Advisory Board and Editors Computer Education
Ivan Miguel Pires
Dr. Ivan Miguel Pires is a web and mobile developer, and adjunct professor at Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Portugal.
Related to the back-end development:
He has worked with native PHP and OutSystems, and some PHP frameworks, including Zend, Symfony, Yii, Silex and Wordpress.
Related to the database development:
Dr. Pires has primarily worked with MariaDB and MySQL.
Related to the client-side development:
Dr. Pires has worked with native JavaScript, BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, jQuery, jQueryUI, AngularJS, Angular 2, Angular 4 and others.
Related to the mobile development:
Dr Pires' primary research experience is related to the Android development. With additional training in Swift 3.
Related to my academic experience:
Dr. Pires was awarded a MSc in Computer Science and Engineering. Following this, his research focused on the use of mobile devices' sensors for the development of a platform related to Ambient Assisted Living.
Dr. Pires was awarded his PhD, and following this, his research has focused on the automatic recognition of Activities of Daily Living to be implemented as a module for the development of a personal digital life coach.
Certifications: Professional Trainer Certification; Scrum Master Certified; Scrum Product Owner Certified; Google Android Programming Certification; Oracle Certified Associate Java SE 7 Programmer; iOS Technical Test; OutSystems Apprentice Developer Certification.
Rommel T J Ramos
The Rommel Ramos Professor of Bioinformatics of Federal University of Para (Brazil) affiliated member of Brazilian Science Academy and CNPq Researcher (level 1-D). Since 2008 works with genome assembly and RNA-Seq analysis, he is the leader of the bioinformatic development group of the Biologic Engineering Laboratory in Park of Science and Technology (Pará/Brazil).
Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi
Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi earned his doctorate from the University of Eastern Finland. He specializes in computer science education, with a focus on democratizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for young learners and beginners. His research spans international contexts and involves co-designing innovative, constructionist technologies and learning materials for K–12 students. He develops AI tools and competency models to support curriculum integration, along with educator training resources that introduce students to AI early; helping build an AI-ready workforce and future technology creators. He also serves on editorial boards and as a special issue editor for journals in computing, technology, and education.
Margo Seltzer
Margo Seltzer the Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems and the Cheriton Family chair in Computer Science at The University of British Columbia. Her research interests are in systems, construed quite broadly: systems for capturing and accessing data provenance, file systems, databases, transaction processing systems, storage and analysis of graph-structured data, new architectures for parallelizing execution, and systems that apply technology to problems in healthcare.
Dr. Seltzer was a co-founder and CTO of Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB, recipient of the 2020 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award.
She serves on Advisory Council for the Canadian COVID alert app and
the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the (US) National Academies.
She is a past President of the USENIX Assocation and served as the USENIX representative to the Computing Research Association Board of Directors and on the Computing Community Consortium.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Sloan Foundation Fellow in Computer Science, and an ACM Fellow. She is recognized as an outstanding teacher and mentor, having received the Phi Beta Kappa teaching award in 1996, the Abrahmson Teaching Award in 1999, the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising in 2010, and the CRA-E Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award in 2017.
Kaize Shi
Kaize Shi is with the Data Science and Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Technology Sydney. He has PhD degrees in computer science and computer systems, which are from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, and the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interests include natural language generation, social computing, cyber-physical-social systems, meteorological knowledge services, intelligent transportation, and artificial intelligence technology. He is the associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems and academic editor of PeerJ Computer Science and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. He also served as a guest editor for the Information Fusion, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, etc. He served as a program committee member for conferences of ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, SIGKDD, ICDM, etc. He is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee of the China Meteorological Service Association.
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.
Tamara Sumner
I lead an interdisciplinary research and development lab that studies how computational tools - combining cognitive science, machine intelligence, and interactive media - can improve teaching practice, learning outcomes and learner engagement. Inquiry Hub, formerly known as Digital Learning Sciences, is a mission-centered, research-practice partnership involving faculty and students from the University of Colorado Boulder, scientific and technical staff from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and educators and administrators from Denver Public Schools. Our research and development team combines expertise in cognitive science, learning sciences, science education, user-centered design and evaluation, digital content management, software engineering, educational data mining, and machine learning/natural language processing.
I am also a Professor at the University of Colorado, with a joint appointment between the Institute of Cognitive Science and the Department of Computer Science. I am currently serving as the Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science. My research and teaching interests include personalized learning, learning analytics, cyber learning environments, educational digital libraries, scholarly communications, human centered computing, and interdisciplinary research methods for studying cognition. I have written 140 articles on these topics, including over 80 peer-reviewed scholarly publications.
Sándor Szénási
Sándor Szénási has earned his MSc degree in 2004 from Faculty of Informatics of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He has received his PhD in 2013 from Doctoral School of Applied Informatics (GSAI) of Óbuda University, Budapest.
Currently, he is an associate professor in the Institute of Applied Informatics of John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Óbuda University, Budapest. He is the leader of the local CUDA Teaching Center.
His research areas are (data) parallel algorithms, GPU programming and medical image processing. He engages both in theoretical fundamentals and in algorithmic issues with respect to realization of practical requirements and given constraints.
He is the member of the John von Neumann Computer Society and IEEE, and also a reviewer of several conferences and journals.
Valerie Taylor
Valerie Taylor is the director of the Argonne National Laboratory Mathematics and Computer Science Division. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1991. She then joined the faculty in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University, where she was a member of the faculty for 11 years. In 2003, she joined Texas A&M, where she served as head of the computer science and engineering department and senior associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Engineering and a Regents Professor and the Royce E. Wisenbaker Professor in the Department of Computer Science.
Julita Vassileva
Professor in Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her research area is human issues in decentralized computing technologies and applications: user modeling, personalization, trust modeling, intelligent educational and persuasive technologies.
Sebastian Ventura
Sebastián Ventura is professor of Computing Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Córdoba. His teaching is devoted to computer programming, machine learning and data mining in undergraduate and graduate studies. His research labor is developed as head of the "Knowledge Discovery and Intelligent Systems" (KDIS) research group, and it is focused on machine learning, data mining, big data, computational intelligence and its applications.
Chaman Verma
Dr. Chaman Verma is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Educational Informatics, Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University. He is also the project leader and chief researcher of his project sponsored by National Research, Development and Innovation (NRDI) Hungary. He also won a young educator scholarship for novel research sponsored by the EKÖP, NRDI Fund, and the Hungarian Government.
He pursued a post-doctorate at the Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, sponsored by UNKP, MIT (Ministry of Innovation and Technology), the National Research, Development and Innovation (NRDI) Fund, and the Hungarian Government. He received a Ph.D. in informatics from the Doctoral School of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, with the Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship funded by the Tempus Public Foundation, Government of Hungary. During his Ph.D., he won the EFOP Scholarship, co-founded by the European Union Social Fund and the Government of Hungary, as a professional research assistant in a real-time system from 2018 to 2021. He also received the Stipendium Hungaricum Dissertation Scholarship of Tempus Public Foundation, Government of Hungary, from 2021 to 2022.
He has been awarded several Erasmus Scholarships for conducting international research and academic collaboration with European and non-European universities. He received the best scientific publication award from the Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, In the years 2021-2024. He has also been awarded the ÚNKP scholarship for research by the Ministry of Innovation and Technology and the National Research, Development and Innovation (NRDIO) Fund, Government of Hungary, 2021-2023.
He has around ten years of experience in teaching and industry. He has over 150 scientific publications in the IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, IOP Science, Walter de Gruyter and MDPI. His research interests include data analytics, feature engineering, real-time systems, and educational informatics. He is a life member of ISTE, New Delhi, India. He is a member of the editorial board and a reviewer of various international journals and scientific conferences. He was the leading guest editor of the special issue Advancement in Machine Learning and Applications in Mathematics, IF- 2.25, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, in 2022. He was also a guest editor in two Springer journals. He is a co-editor in the series of conference proceedings of ICRIC-2021-24 published by Springer, Singapore. He reviews many scientific journals, including IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, and MDPI. He has Scopus citations of 1603 with an H-index of 24. He has Web of Science citations of 355 with an H-index of 13.