Technical Advisory Board
Dr. Keith Chan- Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dr. Keith Chan has a B.Math. (Hons.) degree in Computer Science and Statistics and a M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has a number of years of experience in software development and management. Before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he was with the IBM Canada Laboratory where he was involved in every phase of software development from design to coding, to testing and maintenance. He was a member of the software quality assurance team during the time the laboratory first applied for ISO 9001 certification.
Dr. Chan has been working on different areas in software engineering for many years. He has successfully led the effort to develop a self-assessment tool for ISO 9001 certification and a workflow automation tool to facilitate the adoption of ISO 9001 compliant practices. Dr. Chan has conducted courses and seminars in software quality management, and software project management. He has published in the areas of software processes, software quality management, multi-site software development and cooperative information systems. He has been a consultant to government, semi-government and commercial organizations in Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore and Malaysia. Dr. Chan is a reviewer for IEEE standards in software engineering and is a founding member of the IEEE Standards Association.
Dr. Chan joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson Polytechnic University, Ontario, Canada as an Associate Professor in 1993, before returning to HK to join the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1994. He is currently the Director of the Software Technology Facilities Center and an Associate Professor of the Department of Computing at the university. Since August, 1999, he has been an Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Software, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. From 1992 to 1996, Dr. Chan was an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, the Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Western Ontario, Ontario, Canada, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Ontario, Canada.
Dr. Mohamed Kamel - University of Waterloo
Dr. Kamel received the B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alexandria, Egypt, in 1970, his M.Sc. degree in Computation from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, in 1974 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1981.
From 1980 to 1983, he was with NCR Corporation as System Engineer and Project Leader. From 1983 to 1985, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing and Information Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
Since 1985, he has been with the University of Waterloo, Department of Systems Design Engineering and since 2004 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is currently Canada Research Chair Professor in Cooperative Intelligent Systems and Director of the Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Laboratory.
In 1989/1990 he was visiting faculty at the University of Toronto and Purdue University. In 1996/1997 he was visiting professor at ACE NASA center, University of New Mexico and the University of Porto in Portugal.
Dr. Kamel's research interests are in computational intelligence, pattern recognition and distributed and multiagent systems. He has authored and co-authored over 250 papers in journals and conference proceedings, 2 patents and numerous technical and industrial project reports.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans SMC Part A, the Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Pattern Recognition Letters, and the International Journal of Image and Graphics. He also served as Associate Editor of Simulation, the Journal of The Society for Computer Simulation.
Based on his work at the NCR, he received the NCR Inventor Award. He is also a recipient of the Systems Research Foundation Award for outstanding presentation in 1985 and the ISRAM best paper award in 1992. In 1994 he has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society Press outstanding referee award. He was also a coauthor of the best paper in the 2000 IEEE Canadian Conference on electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Nick Cercone - York University, Toronto
Nick Cercone is Dean of Science and Engineering at York University in Toronto. Prior to his current position he was Dean and Professor of Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University. He was Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Associate Vice President (Research), Dean of Graduate Studies and International Liaison Officer at the University of Regina, and Director of the Centre for Systems Science at Simon Fraser University and Chairman of the School of Computing Science there.
His research interests include natural language processing, knowledge-discovery in databases, and design and human interfaces. He has authored over 200 technical papers. He is a co-editor of Computational Intelligence and serves on the editorial board of six journals.
Dr. Cercone received the BS degree in Engineering Science from the University of Steubenville in 1968, the MS degree in Computer and Information Science from Ohio State University in 1970, and the PhD degree in Computing Science from the University of Alberta in 1975. Dr. Cercone worked for IBM Corporation in 1969 and 1971 on design automation.
