Dr. Raymond T. Yeh

Dr. Yeh taught computer science at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Maryland at College Park. He was also Chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences at both Texas and Maryland. Under his leadership, he helped both departments to gain top-ten ranking nationally. He was the Control Data Corporation Distinguished professor at the University of Minnesota, and is an honorary professor at four leading universities in China. He is founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering as well as Journal on Systems Integration and is on the editorial board of various journals. He also founded the Technical Committee on Software Engineering as well as the International Software Engineering Conference (ICSE) within the IEEE. He has published 10 books, including the four volume classic on Programming Methodology published by Prentice-Hall, and more than 120 scientific articles. He co-authored his first business book "Zero Time" published by John Wiley & Sons. in August, 2000. He founded three successful software companies during the time of 1983 to 1999. Dr. Yeh served as a board member for several organizations. He has also served as a management consultant to many nations including United Nations, US, Sweden, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Singapore as well as to world-class organizations including IBM, AT&T, Siemens (Germany), IIISis (Brazil), Fujitsu (Japan), NEC (Japan), Hatachi (Japan), Price Waterhouse, Singapore Housing and Economic Development Boards, etc. He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), and a senior research fellow at the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He was an honorary research fellow at Fujutsu from 1976 to 1985. He is a co-founder of the Society for Design and Process Science and its first President, and co-founder of the Software Engineering Society. Dr. Yeh is a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal, the IEEE Golden-Core award, Special Award of the IEEE Computer Society, the SDPS Awards for Scholarship and Lifetime Achievement and the prestigious SDPS Transformative Achievement Medalin 2010. Dr. Yeh won Visionary Leadership in Information Technology Award from the government of Taiwan.

Prof. Dr. Sunil Das

Sunil R. Das (M’70–SM’90–F’94–LF’04) received the B.Sc. degree (with honors) in physics and the M.Sc. (Tech) and Ph.D. degrees in radiophysics and electronics from the University of Calcutta, Calcutta, India. He previously held academic and research positions with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley, the Center for Reliable Computing, Computer Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (on sabbatical leave), the Institute of Computer Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., and the Center of Advanced Study, Institute of Radiophysics and Electronics, University of Calcutta. He is currently an Emeritus Professor of electrical and computer engineering with the School of Information Technology and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, and is also a Professor of computer and information science with the Department of Computer and Information Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Troy University, Montgomery, AL. He has published around 300 papers in the areas of switching and automata theory, digital logic design, threshold logic, fault-tolerant computing, built-in self-test with emphasis on embedded corebased system-on-chip, microprogramming and microarchitecture, microcode optimization, applied theory of graphs, and combinatorics. Dr. Das has served on the technical program committees and organizing committees of many IEEE and non-IEEE international conferences, symposia, and workshops and has acted as Session Organizer, Session Chair, and Panelist. He was elected as one of the delegates of the prestigious Good People, Good Deeds of R.O.C. in 1981 in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the field of research and education. He is listed in the Marquis Who’s Who Biographical Directory of the Computer Graphics Industry, Chicago, IL (first ed., 1984). He has served as the Managing Editor of the IEEE VLSI TECHNICAL BULLETIN [a publication of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee (TC) on very large scale integration (VLSI)] since its very inception, and he was also an Executive Committee member of the IEEE Computer Society TC on VLSI. He has also served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (subsequently, Part A, Part B, and Part C), from 1991 to until very recently. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computers and Applications (Calgary, AB, Canada: Acta), a Regional Editor for the Information Technology Journal (an official publication of Asian Network for Scientific Information), and a former member of the Editorial Board and a Regional Editor for Canada of VLSI Design: An International Journal of Custom-Chip Design, Simulation and Testing (New York: Gordon and Breach). He is a former Administrative Committee member of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, a former Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VLSI SYSTEMS (for two consecutive terms), a former Associate Editor of the SIGDA Newsletter: the publication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA), a former Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computer Aided VLSI Design (Norwood, NJ: Ablex), and a former Associate Editor of the International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems and Networks (Acta). He has also served as the Cochair of the IEEE Computer Society Students Activities Committee from Region 7 (Canada). He was the Associate Guest Editor of the IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS Special Issues on Microelectronic Systems (third and fourth special issues) and Guest Editor of the International Journal of Computer Aided VLSI Design (September 1991), as well as VLSI Design: An International Journal of Custom-Chip Design, Simulation and Testing (March 1993, September 1996, and December 2001), Special Issues on VLSI testing. He was also a Guest Editor (with R. Rajsuman) of a special section of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT in the area of VLSI testing, first in October 2003 (Innovations in VLSI Test Equipments) and then in October 2005 and April 2006 (Future of Semiconductor Test). He was the Coeditor (with P. K. Srimani) of a book entitled, Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithms (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1992) in its technology series. He is also the coauthor (with C. L. Sheng) of a text on Digital Logic Design (to be published). He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, and a member of ACM. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 1994 for contributions to switching theory and computer design. He was the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s highly esteemed Technical Achievement Award for his pioneering contributions in the fields of switching theory and modern digital design, digital circuits testing, microarchitecture and microprogram optimization, and combinatorics and graph theory in 1996. He was also the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s Meritorious Service Award in 1997 for excellent service contributions to IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VLSI SYSTEMS and the Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science in 1998 for his accomplishments in the integration of disciplines, theories and methodologies, development of scientific principles and methods for design and process science as applied to traditional disciplines of engineering, industrial leadership and innovation, and educational leadership and creativity. In recognition as one of the distinguished core of dedicated volunteers and staff whose leadership and services made the IEEE Computer Society the world’s preeminent association of computing professionals, he was made a Golden Core member of the Computer Society in 1998. He was also the recipient of the IEEE Circuit and Systems Society’s Certificates of Appreciation for services rendered as Associate Editor, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION SYSTEMS, from 1995 to 1996 and from 1997 to 1998, and he was the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s Certificates of Appreciation for services rendered to the society as a member of the society’s Fellow Evaluation Committee: once in 1998 and then in 1999. He has served as a member of the IEEE Computer Society’s Fellow Evaluation Committee for 2001 as well as for 2005–2007. He was elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2002 for pioneering contributions to computer engineering research—specifically in the fields of switching theory and computer design, fault-tolerant computing, microarchitecture and microprogram optimization, and to some problem areas in applied theory of graphs and combinatorics. He was elected a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 2005 for exceptional contributions to engineering in Canada. He was the recipient of the prestigious Rudolph Christian Karl Diesel Best Paper Award of the Society for Design and Process Science in recognition of the excellence of a paper presented at the Fifth Biennial World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology, Dallas, TX, from June 4 to 8, 2000. He was also the corecipient of the IEEE’s esteemed Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award for 2003 for a paper published in the December 2001 issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT. He was the 2007 recipient of the prestigious C. V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Scholar Award of the Society for Design and Process Science for his significant achievement through research in the field of design and process science. He is listed in the biographical profile of the Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering for his outstanding achievements. Dr Das is the recipient of the prestigious Wallace D. Malone Distinguished Faculty Award of Troy University in 2008. He is a Life Member and a Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery, U.S.A.

Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Dr. Yamaguchi received his B.S. degree from department of Instrumentation Engineering at Keio University, and Ph.D. degree from Department of Information and Security Engineering at Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan respectively. Dr. Yamaguchi’s main research interest is in the information security theory and mathematical foundations. He has been directing research and development to software engineering since1963 at NEC Corporation. He served as the Vice President of NEC Soft Ltd since1989 and pioneered the establishment of the Information Security Research Institute. He worked as the head of the research and development team on Japanese Government funded project for the next generation electronic voting system.

He served as a Visiting Professor in the Bioinformatic Research Institute, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan from 2004 to 2007. Currently he is serving as a Full Professor in the Research and Development Initiative, Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan. He served as a President of SES (Software Engineering Society), and currently serving the Fellow and Vice President of ATLAS (Academy of Transdisciplinary　Learning & Study Studies, Texas Tech University) and he is also ATLAS Gold medal of honor award recipient and honorary members. He engaged in the research project funded by the NICT (National Institute of Information and Communication Technology. He is currently working as a subdirector of the Melt-up Forum participated from Japanese Government, major IT venders in Japan. His research interests focus upon the cryptographic theory, modern logic cryptology and cognitive science. He received the best paper award on information sharing on DOD 14^th ICCRTS, International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, 2009. He served as a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine, California, USA, from 2014 to 2016.His publications includes over   He has been a keynote at several international conferences, such as IEEE-ICTAI, HASE, IEEE-BIBE, SDPS, and IEEE-ISM. His publications includes over hundred journal and conference papers and technical reports funded by US government and private agencies.