Richard Charnigo is an Associate Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY, USA. He completed his Ph.D. in Statistics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, USA. His research interests in statistics include mixture modeling with applications to genetics and perinatal epidemiology as well as nonparametric regression with applications to nanoparticle characterization and Raman spectroscopy. His applied research interests include psychology, health behavior, organizational behavior, mechanical engineering, and cardiology. Dr. Charnigo serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biometrics and Biostatistics.

Joseph Verducci obtained his SB from MIT, his PhD from Stanford, and he did post-doctoral work at Carnegie-Mellon. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and former Editor-in-Chief of the ASA journal Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. He is also a recipient of the ASA Statistics in Chemistry award. His current research involves methods of detecting subpopulations over which variables are associated

Yu Shyr, director for the Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences, received his PhD in biostatistics from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 1994 and subsequently joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Shyr is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an FDA advisory committee voting member. He has delivered over 190 abstracts and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers. His research interests lie in developing and analyzing predictive models of the statistical relationships between multiple-variable protein and next-generation sequencing data and clinical endpoints using both supervised and unsupervised classification and pattern recognition approaches.

Jimmy Effird completed his Doctorate in Epidemiology (Biostatistics Concentration) at Stanford University School of Medicine. He currently is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University (ECU) and has a joint appointment as Epidemiologist/Chief Statistician in the Center for Health Disparities Research. Prior to joining ECU, Dr. Efird was Director of the Biostatistics Facility at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (Honolulu, Hawaii) and an Associate Member of the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii. Dr. Efird’s research interests include statistical methods for gene-environment interaction, high-speed computational methods, and efficient sample size estimation for correlated data.

Valentina E. Balas is currently Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, University “Aurel Vlaicu” Arad (Romania). She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from Polytechnic University of Timisoara since 2003. She is author of more than 120 research papers in refereed journals and International Conferences. Her research interests are in Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Control, Soft Computing, Smart Sensors, Information Fusion, Modeling and Simulation. She is Editor-in Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP), member in Editorial Boards for national and international journals, serves as reviewer for many International Journals and conferences and is evaluator expert for national and international projects She participated in many international conferences as General Chair, Organizer, Session Chair and member in International Program Committee. She was mentor for many student teams in Microsoft (Imagine Cup), Google and IEEE competitions in the last six years. Dr. Valentina Balas has a great experience in research projects. She is member of EUSFLAT, ACM and a Senior Member IEEE, member in TC - Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS) and member in TC – Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS).

Intelligent Systems, Soft Computing, Fuzzy Logic,Fuzzy Control, Image Processing, Modeling and Simulation, and Psychology