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Conference Chair


Mohammad S. Obaidat
Fordham University, NY
United States


Brief Bio
Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat (Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of SCS) is an internationally well-known academic/researcher/scientist. He received his Ph.D. and M. S. degrees in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Dr. Obaidat is currently the Chair and Full Professor of Computer and Information Science at Fordham University, NY, USA. He has received extensive research funding and has published Forty Six (46) books and over Six Hundreds and Eighty (680) refereed technical articles in scholarly international journals and proceedings of international conferences, and currently working on three more books. Mohammad is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems, the FTRA Journal of Convergence and the KSIP Journal of Information Processing. He is also an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications. He is now an editor of the Wiley Security and Communication Networks Journal, Journal of Networks, International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, IJITCC, Inderscience. Prof. Obaidat is an associate editor/editorial board member of seven other refereed scholarly journals. He has guest edited numerous special issues of scholarly journals. Obaidat has served as the steering committee chair, advisory Committee Chair and program chair of numerous international conferences. ... More >>

 

Program Co-Chairs


Floriano De Rango
Dimes, University of Calabria
Italy
culture.deis.unical.it/derango


Brief Bio
Floriano De Rango is Associate Prof. in Telecommunication and Networking technologies at DIMES Dept., University of Calabria from 2017. He received the degree in computer science engineering in October 2000, and a Ph.D. in electronics and communications engineering in January 2005, both at the University of Calabria, Italy. From January 2000 to October 2000, he worked in the Telecom Research LAB C.S.E.L.T. in Turin as visiting scholar student. From March 2004 to November 2004, he was visiting researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) under the supervision of Prof. Mario Gerla. From November 2004 until September 2007, he has been a Research Fellow in the D.E.I.S. Department, University of Calabria and he became Assistant Prof. in Telecommunication from 2007 to 2017. He was recipient of Young Researcher Award in 2007. He served as reviewer and TPC member for many International Conferences such as IEEE VTC, ICC, WCNC, Globecom, Med Hoc Net, SPECTS, WirelessCOM, WinSys and reviewer for many journals such as IEEE Communication Letters, JSAC, IEEE Trans.on Vehicular Technology, Computer Communication, Eurasip JWCN, WINET etc. His interests include Internet of Things, Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks, Drones, Adaptive Wireless Networks, Satellite networks, IP QoS architectures, , Ad Hoc Networks and Pervasive Computing. In 2019 he has been ranked in the top italian scientist (TIS) via academy data base where the most cited Italian scientists are recorded. He founded 3 startup companies: Spintel srl, Thuderbit srl and FireFly srl working in the field of IoT applied to Home&Building Automation, Smart Cities and Public Lighting. Spintel srl has been ranked in 2013 among the most promising startups by Intel in the Intel Business Challenge Europe (IBCE) competition. ... More >>


Tuncer Ören (honorary)
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Canada
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~oren/


Brief Bio
Tuncer Ören is a professor emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He has been involved with simulation since 1965. His research interests include: (1) advancing modeling and simulation methodologies; (2) agent-directed simulation (full synergy of agents and simulation); (3) agents for cognitive and emotive simulations including representations of human personality, emotions, emotional intelligence, understanding, sources of misunderstanding and conflict; (4) reliability, quality assurance, failure avoidance, and ethics; as well as (5) body of knowledge and (6) terminology of modeling si mulation. He has over 540 publications –some translated in Chinese, German and Turkish– including 50 books and proceedings. He has contributed to over 500 conferences and seminars held in 40 countries. He has been keynote or invited speaker, or honorary chair in about half of them. Dr. Ören has been recognized, by IBM Canada, as a pioneer of computing in Canada. He received "Information Age Award" from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and an Honor Award from the Language Association of Turkey. He was inducted to SCS Modeling and Simulation Hall of Fame –Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a distinguished lecturer, a fellow as well as AVP for ethics of SCS. A book about him was edited by L. Yilmaz in 2015 (Concepts and Methodologies for Modeling and Simulation: A Tribute to Tuncer Ören, Springer.) ... More >>

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