Anne H.H. Ngu is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. From 1992-2000, she worked as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia. She had held research scientist positions with Telcordia Technologies; Microelectonics and Computer Technology (MCC); University of California, Berkeley; Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia and the Tilburg University, The Netherlands. She was a summer faculty scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 2003-2006. Dr Ngu has published over 100 technical papers in journals and refereed conferences in computer science. Her main research interests are in large-scale service and information discovery and integration, service platforms for Internet of Things, business and scientific workflows, databases and Software Engineering. Her professional service features key leadership roles in three international conferences. She was bestowed with a special Outstanding Contribution Award for one of them. She was a winner of the 2013 NCWIT Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award.

Rodion Podorozhny received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin in 2004 and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1997. He joined Texas State University - San Marcos in 2004. Rodion Podorozhny's research interests are in the area of software engineering, in particular in software process and formal methods. In addition, he has done some work in analysis of multi-agent systems and application of the multi-agent technology to software process enactment.

Apan Qasem is Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Computer Science Department at Texas State University. He received his PhD in 2008 from Rice University. Qasem directs the Compilers Research Group at Texas State where he and his students are working on a number of projects in the area of high-performance computing including developing intelligent software for improving programmer productivity and using GPUs for general-purpose computation. Qasem's research has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Semiconductor Research Consortium (SRC), IBM, Nvidia and the Research Enhancement Program at Texas State. In 2012, he received an NSF CAREER award to pursue research in autotuning of exascale systems. Qasem has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications including two that won best paper awards. He regularly teaches the undergraduate and graduate Compilers and Computer Architecture courses.

Guowei Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. His research addresses various elements of how to enhance software reliability and dependability, including software verification and testing, software maintenance and evolution, program analysis, and formal methods. He received Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2013, and M.S. in Computer Science from University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2009. Before coming to the U.S., he received M.E. in Computer Software and Theory from Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, and B.E. in Software Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology.

Kecheng Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018 and 2015, respectively, both with Prof. James H. Anderson. Before that, he received his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Hunan University in 2013. His research interests include real-time and cyber-physical systems, scheduling theory and resource allocation algorithms, and heterogeneous multiprocessor platforms.