Atilla Elci is full professor in the Software Engineering Department, Hasan Kalyoncu University, Turkey. He retired as full professor and chairman, Aksaray University (2012-2017). Served at Purdue, METU, Haliç, Başkent, EMU, Toros, SDÜ, and Aksaray. His pro practice includes ITU as chief technical advisor (1985-97) and IT&T Pvt Ltd as owner, Turkey (1997-2003). He has organized/served for committees of numerous international conferences. He has organized IEEE COMPSAC & ESAS since 2006, SIN Confs since 2007; and, IJRCS Symposiums 2008-9. He has published extensively; edited Semantic Agent Systems (Springer, 2011), Theory and Practice of Cryptography Solutions for Secure Information Systems (2013), Handbook of Applied Learning Theory and Design in Modern Education (2016), Metacognition and Successful Learning Strategies in Higher Education (2017), Comptemporary Perspectives on Web-Based Systems (May 2018), and Faculty Development for Digital Teaching and Learning (May 2019) all by IGI Global, and the procs SIN Confs by ACM, ESAS by IEEE CS. He serves IEEE COMPSAC since 2005, track chair (2008-2015), Standing Committee Member since 2014. He is an assoc editor of Expert Systems and board member of other journals. BSEE METU, Ankara (1970), M.Sc. & Ph.D. in Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ, USA (1973, 1975). His research and experience encompass web semantics, agent-based systems, robotics, machine learning, knowledge representation and ontology, information security, and educational technology.