Advisory Board and Editors Computational Science
Giuseppe Agapito
Giuseppe Agapito is an associate professor and a senior research scientist in the field of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Machine Learning and Graph Theory at the University Magna Græcia, Catanzaro. His research interests focus on the study of machine learning methods that can be used to take advantage of the vast amount of data that are produced nowadays. In particular, the research focuses on the development, implementation, and application of computational intelligence techniques for addressing complex real-world problems in different domains, especially in the field of biology and omics sciences.
Giuseppe Agapito has published his research in various top-quality academic outlets, with more than 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He serves as a reviewer for several scientific journals and a chair and program committee member of several national and international conferences.
Bilal Alatas
Prof. Alatas received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Firat University. He works as a Professor of Software Engineering at Firat University and he is the head of same department. He is the founder head of the Computer Engineering Department of Munzur University and Software Engineering Department of Firat University. His research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining, social network analysis, metaheuristic optimization, and machine learning. Dr. Alatas has published over 250 papers in many well-known international journals and proceedings of the refereed conference since 2001. He has been editor of twelve journals five of which are indexed in SCI and reviewer of seventy SCI-indexed journals.
Ilkay Altintas
Ilkay Altintas is a research scientist at SDSC, UCSD since 2001. She has worked on different aspects of data science and scientific computing in leadership roles across a wide range of cross-disciplinary projects. She is a co-initiator of and an active contributor to the open-source Kepler Workflow System, and co-author of publications at the intersection of scientific workflows, provenance, distributed computing, bioinformatics, sensor systems, conceptual data querying, and software modeling.
Diego R Amancio
Diego Raphael Amancio is an Associate Professor at University of São Paulo (Brazil). His research interest includes complex networks, machine learning, data mining, science of science, scientometrics, natural language processing and complex systems.
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).
Maria L. Calvo
Prof. Maria L. Calvo earned her degree in Physics from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain) in 1969. She began her career at Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, working in quality control for glass fabrication, focusing on surface quality and stress analysis. She later became a research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, where she continued studying the optical properties of glass and amorphous materials—specifically glass microhardness and Rayleigh light scattering—and earned a Doctorate Diploma from the University of Paris VI in 1971.
In 1972, she joined the Optics Department at UCM as an assistant professor under Prof. Armando Durán, initiating theoretical research on light scattering by defects in isotropic media. She earned her PhD with honors on this topic in 1977, became an associate professor in 1981, and was appointed Chair of Optics in 1999. From 2006 to 2010, she served as Head of the Department of Optics.
Prof. Calvo has held visiting positions at institutions including Bremen University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Missouri–St. Louis, the National Research Council of Canada, and the Institute for Optics and Electronics (INAOE, Mexico). She has supervised or co-supervised ten PhD dissertations and has been deeply engaged in undergraduate and graduate teaching.
In 1983, she founded the Interdisciplinary Group for Biooptics at UCM, later evolving into the Interdisciplinary Group for Optical Computing (GICO-UCM). The group’s research spans optical and image processing, optical tweezers, microscopy, holography, and neutron optics. She has authored more than 200 scientific publications, books, and book chapters in both English and Spanish. Her work also extends to the history of optics, particularly the early use of lenses and mirrors in ancient civilizations, in collaboration with the late Prof. Jay M. Enoch. She authored Alhazen: The Pioneer of Light. Alhazen and His Book of Optics, exploring the contributions of the 11th-century Arab scientist.
Prof. Calvo has been a prominent figure in the International Commission for Optics (ICO), serving as Vice President (1999–2002), Secretary-General (2002–2008), President (2008–2011), and Past-President (2011–2014). She has collaborated with the European Union’s Directorate-General for Research and Technology in Brussels, the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy), and Spain’s Ministry of Science and Innovation.
She is a Fellow of OPTICA (formerly OSA), SPIE, and the European Optical Society (EOS), as well as an Honorary Member of SEDOPTICA and the Portuguese Society for Optics and Photonics (SPOF). In 2011, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Russian-Armenian University.
Tianfeng Chai
Tianfeng Chai is an Associate Research Scientist at CICS-MD and the Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA. He got his master and bachelor degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing, majoring in Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Mechanics, and Environmental Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Iowa, with his dissertation of "Four-Dimensional Variational Data Assimilation Using Lidar Data" focusing on atmospheric boundary flow. He then worked with Dr. Greg Carmichael to develop chemical transport model adjoints and computational framework for data assimilation applications before moving to working on the NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) project in 2007. He currently works on the inverse modeling problems using HYSPLIT (Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model) to support several projects at NOAA Air Resources Laboratory.
Prasenjit Chatterjee
Dr. Prasenjit Chatterjee is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean (Research and Consultancy) at MCKV Institute of Engineering, West Bengal, India. He has over 4700 citations and 120 research papers in various international journals and peer reviewed conferences. He has authored and edited more than 25 books on intelligent decision-making, fuzzy computing, supply chain management, optimization techniques, risk management and sustainability modelling.
Neil P Chue Hong
Neil Chue Hong is the founding Director and PI of the Software Sustainability Institute, a collaboration between the universities of Edinburgh, Manchester, Oxford and Southampton. He enables research software users and developers to drive the continued improvement and impact of research software. From 2007-2010, he was Director of OMII-UK at the University of Southampton, which provided and supported free, open-source software for the UK e- Research community. In addition to sitting on several project advisory committees, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Research Software, chair of the Met Office / UKRI ExCALIBUR Steering Committee, past chair of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team on e-Infrastructure, co-author of "Best Practices for Scientific Computing" and "An Open Science Peer Review Oath", and co-organiser of the Software Engineering for Science workshop series.
Giulia Cisotto
Giulia Cisotto is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Department of Mathematics, Informatics, and Geosciences of the University of Trieste (Italy). She is an IEEE Senior member and a GRIN member. Her research activity is mainly focused on the processing and modeling of complex systems via machine learning and deep learning techniques, with particular expertise in multi-dimensional electroencephalographic (EEG) time-series. She has always been collaborating with several companies and research Hospitals to promote the impact of academic research into the Society. She is also active in the dissemination of science (as a member of the Association "La Via delle Scienze", Italy) and in the promotion of innovative teaching of science in the Academia.
Silvia Comani
I am Full Professor of Applied Physics, affiliated to the Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, at the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti – Pescara, Italy.
My research focuses on biomedical signal processing, mainly on development of methods for removal of artefacts from EEG signals recorded in adults and neonates, and of methods to study brain dynamics and inter-organ functional dynamics in adults and infants to detect the neural correlates of behavior in studies adopting a multimodal and multidisciplinary approach.
Maria Csernoch
Received her teacher degree in mathematics, descriptive geometry, informatics and English, her B.Sc. in software engineering and lean management, Ph.D. in mathematics and computer sciences, and Dr. habil. degree in applied linguistics from the University of Debrecen, Hungary. She currently works as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen. Her research interests include didactics of Informatics, specializing in developing computational thinking skills, knowledge-transfer, subject integration, digital sustainability, and lean computing education.