Professional Activities:

Professional Experiences

• September, 1999  —  Present Director Multimedia Computation Research Lab, SUNY Binghamton, USA
• September, 2010 — Present Full Professor, Computer Science Department, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
• August, 2005 — August, 2010 Associate Professor with Tenure, Computer Science Department, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
• August, 1999 — August, 2005 Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY
• August, 1998 — August, 1999, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
• June, 1997 — August, 1998, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
• June, 1995 — August, 1999, Research Scientist, Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
• September, 1989 — May, 1995, Research Assistant Computer Vision Lab, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
• September, 1989 — August, 1990, Teaching Assistant (required by the graduate pro- gram) Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
• August, 1987 — July, 1989, Research Staff Member Department of Information and Electronics Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
• September, 1984 — July, 1987, Research Assistant Information Processing Lab, Department  of Information and Electronics Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
• February, 1985 — July, 1985, Teaching Assistant (required by the graduate program) Department of Information and Electronics Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Honors Received

• SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence on Scholarship and Creative Activities, April, 2013
• Chuo University (in Japan) International Visiting Professorship, January, 2013
• Chuo University (in Japan) International Visiting Professorship, January, 2012
• Chuo University (in Japan) International Visiting Professorship, January, 2011
• Chuo University (in Japan) International Visiting Professorship, January, 2010
• Zhejiang University of China QiuShi Chaired Visiting Professor, January, 2009
• Chuo University (in Japan) International Visiting Professorship, August, 2009
• National Science Council (in Taiwan) International Visiting Fellowship, June, 2009
• Chuo University (in Japan) International Visiting Associate Professorship, August, 2008
• French CNRS International Visiting Chair Professorship, August, 2007
• Chuo University (in Japan) International Visiting Associate Professorship, March, 2007
• Invited to Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2006, March 2006
• HongKong Huang Kuancheng Education Foundation International Scientific Research Collaboration Fellowship, March, 2006
• Chuo University (in Japan) International Research Collaboration Fellowship, Febru- ary, 2006
• SUNY/UUP 2006 Individual Development Award, November, 2005
• 2005 US Air Force Research Laboratory Faculty Visiting Fellow awarded by AFRL in February, 2005
• Invited to Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2005
• FY2005 JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) International Research Collaboration Fellow, December, 2004
• SUNY/UUP 2005 Individual Development Award, December, 2004
• Second Place of the Inventor of the Year 2004, Western New York, June, 2004
• 2004 National Academies/National Research Council Faculty Visiting Fellow awarded by NRC in March, 2004
• 2004 Microsoft Visiting Researcher awarded by Microsoft Research Asia in March, 2004
• Chancellor’s Promising Inventor Award by the Chancellor of State University of New York (SUNY) in May, 2003
• 2003 National Academies/National Research Council Faculty Visiting Fellow awarded by NRC in March, 2003
• Visiting Faculty Extension Award by US AFRL in August, 2003
• 2002 US Air Force Research Laboratory Faculty Visiting Fellow awarded by AFRL in February, 2002
• Visiting Faculty Extension Award by US AFRL in August, 2002
• Invited to Scientists Helping America Conference organized by DARPA in March, 2001
• ChunHui Fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Education of China, China, in June, 1998 to outstanding overseas Chinese scholars.
• NEC  Research  Institute  Graduate  Summer  Research  Internship,  Princeton,  NJ, awarded by NECI in April, 1994
• Cum laude awarded by Zhejiang University,  China,  in April,  1984 for outstanding academic work (for less than top 1% college graduating seniors)

Professional Activities

Professional  Organizations

• Senior  Member  of  The  Institute  of Electrical  and  Electronics  Engineers,  Inc. (IEEE)
• Member of IEEE Computer Society
• Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Member of ACM SIGKDD
• Fellow of Institute of Student Centered Learning, State University of New York

Professional Services

• Founding Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, Springer
• Editorial Board Member of Biomedical Engineering Journal, Bentham Sci- ence Publishers
• Editorial Board Member of Advances in Multimedia, Hindawi Publishing Cor- poration
• Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition, Elsevier Science Press
• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Zhejiang University, Part C – Com- puter and Information Sciences, Springer
• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Information and Data Management
• Guest Editor (with Yueting Zhuang, Ramesh Jain, and Tim Pan) of special is- sue on Cross Media Analysis, International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval, Springer, 2014
• Guest Editor (with Zhengyou Zhang, Ramesh Jain, and Yueting Zhuang) of special issue on Connected Multimedia, Journal of Multimedia, Academy Publisher, 2012
• Guest editor (with Florent Masseglia, Ramesh Jain, and Alberto Del Bimbo) of special issue on Multimedia Data Mining, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Signal Processing Society Press, 2008
• Guest editor (with Arif Ghafoor, Michael Lew, and Zhi-Hua Zhou) of special is- sue on Using Machine Learning Approaches to Multimedia Information Retrieval, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, Springer, 2006
• Steering Committee member of ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining
• Steering Committee member of International Summer School and Workshop on Internet of Things
• Program Committee member of full paper track of ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Brisbane, Australia, October, 2015
• Program Committee member of short paper track of ACM International Confer- ence on Multimedia, Brisbane, Australia, October, 2015
• Program Committee member of European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Porto, Portuga, September, 2015
• Program Committee member of 21st ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM KDD 2015), Sydney, Australia, August, 2015
• Technical Program Committee Area Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2015), Tonino, Italy, June, 2015
• Program Committee member of The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Dis- covery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2015), Nha Trang City, Vietnam, May, 2015
• Program Committee member of 16th International Workshop on Multimedia Sig- nal Processing (MMSP 2014), Jakarta, Indonesia, September, 2014
• Program Committee member of 21st ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM KDD 2014), New York, NY, USA, August, 2014
• Tutorial Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
• (ICME 2014), Chengdu, China, July, 2014
• Short Paper Program Committee member of 37th ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR’14), Gold Coast, Australia, July, 2014
• Technical Program Committee Area Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2014), Chengdu, China, July, 2014
• Program Committee member of The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Dis- covery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2014), Tainan, Taiwan, May, 2014
• Program Committee member of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
• (SDM 2014), Philidelphis, PA, April, 2014
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
• (ICDM 2013), Dallas, TX, USA, December, 2013
• Program Committee member of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’13), San Francisco, CA, USA, October, 2013
• Program Committee member of 15th International Workshop on Multimedia Sig- nal Processing (MMSP 2013), Pula, Italy, October, 2013
• Panel Moderator, ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Bacelona, Spain, October, 2013
• Program Committee member of 2013 International Conference on Big Data (Big- Data2013), Washington, DC, September, 2013
• Short Paper Program Committee member of 36th ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR’13), Dublin, Ireland, July, 2013
• Program Committee member of 19th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM KDD 2013), Austin, TX, USA, August, 2013
• Program Committee member of 11th Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG 2013), Austin, TX, USA, August, 2013
• Program Committee Member of ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (ACM MDM’13), Austin, TX, USA, August, 2013
• Program Committee member of The International Conference on Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013), Niagara Falls, Canada, August, 2013
• Technical Program Committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2013), San Jose, CA, USA, July, 2013
• Program Committee member of The 13th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2013), Austin, TX, USA, May, 2013
• Program Committee member of The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Dis- covery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013), Gold Coast, Australia, April, 2013
• Program Committee member of The 18th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2013), Wuhan, Hubei, China, April, 2013
• Technical Program Committee member of the 19th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2013), Huangshan, Anhui, China, January, 2013
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
• (ICDM 2012), Brussels, Belgium, December, 2012
• Program Committee member of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2012), Nanjing, China, December, 2012
• Area Chair of 21st International  Conference  on  Pattern  Recognition  (ICPR 2012), Tsukuba Science City, Japan, November, 2012
• Organizer and Chair of NSF Workshop on Community Outreach for K-12 Edu- cation, Binghamton, NY, USA, October, 2012
• Program Committee member of the 12th Pacific Rim International Conerence on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2012), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, September, 2012
• Program Committee member of European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Bristol, UK, September, 2012
• Short Paper Program Committee member of 35th ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR’12), Portland, Oregon, USA, August, 2012
• Program Committee member of The International Conference on Social Network Analysis  and Mining  (ASONAM  2012),  Istanbul,  Turkey, August,  2012
• Program Committee member of 18th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM KDD 2012), Beijing, China, August, 2012
• Session Chair of 18th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM KDD 2012), Beijing, China, August, 2012
• Program Committee member of 10th Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG 2012), Beijing, China, August, 2012
• Program Committee Member of ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (ACM MDM’12), Beijing, China, August, 2012
• Technical Program Committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2012), Melbourne, Australia, July, 2012
• Program Committee member of 1st ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2012), Hongkong, China, June, 2012
• Program Committee member of The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Dis- covery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2012), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May, 2012
• Technical Program Committee member of the 18th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2012), Klagenfurt, Austria, January, 2012
• Program Committee member of the 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2011), Beijing, China, December, 2011
• Senior Program Committee member of 10th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2011), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December, 2011
• Tutorial Co-Chair of ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’2011), Scottsdale, AZ, USA, November, 2011
• Summit Chair of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things
• (iThings 2011), Dalian, China, October, 2011
• Program Committee member of 13th International Workshop on Multimedia Sig- nal Processing (MMSP 2011), Hangzhou, China, October, 2011
• Program Committee member of European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), Athens, Greece, September, 2011
• Program Committee member of 12th International Conference on Web-Age Infor- mation Management (WAIM 2011), Wuhan, China, September, 2011
• Program Committee member of 17th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM KDD 2011), San Diego, CA, USA, August, 2011
• Program Committee member of 9th Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG 2011), San Diego, CA, USA, August, 2011
• Program Committee Member of ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (ACM MDM’11), San Diego, CA, USA, August, 2011
• Short Paper Program Committee member of 34th ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR’11), Beijing, China, July, 2011
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’11), Barcelona, Spain, July, 2011
• Program Committee member of International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2011 (ASONAM 2011,  Kaohsiung,  Taiwan, July, 2011
• Co-General Chair of 2011 International Summer School and Workshop on Internet of Things, Hangzhou, China, May, 2011
• Program Committee member of The 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD’11), Shenzhen, China, May, 2011
• Program Committee member of 1st ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2011), Trento, Italy, April, 2011
• Program Committee member of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
• (SDM 2011), Mesa, AZ, USA, April, 2011
• Program Committee member of International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP 2011), College Park, MD, USA, March, 2011
• Program Committee member of 17th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM’11), Taipei, Taiwan, January, 2011
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
• (ICDM 2010), Sidney, Australia, December, 2010
• Panelist served at ACM International Conference on Cyber Physical and Social Systems Computing (CPSCom 2010), Hangzhou, China, December, 2010
• Panel Moderator served at ACM International Conference on Green Computing
• (GreenCom 2010), Hangzhou, China, December, 2010
• Program  Committee  member of  2nd  Asian  Conference  on Machine  Learning
• ACML’10), Tokyo, Japan, November, 2010
• Program Committee Content Track Regular Paper Meta Member of ACM Inter- national Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM’10), Florence, Italy, October, 2010
• Program Committee Content Track Short Paper Meta Member of ACM Inter- national Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM’10), Florence, Italy, October, 2010
• Organizer and Co-Chair of ACM First International Workshop on Connected Multimedia, Florence, Italy, October, 2010
• Program Committee member of International Conference on Advances of So- cial Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM’10), Odense, Denmark, August, 2010
• Program Committee member of International Conference on Pattern Recognition
• (ICPR 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2010
• Program Committee Member of ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (ACM MDM’10), Washington, DC, USA, July, 2010
• Program Committee Member of ACM International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs (ACM MLG’10), Washington, DC, USA, July, 2010
• Program Committee Member of ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM KDD’10), Washington, DC, USA, July, 2010
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’10), Singapore, July, 2010
• Program Committee member of ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR’10), Xi’An, China, July, 2010
• Program Committee Regular Paper member of 33rd ACM International Confer- ence on Information Retrieval (SIGIR’10), Geneva, Switzerland, July, 2010
• Program Committee poster Paper member of 33rd ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR’10), Geneva, Switzerland, July, 2010
• Program Committee member of The 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD’10), Hyderabad, India, June, 2010
• Program Committee member of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
• (SDM’10), Columbus, OH, USA, April, 2010
• Technical Program Committee member of The 2nd ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2010), Philadelphia, PA, USA, March, 2010
• Technical Program Committee member of The 16th IEEE International Multime- dia Modeling Conference (MMM 2010), Chongqing, China, January, 2010
• Session Chair of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM’09), Miami, Florida, December, 2009
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
• (ICDM’09), Miami, Florida, December, 2009
• Program Committee member of ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’09), HongKong, China, November, 2009
• Program Committee member of First Asian Conference on Machine Learning
• (ACML’09), Nanjing, China, November, 2009
• Organizer and Co-Chair of NSF International Workshop on Connected Multime- dia, Hangzhou, China, October, 2009
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2009), San Antonio, TX, October, 2009
• Program Committee member of International Conference on Knowedge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR’09), Madeira, Portugal, October, 2009
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vi- sion (ICCV’09), Kyoto, Japan, September, 2009
• Program Committee member of ACM International Conference on Knowledge Dis- covery and Data Mining (KDD’09), Paris, France, August, 2009
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS’09), Albuquerque, New Mexico, August, 2009
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Confernce on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’09), Cancun, Mexico, July, 2009
• Program Committee member of IEEE 1st International Workshop on Media In- formation Analysis for Personal and Social Applications (MAPS’09), Cancun, Mexico, July, 2009
• Program Committee member of 4th International Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia (SLAM 2009), Miami, Florida, USA, June, 2009
• Program Committee member of 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Dis- covery and Data Mining (PAKDD’09), Bangkok, Thailand, April, 2009
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
• (ICDM’08), Pisa, Italy, December, 2008
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia In- formation Processing and Retrieval (MIPR’08), Berkeley, CA, USA, December, 2008
• Program Committee member of 10th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-08), Hanoi, Vietnam, December, 2008
• Program Committee member of ACM International Workshop on PhD Students in Information and Knowledge Management (PIKM’08), Napa Valley, CA, USA, October, 2008
• Program Committee member of ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowl- edge Management (CIKM’08), Napa Valley, CA, USA, October, 2008
• Chair of Brave New Idea Committee, ACM International Conference on Multi- media Information Retrieval (MIR’08), Vancouver, BC, Canada, Ocbober, 2008
• Program Committee member of ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR’08), Vancouver, BC, Canada, Ocbober, 2008
• Program Committee member of ACM International Conference on Multimedia
• (ACM MM’08), Vancouver, BC, Canada, October, 2008
• Program Committee member of Fifth IEEE International Conference on Soft Com- puting as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST’08), Paris, France, October, 2008
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2008), Singapore, October, 2008
• Program Committee member of ACM International Conference on Knowledge Dis- covery and Data Mining (ACM KDD’08), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August, 2008
• Program Committee member of ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (ACM MDM’08), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August, 2008
• Technical Program Committee member of Third International Conference on Com- munications and Networking in China — Multimedia Communications Sympo- sium, Hangzhou, China, August, 2008
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vi- sion and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June, 2008
• Program Committee member of 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Learning and Applications in Multimedia (SLAM 2008), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June, 2008
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2008), University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, June, 2008
• Program Committee member of IEEE Interntional Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’08), Hannover, Germany, June, 2008
• Program Committee member of 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Dis- covery and Data Mining (PAKDD’08), Osaka, Japan, May, 2008
• International Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Telehealth (Telehealth2008), Maltimore, MD, April, 2008
• International Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2008), Innsbruck, Aus- tria, March, 2008
• Technical Program Committee member of 2008 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference – Multimedia Networking Track (CCNC 2008), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January, 2008
• Technical Program Committee member of The 14th IEEE International Multime- dia Modeling Conference (MMM 2008), Kyoto, Japan, January, 2008
• Technical Program Committee member of The 2007 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Hong Kong, China, December, 2007
• Tutorial speaker (with Bo Long and Philip S. Yu) on Relational Data Clus- tering for Community Generation and session chair at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Omaha, NE, USA, October, 2007
• Program Committee member of The 11th IEEE International Conference on Com- puter Vision, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October, 2007
• Program Committee member of International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining From Multimedia Data and Multimedia Applications, Omaha, NE, USA, October, 2007
• Program Committee member of 9th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Augsburg, Germany, September, 2007
• Program Committee member of PhD Workshop on Information and Knowledge Management, Lisboa, Portugal, November, 2007
• Tutorial speaker (with Bo Long and Philip S. Yu) on Relational Data Commu- nity Generation at International Conference on Machine Learning, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, June, 2007
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia In- formation Processing and Retrieval (MIPR’07), Taichung, Taiwan, China, De- cember, 2007
• Program Committee member of ACM 16th Conference on Information and Knowl- edge Management (CIKM 2007), Lisboa, Portugal, November, 2007
• International Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA 2007), Wurzburg, Germany, August, 2007
• Program Committee area chair and member of IEEE International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2007), Maribor, Slovenia, June, 2007
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Learn- ing in Multimedia (SLAM 2007), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June, 2007
• International Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Telehealth (Telehealth2007), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May - June, 2007
• Program Committee member and session chair of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2007), Beijing, China, July, 2007
• Program Committee member and area chair of 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD’07), Nanjing, China, May, 2007
• International Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA2007), Cha- monix, France, March, 2007
• Technical Program Committee member of 2007 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference – Multimedia Networking Track (CCNC 2007), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January, 2007
• Technical Program Committee member of The 13th IEEE International Multime- dia Modeling Conference (MMM 2007), Singapore, January, 2007
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia In- formation Processing and Retrieval (MIPR’06), San Diego, CA, USA, Decem- ber, 2006
• Program Committee member of ACM 15th Conference on Information and Knowl- edge Management (CIKM 2006), Arlington, VA, USA, November, 2006
• Program Committee member of The 8th International Conference on Multimodal Interface (ICMI 2006), Banff, Canada, November, 2006
• Program Committee member of The 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, November, 2006
• International Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA 2006), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August, 2006
• Organizer and Program Co-Chair of ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining, Philidelphia, PA, August, 2006
• International Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Telehealth  (Telehealth2006), Banff, Canada, July,  2006
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July, 2006
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Workshop on Semantic Learn- ing in Multimedia (SLAM 2006), New York City, NY, USA, June, 2006
• Program Committee area chair and member of IEEE International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2006), Salt Lake City, UTah, USA, June, 2006
• International Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA2006), Inns- bruck, Austria, February, 2006
• Technical Program Committee member of The 12th IEEE International Multime- dia Modeling Conference (MMM 2006), Beijing, China, January, 2006
• Panelist served for International Workshop on Information Intelligence and Inter- net Security, Beijing, China, December, 2005
• Program Committee member of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia In- formation Processing and Retrieval (MIPR’05), Irvine, CA, USA, December, 2005
• International Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC2005), Cambridge, MA, USA, October- November, 2005
• Technical Program Committee member of The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies (AutoID 2005), Buffalo, NY, USA, October, 2005
• International Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Automation (RA 2005), Cambridge, MA, USA, October, 2005
• Technical Program Committee member of IEEE International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS2005), June, 2005, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Technical Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Mul- timedia and Expo (ICME2005), July, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• International Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Telehealth (Telehealth 2005), July, 2005, Banff, Alberta, Canada
• Program Committee member of 6th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR2004), October, 2004, NY, NY, USA
• Session Chair of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
• (ICME2004), June, 2004, Taipei, Taiwan
• Program Committee member of The 9th ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, June, 2004, Paris, France
• Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA’2004), August, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems (CBMS2004), June, 2004, Washington, DC, USA
• Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA’2003), June, 2003, Salzburg, Austria
• Program Committee member of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI’2002), November, 2002, Washington, DC, USA
• Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA’2001), November, 2001, Tampa, Florida, USA
• Program Committee member of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI’2000), November, 2000, Vancouver, Canada
• Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA’2000), August, 2000, Hawaii, USA
• Program Committee member of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI’99), November, 1999, Chicago, USA
• Program Committee member of IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA’99), October, 1999, Santa Barbara, USA
• Program Co-Chair of 2nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval, Berkeley, USA, August, 1999
• Program Co-Chair of 1st ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval, Melbourne, Australia, August, 1998
• Panelist served for 1st ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval, Melbourne, Australia, August, 1998
• Program Committee Member, and Session Chair of the 1998 International Con- ference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology, July, 1998, Las Vegas, USA
• Session Chair of the IASTED 1998 International Conference on Imaging and Graphics, June, Halifax, Canada

Grant Review Panelist Served for

• * NSF Grant Review Panels (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)
• NASA Grant Review Panels (2003, 2004, 2005)

External Reviewer Served for Tenure Promotion Cases for

• Wensheng Wu of Computer Science Department, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2013
• Yiyuan Lu of Computer Science Department, Texas State University, 2013
• Lei Wang of Computer Science Department, Austrilian National University, 2009        
• Lei Wang of Computer Science Department, Austrilian National University, 2008
• Xiaojun Qi of Computer Science Department, Utah State University, 2007
• Chan Kap Luk of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Division of Information Engineering, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, 2007
• Brian Nutter of Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech Univer-sity, 2007
• D.J. Lee of Department of Electrical Engineering, Brigham Young Univer- sity, 2006
• Djamel  Bouchaffra of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University, 2006

Reviewers Served for

• US Army Research Office
• International reviewer for Hong Kong Research Grants Council
• International reviewer for National Research Foundation of Singapore
• Swiss National Science Foundation
• The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
• The National Science Center of Poland
• The 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA07), April, 2007, Bangkok, Thailand
• The 6th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM2005), October, 2005, Hangzhou, China
• The 10th International Conference on Database Systems for Ad-vanced Applications (DASFAA05), April, 2005, Beijing, China
• 2001 ACM International Conference on Multimedia, September, 2001, Ottawa, Canada
• 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May, 2000, Geneva, Switzerland
• 6th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, 1998
• IEEE International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 1997
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 1995
• PSC-CUNY-27 Research Award, 1995
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1994
• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2010
• National Science Foundation of China Grant Overseas Peer Review Panel
• ACM SIGKDD Explorations, ACM Press
• ACM Multimedia Tools and Applications, ACM Press
• ACM  Transactions  on  Multimedia  Computing,  Communications, and Applications, ACM Press
• ACM Transactions on Multimedia Systems, ACM Press
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems, ACM Press
• Frontiers of Computer Science in China, Higher Education Press
• IEEE Computer, IEEE Computer Society Press
• IEEE Multimedia, IEEE Signal Processing Society Press
• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE ASE Society Press
• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE BME Society Press
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
• IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Press
• IEEE Transactions on Computer, IEEE Computer Society Press
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society Press
• IEEE  Transactions  on  Information  Technology  in  Biomedicine,
• IEEE BME Society Press
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Computer Society Press
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Press
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Computer Society Press
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part B, IEEE SMC Society Press
• IEEE Transactions on Circuit Systems and Video Technologies, IEEE Press
• Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier Science Press
• International Journal of Computer Vision, Kluwer Academic Press
• International  Journal  on  Machine  Vision  Applications,  Springer-Verlag
• ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Elsevier
• Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Springer-Verlag
• Journal of Electronic Imaging, SPIE Press
• Journal of Robotic Systems, John Wiley & Sons
• Journal of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences Press
• Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Elsevier Science Press
• Knowledge and Information Systems Journal, Springer
• Machine Learning, Springer
• Optical Engineering, SPIE Press
• Pattern Recognition, Elsevier Science Press
• Social Network Analysis and Mining, Elseview Science Press