speakers

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Chaomei Chen, Professor of Information Science, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University

Dr. Chaomei Chen is a Professor of Information Science in the College of Computing and Informatics at Drexel University in the USA. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Information Visualization and the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. His research and scholarly expertise is in the visual analytic reasoning and assessment of critical information concerning the structure and dynamics of complex adaptive systems. He authored a series of books on various related topics, including Representing Scientific Knowledge: The Role of Uncertainty (Springer 2017), The Fitness of Information: Quantitative Assessments of Critical Information (Wiley, 2014), Turning Points: The Nature of Creativity (Springer, 2011), Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon (Springer 2004, 2006), Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization (Springer 2003, 2013). He is the creator of the widely used visual analytics software CiteSpace for visualizing and analyzing structural and temporal patterns in scientific literature. His research has been funded and sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Elsevier, IMS Health, Lockheed Martin, and Pfizer. His earlier research was funded by the European Commission, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), and the Library and Information Commission (UK). He received a B.Sc. in Mathematics (Nankai University, China), an M.Sc. in Computation (University of Oxford, UK) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (University of Liverpool, UK).

Banquet Speaker - Dr. Tom Way, Co-creator of Rephactor, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Villanova University

Tom Way is the co-creator of Rephactor, an interactive online textbook for computer science. He is a soon-to-be Emeritus Professor at Villanova University, where he has taught for over two decades. A professional magician who once paid his way through college performing magic mostly for children's birthday parties, Tom now combines his expertise in computing and performance to reveal the magic in computer science itself.