Xiaoning Qian received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 2005. Currently, he is an assistant professor with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. He is affiliated with the Center for Bioinformatics & Genomic Systems Engineering (CBGSE) and the Center for Translational Environmental Health Research (CTEHR) at Texas A\&M. His current research interests include computational network biology, genomic signal processing, and biomedical image analysis.
Ranadip Pal received the BTech degree in electronics and electrical communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 2002, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Texas A & M University, College Station, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. From August 2007, he has been with Texas Tech University where he is currently an associate professor at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research areas are stochastic modeling and control, genomic signal processing, and computational biology. He received the Chancellor's Council Distinguished Research Award, 2016; Whitacre Research Award, 2014; President’s excellence in Teaching Award, 2012, and US NSF CAREER Award, 2010.