Luigi Donato: University of Messina, Italy & IEMEST, Italy
Luigi Donato, researcher in IEMEST of Palermo and affiliated to University of Messina, published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and participated in more than 60 national and international congresses. Today, he is a member of the Executive Committee of Low Vision Academy (LVA). Moreover, he was a member of ARVO, and he is actually a member of AIBG and SIBS. He joined the Editorial Board of several journals, such as Heliyon, BMC Bioinformatics and Cell Cycle. In 2020 he was the Editor and an author of the book "Advances in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Omic Sciences". His main research fields are focused on rare diseases, in particular retinal dystrophies, and omics approaches.
Mohamed Hammad: Menoufia University, Egypt & Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Hammad is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Computers and Information, Menoufia University, Egypt. His research interests include Biomedical Imaging, Bioinformatics, IoT, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Biometrics. Dr. Hammad has published more than 40 papers in international SCI-IF journals. Furthermore, he serves as an an Editor Board member in BMC Bioinformatics. He is listed in the top 2% of scientists worldwide (According to the recently released list by Stanford university USA in 2022.
Saurav Mallik: University of Arizona, USA
Dr. Saurav Mallik is currently working as Research Scientist in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Arizona, USA. Previously, he worked as Postdoctoral Fellow in Harvard University, University of Texas, and University of Miami, USA. He obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Jadavpur University, India in 2017. He previously worked in Indian Statistical Institute, India as Junior Research Fellow. He is the recipient of Research Associate from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, MHRD, India (2017), "Emerging Researcher In Bioinformatics" award from Bioclues, India (2020), "Young scientist award" from ISAO from India (2021) and two travel grant awards from USA. His research areas include data mining, computational biology, bioinformatics, biostatistics and machine learning.
Shoba Ranganathan: Macquarie University, Australia
Prof. Shoba Ranganathan, Ph.D., has worked in bioinformatics since 1983, when the field was known as theoretical biochemistry and subsequently as biocomputing. Her research has multiple areas of bioinformatics, including structure prediction. Shoba currently serves as the Chair, Board of Directors of APBioNet Ltd. and as a consultant to the National SuperComputing Centre (NSCC), Singapore. Recent honours include the 2018 Honorary Senior Fellow award of the Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS) and the 2023 Outstanding Contributions to ISCB award of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
Leyi Wei: Shandong University, China
Prof. Leyi Wei is a full Professor at the School of Software, Shandong University, China. His research interests include bioinformatics and artificial intelligence. He has published 100+ peer-reviewed papers, and his work has been recognized through the reception of awards, including “Highly Cited Researcher” (Clarivate Analytics, 2021,2022), World’s Top 2% Scientists (released by Stanford University 2021, ACM SIGBIO Rising Star Award 2021, and many others. In addition, he serves as Associate Editor and Editorial Board member for a number of well-known journals, such as Frontiers in Genetics, Methods, BMC Bioinformatics, etc.