Academic and Professional Activities

Professional Activity

My academic and professional activities are mainly associated with IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS) where I have severed as

• Chair, IEEE CIS Intelligent Systems & Applications Technical Committee (2008, 2009)
• Member, IEEE CIS Technical Activity Committee (2008, 2009)
• Chair, IEEE CIS University Curricula Sub-Committee (2009)
• Member, IEEE CIS Education Committee (2009)
• Member, IEEE CIS Neural Network Technical Committee (2004-Present)
• Vice Chair, IEEE CIS UKRI Chapter (2003-Present)
• Member, IEEE Task Force on Computational Intelligence in Video Games (2007-Present)
• Vice Chair, IEEE CIS Intelligent Systems & Applications Technical Committee (2007)
• Member, IEEE CIS Intelligent Systems & Applications Technical Committee (2007-Present)
• Member, IEEE CIS Data Mining Technical Committee (2005-2008)
• Chair, Task Force of Audio and Speech Processing, IEEE CIS Neural Network Technical Committee (2004-2007)
• Chair, Task Force of Multimedia and Biometrics, IEEE CIS Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (2004 and 2005)

Editor/Reviewer/Examiner

I have served as

• member of editorial board of Neural Networks: An official Journal of INNS, ENNS, and JNNS (2012-Present)
• member of editorial board of Neural Computing & Applications (2012-Present)
• member of editorial board of Computational Intelligence & Neuroscience (2011-Present)
• member of editorial advisory board of The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal (2007-Present)
• category editor in Pattern Recognition of Scholarpedia (2007-Present)
• associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2005-2010)
• associate editor of International Journal of Image and Graphics (2002-2006).

I served as a reviwer for the following academic journals:

• IEEE Tranactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics (Parts A, B, C)
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• IEEE Singal Procesing Letters
• Computer Vision and Image Understanding
• Pattern Recognition
• Pattern Recognition Letters
• Pattern Analysis and Applications
• Neural Computation
• Neural Networks: An official Journal of INNS, ENNS and JNNS
• Neurocomputing: An International Journal
• Neural Computing & Applications
• International Journal of Neural Systems
• BioSystems: An International Journal
• Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal
• Journal of Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
• International Journal of Speech Technology
• Intelligent Automation and Soft Computation: An International Journal
• EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
• IEE Proceedings: Circuits, Devices and Systems
• Journal of Computer Science and Technology
• Journal of Computer Research and Development
• Chinese Journal of Electronics
• Chinese Journal of Communication
• Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis

I also served as a reviewer for EPSRC, BBSRC, QNRF, Royal Society, Alzheimer's Research Trust and NSFC grand proposals, a reviewer for Aritificial Intelligence Book Series, Springer Verlag, a reviewer of Cambridge University Press Book series, and a reviewer for numerous international conferences.

From 2000-2002, I was an external examiner of MPhil theses in Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2004, I am an external examiner of Master Research theses in Electrical and Electrionic Engineering, The Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

In 2011 and 2012, I was an external academic adviser for UG and PGT/PGR five-year periodic review of School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, respectively.

Research Awards and Invited Talks/Tutorials

I received research awards and was an invited speaker as follows:

• NSFC Distinguish Young Principal Invesitigator Award (2001)
• Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Shihai, China (2001)
• Pleanry Speaker, National Conference on Machine Learning, Nanjing, China (2000)
• Invited Speaker, International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Hong Kong (1996)
• JSPS Research Award for Foreign Researchers (1992)

I have also been invited to give academic seminars in many academic/research institutes; e.g. Microsoft Research Asia, The Okalahoma State University, The City University of New York: Queen's College, The Ohio State University, The University of Birmingham, The University of Manchester, UMIST, University of Surrey, Yamakuchi University, Kyushu Institute of Technology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Tshinghua University, Fudan University, Nanjing University and Chinese Academy of Science: Institute of Automation, Institute of Computing and SIAT.

I have given the following tutorials:

• Learning Deep Architectures and Applications in IJCNN'11, San Jose, U.S.A, 2011.
• Signal & Image Processing and Intelligent Data Analysis" in First IntelliCIS Training School, Resort Albena, Varna, Bulgaria, 2011.

Programme/Organization Committee Chair

• Co-Chair of Technical Program Committee, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'12), Brisbane, Australia, 2012.
• International Chair (Europe), International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'11), San Jose, U.S.A., 2011.
• Chair of Technical Program Committee, UK Workshop on Compuational Intelligence (UKCI'11), Manchester, U.K., 2011.
• Chair of Neural Computation Track, International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2010), Liverpool, U.K., 2010.
• Co-Chair of Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'05), Changsha, China, 2005.

Programme Committee Membership

• International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'12), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2012.
• International Conference on Agents and AI (ICAART'12), Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012.
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'11), San Jose, U.S.A., 2011.
• International Conference on Hand-Based Biometrics (ICHB'11), Hong Kong, 2011.
• International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS'11), Singapore, 2011.
• International Conference on Agents and AI (ICAART'11), Roma, Italy, 2011.
• International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA 2011), Penang, Malaysia, 2011.
• IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management, Paris, France, 2011.
• International Symposium on Neural Networks, Guilin, China, 2011.
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'10), Barcelona, Spain , 2010.
• International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'10), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2010.
• The 6th International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing (IIP'10), Manchester, U.K., 2010.
• The UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI'10), Essex, U.K., 2010.
• The 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci'09), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009.
• International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IJANN'09), Limassol, Cyprus, 2009.
• IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications (IEEE CIB'09), Nashvill, U.S.A., 2009.
• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Signal and Vision Processing (IEEE CIMSVP'09), Nashvill, U.S.A., 2009.
• 2009 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Aerospace Applications (IEEE CIAA'09), Nashvill, U.S.A., 2009.
• 2009 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI'09) (UKCI'09), Nottingham, U.K., 2009.
• The 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci'08), Washington D.C., U.S.A., 2008.
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'07), Orlando, U.S.A., 2007.
• The 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci'07), Nashville, U.S.A., 2007.
• IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM'07), Honolulu, U.S.A., 2007.
• IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG'07), Honolulu, U.S.A., 2007.
• International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS'07), Singapore, 2007.
• International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'07), Haikou, China, 2007.
• The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci'06), Vancouver, Canada, 2006.
• International Conference on Biometric Authentication (ICBA'06), Hong Kong, China, 2006.
• International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'06) , Hong Kong, China, 2006.
• IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG'06), Reno/Lake Tahoe, U.S.A., 2006.
• International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN'06), Las Vegas, U.S.A., 2006.
• International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (ICCIS'06), Guangzhou, China, 2006.
• The Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWEB'06), Harbin, China, 2006.
• IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG'05), Colchester, U.K., 2005.
• International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS'05), Bangkok, Thailand, 2005.
• International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN'05), Chongqing, China, 2005.
• Int Conf on Sci of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT'05), Sousse, Tunisie, 2005.
• International Conference on Biometric Authentication (ICBA'04), Hong Kong, China, 2004.
• International Conference on Image and Graphics(ICIG'04), Hong Kong, China, 2004.
• International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL'04), Exeter, U.K., 2004.
• International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN'04), Dalian, China, 2004.
• International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'04) , Calcutta, India, 2004.
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'03), Potland, U.S.A., 2003.
• International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing (ICICS'03), Singapore, 2003.
• IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PRCM'03), Singapore, 2003.
• IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning & Cybernetics , Beijing, China, 2003.
• The 2003 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI'03), Bristol, U.K., 2003.
• IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning & Cybernetics , Beijing, China, 2002.
• The 2002 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI'02), Birmingham, U.K., 2002.
• International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'01) , Shanghai, China, 2001.
• IEEE International Symposium on Machine Learning & Cybernetics , Beijing, China, 2001.
• International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Information Processing (ISAIIP'01), Minsk, Belarus, 2001.
• International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP'00), Beijing, China, 2000.
• World Congress on Computational Intelligences (WCCI'98) , Anchorage, U.S.A., 1998.
• International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'96) Hong Kong, 1996.
• International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP'95) Beijing, China, 1995.
• IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing (ICNNSP'95), Nanjing, China, 1995.

Invited/Special Session Organizer

• Natural Computation for Temporal Data Processing, Special Session in International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2006. (Ke Chen, Kar-Ann Toh and Peter Tino).
• Pattern Analysis and Biometrics, Invited Session in IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, 2006. (Kar-Ann Toh and Ke Chen)
• Advances in Processing Temporal Data, Special Session in International Conference on Natural Computation, 2005. (Peter Tino and Ke Chen)