Gong Li, also known in English as Li Gong, is a Chinese businessman and computer scientist. He is CEO of Linaro, a British software company headquartered in Cambridge, UK, developing systems software for the Arm ecosystem. He was previously the founder and CEO of Acadine Technologies, a systems software company specializing in mobile operating systems for mobile, wearable, and IoT devices. Acadine’s core product H5OS was a web-centric operating system that was primarily based on the open web standard HTML5. It was derived from Firefox OS, whose development Li had overseen as President of Mozilla Corporation.
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is a global organisation for researchers and professionals working in the field of computing to conduct research, develop standards and promote information sharing.
Donald Fred Towsley is an American computer scientist who has been a distinguished university professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Jawad A. Salehi, IEEE Fellow & Optica Fellow, born in Kazemain (Kadhimiya), Iraq, on December 22, 1956, is an Iranian electrical and computer engineer, pioneer of optical code division multiple access (CDMA) and a highly cited researcher. He is also a board member of Academy of Sciences of Iran and a fellow of Islamic World Academy of Sciences. He was also elected as a member of Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame in Electrical Engineering, October 2010.
Jim Kurose is a Distinguished University Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
John Chi-Shing Lui is a Hong Kong computer scientist. He was the chairman of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA. When he was a Ph.D. student at UCLA, he spent a summer working in IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. After his graduation, he joined the IBM Almaden Research Laboratory/San Jose Laboratory and participated in various research and development projects on file systems and parallel I/O architectures. He later joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For the past several summers, he has been a visiting professor in computer science departments at UCLA, Columbia University, University of Maryland at College Park, Purdue University, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Universita' degli Studi di Torino in Italy.
Vijay K. Bhargava is a researcher and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He served the department as its Head for 5 years. Before moving to UBC, Bhargava was a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Victoria.
Choi Soon-hong is a South Korean politician. He was born in Seoul, South Korea. He formerly served as United Nations Chief Information Technology Officer at the level of Assistant Secretary-General. He was appointed to the position by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in July 2007 and left the organization in August 2012.
Constance J. Chang-Hasnain is chairperson and founder of Berxel Photonics Co. Ltd. and Whinnery Professor Emerita of the University of California, Berkeley. She was President of Optica in 2021.
Howard George Willis Ware, popularly known as Willis Howard Ware was an American computer pioneer who co-developed the IAS machine that laid down the blueprint of the modern day computer in the late 20th century. He was also a pioneer of privacy rights, social critic of technology policy, and a founder in the field of computer security.
Saraju Mohanty is an Indian-American professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and the director of the Smart Electronic Systems Laboratory, at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Mohanty received a Glorious India Award – Rich and Famous NRIs of America in 2017 for his contributions to the discipline. Mohanty is a researcher in the areas of "smart electronics for smart cities/villages", "smart healthcare", "application-Specific things for efficient edge computing", and "methodologies for digital and mixed-signal hardware". He has made significant research contributions to security by design (SbD) for electronic systems, hardware-assisted security (HAS) and protection, high-level synthesis of digital signal processing (DSP) hardware, and mixed-signal integrated circuit computer-aided design and electronic design automation. Mohanty has been the editor-in-chief (EiC) of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine during 2016-2021. He has held the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Very Large Scale Integration during 2014-2018. He holds 4 US patents in the areas of his research, and has published 500 research articles and 5 books. He is ranked among top 2% faculty around the world in Computer Science and Engineering discipline as per the standardized citation metric adopted by the Public Library of Science Biology journal.
Biswanath Mukherjee is an Indian-American Distinguished Professor of computer science at University of California, Davis. He is also a fellow of IEEE for contributions to architectures, algorithms, and protocols for optical networks.
Jianwei Huang is a Chinese computer scientist and electrical engineer. He is a Presidential Chair Professor and Associate Vice President of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a guest professor of Southeast University.
Guy Pujolle is a computer scientist working in the areas of computer networks and company founder.
Fernando Boavida is a Portuguese computer scientist, informatics engineer, university professor, and writer, recognized as a pioneer of network science research and internet in the University of Coimbra and in Portugal.
Raouf Boutaba is an Algerian Canadian computer scientist. His research interests are in resource, network and service management in wired and wireless networked systems. His work focuses on network virtualization, network softwarization, cloud computing, and network security.
Jelena Mišić is a Yugoslav-Canadian computer scientist specializing in wireless networking, mobile computing, cloud computing, blockchain-based data recording, and cryptocurrency. She is a professor of computer science at Toronto Metropolitan University. She received her PhD in computer engineering from University of Belgrade in 1986.
Mubashir Husain Rehmani is a Pakistani researcher and computer scientist. His areas of work are computer networking, telecommunications, wireless communications and blockchain. He was recognised in 2020 and 2021 as one of the Highly Cited Researchers in computer science by Clarivate.
George N. Rouskas is a computer scientist, academic, and author. He is an Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University.
Khaled B. Letaief is a Tunisian academic who is the New Bright Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong. His research lies in the general area of wireless communications and networks, with research interests in AI and machine learning, mobile cloud and edge computing, tactile internet, and 6G systems. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2003, and an international member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) since 2021.
