ICKMS Invited Speakers 

 

 

Prof. Jiangjiang (Jane) Liu

Lamar University, USA

Biography: Dr. Jiangjiang (Jane) Liu received the B. Eng. degree in Computer Engineering from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, P.R. China, and the M.S. and then the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering, from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Dr. Liu is currently a professor at the Department of Computer Science in Lamar University. Her research interests are in data analytics, cloud computing, and computer architecture with an emphasis on: high-performance, low-power, and cost-effective for multi-core systems. Dr. Liu has been actively reaching out to women and minorities in computer science.

Assoc. Prof. Mohamed Zakaria Kurdi

University of Lynchburg in Virginia, USA

Biography: Dr. Kurdi is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Lynchburg in Virginia, USA. In addition to his Ph.D. in CS, he has an interdisciplinary background in Software Engineering, Cognitive Science, and Linguistics. Before joining the University of Lynchburg, he worked in several institutions in North America and Europe. His research interests are in text and data mining and their applications to areas like intelligent computer-assisted language education, authorship attribution, bioinformatics, and Social Network Analysis (SNA). He authored a two-volume textbook about Natural Language Processing (NLP) that was published in French and English. His recent work on text mining won two best paper awards and a nomination from three different international conferences.

Dr. Mohammad Hossain

University of Minnesota Crookston, USA

Biography: Mohammad Hossain is an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering and IT Management at the University of Minnesota Crookston, where he teaches various software engineering courses. He earned his Ph.D. from North Dakota State University in 2016. His Ph.D. dissertation title was “Foundational Algorithms Underlying Horizontal Processing of Vertically Structured Big Data Using pTrees.” His research interest includes Data mining, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Algorithm, etc.