Tansel Özyer is an associate professor of Computer Engineering at TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey. He completed his PhD in Computer Science, University of Calgary. He received his MSc and BSc from Computer Engineering departments of METU and Bilkent University. Research interests are data mining, social network analysis, machine learning, bioinformatics, XML, mobile databases, and computer vision.
Reda Alhajj is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. He published over 500 papers in refereed international journals and conferences. He is founding editor in chief of the Springer premier journal “Social Networks Analysis and Mining”, founding editor-in-chief of Springer Series “Lecture Notes on Social Networks”, founding editor-in-chief of Springer journal “Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics”, founding co-editor-in-chief of Springer “Encyclopedia on Social NetworksAnalysis and Mining”, founding steering chair of IEEE/ACM ASONAM, and three accompanying symposiums FAB, FOSINT-SI and HI-BI-BI. Dr. Alhajj's research concentrates primarily on data science from management to integration and analysis.