Future Information Technology - II

Professor James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park received his Ph.D. degree in Graduate School of Information Security from Korea University, Korea. From December, 2002 to July, 2007, Dr. Park had been a research scientist of R&D Institute, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea. From September, 2007 to August, 2009, He had been a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea. He is now a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea. Dr. Park has published about 100 research papers in international journals and conferences. He has been serving as chairs, program committee, or organizing committee chair for many international conferences and workshops. He is a president of the Future Technology Research Association International (FTRA) and Korea Information Technology Convergence Society (KITCS). He is editor-in-chief of Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences(HCIS) by Springer, International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence (IJITCC) by InderScience, and Journal of Convergence (JoC) by FTRA Publishing. He is Associate Editor / Editor of 14 international journals including 8 journals indexed by SCI(E). In addition, he has been serving as a Guest Editor for international journals by some publishers: Springer, Elsevier, John Wiley, Oxford Univ. press, Hindawi, Emerald, Inderscience. His research interests include security and digital forensics, Human-centric ubiquitous computing, context awareness, multimedia services, etc. He got the best paper awards from ISA-08 and ITCS-11 conferences and the outstanding leadership awards from IEEE HPCC-09, ICA3PP-10, IEE ISPA-11, and PDCAT-11. Dr. Park' s research interests include Digital Forensics, Security, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Context Awareness, Multimedia Service, etc. He is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, KIPS, KICS, KIISC,KMMS, KDFS and KIIT.

Dr. Yi Pan was born in Jiangsu, China. He entered Tsinghua University in March 1978 with the highest college entrance examination score among all 1977 high school graduates in Jiangsu Province. Dr. Pan is a Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Professor of the Department of Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University. Dr. Pan received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in computer engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1991.Dr. Pan's research interests include parallel and cloud computing, wireless networks, and bioinformatics. Dr. Pan has published more than 150 journal papers with over 50 papers published in various IEEE/ACM journals. In addition, he has published over 150 conference papers and edited/authored 39 books. He has received many awards from organizations such as IEEE, NSF, AFOSR, JSPS, IBM, ISIBM, IISF and Mellon Foundation. Dr. Pan has served as an editor-in-chief or editorial board member for 15 journals including 7 IEEE Transactions and a guest editor for 10 special issues for 9 journals including 2 IEEE Transactions. He has organized numerous international conferences and workshops and has delivered over 20 keynote speeches at international conferences.Dr. Pan is a "Great Master Face-to-Face" Series Speaker (2012), an IEEE Distinguished Speaker (2000-2002), a Yamacraw Distinguished Speaker (2002), a Shell Oil Colloquium Speaker (2002), and a senior member of IEEE. He is listed in Men of Achievement, Who's Who in Midwest, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in Computational Science and Engineering, and Who's Who of Asian Americans.

Professor Cheonshik Kim received M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Korea, in 1997; and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from HUFS in 2003. From March 2010, he was a professor of Department of Computer Science, Sejong University, Korea. From March 2013, he was a professor of Department of Digital Media Engineering, Anyang University, Korea. He won a research award from the IEEK in 2012. He has served as the Editor for ICACT Transcation on Advanced Communications Technology (TACT) since 2012. He has program chair of International conference, GPC 2013, IEEK Computer Society in varous capacities, including Vice-President since 2010. He is a member of IEEE. His research interests include Multimedia Systems, Data Hiding, and Watermarking. His research is supported by NRF.

Professor Yun Yang received the MS degree in engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China and Ph. D. from The University of Queensland. Currently, he is a Professor in Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His research interests are Cloud, Grid and p2p based Workflow and Software Development on the Internet, Cloud and Internet Computing (Web services, service-oriented computing, data management, privacy, electronic commerce, agents), Software Development Environments, Tools, and Verification, Distributed Systems Tools, Teamwork, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)/Groupware Awareness and e-Learning. He is Leader, NGSP (Next Generation Software Platform) focus area, SUCCESS, 2011 – present, Associate Dean (Research), March 2008 - Feb. 2010 and Deputy Director of CITR, 2005 – 2007. He was the head of Computer Science and Software Engineering Academic Group, 2005.