Sumeet Dua, PhD, is currently an Upchurch endowed associate professor and the coordinator of IT research at Louisiana Tech University, Ruston. He also serves as adjunct faculty to the School of Medicine, Louisiana State University, Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. His areas of expertise include data mining, image processing, computational decision support, pattern recognition, data warehousing, biomedical informatics, and heterogeneous distributed data integration. The National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, (AFOSR), and the Louisiana Board of Regents (LA-BoR) have funded his research. He frequently serves as a study section member (expert panelist) for the NIH’s Center for Scientific Review and has served as a panelist for the NSF/Computing in Science in Engineering (CISE) Directorate. Dr. Dua has chaired several conference sessions in the area of data mining and bioinformatics, and is the program chair for the 5th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology, and Management (ICISTM-2011). He has given over 26 invited talks on data mining and bioinformatics at international academic and industry arenas, advised over 25 graduate theses, and currently advises several students in this field. Dr. Dua is acoinventor of two issued U.S. patents, has co-authored over 50 publications and book chapters, and is an author /editor of 4 books in data mining and bioinformatics.
Dr. Dua has received the Engineering and Science Foundation Award for Faculty Excellence (2006) and the Faculty Research Recognition Award (2007); he has been recognized as a Distinguished Researcher (2004-2010) by the Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (sponsored by NIH) and has won the Oustanding Poster Award at the NIH/National Cancer Institute (NCI) caBIG-NCRI Informatics Joint Conference; Biomedical Informatics without Borders: From Collaboration to Implementation. Dr. Dua is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society, a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a member of SPIE and the American Association for Advancement of Science.
Rajendra Acharya U., PhD, DEng, is a visiting faculty member at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore; an associate faculty member at the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) University, Singapore; and an adjunct faculty at the Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, India. He received his PhD from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, Surathkal, India, and his DEng from the Chiba University, Japan. He has published more than 120 papers in international journals (94), international conference proceedings (30), and books (9), and has an H-index of 12.
Currently, Dr. Acharya U. is on the editorial board of the following journals: Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, Open Access Medical Informatics Journal, Open Assess Artificial Intelligence Journal, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, and Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal. He served as the guest editor for many journals, and is a senior IEEE member and a fellow of IETE.