Kai Qian, PhD - Southern Polytechnic State University
Dr. Kai Qian is a professor of computer science & software engineering department at Southern Polytechnic State University. He received the Ph.D. of computer science and engineering from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1990. He has taught “Software Architecture and Design” courses in the undergraduate and graduate levels for years. He is the author of the textbook “Component-Oriented Programming” with Wiley & Sons, and “Java Web Application Illuminated” with Jones and Bartlett. He has published many journal and conference papers in the areas of software architecture and design, component-based software engineering, distributed computing, and computer vision.
Xiang Fu - Hofstra University
Dr. Xiang Fu is an assistant professor at Hofstra University. He received his Ph.D in computer science from University of California at Santa Barbara in 2004. He taught software engineering courses and published extensively in software verifications and Web services areas.
Lixin Tao - Pace University
Dr Lixin Tao, IEEE senior member, professor of computer science at Pace university in New York. He completed his Ph.D in computer science from University of Pennsylvania in 1988. His research area covers internet computing, CBSE, parallel and distributed computing. He was architect of large scale software projects for IBM.
Chong-wei Xu - Kennesaw State University
Chong-wei Xu, PhD, professor of Computer Science at Kennesaw State University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State University in 1986. His research interests include Internet technology, parallel and distributed computing, and game technology. He has published extensively in his research areas and taught Software Engineering related courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Jorge Diaz-Herrera - Rochester Institute of Technology
Dr. Jorge L. Diaz-Herrera, Professor of Computer Science and Dean of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.. Dr. Diaz-Herrera spent four and half years as a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute teaching in Carnegie Mellon’s Master of Software Engineering and conducting research in the Product Line Engineering program. He was department chair of the first Software Engineering Department in the US, at Monmouth University in NJ. He was in the faculty of the department of Computer Science at George Mason University, in Fairfax Virginia, and at SUNY Binghamton, NY.
He has conducted extensive consulting services with a number of firms in government agencies including NYSE, MITRE, the Institute for Defense Analysis, among others; he has chaired several national and international conferences, has been a technical reviewer for the National Science Foundation, the American Society for Engineering Education, for numerous conferences, and for several journals, most notably IEEE Software, IEEE Computer, and ACM Communications. He was an ACM National Lecturer for four consecutive years, and an invited speaker in numerous occasions. He is very active with the IEEE-CS, lately as a leading writer of the Software Engineering Professional Examination, and co-editor of the Software Engineering volume of the Computing Curricula. He is currently serving as a distingushed speaker in the Distinguished Visitor Program (DVP). He has given many short courses and tutorials both in the US and abroad, and has more than 80 publications. Dr. Díaz-Herrera holds a Masters and a Ph.D. in computing studies, both from Lancaster University, UK.
