Academic Editors
The following people constitute the Editorial Board of Academic Editors for PeerJ Computer Science. These active academics are the Editors who seek peer reviewers, evaluate their responses, and make editorial decisions on each submission to the journal. Learn more about becoming an Editor.
Giovanni Angiulli
Giovanni Angiulli received the Laurea (Master's degree) in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Calabria (Italy) and the Dottorato di Ricerca (PhD degree) in Electronics and Computer Science Engineering from the University of Napoli Federico II, Italy, in 1993 and 1998, respectively. Since 1999, he has been with the Department of Information, Infrastructures, and Sustainable Energy (DIIES, formerly DIMET) at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy, as an Adjunct Professor. His main research activities concern Computational Electromagnetics, Group Theory methods, and Surrogate ModellingTechniques applied to model microwave circuits and antennas. He also worked on microwave imaging to detect female breast tumors and Ground Penetrating Radar applications in cultural heritage in the last years. He is a Senior Member of IEEE (2015) and a Member of IEICE (2013). In addition, he serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access. In recognition of his exceptional contributions, he has been honoured as an Outstanding Associate Editor for 2018 by the IEEE Access Editorial Board. He served as a Guest Editor for Mathematics (MDPI) Special Issue on “Surrogate modeling and related methods in science and engineering” (2021).
Davide Chicco
Davide Chicco is a scientific researcher at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD. from Politecnico di Milano in 2014, and his MSc. in Computer Science from the University of Genoa, Italy in 2010. From September 2018 to January 2020 he was a researcher at the University Health Network (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Davide Chicco's research centres on biomedical informatics and machine learning.
Shibiao Wan
Dr. Shibiao Wan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and the Co-Director for the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BISB) PhD Program at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also an Assistant Professor (courtesy) in the Department of Biostatistics at UNMC.
With more than 14 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr. Wan has published >50 articles in top-tiered journals such as Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Wan is the Editor-in-Chief for Current Proteomics, and an Editorial Board Member for a series of prestigious journals such as Briefings in Functional Genomics, Heliyon, BMC Bioinformatics, International Journal of Microbiology, PeerJ Computer Science, BioMed Research International, and Computational and Mathematical Methods, and a guest associate editor for multiple high-impact journals including Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Biology, Frontiers in Genetics, and Genes.
Dr Wan is a TPC member for >20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI. Dr. Wan is also a reviewer for >70 prestigious journals including Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Nature Computational Science, Science Advances, Nucleic Acids Research, Advanced Science, Cancer Research, Genome Biology, and Genome Medicine. Dr. Wan has received a number of accolades including the Springer Nature Editor of Distinction Award in 2025 by Springer Nature, the New Investigator Award in 2024 by UNMC, the FIRST Award in 2023 by Nebraska EPSCoR, the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2022 by HK PolyU as well as the Global Peer Review Awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 by Clarivate. Dr. Wan is a member of AACR, ISCB and ACM and an IEEE Senior Member.
Vicente Alarcon-Aquino
Vicente Alarcon-Aquino received his Ph.D. and D.I.C. degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London, London, U.K. in 2003. He is currently a Professor and former department head in the Department of Computing, Electronics, and Mechatronics at the Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico. In 2017, he spent a short-term research stay as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics at King's College London, UK. He has authored over 180 research articles in several refereed journals and conference proceedings, has written a book on MPLS networks, and has several citations to his research articles. He has served as Guest Editor for the Journal of Universal Computer Science, and is currently acting as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access Journal and as an Academic & Section Editor for PeerJ Computer Science. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, belongs to the Mexican National System of Researchers, and has been elected to membership of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. His current research interests include cybersecurity, network monitoring, anomaly detection, wavelet analysis, and machine learning.
Arun K Somani
Arun K. Somani research interests are fault tolerant computing and networking systems, scalable architectures and algorithms for WDM optical networks and parallel computer system architecture. He is active in professional society activities. He has served as an IEEE distinguished visitor and tutorial speaker. He was elected as a Distinguished Engineer of ACM in 2006, a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to theory and applications of computer networks in 1999, and a fellow of AAAS in 2012.
Stefano Cirillo
Stefano Cirillo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Salerno, Italy.
His research interests include Data Profiling, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy, and Social Networks, in which he has published several articles in international journals, books, and conference proceedings.
He graduated in Computer Science (cum laude) in 2018, at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Salerno. In 2022 he received the Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Salerno, with a Ph.D. course funded by the Programma Operativo Nazionale (PON) 2014-2020.
In 2018 he worked at the Centro Regionale Information Communication Technology (CeRICT) scrl based in Benevento, Italy, for designing, implementing, and developing an intelligent search engine for call-for-tenders in the e-procurement domain. In 2019 he was a visiting researcher at the Datonix SpA in Naples (NA), aimed at the design and development of algorithms for the extraction of profiling metadata from relational and non-relational databases. In 2020 he spent a research period at the Information Systems group of the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) affiliated with the University of Potsdam, Germany.
From 2022 to 2023 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Salerno for the research activity within the project "Profiling Data Streams for Anomaly Detection And Online Learning".
In 2022 he was an adjunct professor for the course of Databases, II year, for the Degree course in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Salerno.
Since 2023 he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Salerno for the project "Security and Rights in the CyberSpace (SERICS)".
He was Program Co-Chair of the International DMS Conference on Visualization and Visual Languages (2021) and Conference Co-Chair of the International DMS Conference on Visualization and Visual Languages (2022).
He is the Local Arrangements Chair of the international EDBT/ICDT 2024 Joint Conference and is a member of the program committee of several national and international conferences, including the International Conference On Computer, Software And Modeling (ICCSM), International Conference on Computing Science, Communication and Security (COMS2), International Conference on Big Data Computing Service and Machine (BIGDATASERVICE), International Conference on Advanced Information Science and System (AISS), International Conference on Applications and Systems of Visual Paradigms (VISUAL), International Conference on Networks, Communications and Information Technology (CNCIT), and International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (ICBDAI).
He is an Associate Editor of the Journal Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer) and of the Journal of Visual Language and Computing (JVLC). He is an Editorial Board Member of several international journals, including journal Data Science and Management (DSM), International Journal of Computer Science and Management, and Research Reports on Computer Science (RRCS). He was Lead Guest Editor for the Special Issue "Sentient Multimedia Systems and Universal Visual Languages" [1225] on Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer) and Guest Editor of several Special Issues published in international journals.
He is a reviewer of several international journals, including Intelligent Systems (IEEE), Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier), Information and Processing Management (Elsevier), Journal of Data and Information Quality (ACM), and Neural Computing and Applications (Elsevier).
Stefan Wagner
Stefan Wagner is full professor of software engineering at the Technical University of Munich in the TUM School of Communications, Information and Technology. He studied computer science in Augsburg and Edinburgh and psychology in Hagen. He holds a doctoral degree in computer science from TU Munich, where he also worked as a post-doc. Previously, he was a full professor at the University of Stuttgart. His main research interests are empirical studies, software quality, human factors, AI-assisted software engineering, AI-based software and automotive software. He is a member of GI and a senior member of ACM and IEEE.
Chan Hwang See
Dr. Chan H. See received a first class B.Eng. Honours degree in Electronic, Telecommunication and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Bradford, UK respectively. He is a Professor in School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University, UK. Previously (2019-2022), he was the Head of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics within School of Engineering and the Built Environment, in the same University. Prior to this, he was a Senior Lecturer (Programme Leader) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Bolton, UK. Before this, he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Antennas and Applied Electromagnetics Research Group within the University of Bradford. His research interests cover wireless sensor network system design, wireless power transfer, Internet of Things (IoTs), sensor technologies, computational electromagnetism, antennas and Bioelectromagnetics. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers in the areas of antennas, computational electromagnetics, microwave circuits, acoustic sensors and wireless sensor system designs. He is a co-author for one book and three book chapters. He was a recipient of two Young Scientist Awards from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC) in 2008 and 2010, respectively. Dr. See is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) and senior member of IEEE (SMIEEE). He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an EPSRC full college member, Associate Editor for IEEE Access, Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Antennas Propagations, Peerj Computer Science and Wireless Power Transfer journals.
Osama Sohaib
Dr Osama Sohaib is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney. His research interest areas include information systems modelling, e-Services, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Applied Machine Learning.
Alexander Bolshoy
Dr. Bolshoy has completed his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1993. He is the author of the book "Genome Clustering: from linguistics models to classification of genetic texts", Springer-Verlag, 2010, and many scientific articles. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, Computational Biology and Chemistry, ISRN Bioinformatics; and Linguistic Frontiers.
Massimiliano Fasi
Massimiliano Fasi is a Lecturer in Software Engineering at the School of Computer Science of the University of Leeds. He obtained a PhD from the University of Manchester in 2019, and has held positions in the UK (University of Manchester and Durham University) and in Sweden (Örebro University).
His research interests include scientific computing, computer arithmetic, and numerical analysis, with particular focus on numerical linear algebra.
Siddhartha Bhattacharyya
Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya is currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Christ University, Bangalore. He is a co-author of 5 books and the co-editor of 60 books and has more than 300 research publications in international journals and conference proceedings to his credit. He has got two PCTs to his credit. He has been a member of the organizing and technical program committees of several national and international conferences.
His research interests include hybrid intelligence, pattern recognition, multimedia data processing, social networks and quantum computing.