Prof. Shahram Latifi,
IEEE Fellow
University of Nevada,
USA
Biography:
Shahram Latifi, an IEEE Fellow, received the
Master of Science egree in Electrical
Engineering from Fanni, Teheran University,
Iran in 1980. He received the Master of
Science and the PhD degrees both in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in
1986 and 1989, respectively. He is currently
a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Latifi
is the director of the Center for
Information and Communication Technology
(CICT) at UNLV. He has designed and taught
graduate courses on Bio-Surveillance, Image
Processing, Computer Networks, Fault
Tolerant Computing, and Data Compression in
the past twenty years. He has given seminars
on the aforementioned topics all over the
world. He has authored over 200 technical
articles in the areas of image processing,
biosurveillance, biometrics, document
analysis, computer networks, fault tolerant
computing, parallel processing, and data
compression. His research has been funded by
NSF, NASA, DOE, Boeing, Lockheed and Cray
Inc. Dr. Latifi was an Associate Editor of
the IEEE Transactions on Computers
(1999-2006) and Co-founder and General Chair
of the IEEE Int'l Conf. on Information
Technology. He is also a Registered
Professional Engineer in the State of
Nevada.
Prof. Ho-Jin Choi
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST),
South Korea
Biography:
Dr. Ho-Jin Choi is currently a professor in
the School of Computing at KAIST, Daejeon,
Korea. In 1982, he received a BS in Computer
Engineering from Seoul National University,
Korea, in 1985, an MSc in Computing Software
and Systems Design from Newcastle
University, UK, and in 1995, a PhD in
Artificial Intelligence from Imperial
College, London, UK. From 1982 to 1989, he
worked as a senior engineer for Data
Communications Co. of Korea (DACOM), Seoul,
Korea, and between 1995 and 1996, as a
post-doctoral researcher at IC-PARC,
Imperial College, London. From 1997 to 2002,
he worked as an assistant professor in the
School of Electronics, Information
Communication, and Computer Engineering at
Korea Aerospace University, Korea, then from
2002 to 2009, an associate professor in the
School of Engineering at Information and
Communications University (ICU), Korea, and
since 2009 he has been with the Dept. of
Computer Science at KAIST. Between 2002 and
2003, he visited Carnegie Mellon University
(CMU), Pittsburgh, USA, and has been serving
as an adjunct professor of CMU for the
program of Master of Software Engineering
(MSE) in the Institute for Software Research
(ISR). Between 2006 and 2008, he served as
the Director of Institute for IT Gifted
Youth at ICU. Since 2010, he has been
participating as the vice-director in the
Systems Biomedical Informatics National Core
Research Center at the Medical School of
Seoul National University. Currently, he
serves as a member of the boards of
directors for the Software Engineering
Society of Korea, for the Computational
Intelligence Society of Korea, and for
Korean Society of Medical Informatics. His
current research interests include
artificial intelligence, data mining,
software engineering, and biomedical
informatics.