TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

TRACK– I: VLSI technology, CAD algorithms

Member:

• Hussain Al-Asaad (University of California – Davis)

TRACK– II: Computer Architecture & Systems

Members:

• Tooraj Nikoubin (University of Texas at Dallas)
• Hakduran Koc (University of Houston – Clear Lake)
• Irene Yiqing Huang (University of Waterloo)
• Venky SHANKARARAMAN (Singapore Management University)
   

TRACK– III: Modeling and Simulation

Members:

• Xiaoyu Song (Portland State University)
• Erwin Bellers (V-Silicon)
• Edson L. Ursini (Campinas State University)

TRACK– IV: Software Engineering

 Members:

• Pankaj Kamthan (Concordia University)
• Detlef Streitferdt (Technische Universität Ilmenau)
• Saleh M. Alnaeli (University of Wisconsin-Stout)
• Vinitha Subburaj (West Texas A&M University)
• Shrikant Jadhav (North Carolina A&T State University)
• Hamid Mcheick (University of Quebec)

TRACK– V: Embedded Systems 

Members:

• Wenlun CAO (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
• Radu Muresan ( University of Guelph)
• Sotirios Ziavras (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
• Roman Obermaisser ( Universität Siegen)
• Nan Wang (California State University Fresno)

TRACK– VI: Signal Processing, RF and Microwaves

Members:

• Mustapha C.E. Yagoub (University of Ottawa)
• Rodney Vaughan (Simon Fraser University)
• James Giesbrecht (Ebor Systems Pty Ltd.)
• Chuyen LT (Viettel’s Solutions)
• Simranjit Singh (Punjabi University)
• Kamran Arshad (Ajman University)
• Behnam Shahrrava (University of Windsor)
• Zhang Zhenkai  (Jiangsu University of Science and Technology)
• De La Torre Diez (University of Valladolid)
• Eduardo Romero Aguirre (Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora)
• Chiman Kwan (Signal Processing, Inc.)
• John Ball (Mississippi State University)
• In Cheol Jeong (Population Health Science and Policy)
• Ahmed Alzahmi (University of Tabuk)
• Evangelos Yfantis (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
• Ke-Lin Du (Concordia University)
• Reza Vahidnia (British Columbia Institute of Technology)

TRACK– VII: Nanotechnology and Electronic Devices

Members:

• Dayan Ban (University of Waterloo)
• R. (Selva) Selvakumar (University of Waterloo)
• Sandipan Pramanik ( University of Alberta)
• Nicolas Jaeger (University of British Columbia)
• Scott Yam(Queen’s School of Computing)
• Moises Levy ((West Texas A&M University)

TRACK– VIII: Wireless & Sensor Networks and Mobile Communication

Members:

• Shamik Sengupta (University of Nevada)
• Sadaf Momeni( Universität Hamburg)
• Arunita Jaekel (University of Windsor)
• Chyi-Ren Dow (Feng Chia University)
• Cleonilson Protásio de Souza (Federal University of Paraíba)
• Mohammed Jasim (Valparaiso University)
• Doina Bein (California State University)
• François Chan ( University of Ottawa)
• John Dian (British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT))
• Solmaz Niknam ( Virginia Tech University)
• Tarek El Salti (Sheridan College)
• Sagar Naik (University of Waterloo)
• Ali Zibaeenejad (Shiraz University)
• Francois Chan (Royal Military College)
• Kingsley A. Ogudo (University of Johannesburg)
• Himali Sarangal (GNDU RC Jalandhar)
• Rinki Sharma (MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences)
• Sofiane Hamrioui (University of Nantes)
• Imadeldin Mahgoub (Florida Atlantic University)
• Vahid Heydari (Rowan University)

TRACK– IX: Cryptography and Cybersecurity

Members:

• Uttam Ghosh (Vanderbilt University School of Engineering)
• Michael Fire (Ben gurion university)
• Sherif Saad (University of Windsor)
• Cliff C. Zou (University of Central Florida)
• PAULO SÉRGIO MARTINS PEDRO (Unicamp)
• Anthony Skjellum (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
• Florim Idrizi (University of Tetova, North Macedonia)
• Chuck Easttom (Capitol Technology University)
• Shahriar Badsha (University of Nevada, Reno)
• Seonho Choi (Bowie State University)
• Bertrand Francis Cambou (Northern Arizona University)
• William H. Butler (Capitol Technology University)
• Alexander Ferworn (Ryerson University)
• Myungchul Kim (KAIST)

TRACK– X: Cloud computing and Green Computing

Members:

• Farhana H. Zulkernine (Queen’s University)
• Dawei Li (Montclair State University)
• Alexander Ferworn (Ryerson University)
• Yong Shi (Kennesaw State University)
• Lo’ai Tawalbeh (Texas A&M University)
• Ataur Rahman (International Islamic University)
• Ryan Shea (Simon Fraser University)
• Mohammad Almalag (Christopher Newport University)
• Mirza Mohd Shahriar Maswood (Khulna University of Engineering & Technology)

TRACK– XI: Distributed systems and Robotics

Members:

• Mohamed M. Rehan (AvidBeam Technologies)
• Ruzaini Abdullah Arshah ( Universiti Malaysia Pahang)
• Wendy Osborn (University of Lethbridge)
•  Scott Nokleby (University of Ontario Institute of Technology)
• Sylvain Chartier (University of Ottawa)
• Umar Iqbal (Mississippi State University)
• Mehrdad R. Kermani (Western University)
• Khalil A. Abuosba (Ryerson University)
• Nathanial Wiggins ( San Jacinto College)
• Tom Sgouro (Brown University)
• Xin. Zhang (Tianjin University)
• Kooktae Lee (New Mexico Tech University)
• Nur Uddin( Universitas Pembangunan Jaya, Indonesia)
• John Anderson (University of Manitoba)
• Mohd Ashraf Ahmad (University Malaysia Pahang)
• Francisco de Asis Lopez Fuentes (UAM-Cuajimalpa)

TRACK– XII: Computer Algorithms & Theory, Parallel Computing, Computer Architecture and Design

Members:

• Kai Salomaa (Queen’s School of Computing)
• Boting Yang (University of Regina)
• Noureddine Chabini (Royal Military College of Canada)
• Ramón Parra Michel (CINVESTAV Guadalajara)
• Behrooz Parhami (UC Santa Barbara)
• Kaizhong Zhang (University of Western Ontario)
• Nathanial Wiggins (San Jacinto College)
• Christian Trefftz ( Grand Valley State University)
• Hayssam El-Razouk (California state university)
• Damian Valles(Texas State University)

TRACK– XIII: Power Electronics and Renewable Energy

Members:

• Hamed Aly (Acadia University)
• Diego Andrés Aponte Roa( Universidad del Turabo)
• Ying Khai Teh (San Diego State University)
• Gordon Huang (University of Regina)
• Marguerite Wotto( University of Quebec in Montreal) 
• DANISH Mir Sayed Shah (University of the Ryukyus)
• Adam W. Skorek (University of Québec)

TRACK– XIV: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics

Members:

• James B. Cole (US Air Force Institute of Technology)
• Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto)
• Alireza Sadeghian (Ryerson University)
• Wojciech Ziarko (University of Regina)
• Abhishek Verma (New Jersey City University)
• Mehdi Kargar(Ryerson University)
• Hussein Al Osman (University of Ottawa)
• Sumit Kumar Jha (University of Central Florida)
• Andrew Park (Thompson Rivers University)
• Yuhan Cai (Linkedin)
• Steve Chan (Harvard University)
• Mila Kwiatkowska (Thompson Rivers University)
• Jin H. Park (California State University)
• Yehia Kotb (American University of the Middle east)
• Waqar Haque (University of Northern British Columbia)
• Adham Atyabi (University of Washington)
•  Mohsin Jamil (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
• Jürgen Seitz (Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University)
• MD S Hossain (Southern Connecticut State University)
• Phillip Bradford (The University of Connecticut)
• Mikhail gofman (California State University, Fullerton)
• Jamal-Deen (University of Ghana)
• David Mauricio (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas) 
• Sudarshan S. Chawathe (University of Maine)

TRACK– XV: Image Processing and Pattern Recognition

Members:

• Javad Alirezaie (Ryerson University)
• Jun Qin (Southern Illinois University Carbondale)
• Trung Duong (Colorado State University)
• Adam Krzyzak (Concordia University)
• Yudong Liu (Western Washington University)
• Herbert H. Tsang ( Trinity Western University)
• Mohamed Khaled Almekkawy (PennState College of Engineering)

TRACK– XVI: Computer networks, IoT and Data Mining

Members:

• Rami Yared (Bishop’s University)
• Syed Omer Gilani ( NUST)
• Xin Sun ( Ball State University )
• Basar Koc (Stetson University)
• Francisco de Asis López-Fuentes (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Cuajimalpa)
• Heba Elgazzar (Morehead State University)
• Matthew Wilder (TELUS)
• Mandeep Pannu (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
• Mohamed Azab (Virginia Military Institute, USA)
• Philipp Nenninger (University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe)
• Swathi Kurunji (Teradata Inc.)
• Ebenezer Owusu(University of Ghana)
• Ayda Basyouni (Concordia University)
• Benny Hardjono ( Universitas Pelita Harapan )
• Sujit Kumar Basak (Montreal, Quebec)
• Mehdi Adda (University of Quebec)
• Ziya Arnavut (SUNY Fredonia)
• Xing Liu (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
• Nancy EL RACHKIDY (Unviersité Clermont Auvergne)
• Wolfgang Bein (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
• Mirza Mohd Shahriar Maswood (Khulna University of Engineering & Technology)