Hamid R. Arabnia

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Hamid R. Arabnia received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Kent (England) in 1987. He is currently a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at University of Georgia (Georgia, USA), where he has been since October 1987. He has graduated 21 PhD students (as of Year 2023). His research interests include Data Science, Machine Learning, STEM education, HPC/supercomputing, imaging science, and other compute intensive problems. His most recent activities include: Studying ways to promote legislation that would prevent cyber-stalking, cyber-harassment, and cyber-bullying. As a victim of cyber-harassment and cyber-bullying, in 2017 and 2018 he won a lawsuit with damages awarded for a total of $3 Million (includes $650K awarded for attorney’s costs). Since this court case was one of the few cases of its kind in the United States, this ruling is considered to be important. Prof. Arabnia is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer). He is the book series editor-in-chief of "Transactions of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence" (Springer). He is the editor of annual proceedings of Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (Publisher: IEEE CPS). He is an Associate/Guest co-Editor of IEEE Access journal (2019/2020). He is a Senior Adviser to a number of corporations and is a Fellow and Adviser of Center of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organized Crime Research (CENTRIC). He has served as a member of National Science Foundation (NSF) Site Visitation evaluation committee for 10 years. He has received numerous distinguished awards; including: from BIBE IEEE/SMC, ACM SIGAPP IMCOM, and others. Prof. Arabnia has about 280 peer-reviewed research publications as well as 250 edited research books in his areas of expertise (some of these books and journal special issues have received the top 25% downloads in their respective fields). His 20 edited books entitled “Frontiers in Education: CS & CE” has been highly cited by the research community. He has been a PI/Co-PI on about $12 Million externally funded projects/initiatives. During his tenure as Graduate Coordinator/Director, Prof. Arabnia secured the largest level of funding in the history of the department for supporting the research and education of graduate students (PhD, MS). Prof. Arabnia has delivered a number of keynote and plenary lectures at international conferences; most recently at: IEEE ICPADS, IEEE HPCC, ACM IMCOM, and others. He has also delivered a number of "distinguished lectures" at various universities and research units/centers. According to Stanford University, Prof. Arabnia is among the top 2% impactful scientist.

Kevin K.W. Ho

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Prof. Kevin K.W. Ho joined the MBA Program in International Business, Graduate School of Business Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of Tsukuba in April 2022. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2008. Over the past twelve years, he has been teaching at the University of Guam. Kevin’s research focuses on electronic service, information systems and social media commerce strategy, fake news and misinformation, and sustainability management. His research has been published in Behaviour & Information Technology, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Computers in Human Behavior, Decision Support Systems, Government Information Quarterly, Health Policy, IEEE IT Professional, Information Systems Frontier, Information & Management, Internet Research, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Sciences, etc. He is currently the Co-Editor(-in-chief) of Library Hi Tech and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. Before his academic career, he worked as a manager in various government departments in Hong Kong and has experience in financial management and human resources management.

Matthieu J. Guitton