Autor: Maria Virvou

Jeng-Shyang Pan received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, in 1986, the M.S. degree in communication engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 1996. He is currently Dean of the College of Information Science and Engineering, Fujian University of Technology. He joined Editorial Board of LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security, the Journal of Computers, and the Chinese Journal of Electronics. His current research interests include soft computing, information security, and signal processing.   Zhenyu Meng (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree, M. Phil Degree and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Shandong Normal University, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen in 2008, 2011 and 2018, respectively. After completing the M.Phil. degree, he worked at Guangzhou Institute of Advanced Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences as a research assistant during 2012 to 2013 before pursing the Ph.D. degree. Currently, he is a director of Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Fujian University of Technology, a professor in Fujian Key Provincial Key Laboratory of Data Mining and Application, Fujian University of Technology. Currently, he serves as a reviewer of several JCR Q1 SCI journals such as IEEE T EC, IEEE T Cyber, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Applied Soft Computing, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Access, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, and several Chinese SCI journals. His research interest includes Evolutionary Computation, Computer Vision and Vehicle Navigation.   Jianpo Li received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Communication Engineering, Jilin University, China, in 2002, 2005 and 2008, respectively. In 2008, he joined the School of Information Engineering, Northeast Electric Power University (NEEPU). He was a visiting scholar with New York University in 2013 and University of Ottawa in 2016. Now he is a full professor and vice-dean of the School of Computer Science, NEEPU. He has published more than 70 research papers and has 16 patents. His research interests focus on wireless sensor networks, intelligent signal processing, 5G, wireless power transmission.   Prof. Maria Virvou was born in Athens, Greece. She is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Informatics in the University of Piraeus, Greece, She received a B.Sc. Degree in Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, a M.Sc. Degree in Computer Science from the University College London, UK, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex, UK. She is Full Professor, Director of Post-graduate Studies, Director of the Software Engineering Lab and Head of the Department in the Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece. She is Author/Co-author of over 350 research papers published in international journals, books and conference proceedings and of many books and monographs in computer science published by Springer and other publishers. She has been Editor of over 20 collections of papers in conference proceedings or books, published by major academic publishers, such as IEEE, Springer, and IOS Press. She has also been Editor-in-chief of the Springer Plus Journal (Springer) for the whole area of computer science. Additionally, she has been an Associate Editor of the Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) Journal (Springer) and Member of the Editorial Board of many other international journals. She has been General Co-chair of the yearly conference series of International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013), technically sponsored by IEEE, which aims at promoting research in the area of interactive multimedia and major applications such as e-learning and m-learning. She has been the general chair/program chair of over twenty (20) international conferences. She has been the principal investigator or co-investigator of numerous national/international research projects. She has supervised 15 Ph.D. theses which have been completed successfully, and many of her former Ph.D. students hold academic positions in universities. She is currently supervising 5 Ph.D. students and 5 post-doctoral researchers. Many journal articles of hers have been ranked among the most cited/downloaded papers of the respective journals where they have been published. She has been a recipient of many best paper awards in international conferences. She has been an invited keynote speaker for many international conferences. According to Microsoft Academic Search, she has been ranked as 52 in the top 100 authors out of 58000 authors worldwide in the area of computers and education. Her research interests are in the areas of computers and education, artificial intelligence in education, user and student modeling, e-learning and m-learning, knowledge-based software engineering and human–computer interaction.