Steering Committee Chairs
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan
Professor of CSE, United International University, Bangladesh
Bio:
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan is a Professor at CSE department, United International University (UIU), Bangladesh. He received PhD in Computer Engineering in 2009 from Kyung Hee University, South Korea and B.Sc. in Computer Science and Information Technology from Islamic University of Technology (IUT), Bangladesh in 2003. In his academic career so far, he worked as a faculty member in Independent University, Bangladesh (2020-2021), Southeast University, Bangladesh (2015-2020), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia during 2010-2015; at BRACU, Bangladesh during 2009-2010, and at NSU, Bangladesh during 2004-2005. He has served as a General Chair, Organizing Committee member, and Technical Program Committee member in numerous international conferences/workshops like INFOCOM, CCGRID, GLOBECOM, ICC, etc. He was awarded the IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award for his role in IEEE GreenCom 13 conference. Among various editorial roles, he is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computers and Applications and Journal of Cyber Security Technology, Taylor & Francis, UK; Associate Editor of Connection Science, T&F; Editor of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks, Old City Publishing, and International Journal of Sensor Networks, Inderscience Publishers; Guest Editor of many special issues of top-ranked journals, and Editor/Author of 36 books. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Professional Member (complimentary) of ACM.
Der-Jiunn Deng
Distinguished Professor, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
Steering Committee Members
Jyh-Cheng Chen
Chair Professor of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Mohammed Atiquzzaman
Hitachi Chair, Presidential Professor of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, USA
Bio:
Mohammed Atiquzzaman obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Electronics from the University of Manchester (UK). He holds the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professorship and the Hitachi Chair Professorship in the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma, and is a senior member of IEEE.
Dr. Atiquzzaman is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, founding Editor-in-Chief of Vehicular Communications, former co-editor-in-chief of Computer Communication, and has served/serving on the editorial boards of many highly-ranked journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE JSAC, IEEE Communications Magazine, and International Journal on Wireless and Optical Communications. He also guest-edited 12 special issues in various journals.
He has served as symposium co-chair for many IEEE Globecom and IEEE ICC conferences and co-chair of IEEE High Performance Switching and Routing Symposium. He was the panels co-chair of INFOCOM’05, and is/has been in the program committee of numerous conferences such as INFOCOM, ICCCN, and Local Computer Networks.
He serves on the review panels of funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation, National Research Council (Canada) and Australian Research Council (Australia). In recognition of his contribution to NASA research, he received the NASA Group Achievement Award for “outstanding work to further NASA Glenn Research Center’s effort in the area of Advanced Communications/Air Traffic Management’s Fiber Optic Signal Distribution for Aeronautical Communications” project. He received the IEEE 2018 Satellite and Space Communications Technical Recognition Award for valuable contributions to the Satellite and Space Communications scientific community, the IEEE 2017 Distinguished Technical Achievement Award in recognition of outstanding technical contributions and services in the area of communications switching and routing, and the IEEE 2020 Distinguished Service Award in recognition of outstanding service for the benefit and advancement of the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Atiquzzaman received IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Prize for his paper entitled “Evaluation of SCTP for Space Networks”. He has been invited to deliver keynote talks on over 40 international conferences around the globe, including USA, Brazil, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Australia, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Korea.
His research interests are in satellite communications, wireless and mobile networks, vehicular networks, ad hoc networks, Quality of Service, and optical communications. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U.S. Air Force, Cisco, Honeywell, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, and Oklahoma Highway Safety Office through grants totaling over $10M. He has over 450 refereed technical publications, most of which can be accessed at www.cs.ou.edu/~atiq.