Fillia Makedon is Name Professor and Department Head of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University in 1982. Between 1991-2006, she was professor of computer science at Dartmouth College where she founded and directed the Dartmouth Experimental Visualization Laboratory (DEVLAB). In 2005-2006, she was Program Director at the National Science Foundation. Prior to Dartmouth, Prof. Makedon was Assistant and Associate Professor at the Univ. of Texas at Dallas (UTD), where she directed the Computer LEArning Research Center (CLEAR). She has supervised over 22 Ph.D. theses and numerous Masters Degrees. She received the Dartmouth Senior Research Professor Award, three Fulbright awards, and is author of over 300 peer-reviewed research publications. She currently directs the HERACLEIA Human Centered Computing Laboratory (www.heracleia.uta.edu), that develops pervasive technologies for human monitoring with applications to healthcare. She is member of several journal editorial boards, chair of the PETRA conference (www.petrae.org) and senior editor of two electronic journals, EJETA.ORG, and CSURJ.ORG. Makedon has received many research awards in the areas of trust management, data mining, parallel computation, visualization, and knowledge management from the National Science Foundation, the NIH, DOJ and various foundations.