Dr. Wen-Tsuen Chen received his M.Sc. degree (1973) and Ph.D. degree (1976) in electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He has joined the National Tsing Hua University since 1976. He has served as Department Chairman and founding Dean of College of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Dr. Chen has also served as Director of the Science & Technology Advisory Office, Ministry of Education, Taiwan. From 2006 to 2010, he was the President of National Tsing Hua University. Since March 2012, he has joined Academia Sinica as a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Information Science. Dr. Chen has served as consultant and advisor in various levels of Taiwan government and industrial research organizations including Ministry of Economic Affairs, Institute for Information Industry, and Industrial Technology Research Institute. From July 2006 for 4 years, he was a science & technology advisor to Premier, Executive Yuan of Taiwan. Starting in January 2011, he is the Program Director of the National Program for Intelligent Electronics of the National Science Council, aiming at developing advanced and innovative industrial technologies for bio-medical, green, automotive, and ICT electronics and their applications.

Dr. Chen's early research work was on software engineering. He pioneered the design of computer networks and parallel systems in early 1980s. His current research interests include intelligent sensing and applications, mobile computing, and social networks. He has received numerous awards for his achievements in software engineering, computer networking and parallel processing, including Outstanding Research Awards of the National Science Council, Academic Award and National Chair of the Ministry of Education, and Technical Achievement Award and Taylor L. Booth Education Award of the IEEE Computer Society. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the Chinese Society for Management of Technology.

Prior to becoming Dean of CCOE, Dr. Hyun was Associate Provost at the University of Massachusetts Boston (2008-2013) and led the Office of International and Transnational Affairs. Previously, she also served as Department Chair of Curriculum & Instruction at UMass Boston (2007-2008), Interim Chair, Program Director and Co-Director for various graduate (Ph.D & Ed.D) and undergraduate programs in teacher education, curriculum studies, K-12 leadership, and higher education administration at the Kent State University, Ohio (2001-2007). She was one of the founding faculty members of the Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, USA, established in 1997 (1997-2001). Dr. Hyun started her first tenure track faculty position, as assistant professor, at the Clarion University, Pennsylvania (1995-1997). She is originally from Seoul, S. Korea with B.S. (1985) and M.A. (1987) in Early Childhood Education from Duksung Women's University. She came to this country in 1987 and become US citizen in 2000.

Dr. Hyun is an established scholar and experienced administrator in higher education. Through her scholarships, Dr. Hyun has widely published in various areas, including curriculum theorizing; transdisciplinary higher education curriculum; developmentally and culturally appropriate practice (DCAP); early childhood education; teacher education; critical pedagogy; gender studies; bilingual education; theory of teacher reflectivity and multiple/multiethnic perspective-taking; inquiry-oriented reflective supervision; technology and young children; environmental education; academic deans' involvement/accountability in college students' academic success; internationalization of higher education institutions; and minority faculty recruitment and retention.

Dr. Yeh taught computer science at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Maryland at College Park. He was also Chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences at both Texas and Maryland. Under his leadership, he helped both departments to gain top-ten ranking nationally (the only top-ten ranking department at Maryland then). He was the Control Data Corporation Distinguished professor at the University of Minnesota, and is an honorary professor at four leading universities in China. He is founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering as well as Journal on Systems Integration and is on the editorial board of various journals. He also founded the Technical Committee on Software Engineering as well as the International Software Engineering Conference (ICSE) within the IEEE.

He has published 10 books, including the four volume classic on Programming Methodology published by Prentice-Hall, and more than 120 scientific articles. Most recently, he co-authored his first business book Zero Time published by John Wiley & Sons. in August, 2000. In 1983, he turned down an offer to head up the software division of Microelectronics and Computer Company (MCC)- a company set up by 20 large companies to counter the threat of Japanese 5-generation technology, to become an entrepreneur. He founded three successful software companies during the time of 1983 to 1999. Dr. Yeh served as a board member to several organizations. He has also served as a management consultant to many nations including United Nations, US, Sweden, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Singapore as well as to world-class organizations including IBM, AT&T, Siemens (Germany), Agribusiness (Brazil), Fujitsu (Japan), NEC (Japan), Hatachi (Japan), Price Waterhouse, Singapore Housing and Economic Development Boards, etc. In 1979, he helped Dr. K.T. Liong time economic and finance minister of Taiwan, to design the Institute of Information Industries (III) as a means to help Taiwan in its second economic transformation based on IT.

In 1981, he chaired a blue-ribbon committee for the US Department of Defense to develop its software vision, which later become the STARS program with more than $100 million invested. The British ministry of defense also copied the concept with a similar project.

In 1983, Premier Zhao of China asked his help to transform China into a software export country. Dr. Yeh was working with researchers in 13 elite institutions in China with two training centers set up at the Beijing University in Beijing and Fu Dan University in Shanghai as well as the design of two software factories in Beijing and Shanghai, respectively. The project produced an integrated Software Engineering Environment in 1986, on a par with the commercial product in the US. Dr. Yeh withdrew from this project shortly after completion of this technology and training of several hundred software engineers to focus on his second company with the Department of Defense as its primary customer. 

He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), and a senior research fellow at the ICC Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He was an honorary research fellow at Fujutsu from 1976 to 1985. He is a co-founder of the Society for Design and Process Science and its first President, and co-founder of the Software Engineering Society. Dr. Yeh is a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal, the IEEE Golden-core award, Special Award of the IEEE Computer Society, the SDPS Awards for Scholarship and Lifetime Achievement, as well as Visionary Leadership in Information Technology Award from the government of Taiwan, among others.Dr. Yeh also practices energy healing and is currently working on his second business book.

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Theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France. Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Member of the Romanian Academy. Professor Extraordinary at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Founding member of ISSR. President-Founder of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CIRET), a non-profit organization (165 members from 26 countries), which has a web site at : http://ciret-transdisciplinarity.org/index.php. Founder and Director of the Transdisciplinarity Series, Rocher Editions, Monaco, of the Romanians in Paris Series, Oxus Editions, Paris and of the Science and Religion Series, Curtea Veche, Bucharest (in collaboration with Magda Stavinschi). A specialist in the theory of elementary particles, Basarab Nicolescu is the author of 130 articles in leading international scientific journals, has made numerous contributions to science anthologies and participated in several dozen French radio and foreign multimedia documentaries on science. Basarab Nicolescu is a major advocate of the transdisciplinary reconciliation between Science and the Humanities.

He published many articles on the role of science in the contemporary culture in journals in USA, France, Romania, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina and Japan. His books include : From Modernity to Cosmodernity - Science, Culture, and Spirituality, State University of New York (SUNY) Press, New York, 2014, Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, State University of New York (SUNY) Press, New York, 2002; Nous, la particule et le monde, Rocher, Monaco, 2002 (2nd edition) ; Science, Meaning and Evolution - The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme, Parabola Books, New York, 1991. He recently edited Transdisciplinarity -Theory and Practice, Hampton Press, Cresskill, New Jersey, 2008. A complete biobibliography of Dr. Basarab Nicolescu can be found on the page: http://basarab-nicolescu.fr/.

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Sarah Gehlert, Ph.D. is the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial and Ethnic Diversity at the Brown School and in the Department of Surgery of the School of Medicine. She is a scholar in Washington University Institute of Public Health and serves on its Faculty Advisory Committee. Dr. Gehlert is the Co-Program Leader of the Prevention and Control Program of the Alvin J. Site man Cancer Center, Co-Director of the Transdisciplinary Center on Energetics and Cancer (TREC), and Training Program Director of the Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD). Dr. Gehlert serves on the Executive Committee of the university's Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (a CTSA) and the Co-Chair of the Center for Community-Engaged Research.

Dr. Gehlert joined the Brown School in 2009 from the University of Chicago where she was the Helen Ross Professor in the School of Social Service Administration (SSA), the Institute for Mind and Biology, and the Department of Comparative Human development. While at the School of Social Service Administration, Dr. Gehlert served as the Deputy Dean for Research. She was the Associate Director of the University of Chicago’s NIH-funded Institute for Translational Medicine (a CTSA) and co-chaired its Community Translation Science Cluster. She was also the Principal Investigator and Director of the university’s NIH-funded Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research. She directed the university’s Maternal and Child Health training Program from 1992-1998 and was Principal Investigator on an NIMH-funded community-based study of rural and urban women's health and mental health from 1997-2001. She was Co-Principal Investigator and Core Leader of the Health Disparities and Communities Core of the CDC-funded Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economic from 2004-2007.

Dr. Gehlert's publications focus on social influences on health, especially the health of vulnerable populations. She currently is working on the influences of neighborhood and community violence and unsafe housing on psychosocial functioning among African-American women newly diagnosed with breast cancer, with an eye toward how these factors "get under the skin" to affect gene expression and tumorigenesis. She has a special interest in the biology of women's behavior.

Dr. Gehlert Is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH, which is a federal appointment. She is Co-Chair of the Population Health Advisory Committee of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at NIH. She is a chartered member of NIH's Community-Level Health Promotion Scientific Review Panel and a member of the scientific review panel for Oncology Social Work at the American Cancer Society.

Dr. Gehlert is a Fellow in the American Association of Social Work and Social Welfare. She is Past President of the Society for Social Work and Research and serves on the editorial boards of Health & Social Work, Social Work Research, Social Service Review, Research in Social Work Practice, and Oxford Bibiliographies Online (Social Work).

Jeffrey J.P. Tsai received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He is the President of Asia University, Taiwan. He was a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Distributed Real-Time Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Chicago, an Adjunct Professor at Tulane University, a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, a Senior Research Fellow of IC2 at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley.

His current research interests include bioinformatics, ubiquitous computing, services computing, intrusion detection, knowledge-based software engineering, formal modeling and verification, distributed real-time systems, and intelligent agents. His research has been supported by NSF, NSC, DARPA, USAF Rome Laboratory, Department of Defense, Army Research Laboratory, Motorola, Fujitsu, and Gtech.Tsai authored Knowledge-Based Software Development for Real-Time Distributed Systems (World Scientific, 1993), Distributed Real-Time Systems (Wiley, 1996), Compositional Verification of Concurrent and Real-Time Systems (Springer, 2002), Security Modeling and Analysis of Mobile Agent Systems (Imperial College Press, 2006), Intrusion Detection: A Machine Learning Approach (Imperial College Press, 2010), and coedited Monitoring and Debugging of Distributed Real-Time Systems (IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995), Machine Learning Applications in Software Engineering (WSP, 2005), Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (Springer, 2006), Machine Learning in Cyber Trust: Security, Privavcy, Reliability (Springer, 2009) . From 2000 to 2003, he chaired the IEEE/CS Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing and served on the steering committee of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. From 1994 to 1999, he was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and he is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. Tsai served as the Conference Co-Chair of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, the 1st IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, and the 3rd IFIP International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing.

He is currently the CoEditor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools and Book Series on Health Informatics. Tsai has served on the IEEE Distinguished Speaker program, DARPA ISAT working group, and on the review panels for NSF and NIH. He received an Engineering Foundation Research Award from the IEEE and the Engineering Foundation Society, a University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois Foundation, an IEEE Technical Achievement Award and an IEEE Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Computer Society. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, the IEEE , and the SDPS.

Theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France. Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Member of the Romanian Academy. Professor Extraordinary at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Founding member of ISSR. President-Founder of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CIRET), a non-profit organization (165 members from 26 countries), which has a web site at : http://ciret-transdisciplinarity.org/index.php. Founder and Director of the Transdisciplinarity Series, Rocher Editions, Monaco, of the Romanians in Paris Series, Oxus Editions, Paris and of the Science and Religion Series, Curtea Veche, Bucharest (in collaboration with Magda Stavinschi). A specialist in the theory of elementary particles, Basarab Nicolescu is the author of 130 articles in leading international scientific journals, has made numerous contributions to science anthologies and participated in several dozen French radio and foreign multimedia documentaries on science. Basarab Nicolescu is a major advocate of the transdisciplinary reconciliation between Science and the Humanities.

He published many articles on the role of science in the contemporary culture in journals in USA, France, Romania, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina and Japan. His books include : From Modernity to Cosmodernity - Science, Culture, and Spirituality, State University of New York (SUNY) Press, New York, 2014, Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, State University of New York (SUNY) Press, New York, 2002; Nous, la particule et le monde, Rocher, Monaco, 2002 (2nd edition) ; Science, Meaning and Evolution - The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme, Parabola Books, New York, 1991. He recently edited Transdisciplinarity -Theory and Practice, Hampton Press, Cresskill, New Jersey, 2008. A complete biobibliography of Dr. Basarab Nicolescu can be found on the page: http://basarab-nicolescu.fr/.

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Dr. Yeh taught computer science at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Maryland at College Park. He was also Chairman of the Department of Computer Sciences at both Texas and Maryland. Under his leadership, he helped both departments to gain top-ten ranking nationally (the only top-ten ranking department at Maryland then). He was the Control Data Corporation Distinguished professor at the University of Minnesota, and is an honorary professor at four leading universities in China. He is founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering as well as Journal on Systems Integration and is on the editorial board of various journals. He also founded the Technical Committee on Software Engineering as well as the International Software Engineering Conference (ICSE) within the IEEE.

He has published 10 books, including the four volume classic on Programming Methodology published by Prentice-Hall, and more than 120 scientific articles. Most recently, he co-authored his first business book Zero Time published by John Wiley & Sons. in August, 2000. In 1983, he turned down an offer to head up the software division of Microelectronics and Computer Company (MCC)- a company set up by 20 large companies to counter the threat of Japanese 5-generation technology, to become an entrepreneur. He founded three successful software companies during the time of 1983 to 1999. Dr. Yeh served as a board member to several organizations. He has also served as a management consultant to many nations including United Nations, US, Sweden, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Singapore as well as to world-class organizations including IBM, AT&T, Siemens (Germany), Agribusiness (Brazil), Fujitsu (Japan), NEC (Japan), Hatachi (Japan), Price Waterhouse, Singapore Housing and Economic Development Boards, etc. In 1979, he helped Dr. K.T.Li long time economic and finance minister of Taiwan, to design the Institute of Information Industries (III) as a means to help Taiwan in its second economic transformation based on IT.

In 1981, he chaired a blue-ribbon committee for the US Department of Defense to develop its software vision, which later become the STARS program with more than $100 million invested. The British ministry of defense also copied the concept with a similar project.

In 1983, Premier Zhao of China asked his help to transform China into a software export country. Dr. Yeh was working with researchers in 13 elite institutions in China with two training centers set up at the Beijing University in Beijing and Fu Dan University in Shanghai as well as the design of two software factories in Beijing and Shanghai, respectively. The project produced an integrated Software Engineering Environment in 1986, on a par with the commercial product in the US. Dr. Yeh withdrew from this project shortly after completion of this technology and training of several hundred software engineers to focus on his second company with the Department of Defense as its primary customer. 

He is a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), and a senior research fellow at the ICC Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He was an honorary research fellow at Fujutsu from 1976 to 1985. He is a co-founder of the Society for Design and Process Science and its first President, and co-founder of the Software Engineering Society. Dr. Yeh is a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal, the IEEE Golden-core award, Special Award of the IEEE Computer Society, the SDPS Awards for Scholarship and Lifetime Achievement, as well as Visionary Leadership in Information Technology Award from the government of Taiwan, among others.Dr. Yeh also practices energy healing and is currently working on his second business book. 

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Professor Ramamoorthys distinguished career traces back to the 1960s. In 1961, while working as a scientist for Honeywell, Ramamoorthy developed the entire microcode to handle instruction sequencing and control for the H290, Honeywell's first transistorized system. The H290 was a general-purpose, stored-program digital computer designed for process monitoring and control.

In the late 1960s, Ramamoorthy joined the University of Texas, Austin, as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, later becoming chair of the computer science department. He developed, with his students, the FACES System for automated test generation and evaluation techniques. These test techniques were successfully applied to discover programming errors in Bell laboratories' Safeguard Missile Defense System for the US Army and were intended to defend Minuteman silos located around the US from enemy attack. In 1971, these techniques were modified for reuse at NASA's Space Shuttle Structural Test Facility in Huntsville, Alabama. At UC Berkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1972, Ramamoorthy is an emeritus professor of Electrical Engineering and computer science. Most recently, his research investigations have focused on service industries-functions, features, and control-and the relationships between software and service engineering. IEEE Society has honored Ramamoorthy's acheivements with the Taylor L. Booth Education Award in 1989, the Richard E. Merwin Distinguished Service Award in 1993, Golden Core recognition in 1966, and Tsutomu Kanai Award in 2000. He also received the IEEE Centennial Medal and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 1978 and is a Fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science, from which he received the R.T. Yeh Distinguished Achievement Award in 1997.

A longtime Computer Society volunteer, Ramamoorthy was founding editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and served as editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, He has published more than 150 papers, co-edited three books, and holds patents in computer architecture, software engineering, computer testing and diagnosis and databases. He holds two undergraduate degrees in Physics from India. He obtained two graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, and two graduate degrees in Applied mathematics and Computer Sciences from Harvard.

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