1. Eberhard O. Voit  Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology, The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University  2005, David D. Flanagan Chair in Biological Systems  2004, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar  1990, Health Science Foundation Scholar  1988, Medical University of South Carolina Key 100 Member

2. Dan Gusfield  Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1980  His primary interests involve the efficiency of algorithms, particularly for problems in combinatorial optimization and graph theory. These algorithms have been applied to study data security, stable matching, network flow, matroid optimization, string/pattern matching problems, molecular sequence analysis, and optimization problems in population-scale genomics.  He served as chair of the computer science department at UCD from July 2000 until August 2004, and am now the founding Editor-in-Chief of The IEEE/ACM Transactions of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

3. Luonan Chen  Professor at Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering, Osaka Sangyo University  Research professor of the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo.  Group Leader of ERATO Aihara Complexity Modelling Project in Japan Science and Technology.Agency.  Director of Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University.  Primary research interest: Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Power Systems, Computer Science.  Published: 4 books, 4 patents, Over 100 journal papers

4. Jun Wang  Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2002 to present  RESEARCH INTERESTS: Neural networks, Computational intelligence, Intelligent control, Intelligent robotics, Intelligent manufacturing, Operations research  He is an IEEE Fellow and has published 130 journal papers, 11 book chapters, and 7 edited books with about 1400 SCI citations.

5. Maciej Ogorzalek  Maciej Ogorzalek is a professor of electrical engineering at the AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland and holds a joint appointment as head of Department of Information Technologies at the Jagiellonian University.  He is an IEEE Fellow (1997), Recipient of the IEEE Guillemin-Cauer (Best Paper) Award 2002. Distinguished Lecturer of the CAS Society 2001-2003.  He was the creator of the new department and new curricula in applied computer science including bio- informatics at the Jagiellonian University. Author or co-author of over 230 technical papers and one book (Chaos and Complexity in Nonlinear Electronic Circuits, World Scientific).