ISIBM International Joint Conferences on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing August 3

Steering Committee
	Dr. Hamid R. Arabnia Founding chair of WORLDCOMP Congress, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) and recipient of William F. Rockwell, Jr. Medal for promotion of multi-disciplinary research (Rockwell edal is International Technology Institute's highest honor). He is on the editorial and advisory boards of 25 other journals and science magazines.
	Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy Member of United States National Academy of Science, Institute of Medicine, Member of United States National Academy of Engineering, 2003-2005 United States President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), 2001 ACM Allen Newell Award, Member of National Institute of Standards and Technology, Member of National Research Council Army Research Technical Assessment Board, Member of Computer Research Association for Women, Member of the Review Board of Stanford University Computer Science, Fellow of ACM and Fellow of IEEE, Distinguished Professor and Director of CITRIS, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.
	Dr. Mark Borodovsky President of International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine, Founder of GeneMark and Pioneer of Bioinformatics Research, Founder of Georgia Tech Bioinformatics Ph.D. Programs, Distinguished Regents' Professor and Director Center for the Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
	Dr. Arif Ghafoor Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research: Multimedia systems, databases, distributed computing systems, broadband multimedia networking Areas of Interest: Communications, Networking, Signal & Image Processing Computer Engineering
	Dr. Joydeep Ghosh Distinguished Schlumberger Centennial Chair Professor of Engineering, Chair of IEEE DMTC and Fellow of IEEE, 1992 IEEE Darlington Award, Director of IDEAL (Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Lab), University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.
	Dr. Tony Hu IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Steering Committee Chair and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Granular Computing Technical Committee Chair, the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, an associate editor/editorial board member of four international journals (KAIS, IJDWM, IJSOI and JCIB). He has received a few prestigious awards including the 2005 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award.
	Dr. Yi Pan Editor-in-chief of International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, series editor of Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics, Associate Editor of 6 IEEE Transactions, winner of many awards, keynote speaker for over 10 conferences, and Chair of Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University, USA
	Dr. Michael S. Waterman Member of United State National Academy of Science, Fellow of American Academy of Art and Sciences and Academician of French Académie des Sciences. Coeditor-in-Chief of Journal of Computational Biology, Editor-in-Chief of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, Springer). Distinguished University Professor of University of Southern California, Los Angles, California, USA
	Dr. Cathy H. Wu Dr. Wu has conducted bioinformatics research since 1990 and developed several protein classification systems and databases. She has managed large software and database projects, led the bioinformatics effort of the Protein Information Resource (PIR) since 1999, and becoming the PIR Director in 2001. Her research interests include protein family classification and functional annotation, biological data integration, and literature mining.
	Dr. Mary Qu Yang (IJCBS Founding Chair and Steering Committee Coordinator) Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design. Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge National Lab. U.S. Department of Energy, USA National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH) , U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20852 USA.
	Dr. Aidong Zhang Dr. Aidong Zhang is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the director of the Buffalo Center for Biomedical Computing (BCBC). She is an author of more than 200 research publications and has served on many editorial boards of prestigious journals. Dr. Zhang is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and SUNY (State University of New York) Chancellor’s Research Recognition Award. Dr. Zhang is an IEEE Fellow.

Steering Committee