SDPS Board of Directors
Prof. Dr. Murat M. Tanik
Senior Board Member
Professor Tanik joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Engineering in 1998 as a full professor. Prior to joining the UAB faculty, he was an associate professor and the director of Electronic Enterprise Engineering at NJIT and the director of Software Systems Engineering Institute (SSEI) at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the director and chief scientist of Process Sciences Laboratory, a think-tank of process-centered knowledge integration. Dr. Tanik has worked on related projects for NASA, Arthur A. Collins (developer of Apollo moon missions’ tracking and communications systems), and ISSI. He was an associate professor and the director of the Software Systems Engineering Technology (SEK) research group at SMU. Dr. Tanik is co-founder of the interdisciplinary and international society, Society for Design and Process Science. His publications include co-authoring six books, co-editing eight collected works, and more than 100 journal papers, conference papers, book chapters, and reports funded by various government agencies and corporations. Under his direction, 15 Ph.D. dissertations and 20 M.S. theses have been completed.
Dr. Tanik’s research interests include software systems engineering, embedded and intelligent software systems, wireless and time-critical software support, collaborative computing for domain specific applications, and integrated systems design and process engineering.
Current sponsored research projects include E-Business application design for Sports-Medicine, Multi-lifecycle Engineering software systems for environmental protection, Time-critical systems for Super Conducting Super Collider,Intelligent cost-estimation systems software, Intelligent time-and-space critical systems, Intelligent digital switch maintenance systems, Intelligent user-interfaces for factory and laboratory automation.
Current and recent sponsors include DoD, Army, NATO, Texas Instruments, AT&T, E-Systems, Lockheed, CTI-Brazil, EMBRAPA-Brazil, Super Conducting SuperCollider, State of New Jersey, Northern Telecom, IRS, DEC, Abbott Laboratories, Merle-Collins foundation, and Texacone Inc.
Prof. Dr. Bernd J. Krämer
Senior Board Member
Dr. Bernd J. Krämer is a professor emeritus in Computer Science with FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany, and a co-founder and chairman of the Scientific Academy for Service Technology (ServTech). He also co-founded edu-sharing.net, a non-profit association promoting a networked educational resource sharing platform. He is a board member and past president of the Society for Design & Process Science. He has been a guest professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, UC Berkeley, and McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and an adjunct professor of Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and Monash University in Melbourne. He has been an Advisor to the European Commission, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, and an IT Consultant and board member of corporations in Germany and abroad. As a member of the expert group Intelligent Education Networks, he has been advising the German Federal Government on digital education issues for years until he resigned in 2020.
He obtained his diploma and doctorate in computer science from the Technical University of Berlin. His long-term research interests include distributed software systems engineering, safety-related software, service-oriented and cloud computing, and formal methods. Since 1993 he was involved in large EU projects. More recently, his research focusses on smart technologies in manufacturing and healthcare pursued, e.g., in the EU Framework 7 Integrated Project IMAGINE (Innovative End-to-end Management of Dynamic Manufacturing Networks https://portal.effra.eu/project/969#, 2011-2014), the EU Horizon 2020 project ICP4Life (An Integrated Collaborative Platform for Managing the Product-Service Engineering Lifecycle – www.icp4life.eu, 2015-2018), and the EU-funded Horizon 2020 project Monitoring Multidimensional Aspects of Quality of Life after Cancer Immuno-Therapy (QUALITOP – https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/875171, 2020-2024).
He has published extensively on his research topics, including several books including two textbooks and nearly 200 book chapters and articles in scholarly journals and peer reviewed conference proceedings. articles, and about 80 refereed articles in scholarly conference proceedings. Further he co-edited four journal issues and 11 books and conference proceedings. The latter include “Information Systems Interoperability³, published by Research Studies, UK (1998); the proceedings of the “18th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems” (1998) and the “Third International Symposium on Software Engineering for Parallel and Distributed Systems” (1998); and “Safety-Critical Real-Time Systems”, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1997). He was editor in chief of the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Sciences and the open access journal e-learing & education, which he co-founded in 2007. He was on the editorial board of the Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (World Scientific), the High Integrity Systems Journal, and “Innovations in Systems & Software Engineering” (Springer).
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Prof. Dr. Sang C. Suh
Board Member
Dr. Sang C. Suh is currently a full professor and department head in the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University – Commerce, U.S.A. Since 2012, he has served as the 7th President of the Society for Design and Process Science. Prior to that, he served as a Vice President of the Society. He founded a transdisciplinary research lab called Intelligent Data Analytics Systems Lab (IDASL) in 1996 and has been directing it since then to identify, launch, and carry out transdisciplinary systems R&D projects. His research theme is focused on transdisciplinary research topics including computer linguistics, biotechnology and bioinformatics coupled with information visualization, big data, and data analytics. Dr. Suh currently serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Transactions of SDPS, the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science. Dr. Suh is also an active member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association of Computing Machinery.
Dr. Suh has authored and published more than 100 peer-reviewed technical papers, more than 10 book chapters and 3 books in the areas of data mining, biomedical engineering and cyber-physical systems. He has chaired over 40 technical sessions in many international conferences and served in the program committees of over 20 international conferences. Among his honors are Distinguished Service Award from World Computing Congress – WorldComp, Distinguished Service and Excellence in Leadership Awards from the Society of Design and Process Science, Texas Instruments Research Fellowship Award, UH Software Engineering Research Fellowship Award, and Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award nomination.
Prof. Dr. Ali H. Doğru
Board Member
Dr. Doğru is a full professor at the Middle East Technical University, Computer Engineering Department. He founded the Software Engineering Laboratory, the Master of Science Program in Software Engineering, and the Center for Verification and Validation for the Modeling and simulation Center, all in the same institution. Dr. Doğru has supervised 11 PhD dissertations and 50 Master of Sicence theses studies. He published 3 books, 6 book chapters, 18 Journal publications, and more than 80 conference papers. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Southern Methodist University in Computer Science and his previous degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and Istanbul Technical University. His long term research fields are related with Software Engineering, covering Component Orientation, Specifications, Methodologies, and Real-time critical software.
Dr. Doğru has been active within the Society for Design and Process Science since its beginning, as a founding member where he served as the president and vice president for the Software Engineering Society. He had two one-year sabbatical assignments, in New Jersey Instittue of Technology and National University of Singapore.