Professor of Information Science and Adjunct Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington. Director, Center for Computer-Mediated Communication, Indiana University Bloomington. Editor, Language@Internet. Past editor, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Dr. Herring’s first intellectual passion was foreign languages. After being employed as a Graduate Student Instructor in the French Dept. and then the Linguistics Dept. at U.C. Berkeley in the 1980s, she was appointed as an Instructor in the Special Languages Program at Stanford University to teach Tamil in 1989. She was subsequently hired as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Cal State University, San Bernardino, to teach discourse analysis, in 1989, and promoted to Associate Professor in 1992. In the same year, she moved to the University of Texas, Arlington, where she was an Associate Professor in Linguistics until 2000. During that time the Internet was expanding rapidly, and her research interests shifted from traditional linguistics towards computer-mediated communication. In 2000, she joined the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, and was promoted to Professor in 2002. She also holds an Adjunct Professor appointment in the Linguistics Dept. at Indiana University and is a Fellow in the Center for Research on Learning Technologies and a Fellow in the Center for Social Informatics.
My research has covered a range of topics, including human-computer interaction, information visualization, bioinformatics, universal usability, security, privacy, and public policy implications of computing systems. I am currently working on a variety of NIH-funded projects, including areas such as bioinformatics research portals, visualization for review of chart records, and tools for aiding the discovery of animal models of human diseases.
Dr. Richang joined School of Computer and Information, Hefei University of Technology (HFUT) as a Professor. His current research interests include multimedia content analysis and social media. He has authored over 100 journal and conference papers in these areas and the Google Scholar citations for those papers is more than 7000. He served as editor of the IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Information Sciences, Signal Processing and Neural Processing Letter, and the guest editors of several international journals, a steering committee member of MMM (international conference on multimedia modeling) conference series since 2019, and the technical program chairs of the 22th International conference on Multimedia Modeling 2016 and the 9th ACM International Conference on Internet Multimedia Computing and Services 2017. He served as area chairs of ACM Multimedia 2017,2018,2019, 2020 and a technical program committee member of over 20 prestigious international conferences, and a reviewer of over 20 prestigious international journals. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award in ACM Multimedia 2010, Best Paper Award in ACM International Conf. on Multimedia Retrieval 2015 and Best Paper Honorable Mention Award of IEEE trans. Multimedia 2015. Dr. Hong is the CCF technical committee member on multimedia and the secretary of the ACM SIGMM China Chapter.
Michael C. Hout is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, where he directs the Vision Sciences and Memory Laboratory and co-directs the Addison Care Virtual and Augmented Reality Lab. He is also the Associate Director of the NMSU Discovery Scholars Program, and an Associate Editor at the journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. He recently finished a two-year position as Program Director at the National Science Foundation, co-directing the Perception, Action, and Cognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience programs. He has won several awards for research and teaching, including the Rising Star award from the Association for Psychological Science, as well as the Early Career Award for Exceptional Achievements in Creative Scholarly Activity and the Donald C. Roush Award for Teaching Excellence from NMSU.
Yifan Hu is a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs. Previously he worked at AT&T Labs, Wolfram Research, and Daresbury Lab. He is a contributor to the Graphviz graph drawing system. His research interests include information visualization, machine learning, and numerical and combinatorical algorithms mining.
Joemon Jose is a professor at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. His research interests are in information retrieval, multimedia retrieval, and affective search systems.
Zhaojie Ju (M'08-SM'16) received a BSc degree in automatic control and a MSc degree in intelligent robotics from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He received a Ph.D. degree in intelligent robotics from the University of Portsmouth, U.K. He held research appointments at University College London, London, U.K., before he started his independent academic position at the University of Portsmouth, in 2012. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and received five Best Paper Awards, one book award, and one Best AE Award in ICRA2018. His research interests include machine intelligence, pattern recognition and their applications on human motion analysis, multi-fingered robotic hand control, human–robot interaction and collaboration, and robot skill learning.
IBM Research scientist known for seminal work on computer virus epidemiology and immunology, emergent behavior of economies involving software agents, and autonomic (self-managing) computer systems. Author of over 150 refereed papers (h-index > 50) and over 30 issued patents. Led data center energy initiative resulting in multiple commercial offerings from IBM's software, systems and services divisions. Awarded IEEE Fellow for leadership and technical contributions to autonomic computing.
Pengcheng Liu is a member of IEEE, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). He is also a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Bio Robotics, Soft Robotics, Robot Learning, and Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics. Dr Liu is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, PeerJ Computer Science, and he received the Global Peer Review Awards from Web of Science in 2019, and the Outstanding Contribution Awards from Elsevier in 2017. He has published over 70 papers on flagship journals and conferences. He was nominated as a regular Funding/Grants reviewer for EPSRC, NIHR and NSFC and he has been leading and involving in several research projects and grants, including EPSRC, Newton Fund, Innovate UK, Horizon 2020, Erasmus Mundus, FP7-PEOPLE, NSFC, etc. He serves as reviewers for over 30 flagship journals and conferences in robotics, AI and control. His research interests include robotics, machine learning, automatic control and optimization.
Pattie Maes is the Alexander W. Dreyfoos (1954) Professor at MIT's Media Laboratory and the academic head for the Program in Media Arts and Sciences. She directs the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces research group, whose goal is to design and develop computer interfaces that are a more natural extension of our minds, bodies and behavior. She holds bachelor's and PhD degrees in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.
Federico Manuri received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, in 2008, 2011, and 2017, respectively all in computer engineering. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino.
Dr. Mao is currently a research scientist in Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to joining the NLM, he was a Professor at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine in China. Dr. Mao has received a Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2012), and B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Nanjing University in China in 1997 and 2000, respectively.