Preetam Ghosh is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and the director of the Biological Networks Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University. He obtained his MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington, and he holds a BS in Computer Science from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. His research interests include algorithms, stochastic modeling and simulation, network science and machine learning-related approaches in systems biology and computational epidemiology, and mobile computing-related issues in pervasive grids. These have resulted in more than 200 conference and journal articles and several federally funded research projects from NSF, NIH, DoD, and US-VHA. He previously served as the Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGBio.