Open Journal of Systems Engineering Editorial Committee

Open Journal of Systems Engineering Editor-in-Chief

W. Dale Blair

Georgia Tech Research Institute

United States

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

W. Dale Blair

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Biography

William Dale Blair is a principal research engineer with the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and recently completed an assignment as the Technical Director for the C2BMC Knowledge Center of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). He received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1985 and 1987. In January 1998, he received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia. Prior to joining GTRI, Dr. Blair was with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) in Dahlgren, Virginia. At NSWCDD, he originated two benchmark problems for target tracking and radar resource allocation. He also led a project that demonstrated through a real-time tracking experiment that modern tracking algorithms can be utilized to reduce the radar time and energy required by a phased array radar to support surveillance tracking. Since joining GTRI in 1997, Dr. Blair has led a multiorganizational team in the development of multiplatform-multisensor-multitarget benchmarks to both air defense and ballistic missile defense. His projects at GTRI focus mostly on the modeling and simulation and algorithm assessment associated with the sensor netting for the battle management, command, and control for the ballistic missile defense system. Dr. Blair is a Fellow of the IEEE and recipient of the 2001 IEEE Nathanson Award for Outstanding Young Radar Engineer. He served as the Editor for Radar Systems for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (T-AES) 1996-99 and Editor-In-Chief (EIC) for IEEE T-AES from 1999-2005. Dr. Blair also served on the Board of Governors of IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) from 1998-2003 and 2005-2010. While a member of the IEEE AESS BoG, he served as Associate Vice President for Publications for 2007-10 and Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee for 2009-10, originated the Target Tracking Systems Panel, and initiated the Systems Panel for Cyber Security Systems. Dr. Blair's research is reported in over two hundred articles which include 38 refereed journal articles. He originated and coordinates three short courses, Target Tracking in Sensor Systems, Target Tracking Concepts, and Advanced Target Tracking for Ballistic Missile Defense, for the Professional Education Department of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Blair is coeditor and coauthor of the book, Multitarget-Multisensor Tracking: Advances and Applications III, and the co-author of chapter 18 “Radar Measurements” and author of chapter 19 “Radar Tracking Algorithms” of the new edition of Principles of Modern Radar. He has also served as the coordinator of the ONR/GTRI Workshop on Target Tracking and Sensor Fusion for 1998 through 2011.

Affiliation(s)

Georgia Tech Research Institute

United States

Open Journal of Systems Engineering Associate Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Ljiljana Trajkovic

Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE OJSE

Simon Fraser University

Canada

7 (Canada)

Open Journal of Systems Engineering Associate Editor

James Lambert

University of Virginia

United States

2 (Eastern U.S.)

Vincenzo Piuri

University of Milan

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Vincenzo Piuri

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

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Biography

Vincenzo Piuri has received his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy (1989). He is a Full Professor in computer engineering at the University of Milan, Italy (since 2000). He has been an Associate Professor at Polytechnic of Milan, Italy and Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and visiting researcher at George Mason University, USA.

His main research interests are artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, intelligent systems, machine learning, pattern analysis and recognition, signal and image processing, biometrics, intelligent measurement systems, industrial applications, digital processing architectures, fault tolerance, cloud computing infrastructures, and internet-of-things. Original results have been published in 400+ papers in international journals, proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and a Senior Member of INNS. He is IEEE Region 8 Director-elect (2021-22), and has been IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2015), IEEE Director, President of the IEEE Systems Council, President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Vice President for Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council, Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE Systems Council, and Vice President for Membership of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Systems Journal (2013-19). He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and IEEE Access.

He received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award (2002) and the IEEE TAB Hall of Honor (2019). He is an Honorary Professor at Obuda University, Hungary; Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China; Northeastern University, China; Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan; Amity University, India; and Galgotias University, India.

Affiliation(s)

University of Milan

Michael Sievers

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Peter K. Willett

University of Connecticut

United States

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Peter K. Willett

1 (Northeastern U.S.)

Biography

Peter Willett received his BASc (Engineering Science) from the University of Toronto in 1982, and his PhD degree from Princeton University in 1986. He has been a faculty member at the University of Connecticut ever since, and since 1998 has been a Professor. He has published 168 journal articles (14 more under review), 355 conference papers, and 10 book chapters and a book on target tracking and data association. He was awarded IEEE Fellow status in 2003. His primary areas of research have been statistical signal processing, detection, machine learning, data fusion and tracking. He has interests in and has published in the areas of change/abnormality detection, optical pattern recognition, communications and industrial/security condition monitoring. He was editor-in-chief for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems from 2006-2011, and served as the AESS Vice President for Publications from 2012-2014. He now serves as Associate EiC of the AES Systems Magazine. Until recently he was associate editor for three active journals – IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (for Data Fusion and Target Tracking) and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, parts A and B. He is also associate editor for the IEEE AES Magazine, associate editor for ISIF’s electronic Journal of Advances in Information Fusion and is Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Signal Processing Letters. He was founder of editor of the AES Magazine’s periodic Tutorial issues, and was a member of the editorial board of IEEE’s Signal Processing Magazine. He was General Co-Chair (with Stefano Coraluppi) for the 2006 ISIF/IEEE Fusion Conference in Florence, Italy, Executive Chair (with Wolfgang Koch) for the 2008 ISIF/VDE Fusion Conference in Cologne and Emeritus Chair for the 2011 IEEE/ISIF Fusion Conference in Chicago. He will be Program Co-Chair (with Antonio De Maio) for the 2012 IEEE SPS SAM Conference in Hoboken, and was Program Co-Chair (with Eugene Santos) for the 2003 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics in Washington DC, and Program Co-Chair (with Pramod Varshney) for the 1999 Fusion Conference in Sunnyvale. He was co-organizer of the tracking sub-session at the 1999 IEEE Aerospace Conference, and has been Organizer of the Remote Sensing Track of that conference 2000-2003. Jointly with T. Kirubarajan he co-organized the SPIE “System Diagnosis and Prognosis: Security and Condition Monitoring Issues” Conference in Orlando, 2001-2003. He has been a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Sensor-Array & Multichannel (SAM) technical committee since 1997, and is its Vice President. He is also a member and officer of the IEEE AESS Board of Governors (2003-2009 & 2011-2016).

Affiliation(s)

University of Connecticut

United States

Dongrui Wu

Professor

School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

China

10 (Asia and Pacific)

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Open Journal of Systems Engineering Editorial Committee

Open Journal of Systems Engineering Editor-in-Chief

W. Dale Blair

Open Journal of Systems Engineering Associate Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Ljiljana Trajkovic

Open Journal of Systems Engineering Associate Editor

James Lambert

Vincenzo Piuri

Michael Sievers

Peter K. Willett

Dongrui Wu

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