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Larry Burton received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Duke University. He has 25 years executive international management experience in technology-based businesses and holds ten patents in microwave and optical communications, video switching, and broadband infrastructure. His current research is focused on high availability/high reliability enterprise computing.

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Ibraheem Kateeb received his B.S. in physics and mathematics from Yarmouk University in Jordan, and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from NCA&TSU in North Carolina in electrical and computer engineering. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and chairman of CNC-IEEE with more than 20 years of experience in academia and industry. He was professor and Department Head of Electronics Engineering at Guilford Technology College. He is currently at NCA&TSU as Assistant Professor of electronics, computer, and information technology. His current research is on electronic components, green energy and power, and control-robotics. He has more than 20 journal, book chapter, and peer review publications in these areas.

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Robert Cobb, Jr., is an Associate Professor at North Carolina A&T State University. His research interest include the implication of cloud computing technology on teaching and learning environments for underserved student populations.

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Tony E. Graham is Associate Professor, with a D.Eng. in civil engineering, May 2002, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md., USA; a master's of architecture, May 1998,
Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md.; and a bachelor's of science in architectural engineering, May 1979, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, N.C. Graham’s research interests are infrastructure engineering, geographic information system, and building information modeling. Current research focused on GIS and BIM modeling of residential and commercial building energy signatures.

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Li-Shiang Tsay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics, Computer, and Information Technology at North Carolina A&T State University (NCATSU). In addition, she is an Associate Graduate Faculty in the Indiana State University Consortium, Ph.D. degree program in technology management. Prior to joining NCATSU in 2007, she served as a faculty member at Hampton University. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Information Technology from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, respectively. Her research aims to augment people’s ability to deliver high performing solutions to maximize their data assets. To this end, she conducts research that spans the areas of data mining, multimedia databases, intelligent web search, complexity adaptive systems, and rough sets. The results of her research are widely published in several referred journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings and presented at several international conferences. Tsay edited books for Springer and InderScince publishers. She is a member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling, and Management. She was Program Chair of several international conferences. She has served and is currently serving in the program committee of several international conferences. Tsay is honored to serve as a member of Honorary Chair and Advisory Boards for the International Conference on Next Generation Information Technology since 2011 and the 4th International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science (NISS).

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Cameron Seay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Systems Technology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

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