Technical Program Committee–

TRACK– I: VLSI technology and CAD algorithms 

Track Chair: Hayssam El-Razouk (California state university)

Members:

• Mike Turi(California State University)
• Soheli Farhana(Universiti Kuala Lumpur)
• Fei Yuan (Ryerson University)
• Teh Ying Khai (San Diego State University)
• Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh (York University)
• Hayssam El-Razouk (California state university)
• Gabriela Nicolescu (Polytechnique Montréal)
• Hussain Al-Asaad (University of California – Davis)

TRACK– II: Computer Architecture and Systems

• Abdel-Hameed Badawy(New Mexico State University & Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Saad Harous (United Arab Emirates University)

TRACK– III: Modeling and Simulation 

Track Chair: El Mostapha Aboulhamid (Université de Montréal)

Members:

• Gordon Huang (University of Regina)
• Erwin Bellers (V-Silicon)
• Minoru Watanabe (Shizuoka University)
• Ilham Benyahia (Université du Québec en Outaouais)
• Nathanial Wiggins (San Jacinto College)
• Hanqi Zhuang (Florida Atlantic University)
• El Mostapha Aboulhamid (Université de Montréal)
• Caspar Lebekwe (Botswana International University of Technology)
• William Headley (Virginia Tech University)
• Antwan D. Clark (John Hopkins University)

TRACK– IV: Software Engineering

Track Chair: Saleh  M. Alnaeli (University of Wisconsin-Stout)

• Yasser Morgan( University of Regina)
• Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta)
• Charles Hepler (Mount Royal University)
• Doug Tygar (University of California, Berkeley)
• Haibin Zhu (Nipissing University)
• Hafedh Mili (Université du Québec à Montréal)
• Ali Jannesari (Iowa State University)
• Saleh  M. Alnaeli (University of Wisconsin-Stout)

TRACK– V: Embedded Systems

Track Chair: I.Nan Wang (California State University Fresno)
                     II.Hakduran Koc (University of Houston – Clear Lake)

Members:

• Hakduran Koc (University of Houston – Clear Lake)
• Kamal El-Sankary (Dalhousie University)
• Eric J. Balster (University of Dayton)
• Nan Wang (California State University Fresno)
• Xiaoyu Song (Portland State University)
• Gul N. Khan (Ryerson University)

TRACK– VI: Signal Processing, RF and  Microwaves

Track Chair: Evangelos Yfantis (University of Nevada)

Members:

• Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan (IIT Palakkad)
• Edmond Cretu (University of British Columbia)
• Mustapha C.E. Yagoub( Université d’Ottawa)
• Soosan Beheshti (Ryerson University)
• De La Torre Diez (University of Valladolid)
• Anader Benyamin-Seeyar( Concordia University)
• Mohammed Al-Hamiri (University of Babylon)
• Chiman Kwan (Signal Processing, Inc.)
• Chuyen LT (Viettel’s Solutions)
• Rama Chellappa (University of Maryland)
• Mohamed Helaoui (University of Calgary)
• Elizabeth M Okumu (Kabarak University)
• Ke-Lin Du (Concordia University)
• Solmaz Niknam ( Virginia Tech University)
• Evangelos Yfantis (University of Nevada)

TRACK– VII: Nanotechnology and Devices

• Wang Haifeng (PennState New Kensington)
• Ying Khai Teh (San Diego State University)

TRACK– VIII: Wireless Sensor Networks and Mobile Communication

Track Chair: i.Mesut Güneş (Otto-von-Guericke-University)
                     ii.Casimer DeCusatis (MARIST College)

Members:

• Shamik Sengupta (University of Nevada)
• Ramiro Liscano (University of Ontario Institute of Technology )
• Karl Christoph Ruland (University of Siegen)
• Kanwalinderjit Gagneja (Florida Polytechnic University)
• Ismail Butun (Mid Sweden University)
• Doina Bein (California State University)
• Cong Pu (Marshall University)
• Muttukrishnan Rajarajan (University of London)
• Thaier Hayajneh (Fordham University)
• Hector Ivan Reyes-Moncayo (Universidad De Los Llanos – Villavicencio)
• Uttara Sawant (University of North Texas)
• Annamalai  Annamalai (Prairie View A&M University)
• Keyvan Moataghed ( Santa Clara University)
• Mesut Güneş (Otto-von-Guericke-University)
• Casimer DeCusatis (MARIST College)

TRACK– IX: Cryptography and Cybersecurity

Track Chair: I.Siddhartha Bhattacharyya (Florida Institute of Technology)
                     II.Dong Hyun Jeong (University of the District of Columbia)

Members:

• Michael Fire (Washington University)
• Yuhong Liu (Santa Clara University)
• Kambiz Ghazinour (Kent State University)
• Baris Aksanli (SDSU Engineering)
• Nikos Komninos (University of London)
• Randall Kozak (Conestoga College)
• Arash Nourian (University of California, Berkeley)
• Aiman Erbad (Qatar University)
• James Giesbrecht (Ebor Systems Pvt. Ltd.)
• Qingxue Zhang (Indiana University)
• Md Liakat Ali (Rider University)
• Dong Hyun Jeong (University of the District of Columbia)
• Chuck Easttom (Capitol Technology University)
• Aimeur Esma (Université de Montréal)
• Eman Abdelfattah (Ramapo College)
• Anthony Ayodele (University of Maryland University College(UMUC))
• Shahriar Badsha (University of Nevada, Reno)
• Siddhartha Bhattacharyya (Florida Institute of Technology)

TRACK– X: Cloud computing

Track Chair: I.Dawei Li (Montclair State University)
                     II. Sudarshan S. Chawathe (University of Maine)

Members:

• Dawei Li (Montclair State University)
• Ralph Deters (University of Saskatchewan)
• Yong Shi (Kennesaw State University)
• Sudarshan S. Chawathe (University of Maine)
• Salwan Waheed (University of Babylon)
• Yoonill Lee (Purdue University Northwest)
• Wei Liu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)

TRACK– XI: Distributed systems and Robotics

Track Chair: Kooktae Lee (New Mexico Tech University)

Members:

• Dan Zhang (York University)
• Kooktae Lee (New Mexico Tech University)
• Marco Aiello (University of Stuttgart)
• Md Masum Billah (Universiti Kuala Lumpur)
• Roland Bouffanais ( Singapore University of Technology and Design)
• Zina Ben Miled ( School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI)

TRACK– XII: Computer Algorithms, Theory and Parallel Computing

Track Chair: Jin H. Park (California State University)

Members:

• Wolfgang Bein (University of Nevada)
• Babak Salimi (Washington University)
• Christian Trefftz ( Grand Valley State University)
• George Karakostas (Mcmaster University)
• Moises Levy (FAU College of Engineering)
• Tooraj Nikoubin (Texas Tech University)
• Jin H. Park (California State University)
• Chetan Jaiswal (Truman State University)
• Sotirios Ziavras (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
• Tom Springer (Chapman University)
• Gregg T. Vesonder (Stevens Institute of Technology)
• Tamer Omar (California State Polytechnic University)
• Junchul Chun (Kyonggi University)
• Damian Valles Molina (Texas State University)

TRACK– XIII: Power Electronics and Renewable Energy

• Sandipan Pramanik (University of Alberta)
• Bozena Kaminska (Simon Fraser University)
• Wenlun CAO (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
• John Dian (British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT))
• Adam W. Skorek (University of Québec)
• Sandun S. Kuruppu (Saginaw Valley State University)
• Diego Andrés Aponte Roa ( Universidad del Turabo)
• Hamed Aly (Acadia University)
• Hong (Jeffrey) Nie (University of Northern Iowa)

TRACK– XIV: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data Analytics

Track Chair: I.Abhishek Verma (New Jersey City University)
                     II. Yun Tian (Eastern Washington University)

Members:

• Mohammed Jasim (Valparaiso University)
• Abhishek Verma (New Jersey City University)
• Heba Elgazzar (Morehead State University)
• Babak Esfandiari (Carleton University)
• Steve Chan (Harvard University)
• Hyunbum Kim (University of North Carolina at Wilmington)
• Julia Johnson (Laurentian University)
• Alina Campan (Northern Kentucky University)
• Ahmed Hassebo (Purdue University Northwest)
• Yuhan Cai (Linkedin)
• Anubhav Bhatia (SAP Labs)
• Aparna Varde (Montclair State University)
• Ramin Ramezani (University of California)
• Weinan Gao (Georgia Southern University)
• Yi Wang (Manhattan College)
• Yun Tian (Eastern Washington University)
• Matin PirouzNia (California State University Fresno)
• Jürgen Seitz (Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University)
• Sven Dominka (Bosch Engineering)

TRACK– XV: Image Processing

Members:

• Svetlana Yanushkevich (University of Calgary)
• Shahram Latifi (University of Nevada)
• Trung H Duong (Colorado State University)
• Wen Chen Hu (University of North Dakota)

TRACK– XVI: Computer networks, IoT and Data Mining

Track Chair: I.Shahab Tayeb (California State University)
                     II. Xing Liu (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)

Members:

• Shumon Alam (Prairie View A&M University)
• Chung-Horng Lung (Carleton University)
• Wei Hao (Northern Kentucky University)
• Thomas Kunz (Carleton University)
• Mohamad El-Hajj ( MacEwan University)
• Xin Sun ( Ball State University )
• Garima Bajwa (Capitol Technology University)
• Jiang Li (Old Dominion University)
• Yunquan Dong (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology)
• Xing Liu (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
• Anthony Skjellum (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
• Bingzhe Li (Manhattan College)
• Shahab Tayeb (California State University)
• Elnaz Limouchi ( Florida Atlantic University)