ISTAS 22 Conference Committee

Dr Laurie Lau

Dr Greg Adamson

Dr TV Gopal

Dr Lennon Chang
Advisory Committee
Prof. Greg Adamson | Chair, Advisory Committee |
Dr. Jay Pearlman | Conference Chair, IEEE SSIT |
Dr. Clinton Andrews | President, IEEE SSIT |
Dr. Luis Kun | President – Elect, IEEE SSIT |
Mr. Deepak Mathur | Director, IEEE R10 |
Dr. Lewis Terman | Past President, IEEE |
Dr. Robert Dent | IEEE Foundation |
Programme Committee
Akira Furui | Hiroshima University | Japan |
Aman Agarwal | Indian Institute of Finance | New Delhi, India |
Amir Shafaat | Arak University of Technology | Iran |
Amjad Hussain | University of Engineering and Technology Lahore | Pakistan |
Anandi Giridharan | Indian Institute of Science | Bengaluru, India |
Asitkumar Das | Indian Institute of Social Reform and Research | Kolkatta, India |
Brandiff Caron | Concordia University | Canada |
Charles Wallace | Michigan Technological University | USA |
Chun Che Fung | Murdoch University | Australia |
Denis Dennehy | Swansea University, Bay Campus | UK |
Francesco Sicurello | Italian Association on Telemedicine and Medical. Informatics | Italy |
Galina Bogdanova | Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Bulgaria |
Heather Love | University of Waterloo | Canada |
Hiroshi Sakai | Kyushu Institute of Technology | Japan |
Joseph Sarkis | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | USA |
Kamal Alhaddad | École de technologie supérieure Montreal | Canada |
Kathleen Vogel | Arizona State University | USA |
Katina Michael | Arizona State University | USA |
Kenneth Foster | University of Pennsylvania | USA |
Long-Thành Ngô | Le Quy Don University | Vietnam |
Lyuba Alboul | Industry & Innovation Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University | UK |
Maheshi Dissanayake | University of Peradeniya | Sri Lanka |
Mariana Zafeirakopoulos | University of Sydney | Australia |
Maya Dimitrova | Institute of Robotics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Bulgaria |
Mengchu Zhou | New Jersey Institute of Technology | USA |
Mohd Helmy Abd Wahab | Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia | Malaysia |
Muhammad Uzair Khan | National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences | Pakistan |
Nirmal Nair | The University of Auckland | New Zealand |
Patri Sreehari | National Institute of Technology | Warangal, India |
Philip Chmielewski | Loyola Marymount University | USA |
Prasanta Ghosh | Syracuse University | USA |
Raymond Mamattah | E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA) | Africa |
Ricardo Armentano | Universidad de la República | Uruguay |
Rob Nicholls | The University of New South Wales | Australia |
Roba Abbas | University of Wollongong | Australia |
Robert Davison | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
S M Sameer | National Institute of Technology Calicut | India |
Samiran Gupta | Public Policy for India and South Asia for Twitter | India |
Sardar Islam | Victoria University | Australia |
Satyanarayana Bheesette | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Mumbai, India |
Shaikh Fattah | Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology [BUET] | Bangladesh |
Shing Chiang Tan | Multimedia University | Malaysia |
Tek Tjing Lie | Auckland University of Technology | New Zealand |
Tianji Cai | University of Macau | China |
Trevor Smith | McMaster University | Canada |
Uthayakumar G | St.Joseph's Institute of Technology | India |
Valentina E Balas | “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad | Romania |
Zhong Sara Hua | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
Local Committee Members
Dr. Hua ZHONG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr. Hua (Sara) Zhong is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, an Honorary Research Fellow of Hong Kong Police College, and the newly elected Vice-Chairperson of the General Assembly for Asian Criminological Society. She has been a visiting scholar at Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University and Cybercrime Observatory, Australian National University. Her research and teaching interests include criminology, criminal justice, social development, and gender studies. Currently she has several ongoing projects on social change and trends of cybercrime and digital delinquency by gender and across cultures. Her publications have appeared in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Feminist Criminology, and Journal of Youth and Adolescence etc.
Dr. Tianji Cai, University of Macau
Tianji Cai is an Associate Professor at University of Macau. He received his PhD degree at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010. His research interests concentrate on new forms of data and new methods of analysis. Reflecting on his broad intellectual pursuits, his research topics are diverse, ranging from methodological, such as quantitative methods and data mining, to substantive ones, such as gene-environmental interplay and adolescent health behaviors. He has published widely in leading international journals including American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Sociological Methodology, Sociological Methods & Research, Chinese Sociological Review, etc.