IIIS - International Institute of Informatics and Systemics

Plenary Keynote Speakers
of the Conferences and Symposia Organized by IIIS in 2011

Dr. Leonid Perlovsky

Harvard University, USA
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Visiting Scholar

The Air Force Research Laboratory
Principal Research Physicist

Professor Louis H. Kauffman

University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Department of Mathematics,
Statistics, and Computer Science
Past President of the American Society for Cybernetics

Professor Jerome Pine

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA
Professor of Physics, with a laboratory in the Department of Biology.
Co-director of the Caltech Pre-college Science Initiative (CAPSI).

Professor Stuart A. Umpleby

The George Washington University, USA

Former President of
The American Society of Cybernetics

Dr. Robert M. L. Baker Jr.

Former President of
West Coast University, USA
Recipient of the UCLA Physics Prize

Professor Shigehiro Hashimoto

Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Doctor of Engineering & Doctor of Medicine
Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Director Medical Engineering Research Center

Dr. Joseph Finkelstein

The Johns Hopkins University, USA
Director of Chronic Disease Informatics Program

Dr. Jeremy Horne

President-emeritus,
Southwest Area Division,
American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA

Professor Haniph Latchman

University of Florida, USA

Director, Laboratory for Information Systems & Telecommunications, and

Co-Director of the Research Laboratory for Control System and Avionics

Professor Juha Kettunen

Rector of the Turku University of Applied
Sciences. Finland

Professor Richard Thompson

University of Pittsburgh, USA
School of Information Sciences

Former chair of Pittsburg Telecom Program.

Professor Ranulph Glanville

The Royal College of Art, UK; RMIT University, Australia

President of The American Society for Cybernetics

Professor Jamshid Ghaboussi

University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign , USA
Professor Emeritus

Professor Alec Yasinsac

Dean of the School of Computer and Information Sciences.
University of South Alabama, USA

Co-Founder of The Center for Security and Assurance in Information Technology (C-SAIT)

Professor, Dean, Osmo Kivinen

University of Turku, Finland
Director of the Research Unit for the
Sociology of Education (RUSE)

Dr. Ham Chan

Southern Polytechnic State University,
USA

Program Director of the Mechatronics
Engineering
University of Central Florida, USA

Dr. Felix Soto-Toro

Kennedy Space Center, NASA, USA
University of Central Florida, USA
Polytec University of Orlando, USA

Dr. Eric B. Dent

University of North Carolina, Pembroke, USA
Dean of the School of Business

Professor Eli Boyd Cohen

Director & Fellow,
Informing Science Institute , USA

Professor T. Grandon Gill

University of South Florida, USA
College of Business

Dr. Karl H. Müller

University of Vienna, Austria
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Director of the Wiener Institute for Social Science Documentation (WISDOM)

Professor Mohamed El-Sayed

Kettering University, USA

Professor Thomas Marlowe

Seton Hall University, USA
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Program Advisor for Computer Science

Dr. in Computer Science and Dr. in Mathematics

Dipl.-Math Norbert Jastroch

MET Communications GmbH, Germany
Managing Director

Dr. Susu Nousala

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
RMIT University, Australia
Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory: SIAL

Dr. Donald Poochigian

University of North Dakota, USA

Department of Philosophy and Religion

Professor Bodil Ask

University of Agder, Norway
Dept. of Technology

Dr. Merja Bauters

Helsinki Metropolia University
of Applied Sciences, Finland

University of Helsinki, Finland

Professor Harald Haugen

Stord/Haugesund University, Norway

Associated to the research
foundation TISIP in Trondheim

Dr. Lisbeth Amhag

Malmö University, Sweden

Dr. Daniel Katz

The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, USA

Dr. Robert Cherinka

MITRE Corporation, USA
Senior Principal Information
Systems Engineer

Professor Christian H. W. Kaufmann

University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Austria

Deputy Program Director
Deputy Head of Department BA Information and
Communication Systems
Head of IT Business Support, VCP Pulse IT
Consulting & Solutions GmbH

Professor Harald Wahl

University of Applied Sciences (UAS)
Technikum Wien, Austria

Coordination of Information &
Information Security

Deputy Head of Studies Master's
program in information and computer
security

Professor Jari Multisilta, Dr. Tech.

University of Helsinki, Finland

Director, Cicero Learning, and
Research Manager

Professor Mario Norbis

Quinnipiac University, USA
School of Business

Professor Christin Lindholm

Lund University, Sweden

Faculty Program Director for the
Computer and Electrical Engineering
programs at LTH School of Engineering
at Campus Helsingborg

Professor Lise Jensen

Lund University , Sweden

Head of LTH’s Study Programs
Board at School of Engineering
Campus Helsingborg

Dr. Robert Miller

MITRE Corporation, USA
Senior Principle Information
Systems Engineer

Mr. Joseph Prezzama

MITRE Corporation, USA

Lead Communications Engineer
Leads the program in support of the Chief
Information Officer (CIO) for the United
States Special Operations Command
(USSOCOM)

Dr. Jeffrey Fannin

Center for Cognitive Enhancement (CCE), USA
Executive Director

Dr. Marta Szabo White

Georgia State University, USA

Director of The Study Abroad in
Transition Economies and The Business
Mediterranean Style

Dr. Alvaro Turriago Hoyos

Universidad de la Sabana, Colombia

Professor Emilio Álvarez

Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
UNESCO Center Secretary

Professor Alejandro Rodríguez

Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Academic Secretary of the Deaprtament of
Educational Sciences

Dr. Elena Fabiola Ruiz Ledesma

Insituto Politécnico Nacional, México
Escuela Superior de Cómputo
Superior School of Computing

Professor David Fonseca Escudero

Universidad Ramón Llull, Spain
Enginyeria Arquitectura La Salle

Professor Isidro Navarro

Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain

Universidad Ramón Llull, Spaina,

Enginyeria Arquitectura La Salle
Director de Master en Sostenibilidad y Eficiencia Energética (Master on Sutenaibility and Energy Efficiency)

Professor Angeles Saura

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Founder of Virtual Library for Art Education
Coordiantor of the Research Project: ”Digital
Resources for Art Education”