Steering Committee

                                                                                               
                                                                                        Dr. Tutut Herawan

Tutut Herawan is an outstanding academician and presently works an associate professor at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya (Rank 56 QS WUR). He was a visiting researcher at Parallel and Distributed Computing Research (PARADISE) Lab of Deakin University, Australia. He is also an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, Brawijaya University, Indonesia (the biggest public university in the country).
He has many high international research visibilities including in the Top 2% World Scientists Ranking by Stanford University and Elsevier BV, since 2020-present and his mathematics Erdos number is 4. He is also named as one of the most prolific DBLP-computer science authors and one of the best computer scientists from Malaysia according to https://research.com/ since 2021-present.
He received a PhD degree in information technology from Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia in 2010. He has more than 19 years experiences as academic staff and has supervised many Master & PhD students. He has also examined many Master & PhD Theses from Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and China. 
He presently holds many strategic administrative positions in the Universiti Malaya such as the coordinator of Universiti Malaya academic journal publications, approval manager for Springer Nature Transformative Agreement - a Program under Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) with 20 public universities  (as a representative from Universiti Malaya), approval Manager for Universiti Malaya with IEEE OA Affiliate Discount Program (in process), and a member research board at Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, the University of Malaya.
He has also demonstrated exceptional leadership in securing over RM 4.5 million in research fundings as PI and Co-PI from numerous prestigious grants from government and institutions partners. He has also served as a research consultant for many higher learning institutions in Indonesia.
He is an active researcher and serves as the managing editor of Malaysian Journal of Computer Science (ISI WoS), associate editor of Springer Nature Computer Science Journal (Scopus), editor of International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science, IGI Global (Scopus), and editor-advisory board member of the book series “Information Systems Engineering and Management / ISEM” of Springer Nature. 
He has a strong international research network with more than 465 authorship collaboration. He edited many Springer-series books and published more than 345 articles in various book chapters, international journals, and conference proceedings (with Scopus h-index 36 and ISI WoS h-index 30). He is a reviewer for international journals including top reputable journals e.g., Knowledge-Based Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Information Sciences, IEEE Access, and many more. 
He delivered more than 50 keynote addresses, invited workshop and seminars, and has been actively served as a chair, co-chair, publication chair, program committee member and co-organizer for numerous international conferences/workshops. He is the general co-chair of the WorldCEM - World Conference on Economics and Management as one of the premier events in business and economics, which will be held in Aveiro, Portugal. 
His research area includes data science and big data, data engineering and information systems, soft computing and data mining, information technology for tourism and computer in education.

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                                                                                                Dr. Haruna Chiroma

Haruna Chiroma is an Assistant Professor at University of Hafr Al Batin, College of Computer Science and Engineering, Saudi Arabia. He received B.Tech., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in computer science and Artificial Intelligence from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bayero University Kano and University of Malaya, respectively. Listed among the top 2% active researchers in the world by Stanford University.
He is an academic editor Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine (ISI WoS/Scopus Indexed) 2022 - date, associate editor – IEEE Access (ISI WoS/Scopus Indexed) 2018 – 2021. Editorial board member – IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, (Scopus Indexed), Associate Editor – TELKOMNIKA, Indonesia – (Scopus Indexed), Editorial board member – Recent advances in Computer Science and Communications, (Scopus Indexed). Currently guest editing 3 special issues in ISI/Scopus indexed journals. Editor of 3 Edited Books (Scopus indexed) by Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
His research interest includes: Artificial neural networks, machine learning with emphasis on deep learning, nature inspired algorithms and their applications in internet of vehicles, self-driving vehicles, big data analytics, emerging cloud computing architecture, NLP and IoT. Also, as a teacher he has a special interest in technology enhanced learning.
He has published over 140 academic articles relevant to his research interest in different venues including ISI WoS/Scopus indexed journals with impact factor including but not limited to Neural Network World, Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), Neural Computing and Applications (Springer) and Supercomputing (Springer).
He is an invited reviewer for over 60 ISI WoS/Scopus indexed journals such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier), Knowledge-Based System (Elsevier), Soft Computing (Springer), International Journal of Bio-inspired Computation (Inderscience), Neural Computing and Applications (Springer), etc. He has been a technical programme committee member for more than 30 international conferences, workshops and symposium.
He was invited by QS world universities ranking in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021 to evaluate research strength of universities in computer science. Participated in 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings Survey.
Presently, chiroma is supervising 15 M.Sc. students and 4 Ph.Ds., He graduated 10 M.Sc. and 2 Ph.D. students at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, Nigeria.

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