair at several international conferences including World IT Congress, MUE, Future Tech, CSA, CUTE, BIC. Dr. Laurence T. Yang is the Academic Vice-President and Dean of School of Computer Science and Technology, Hainan University, China. He has published 250+ papers in the Cyber-Physical-Social Systems area on top IEEE/ACM Transactions including 8 and 41 papers as top 0.1% and top 1% highly-cited ESI papers, respectively. He has been involved actively as a chair of 4 IEEE Technical Committees and a steering chair for 10+ IEEE international conferences, invited to give around 50 keynote talks at various international conferences and symposia.He is a member of Academia Europaea, the Academy of Europe (2021), a fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (2020), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2020), Engineering Institute of Canada (2019), Canadian Academy of Engineering (2017), respectively. He is the recipient of the John B. Stirling Medal (2021) from Engineering Institute of Canada, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award (2020), IEEE Canada C. C. Gotlieb Computer Medal (2020), etc.   Dr. Yi Pan is currently a Chair Professor and the Dean of Faculty of Computer Science and Control Engineering at Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and a Regents’ Professor Emeritus at Georgia State University, USA. He served as Chair of Computer Science Department at Georgia State University from 2005 to 2020. He has also served as an Interim Associate Dean and Chair of Biology Department during 2013-2017. 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 is a Member of the Academy of the United Nations Sciences and Technology Organization, Foreign Member of Ukrainian Academy of Engineering Sciences, Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow of Institute of Engineering Technology and Fellow of Royal Society for Public Health.   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 (Seoul Tech), 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, Future Tech, 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 (Jo C) by KIPS CSWRG. He is Associate Editor / Editor of 14 international journals including Jo S, 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 Seoul Tech, 2014. His research interests include Io T, 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.