Prof. Ji Su Park received his B.S., M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Korea National Open University, Korea, in 2003 and 2005, respectively, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science Education from Korea University, 2013. He is currently Professor in Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering from Jeonju University in Korea. His research interests are in mobile grid computing, mobile cloud computing, cloud computing, distributed system, computer education, and IoT. He is employed as Editor-in-Chief of KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering and Managing Editor of Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), the Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS). In addition, he has been serving as Guest Editor for international journals by some publishers: Springer, MDPI, KIPS. He has received “best paper” awards from the CSA2018, BIC2021, and CSA2021 conferences and “outstanding service” awards from CUTE2019 and BIC2020. He has also served as Chair, Program Committee Chair, or Organizing Committee Chair at several international conferences including World IT Congress, MUE, FutureTech, CSA, CUTE, and BIC. Dr. Laurence T. Yang is Professor and W.F. James Research Chair at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. He has been involved actively as Chair of 4 IEEE Technical Committees and Steering Chair for 10+ IEEE international conferences, invited to give around 50 keynote talks at various international conferences and symposia. He is Member of Academia Europaea, the Academy of Europe (2021); Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (2020), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2020), Engineering Institute of Canada (2019), Canadian Academy of Engineering (2017), respectively. He is the recipient of the John B. Stirling Medal (2021) from Engineering Institute of Canada, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award (2020), IEEE Canada C. C. Gotlieb Computer Medal (2020), etc. Dr. Yi Pan is currently Regents’ Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Georgia State University, USA. He has served as Associate Dean and Chair of Biology Department during 2013–2017 and Chair of Computer Science during 2006–2013. Dr. Pan joined Georgia State University in 2000 was promoted to Full Professor in 2004, named Distinguished University Professor in 2013, and designated Regents' Professor (the highest recognition given to Faculty Member by the University System of Georgia) in 2015.Dr. Pan received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in computer engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1991. His profile has been featured as Distinguished Alumnus in both Tsinghua Alumni Newsletter and University of Pittsburgh CS Alumni Newsletter. Dr. Pan's research interests include parallel and cloud computing, wireless networks, and bioinformatics. Dr. Pan has served as Editor-in-Chief or Editorial Board Member for 15 journals including 7 IEEE transactions. He is the recipient of many awards including IEEE Transactions Best Paper Award, 4 other international conference or journal Best Paper Awards, 4 IBM Faculty Awards, 2 JSPS Senior Invitation Fellowships, IEEE BIBE Outstanding Achievement Award, NSF Research Opportunity Award, and AFOSR Summer Faculty Research Fellowship. He has organized many international conferences and delivered keynote speeches at over 50 international conferences around the world. James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park received Ph.D. degrees in Graduate School of Information Security from Korea University, Korea, and Graduate School of Human Sciences from Waseda University, Japan. From December 2002 to July 2007, Dr. Park had been Research Scientist of R&D Institute, Hanwha S&C Co., Ltd., Korea. From September 2007 to August 2009, he had been Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Korea. He is now Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Interdisciplinary Bio IT Materials, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), Korea. He has been serving as Chair, Program Committee, or Organizing Committee Chair for many international conferences and workshops. He is Steering Chair of international conferences—MUE, FutureTech, CSA, CUTE, UCAWSN, and World IT Congress-Jeju. He is Editor-in-Chief of Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) by Springer, The Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS) by KIPS, and Journal of Convergence (JoC) by KIPS CSWRG. He is Associate Editor/Editor of 14 international journals including JoS, JNCA, SCN, CJ, and so on. In addition, he has been serving as Guest Editor for international journals by some publishers: Springer, Elsevier, John Wiley, Oxford Univ. press, Emerald, Inderscience, and MDPI. He got the best paper awards from ISA-08 and ITCS-11 conferences andthe outstanding leadership awards from IEEE HPCC-09, ICA3PP-10, IEE ISPA-11, PDCAT-11, and IEEE AINA-15. Furthermore, he got the outstanding research awards from SeoulTech, 2014. His research interests include IoT, Human-Centric Ubiquitous Computing, Information Security, Digital Forensics, Vehicular Cloud Computing, Multimedia Computing, etc. He is Member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, KIPS, and KMMS.
