The Eighth IASTED International Conference on
Web-based Education
~WBE 2009~
March 16 – 18, 2009
Phuket, Thailand
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Biography of the Conference Chair
Dr. Vladimir Uskov is a professor of computer science and information systems at Bradley University (Peoria, IL, USA). He is also a co-Director of the InterLabs Research Institute at Bradley University.
His areas of expertise include Web-Based Education or e-Learning (1995 – present), Applications of Information Technologies in Education (1990 – present), Software Engineering (1979 – present) and Programming Languages (1979 – present).
Dr. Uskov has more than 300 professional publications, including 3 textbooks, 3 book chapters, and 48 published articles in referred journals in 3 different languages.
Dr. Uskov is the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal on Advanced Technology for Learning (ISSN: 1710-2251). He is also a member of editorial boards of 3 international referred journals on Web-based education.
Dr. Uskov received numerous grants in his areas of expertise from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Microsoft Corp., and various governmental institutions. Currently, Dr. Uskov is a principal investigator of the NSF project # 0420506 (2004-2008) in Information Technology. He was a principal investigator of the NSF project # 0196015 on Web-Based Education (2001-2004), and co-principal investigator of the NSF grant # 9950029 (1999-2003) and grant # 0002219 (2000-2001).
In the past 2 years, Dr. Uskov has served as a keynote/invited speaker for 14 international conferences and professional events in U.S.A., Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Taiwan and Jamaica.
Dr. Uskov taught regular academic courses in Russia (Moscow State Technical University, 1988-1995) and in the USA (Michigan State University, University of Cincinnati, and Bradley University, 1995 – present). He was a visiting professor in various universities of France, Germany, Holland, and Italy.
Dr. Uskov is a Member of the Executive Board of the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology, Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Education Society, ACM, AACE, IASTED and the International Academy on Information Networking.
