EMERGING Steering Committee

Carl James Debono, University of Malta, Malta
Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Ioannis Moscholios, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Henrik Karstoft, Aarhus University, Denmark
Samuel Fosso Wamba, Toulouse Business School, France 
Masakazu Soshi, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Dong Ho Cho, KAIST, Republic of Korea
Tamás Matuszka, INDE R&D, Budapest, Hungary
Emilio Insfran, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Mark Leeson, University of Warwick, UK

EMERGING Industry/Research Advisory Committee

Euthimios Panagos, Vencore Labs, USA 
Dimitris Kanellopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
Linda R. Elliott, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Jason Zurawski, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Energy Sciences Network, USA
Rawa Adla, University of Detroit Mercy | Ford Motor Company, USA
Arun Das, Visa Inc., USA
Shaohan Hu, IBM Research, USA
Xiaochuan Fan, HERE North America LLC, USA

EMERGING 2018 Technical Program Committee

Andrea F. Abate, University of Salerno, Italy  Vision and image related trends
Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia  
Manal Abdullah, King Abdulaziz University, KAU Jeddah, Saudi Arabia  
Rawa Adla, University of Detroit Mercy | Ford Motor Company, USA
Smriti Agrawal, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India  
Shakeel Ahmad, Southampton Solent University, UK
Mohammed GH. I. AL Zamil, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Firkhan Ali Bin Hamid Ali, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Malaysia  
Adel Al-Jumaily, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia  
Cesar Analide, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Tulin Atmaca, Telecom SudParis, France  
Mozhgan Azimpourkivi, Florida International University, USA
Dirk Bade, University of Hamburg, Germany  
Sabur Hassan Baidya, University of California Irvine, USA
Assia Belbachir, Sorbonne University, France
Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK  
Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic  
Saman Biookaghazadeh, Arizona State University, USA
Kechar Bouabdellah, University of Oran 1 Ahmed Benbella, Algeria  
Lars Braubach, Complex Software Systems | Bremen City University, Germany  
José Cecílio, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University, Taiwan  
Hyung Jae (Chris) Chang, Troy University – Montgomery, USA
DeJiu Chen, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dong Ho Cho, KAIST, Republic of Korea  
Gianpiero Costantino, Institute of Informatics and Telematics (IIT) | National Research Council (CNR), Italy  
Arun Das, Visa Inc., USA
David de Andrés, Universitat Politécnica de València, Spain
Carl James Debono, University of Malta, Malta
Ramadan Elaiess, University of Benghazi, Libya  
El-Sayed El-Alfy, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia  
Linda R. Elliott, Army Research Laboratory, USA  
Xiaochuan Fan, HERE North America LLC, USA
José Fonseca, Instituto Politécnico da Guarda, Portugal
Antoine Gallais, Inria LNE / Université de Strasbourg, France
David R. Gnimpieba Zanfack, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France  
Nuno Gonçalves Rodrigues, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal  
Victor Govindaswamy, Concordia University Chicago, USA
Chunhui Guo, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Hongzhi Guo, University of Southern Maine, USA
Noriko Hanakawa, Hannan University, Osaka, Japan  
Manolo Dulva Hina, ECE Paris School of Engineering, France
William Hurst, Liverpool John Moores University, UK  
Shaohan Hu, IBM Research, USA
Abdellah Idrissi, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza, Spain  
Emilio Insfran, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Raj Jain, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Tauseef Jamal, PIEAS University, Islamabad, Pakistan  
Jin-Hwan Jeong, SK telecom, Republic of Korea  
Guohua Jin, Advanced Micro Devices, USA
Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece  
Dimitris Kanellopoulos, University of Patras, Greece  
Henrik Karstoft, Aarhus University, Denmark
Jalaluddin Khan, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia / Aligarh Muslim University, India
Hyunbum Kim, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA
Tae-Hoon Kim, Purdue University Northwest, USA
Aykut Koc, ASELSAN Research Center, Turkey  
Dimitrios Koukopoulos, University of Patras, Greece
Binod Kumar, JSPM Jayawant Institute of Computer Applications, Pune, India  
Abhimanu Kumar, Apple Inc., USA
Sunil Kumar, San Diego State University, USA
Mark Leeson, University of Warwick, UK
Yanjun Liu, Feng Chia University, Taiwan  
Elsa Maria Macias Lopez, University of Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Spain  
Zoubir Mammeri, IRIT - Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France  
Christopher Mansour, Villanova University, USA
Tamás Matuszka, INDE R&D, Budapest, Hungary  
Sally McClean, Ulster University, UK
Natarajan Meghanathan, Jackson State University, USA  
Maura Mengoni, Politechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy  
Ivan Mezei, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Panagiotis Michailidis, University of Macedonia, Greece  
Ioannis Moscholios, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Avishek Nag, University College Dublin, Ireland
Giovanni Nardini, University of Pisa, Italy
Fabio Narducci, University of Salerno, Italy  
Euthimios Panagos, Vencore Labs, USA  
Juan Pedro Muñoz-Gea, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain  
Horacio Pérez-Sánchez, Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM), Spain
Przemyslaw Pochec, University of New Brunswick, Canada  
Theodor D. Popescu, National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics Bucharest, Romania  
Danda B. Rawat, Howard University, USA
Muhammad Hassan Raza, Dalhousie University, Canada
Yenumula B. Reddy, Grambling State University, USA
Alberto Redondo-Hernández, ICMAT-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
Azim Roussanaly, LORIA lab - University of Lorraine, France  
Claudio Rossi, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Italy
Swapnoneel Roy, University of North Florida, USA
Khair Eddin Sabri, The University of Jordan, Jordan  
Alessia Saggese, University of Salerno, Italy  
Hasmik Sahakyan, Institute for Informatics and Automation Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Armenia
Tachporn Sanguanpuak, University of Oulu, Finland
Mustafa Sanli, Aselsan Inc., Turkey
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Vijay Shah, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Yilun Shang, Tongji University, China  
Brajesh Kumar Singh, R. B. S. Engineering Technical Campus, Agra, India  
Karan Singh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Dimitrios N. Skoutas, University of the Aegean, Greece
Masakazu Soshi, Hiroshima City University, Japan  
Jannis Stoppe, University of Bremen / DFKI, Germany
Kai Su, VMware Inc., USA
Saigopal Thota, University of California Davis / Walmart Labs, USA
Ali Tizghadam, Telus Communications / UofT, Canada
Berkay Topcu, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Turkey  
Mercedes Torres Torres, University of Nottingham, UK  
Hamed Vahdat-Nejad, University of Birjand, Iran  
Sima Valizadeh, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
Carlo Vallati, University of Pisa, Italy
Bal Virdee, London Metropolitan University, UK  
Antonio Virdis, University of Pisa, Italy
Yuehua Wang, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA
Yong Wang, Dakota State University, USA
Samuel Fosso Wamba, Toulouse Business School, France  
Yuehua Wang, Wayne State University, USA
Xin-Wen Wu, Griffith University, Australia
Tianhua Xu, University of Warwick, UK
Chung-Hsien Yu, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Meng Yu, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Quan Yuan, University of Texas-Permian Basin, USA
Wuyi Yue, Konan University, Japan  
Daqing Yun, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, USA
Chen Zhong, Indiana University Kokomo, USA
Zhiyi Zhou, Northwestern University, USA
Sotirios Ziavras, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA
Jason Zurawski, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / Energy Sciences Network, USA