Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE).
Member of the Association of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO).
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Discovery Grants Program Competition:
Group Chair, Evaluation Group 1507 (2010-2013)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Discovery Grants Program Competition:
Member of Grant Selection Committee 331 (2008), and of Evaluation Group 1507 (2009-2010).
External expert on the Hellenic Quality Assurance Agency for Higher
Education (HQAA), an independent authority with a mandate to organize the evaluation
of individual academic units including both Departments and Universities as a whole in
Greece.
Scientific advisor, Palomino System Innovations Inc., Toronto,
Ontario, since Jan. 2009
http://www.palominosys.com/aboutus/team/index.html
Member of the CAIAC dissertation award committee, 2010, 2011.
Reviewer of T-GAP proposals for Precarn, 2010
Program Committee member of the Canadian AI conference, 2010.
Program Committee member for ACM Hypertext 2011.
Keynote speaker at the Canadian AI conference, May 31-June 2, 2010.
Keynote speaker at the Workshop on Mining Social Data (MSoDa),
18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2008), 21 July 2008.
Member of the Program Committee of ACM Hypertext Conference 2009, track
on People, resources and annotations.
http://www.ht2009.org/track2.php
Member of the Program Committee of the First Int. Workshop on Modeling,
Managing and Mining of Evolving Social Networks (M3SN) 2009, collocated with IEEE ICDE 2009.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/events/m3sn/
Member of the Program Committee of the Hypertext 2008, track on Social Linking.
http://www.sigweb.org/ht08/home/soclinking.html
Member of the Program Committee of the Posters and Demos of
the Association for Computational Linguistics conference, ACL 2007,
http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/demos/.
Member of the Program Committee member of the Workshop on Web Privacy Intelligence affiliated
with the IEEE/WIC/ACM Int. Conf. on Web Intelligence and Intelligent
Agent Technologies in Hong Kong on December 18-22, 2006.
http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/wi/?index=workshop
Member of the Program Committee of the Eleventh International Symposium on
Health Information Management Research iSHIMR2006, July 14-16, 2006
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada,
http://www.cs.dal.ca/ishimr2006
Member of the Program Committee of the AAAI 2006 conference
(Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence).
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Third Canadian
Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2006.
Member of the Precarn / IRIS Research Management Committee, Precarn Inc., 2002-2009.
Member of the Program Committee of the Web Information and Data Management
Workshop, November 5, 2005 Bremen, Germany In conjunction with the 14th CIKM
2005 In cooperation with ACM SIGMOD Sponsored by ACM SIGIR
Member of the Program Committee of the Third Annual Conference on
Communication Networks and Services (CNSR 2005), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
May 16 - 18, 2005.
General Co-Chair of the
2005 International Conference on Intelligent Mechatronics and Automation
August 8-11, 2005, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Canadian Artificial
Intelligence Conference 2005.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Second Canadian
Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2005.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Canadian Artificial
Intelligence Conference 2004.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the First Canadian
Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2004.
Member of the Program Committee of the Second Annual Conference on
Communication Networks and Services (CNSR 2004), May 19-21, 2004,
Fredericton, Canada.
Member of the Program Committee of the
AAMAS 2003 Workshop on Engineering Self-Organising Applications
15 July 2003, Melbourne, Australia.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Canadian Artificial
Intelligence Conference 2003 and Vision Interface 2003.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the Canadian Artificial
Intelligence Conference 2002.
Member of the Technical program committee of the Image Processing and
Signal Processing track of the International Conference on Pattern
Recognition, ICPR 2002.
Member of the organizing committee of the SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium,
1999-2001,
Co-editor (with G. Dudek and M. Jenkin) of the Special Issue on "Perception
for Mobile Agents" of the journal Image and Vision Computing, with
revised versions of the best WPMA-2 papers, Vol 19, 2001.
Co-editor (with G. Dudek and M. Jenkin) of the Special Issue on "Perception
for Mobile Agents" of the journal Autonomous Robots, with revised
versions of the best WPMA-1 papers, April 2000, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 103-199.
Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Perception for Mobile Agents", WPMA-2, IEEE
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado,
June 26, 1999.
Co-organizer of the Workshop on "Perception for Mobile Agents", WPMA-1, IEEE
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, University of California,
Santa Barbara, June 26, 1998.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2nd and 3rd International Workshops
on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, 1997.
Member of the Program Committee of ``Artificial Intelligence'', and ``Vision
Interface'' conferences, 21-24 May 1996, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Invited speaker at the ``Information Processing for Intelligent Service
Robots'' Workshop, in conjunction with the 1996 IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics
and Automation, April 22-28, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Member of the Program Committee of ``Sensor Fusion and Networked Robotics
VIII'', SPIE Int. Symp. on Inteligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing:
Sensors and Software for Improved Performance and Productivity, 23-26 October
1995, Pennsylvania Convention Centre, Philadelphia, PA.
Member of the Program Committee of ``Sensor Fusion VII'', SPIE OE/Technology
Symposium, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 31 October - 4
November 1994.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the 2nd and 3rd International Workshops
on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, 1994.
Treasurer and Member of the Program Committee, Vision Interface 1993.
Session Co-Chair, ``Active Hand-Eye'', May 4, Session TP II-7, IEEE
International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2-7, 1993, Atlanta,
GA, USA.
Session Chair, ``Model Based Vision II'', July 9, 15:30-17:45, 1992 IEEE
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, July 7-10,
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Co-organizer (with J. Crowley) of a workshop on ``Sensing and Spatial
Reasoning for Mobile Robots'', May 15, 1992, IEEE Conference on Robotics and
Automation, Nice, France.
Member of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee, 1990, 1991.
Member of the Program Committee, Vision Interface 1991.
Member of the visiting committee of the NSERC Information Systems and
Manufacturing Systems Selection Panel, July 10, 1991.
Proposal Referee for the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council
of Canada.
Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, the IEEE Computer,
the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, the IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, the Journal of Computational
Intelligence, the International Journal on Computer Vision, the International
Conference on Computer Vision, the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition, the International Joint Conference on Artificial
Intelligence.
Book reviewer for Canadian Artificial Intelligence.
Science Speakers Bureau, York University: I regularly gave
presentations to high-school students on the fields of robotics and
artificial intelligence.
Member of the IEEE Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery,
the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence, and the
Technical Chamber of Greece.
