About author:Dr. PAN Yi is currently a Regents’ Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Georgia State University, USA. He has served as an Associate Dean and Chair of Biology Department during 2013-2017 and Chair of Computer Science during 2006-2013. Dr. PAN joined Georgia State University in 2000, was promoted to full professor in 2004, named a Distinguished University Professor in 2013 and designated a Regents’ Professor (the highest recognition given to a faculty member by the University System of Georgia) in 2015. Dr. PAN received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in computer engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh, USA, in 1991. His profile has been featured as a distinguished alumnus in both Tsinghua Alumni Newsletter and University of Pittsburgh CS Alumni Newsletter. Dr. PAN’s research interests include parallel and cloud computing, wireless networks, and bioinformatics. Dr. PAN has published more than 330 papers including over 180 SCI journal papers and 80 IEEE/ACM Transactions papers. In addition, he has edited/authored 40 books. His work has been cited more than 8300 times in GoogleScholar. Dr. PAN has served as an editor-in-chief or editorial board member for 15 journals including 7 IEEE Transactions. He is the recipient of many awards including IEEE Transactions Best Paper Award, 4 other international conference or journal Best Paper Awards, 4 IBM Faculty Awards, 2 JSPS Senior Invitation Fellowships, IEEE BIBE Outstanding Achievement Award, NSF Research Opportunity Award, and AFOSR Summer Faculty Research Fellowship. He has organized many international conferences and delivered keynote speeches at over 50 international conferences around the world.|Dr. LUO Guangchun received his Ph.D. and M.S degrees from the University Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2004 and 1999, respectively. He joined the University of California at San Diego and University of Toronto, Canada as a visiting scholar. Currently, he is a professor and Vice President of Graduate School of the UESTC. He has published around 50 articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He is very active in a number of technical societies and serves as committee members of the Calculation of Sichuan Province Institute of High Performance Computer and China Education Information Council. He has received regular funds from many programs of the Chinese Government, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Hi-Tech R&D Program (the “863” Program), and the Science and Technology Department Foundation of Sichuan Province.
