Information Science and Applications (ICISA) 2016

Kuinam J. Kim is a professor and chairman of convergence Security Department, Kyonggi University, Korea. He is the founding Editor in Chief of the ICAT Transactions on Convergence IT Security. He is currently on the advisory editorial board of the Convergence Security Journal. He is President of Korea Industry Security Forum and Korea Convergence Security Association.

His research interests include cloud computing, wireless and mobile computing, digital forensics, video surveillance, information and convergence security. He has published extensively in these areas and received several Journals and conferences best paper awards.

He received B.S in Mathematics from the University of Kansas www.ku.edu. His Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from Colorado State University was earned in 1994. He is Executive General Chair of the Institute of Creative and Advanced Technology, Science, Engineering (ICATSE).

Nikolai Joukov is a technical leader and evangelist of enterprise IT transformation process and tools. He is a recognized expert in large-scale enterprise IT modeling, transformation planning, security assessments, visualization, cloudification, data center relocation, reliability assessments, energy optimization, and storage architectures.

During the last seven years Nikolai led and participated in dozens of large-scale enterprise IT transformation initiatives worldwide for largest banks, insurance, telecommunication, retailer, manufacturing, medical, airline, and energy companies, governments, and universities. He pioneered in the use of new automated scalable IT transformation planning processes and related tools. Nikolai's work at IBM was recognized with a number of awards for business and corporate strategy impacts. Prof. Joukov was sharing his unique experiences with the students at Columbia University, NYU Poly, and NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Science of his publication in the top venues such as OSDI, FAST and Eurosys. Several of his publications won best paper awards including Eurosys'08. IEEE recognized Dr. Joukov's Chairmanship of IEEE Computer Society Committee and Community on Operating Systems with an award for excellent service