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Bioinformatics and Bioengineering TC

Name

This organization is known as the Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee (BBTC) of the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Purpose and Scope

The purpose of the BBTC is to promote the research, development, education, and understanding of computational intelligence methods in the application areas of bioinformatics, bioengineering, and computational biology.

Membership

The BBTC members are appointed by the CIS President with the agreement of the BBTC Chair for a one-year term. The term of service expires at the end of the calendar year for which they have been appointed.

Officers

The BBTC Chair is appointed by the CIS President with the agreement of the CIS EXCOM for a one-year term. The term of service expires at the end of the calendar year for which the BBTC Chair has been appointed. No more than two consecutive full terms are permitted.

Funding

There is no membership fee for joining the BBTC. Funding for the committee shall be provided by the CIS in the annual budget request. Once approved by the CIS AdCom, funds will be available to support the BBTC activities. The Chair shall be responsible for the appropriate use of the approved funds.

Activities

The BBTC shall engage in various activities in order to promote the wider acceptance of computational intelligence as a viable technology, including but not limited to the following: organize special sessions for CIS-sponsored conferences, participate in paper reviews and selection for CIS-sponsored conferences, nominate lecturers for the CIS distinguished speakers program, collaborate on production of tutorials, promote IEEE Senior Members and Fellows program, sponsor publication of books or CDs, and organize specialized focused symposia, workshops, or meetings. The BBTC will actively work with the organizers of CIS-sponsored conferences to ensure and maintain technical excellence.

Meetings

Meetings will be called by the Chair one or two times a year usually before the CIS AdCom meetings, or at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, or as requested by the BBTC members. Sufficient advanced notice of the meetings will be given to the members, as well as all other interested parties. The Chair shall prepare an agenda before the meeting, and shall prepare minutes for distribution after the meeting.

Amendments

This Charter becomes official after at least 2/3 membership approval. Subsequent changes and amendments also require 2/3 majority vote.

Members

Clare Bates Congdon, Chair (2011) Department of Computer Science University of Southern Maine P.O. Box 9300 Portland, ME 04104-9300, USA phone: 207.228.8441 fax: 207.228.8271 email: congdon .a_t. usm.maine.edu www: www.cs.usm.maine.edu/~congdon/

Jung-Hsien Chiang, Vice Chair (2011) Dept. of Computer Science National Cheng Kung University Tainan 70101, Taiwan phone: 886-6-2757575 ext 62534 fax: +886-6-2747076 email: jchiang .a_t. mail.ncku.edu.tw www: iir.csie.ncku.edu.tw:8000/advisor.php

Francesco Masulli, Vice Chair (2011) DISI _Dept. Computer and Information Sciences University of Genova Via Dodecaneso 35 Genoa 16146, ITALY phone: +39 010 353 6604 fax: +39 010 353 6699 email: masulli .a_t. disi.unige.it www: www.disi.unige.it/person/MasulliF/

Daniel Ashlock Department of Mathematics and statistics University of Guelph 50 Stone Rd East Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada phone: +1-519-824-4120 x 53453 fax: +1-519-837-0221 email: dashlock .a_t. uoguelph.ca www: eldar.mathstat.uoguelph.ca/dahlock/

Sansanee Auephanwiriyakul Department of Computer Engineering Chiang Mai University Huay Kaew Rd Chiang Mai, Muang 50200, Thailand phone: +6653942083 fax: +6653942072 email: sansanee .a_t. ieee.org www: sansanee.doc.eng.cmu.ac.th

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Machine Intelligence Unit Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India email: sanghami .a_t. isical.ac.in www: www.isical.ac.in/~sanghami/

Chengpeng Bi Bioinformatics Children’s Mercy Hosp. 2401 Gillham Rd. Kansas City, MO 64108, USA phone: 816-983-6508 fax: +1 816-983-6515 email: cbi .a_t. cmh.edu www: b.web.umkc.edu/bic/

Xuewen Chen Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Kansas 1520 west 15th street Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA phone: (785)864-8825 email: xwchen .a_t. ittc.ku.edu www: www.ittc.ku.edu/~xwchen/

Madhu Chetty School of Information technology Monash University Northways Road Melbourne, Victoria 3842, Australia phone: +61 3 9902 7148 email: Madhu.Chetty .a_t. infotech.monash.edu.au

Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University No. 1, University Road Tainan 70101, Taiwan phone: +886-6-275-7575 ext. 62373 fax: +886-6-234-5482 email: pcchung .a_t. ee.ncku.edu.tw www: smile.ee.ncku.edu.tw/?q=en-us

Steven Corns Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Missouri University of Science and Technology 600 W. 14th Street Rolla, Missouri 65409, USA phone: 573-341-6367 fax: 573-341-6567 email: cornss .a_t. mst.edu

Suash Deb Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering C. V. Raman College of Engineering Bidyanagar, Mahura, Janla Bhubaneswar, Orissa 752054, India phone: (0674)2460743 email: suashdeb .a_t. gmail.com www: www.cvraman.org/cvrce/faculty.htm

Sorin Draghici Department of Computer Science Wayne State University Detroit, MI, USA email: sod .a_t. cs.wayne.edu www: vortex.cs.wayne.edu/Sorin/index.htm

Gary Fogel Natural Selection Inc. 9330 Scranton Rd., Suite 150 San Diego, CA 92121, USA phone: (+1 858) 455 6449 fax: (+1 858) 455 1560 email: gfogel .a_t. natural-selection.com www: www.natural-selection.com

Lutz Hamel Department of Computer Science and Statistics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881 phone: 401-480-9499 fax: 401-874-4617 email: hamel .a_t. cs.uri.edu www: homepage.cs.uri.edu/faculty/hamel/

Sheridan Houghten Department of Computer Science Brock University St. Catharines Ontario, Canada phone: 905 688 5550 ext 4526 fax: 905 688 3255 email: houghten .a_t. brocku.ca www: www.cosc.brocku.ca/~houghten/

Yaochu Jin Department of Computing University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK phone: +44(0)1483 686037 fax: +44(0)1483 686051 email: yaochu.jin .a_t. surrey.ac.uk www: www2.surrey.ac.uk/computing/people/yaochu_jin/

Michael Lones Department of Electronics University of York Heslington York YO10 5DD, UK phone: +44 (0)1904 43 2828 fax: +44 (0)1904 43 3224 email: mal503 .a_t. ohm.york.ac.uk www: www-users.york.ac.uk/~mal503/

Elena Marchiori Intelligent Systems Radboud University Heyendaalseweg 135 Nijmegen 6525 AJ, NL phone: +31-(0)24 36 52647 fax: +31-(0)24 36 52728 email: E.Marchiori .a_t. cs.ru.nl www: www.cs.ru.nl/~elenam/

Alioune Ngom University of Winsor 401 Sunset Avenue, N9B 3P4 Windsor, Ontario, Canada phone: 519-253-3000 ext 3789 fax: 519-973-7093 email: angom .a_t. cs.uwindsor.ca www: cs.uwindsor.ca/~angom/

Leif E. Peterson Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas 77030 United States phone: (713) 441-6121 fax: (713) 790-2898 email: lepeterson .a_t. tmhs.org www: myprofile.cos.com/petersoL16

Jagath Rajapakse Department of Computer Engineering, Bioinformatics Research Center Nanyang Technological University Mile End Road Singapore phone: +65 67906609 fax: +65 67926559 email: ASJagath.a_t.ntu.edu.sg www: ntu.edu.sg/home/asjagath

Heike Sichtig Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology University of Florida P.O. Box 103610 Gainesville, FL 32610, USA phone: (+1) 570 972 6232 email: hsichtig .a_t. ufl.edu www: www.linkedin.com/in/hsichtig

Roberto Tagliaferri Dept. of Informatics University of Salerno Via Ponte don Melillo Fisciano 84084, Italy phone: +39 089 968231 email: robtag .a_t. unisa.it, rtagliaferri .a_t. unisa.it www: www.neuronelab.dmi.unisa.it/

Jennifer A. Smith Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Boise State University 1910 University Drive MS-2075 Boise, Idaho 83725-2075, USA phone: 208-426-5743 fax: 208-426-2470 email: jasmith .a_t. boisestate.edu www: sites.google.com/a/boisestate.edu/jennifersmith/

Kay C. Wiese School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University 250-13450 102nd Ave Surrey, BC V3T 0A3, Canada phone: 778-782-7436 fax: 778-782-8116 email: wiese .a_t. cs.sfu.ca www: www.cs.sfu.ca

Yanqing Zhang Dept. of Computer Science Georgia State University 34 Peachtree Street, Suite 1450 Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA phone: (404) 413-5733 fax: (404) 413-5717 email: yzhang .a_t. cs.gsu.edu www: www.cs.gsu.edu/~cscyqz/

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