Service
- Senior Member of IEEE
- Member of ASEE
- Program Committee, 8th European Event on Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems, April 3-5, 2013, Vienna, Austria.
- Program Committee, 2011 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, August 23-26, 2011.
- Program Committee, 8th European Event on Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems, April 27-29 2011.
- Program Committee, International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI), June 12-15, 2010.
- Program Committee, Second International Conference on Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE), December 21-22, 2009.
- Program Committee, 7th European Event on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems, April 7-9, 2010.
- Finance Chair, 4th ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks (SenSys 2009), Nov. 3, 2009.
- Program Committee, 2009 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, August 23-26, 2009.
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research, 2009-present.
- Program Committee, 2009 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Financial Engineering (CIFEr)
- Program Committee, 6th European Workshop on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques for Telecommunication Networks and other Parallel and Distributed Systems, April 15-17, 2009.
- Program Committee, First International Conference on Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE), December 8-9, 2008.
- General Co-Chair, with Sumit Roy, Workshop on Advanced Networking Technologies for Environmental Monitoring, May 29-30, 2008.
- Finance Chair, 3rd ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks (Mobicom 2008), Sept. 15, 2008.
- Program Committee, 3rd ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks (Mobicom 2008), Sept. 15, 2008.
- Program Committee, 2008 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, Sept. 21-23, 2008.
- Program Committee, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, June 1-6, 2008.
- Program Committee, 5th European Workshop on the Application of Nature-inspired Techniques to Telecommunication Networks and other Connected Systems, March 26-28, 2008.
- Program Committee, 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, April 1-5, 2007.
- Program Committee, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Oct 8-11, 2006.
- Program Co-Chair, with Yuhui Shi, 2006 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, May 12-14, 2006.
- Program Committee, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 10-12, 2005.
- General Co-chair, with Alcherio Martinoli, 2005 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, June 8-10, 2005.
- General Chair, NASA Workshop on Biosynthetic Engineering for the Exploration of Space, Jan 30-31, 2004.
- Workshop author, Environmental Cyberinfrastructure Needs For Distributed Sensor Networks, National Science Foundation, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Aug. 12-14, 2003.
- Program Committee, Fifth International Symposium on Reducing the Cost of Spacecraft Ground Systems and Operations, July 8-11, 2003.
- Program Committee, IEEE CAS Workshop on Wireless Communications and Networking, Sept. 5-6, 2002.
- Special Session Chair, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, May 12-17, 2002.
- Special Sessions Committee, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, July 24-27, 2000.
- Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, vol. 8, no. 4, July 1997.
- Editor-in-chief, IEEE Neural Network Council's Newsletter and homepage (1995-1998).
- Organizational Chair, 1997 IEEE Conf. on Computational Intelligence in Financial Engineering (CIFEr).
- Publicity co-chair, 1996 IEEE Conf. on Computational Intelligence in Financial Engineering.
- Invited Session chair, 1995 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.
- Invited panel speaker, 1995 IEEE International Pulp and Paper Conference.
- Executive Board Member, Science & Arts Foundation, (Information technology development, reducing the digital divide, Internet expansion, and technical empowerment for schools in the developing world).
At UAH
- Organizer of the departmental graduate seminar series.
- Active member of the Undergraduate Affairs Committee, overseeing curriculum changes and updates in the Systems group, addition of new courses, and accreditation by ABET (1994-1996).
At JPL
- Technology representative to NASA's annual technology review, JPL Telecommunications Science and Engineering Division, 2001-2004.