CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

Advisory Committee

Jerome H. Friedman, Stanford University, USA

Michalski Ryszard, George Mason University, USA

Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Kurt VanLehn, University of Pittsburgh, USA

David McAllester, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Robert Schapire, Princeton University, USA

Yao Xin, University of Birmingham, UK

Lofti Zadeh, University of California Berkeley, USA

Technical Meeting Committee

General Chair

M. Arif Wani California State University Bakersfield, USA

Conference Chair
Tao Li Florida International University, USA

taoli@cs.fiu.edu

Program co-Chairs

Lukasz Kurgan University of Alberta, Canada

Jieping Ye Arizona State University, USA

Special Sessions and Tutorials Chair

Hui Xiong, Rutgers University, USA

Publicity Chair

Khalid Hafeez University of Bradford, UK

Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Rochester, USA

Registration Chair

Adel Elmaghraby University of Louisville, USA

Awards Chair
Mariofanna Milanova University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

Sponsorship Chair

Ray R. Hashemi Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA

Industry track Chair

Tong Sun, Xerox Research Lab, USA

Shenghuo Zhu, NEC Research Lab, USA

Web Master

Steve Garcia California State University Bakersfield, USA

Program Committee

Abdennour El Rhalibi Liverpool John Moores University

Alan Sprague University of Alabama at Birmingham

Carlotta Domeniconi George Mason University

Chang-Tien Lu Virginia Tech

Charles Perng IBM Research

Chris Ding Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Dongyi Ye Fuzhou University, China

Du Zhang California State University Sacramento, USA

Giri Narasimhan Florida International University

Graham Kendall University of Nottingham UK

Guizhen Yang SRI International, USA

Iryna Skrypnyk University of Jyvaskyla

Istvan Jonyer Oklahoma State University

Jagath Rajapakse Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

James Tin-Yau Kwok Hong Kong University, Hong Kong

Ji Xiang NEC Labs America, USA

Jianping Fan UNC-Charlotte, USA

Jinbo Bi Siemens, Medical Solutions, USA

John Anderson University of Manitoba, Canada

Jungpil Shin The University of AIZU , Japan

Kim Seungchan Arizona State University

Larry Hall University of South Florida

Liao Li University of Delaware

Lukasz Kurgan University of Alberta, Canada

Luke Huan University of North Carolina

Marek Reformat University of Alberta, Canada

Maumita Bhattacharya Charles Sturt University , Australia

Mihai Boicu George Mason University, USA

Petia Radeva University Autonomic Barcelona, Spain

Petr Ekel University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Petra Perner Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Science, Germany

Qi Li University of Delaware

Ryszard Tadeusiewicz AGH University Krakow Poland

Sargur Srihari University at Buffalo

Shenghuo Zhu NEC Laboratories America, USA

Shi Zhong Yahoo! Inc

Taghi Khoshgoftaar Florida Atlantic University

Tao Xiong University of Minnesota

Tie Wang Arizona State University

Tomasz Smolinski Emory University, USA

Vasile Palade Oxford University, UK

Weili Wu University of Texas at Dallas

Witold Pedrycz University of Alberta, Canada

Xiaotong Shen University of Minnesota

Xin Zhang Arizona State University

Ya Zhang University of Kansas

Yan Huang University of North Texas

Ying Zhao University of Missouri, Rolla

Yixin Chen University of New Orleans

Zhi-Hua Zhou Nanjing University, China

Jishou Ruan Nankai University, China

Xue-wen Chen University of Kansas