International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM)

Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography

Chengcui Zhang is a Full Professor of computer science with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. She works in the broad areas of multimedia databases and information retrieval, multimedia data mining, multimedia security and forensics, geoinformatics, and applied bioinformatics. She has authored or coauthored more than 160 refereed articles, many at the top tier venues in computer sciences including IEEE Transactions, IEEE Multimedia, ACM Multimedia, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ACM Conference on Communication and Computer Security, and IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. Her research has been externally supported by US National Science Foundation, NIH, and by awards/gifts from the industry, including IBM, eBay, and Comcast. She received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in computer science from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA, in 2004. She was the former Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Semantic Computing and has served as the Conference Program Chair and General Chair for many IEEE Conferences. She is the current Conference Chair IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing and was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia between 2014 and 2016.

Shu-Ching Chen is an Eminent Scholar Chaired Professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), Florida International University (FIU), Miami since August 2009. Prior to that, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor in SCIS at FIU from 1999. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1998, and Master's degrees in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Civil Engineering in 1992, 1995, and 1996, respectively, all from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. He is the Director of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems Laboratory (DMIS) and the Co-Director of the Integrated Computer Augmented Virtual Environment (I-CAVE). His main research interests include multimedia big data, content-based image/video retrieval, multimedia data mining, multimedia systems, and Disaster Information Management. Dr. Chen has authored and coauthored more than 300 research papers in journals, refereed conference/symposium/workshop proceedings, book chapters, and four books.

Dr. Chen was named a 2011 recipient of the ACM Distinguished Scientist Award. He received the best paper awards from 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. He was awarded the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society's Outstanding Contribution Award in 2005 and was the co-recipient of the IEEE Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award in 2006. He is a fellow of IEEE, AAAS, and SIRI.

He has been a General Chair and Program Chair for more than 60 conferences, symposiums, and workshops. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, and Associate Editor/ Editorial Board of IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, IEEE Multimedia, and IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems. He served as the Chair of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing. He is Co-Chair of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society's Technical Committee on Knowledge Acquisition in Intelligent Systems. He also serves/served as a member of technical program committee for more than 380 professional meetings. Dr. Chen is also the Co-Founder of Bay Area Multimedia Forum.