Professional Service (selected)
Senior service across AI conferences (NAACL, CVPR, ICME, ICASSP, NeurIPS/AAAI/ICLR/EMNLP) and sustained university contributions in recruiting, seminars, mentoring, and industry engagement.
Leadership & Organization
- Area Chair — Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2025
- Session Chair — IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2025
- Session Chair — IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023
- Workshop Organizer — IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025
University of Washington Service
- Graduate recruiting & admissions support — School of Engineering & Technology, Computer Science & Systems.
- Seminar & colloquium co‑organizer — invited talks in Vision‑Language Modeling and Multimodal AI.
- Capstone and research mentor — supervising MS/PhD projects, thesis committees, and undergraduate research.
- Industry & community engagement — liaison for collaborations with technology partners and local organizations.
Conference Committees
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) 2019 – 2024
- IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2018 – 2024
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2020 – 2024
Additional (selected), by area:
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) · International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) · International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) · International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) · International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)
- Computer Vision: IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) · IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
- Multimedia: ACM Multimedia Asia (MM Asia) · IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) · ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR)
- Natural Language Processing: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
- Signal Processing & Speech: IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Journal Reviewing
IEEE Journals (selected): Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) · Transactions on Multimedia (T‑MM) · Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) · Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) · Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T‑CSVT) · Transactions on Cybernetics · Internet of Things Journal (IoT‑J) · Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (J‑STSP) · Signal Processing Letters (SPL) · Sensors (and Sensors Letters) · Robotics and Automation Letters (RA‑L) · Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJ‑SP) · Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS)
ACM Journals (selected): Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) · Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
Other Journals (selected): International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) · Pattern Recognition · Information Fusion · Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) · etc.
Community & Outreach
- Judge & Advisor — Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2019 – 2024: judged Computer Science and mentored finalist teams on experimental design, reproducibility, and responsible AI practices.
- Advisor — S.–T. Yau High‑School Science Award (North America) 2019 – 2024: guided award‑winning teams on problem formulation, dataset curation, and rigorous evaluation for ML projects.
- Volunteer — CMU Postdoc Association 2021–2023: assisted professional‑development seminars and research‑communication workshops; helped early‑career researchers with materials and mentor connections.