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Honorary President of Past Conferences
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Dr. William Lesso
(1931-2015)
Professor Emeritus of the University of Texas at Austin, USA
Former Associate Dean of the College of Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin, USA
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Professor Thomas Marlowe
Seton Hall University, USA
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Program Advisor for Computer Science
Doctor in Computer Science and
Doctor in Mathematics
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Professor Shigehiro Hashimoto
Kogakuin University, Japan
Councilor and Dean
Faculty of Engineering
Former Associate to the President
Doctor of Engineering and Doctor of Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
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Fr. Dr. Joseph Laracy
Seton Hall University, USA
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Complex Systems, Differential Equations, and Dynamical Systems.
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Dr. Carol Woody
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Software Engineering Institute
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Coauthor of the book Cyber Security Engineering:
A Practical Approach for Systems and Software Assurance
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Dr. Russell Jay Hendel
Towson University, USA
Department of Mathematics
Doctoral Program at the Spertus Institute for a degree in Jewish studies
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Dr. Mario Lamanna
Evoelectronics, Italy
and
Selex-SI, USA
Senior Scientist and Project Leader
Projects in the fields of defense and security
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Professor T. Grandon Gill
University of South Florida, USA
College of Business
Director of the Doctorate in Business Administration
Editor-in-Chief of Informing Science
Editor of the Journal of IT Education
Founding Editor of Journal of Information Technology Education
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Dr. Jeremy Horne
President-Emeritus,
Southwest Area Division,
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA
CEO - Inventors Assistance League, USA
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Dr. Tilia Stingl De Vasconcelos
Business Consultant, Austria
Member of the European Society for Education and Communication
Previously, University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Information Management and Cross Cultural Communication
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Mg. Philipp Belcredi
Comparative-Systemic Intervention, Austria
Owner and CEO
Former CEO of Pewag Chain, Inc.
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Dr. Robert Cherinka
MITRE Corporation, USA
Chief Engineer, Software Engineering Technical Center
Former Head for Agile Engineering and Interoperability
Leading a Distributed Team of IT professionals
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Eng. Joseph Prezzama
MITRE Corporation, USA
Co-Department Head for the Joint Operations Southeast, Tampa office.
MS Software Engineering
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Professor Richard Segall
Arkansas State University, USA
Department of Computer and Information Technology
Neil Griffin College of Business
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Professor Mark M. Budnik
Valparaiso University, USA
College of Engineering
Paul H. Brandt Professor of Engineering
Houghton College, USA
Irwin Chair of Engineering
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Dr. Lorayne Robertson
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Former Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Education
Former Director of the Graduate Programs in Education
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Dr. William Muirhead
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Founding researcher of the EILAB in the UOIT Faculty of Education
Former Associate Provost
Founding academic administrator of the University
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Professor Sukjin Kang
Korea Aerospace University, South Korea
Faculty of Business School, Head of College of Liberal Studies
Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in KAU
Korean Association for Canadian Studies
Director of Korean Society for Teaching English Literature
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Dr. Luigi Serra
Cagliari, National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe
Technical Collaborator of Research Institutes and CTO at CNR ISEM (Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea)
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Professor Wen-Chen Hu
University of North Dakota, USA
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Editor-in-chief, International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR), 2010-2017
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Professor Mohammad Ilyas
Florida Atlantic University, USA
Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Former Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science
Member of Global Engineering Deans Council
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Dr. Steven Ehrlick
Ryerson University, Canada
School of Media, Department of Radio and Television Arts
Associate Professor & Director, The Music Den
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Dr. Peter Holowka
University of Calgary, Canada
Werklund School of Educational Technology at the West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver, British Columbia
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Dr. Madhumita Banerjee
University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA
Sociology Department
Assistant Professor and Director
Sociology Online Degree Completion Program
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Dr. Eliana Stavrou
University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus
Course Leader of the MSc Cybersecurity programme
Member of the expert advisory panel at the Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre, at Oxford University (UK)
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Dr. Kevin Foltz
Institute for Defense Analyses, USA
Information Technology and Systems Division
Independent Technical Analyst for the Department of Defense
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Dr. Maria Jakubik
Ronin Institute, USA
Knowledge Bridge Consulting, Finland
Research Scholar, Social Sciences, Higher Education
Doctor in Industrial Economics and
Doctor in Management and Organization, Knowledge Management
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Dr. Tina Haase
Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF, Germany
Researcher and expert in Virtual Reality and Visualization
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Dr. Songmei Yu
Felician University, USA
Department of Computer Science
Institute for Information Science
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Professor Elina Gaile-Sarkane
Riga Technical University, Latvia
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management
Expert and Researcher in management, innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer.
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Professor Natalja Lace
Riga Technical University, Latvia
Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management
Head of Department of Corporate Finance and Economics
Director of Master program “Business Finance”
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Dr. Renata Baracho Porto
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Department of Information Theory and Management
President of the National Association of Bio-Medical Sciences (Brazil's Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação)
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Dr. Scott Foote
Phenomenati, Computer & Network Security, USA
Founder, Director, and Chief information security officer
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Dr. Bruce E. Peoples
Innovations LLC, USA
Founder and CEO
Formerly at Université Paris 8, France
Laboratoire Paragraphe
Chair Emeritus of an ISO/IEC Standards Committee
Generated over 50 Invention Disclosures,
15 Patent Applications and 11 Patent Awards
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Effective Invited Sessions Organizers
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Professor Shigehiro Hashimoto
Kogakuin University, Japan
Councilor and Dean
Faculty of Engineering
Former Associate to the President
Doctor of Engineering and Doctor of Medicine
Biomedical Engineering
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Dr. Renata Baracho Porto
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Department of Information Theory and Management
President of the National Association of Bio-Medical Sciences (Brazil's Associação Nacional de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação)
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Professor Elina Gaile-Sarkane
Riga Technical University, Latvia
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management
Expert and Researcher in management, innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology transfer.
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Dr. Inga Lapina
Riga Technical University, Latvia
Faculty of Engineering Economics and Management
Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs
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Dr. Lorayne Robertson
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Former Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Education
Former Director of the Graduate Programs in Education
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Dr. William Muirhead
University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Founding researcher of the EILAB in the UOIT Faculty of Education
Former Associate Provost
Founding academic administrator of the University
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D. Nagib Callaos
President of the
International Institute of Informatics and Systemic, USA
Former Dean of Research and Development of the
University Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
Founding Editor in Chief of the
Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
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Program Committees Co-Chairs
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Professor T. Grandon Gill
University of South Florida, USA
College of Business
Director of the Doctorate in Business Administration
Editor-in-Chief of Informing Science
Editor of the Journal of IT Education
Founding Editor of Journal of Information Technology Education
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Dr. Suzanne Lunsford
Wright State University, USA
Professor of Chemistry
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Dr. Jeremy Horne
President-Emeritus,
Southwest Area Division,
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA
CEO - Inventors Assistance League, USA
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Professor Michael Savoie
University of North Texas, USA
Former Dean of the College of Technology and Computing
at Utah Valley University, USA
CEO of HyperGrowth Solutions
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Professor Hsing-Wei Chu
Lamar University, USA
Chair of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering
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Professor Thierry Lefevre
Director CEERD, Thailand
Centre for Energy Environment
Resources and Development
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Professor Andres Tremante
Florida International University, USA
The Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department
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Professor Friedrich Welsh
Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela
Former Chair of the Political Science Department
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Professor José Ferrer
Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela
Former Vice-President
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Professor José Vicente Carrasquero
Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela
Mathematician and
PhD in Political Science
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D. Nagib Callaos
President of the
International Institute of Informatics and Systemic, USA
Former Dean of Research and Development of the
University Simón Bolívar, Venezuela
Founding Editor in Chief of the
Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
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