(IDS) Group at Liverpool Hope, serves on various editorial boards and review com-
mittees for international journals and conferences, and is a conference chair and orga-
nizer of the International Conference Series on Developments in eSystems
Engineering DESE (www.dese.org.uk). He has previously collaborated on a number
of EU-funded research projects, as well as a British Councilefunded project titled
Context-Aware Information Systems for e-Health Decision Support (in collaboration
with the British University in Dubai), where he was the principal investigator.
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Paul Fergusis a senior lecturer in computer science in the School of Computer
Science at Liverpool John Moores University, a visiting professor at Al Dar
University College in Dubai, and a visiting professor at Supelec in France. Paul
received a BSc (Hons) degree in Artificial Intelligence from Middlesex in 1997, an
MSc in Computing for Commerce and Industry from the Open University in 2001,
andaPhDinComputerSciencefromLiverpoolJohnMooresUniversityin2005.
Paul has more than five years’ experience as a senior software engineer in industry
and has worked on several development projects for the Prison Service, Ericsson,
Nokia, NMC, Nissan, and Pilkington Glass. He has been an active research for
more than 10 years and has published more than 130 papers on topics that include arti-
ficial intelligence, semantic web, signal processing, bioinformatics, and data science.
eUK
De-Shuang Huangreceived his BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees, all in Electronic En-
gineering, from the Institute of Electronic Engineering, Hefei, National Defense
University of Science and Technology, Changsha, and Xidian University, Xian,
China, in 1986, 1989, and 1993. During 1993e1997, he was a postdoctoral student
in Beijing Institute of Technology and in National Key Laboratory of Pattern Recog-
nition, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. In 2000, he joined the Insti-
tute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as the Recipient of
“Hundred Talents Program” of CAS. From September 2000 to March 2001, he
worked as a research associate in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In 2004,
he worked as the university fellow in the Hong Kong Baptist University. From
2005 to March 2006, he worked as a research fellow in Chinese University of
Hong Kong. From March to July 2006, he worked as a visiting professor in Queen’s
University of Belfast, United Kingdom. In 2007, 2008, and 2009, he worked as a
visiting professor in Inha University, Korea. At present, he is the head of the
Machines Learning and Systems Biology Laboratory, Tongji University. Dr. Huang
is currently a senior member of the IEEE. He has published more than 200 papers.
eChina
Hani Hamdanis a Professor in the Department of Signal Processing and Electronic
Systems of the Ecole Supe´rieure d’Electricite´(SUPELEC). He received his
Engineering Diploma in Electricity and Electronics option Computer Science and
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