Professional Activities and Services

1. Chair Positions Served/Serving

General Co-Chair, 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Taipei, Taiwan, October 8-11, 2006.

Organized Session Chair, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2006), Luoyang, Henan, China, June 25-28, 2006.

General Chair, 2006 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensors and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. April 23-25, 2006.

Local Arrangement Chair, The 13^th Wireless and Optical Communication Conference, Newark, NJ, April 22-23, 2005.

Program Chair, 2005 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensors and Control, Tucson, AZ, March 19-21, 2005.

General Co-Chair, 2004 IEEE Int. Conf. on Networking, Sensors and Control, Taipei, March 21-23, 2004.

General Co-Chair, 2003 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Washington D.C., October 5-8, 2003.

Local Arrangement Chair, International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, August 10-13, 2003, Newark, New Jersey, USA

Program Chair, CAST-USA Annual Convention and 10^th Anniversary Celebration, New York, October 2002.

Co-Chair (Founding), Semiconductor Factory Automation Technical Committee of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, 2001-present.

Program Co-Chair, 2001 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Tucson, AZ, October 7-11, 2001.

General Co-Chair, 1999 US-China Conference on High-Tech Industry Development and Business Opportunities, Newark, New Jersey, USA, April 12-13, 1999.

Chair (founding), Discrete Event Systems Technical Committee of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, 1998-2003.

Program Committee Chair, 1998 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Diego, CA, October 11-14, 1998.

Program Committee Chair, 6th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, UCLA, Los Angeles, September 9-12, 1997.

Program Committee Vice-Chair, 1996 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Beijing, China, October 14-17, 1996.

Program Committee Track Chair for Automated Manufacturing Systems Development Methodology, IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Hawaii, November 1996.

Publicity Chair, 1994 IEEE NY/NJ Conference on Control Systems, Newark, NJ, August 1994.

Registration Chair, 1994 International Conference on Electronics and Information Technology, Beijing, China, August 1994.

Petri Net Track Chair for IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Tokyo, Japan, November 1994.

Program Committee Chair, The 9th Int. Conf. on CAD/CAM, Robotics, and Factories of the Future, Newark, NJ, August 17-20, 1993.

2.  Committees Served/Serving

Program Committee, IEEE 2006 Workshop on Distributed Intelligent Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, June 15 - 16, 2006

International Advisory Board, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, Shanghai, China, June 21-23, 2006.

Steering Committee, 2006 CAST-USA GNY Convention, Lake George, NY, May 27-29, 2006.

Program Committee, The 2006 IEEE SMC International Conference on System of Systems Engineering (SoSE), April 24–26, 2006, Los Angeles, CA.

Program Committee, the International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management, Troyes, France, October 25 to 27, 2006.

Program Committee, The 6th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, Dalian, China, June 21-23, 2006.

Program Committee, 2005 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 10-12, 2005, The Big Island, Hawaii, USA.

International Advisory Board, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, Beijing, China, Aug. 10-12, 2005.

Program Committee, 2004 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, The Hague, The Netherlands, October 10-13, 2004.

Program Committee, 2004 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, New Orlean, LA, April 30-May 1, 2004.

Kayamori Best Paper Award Committee, 2004 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, New Orlean, LA, April 30-May 1, 2004.

Program Committee, 2003 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, September 14-19, 2003.

Kayamori Best Paper Award Committee, 2003 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, September 14-19, 2003.

Program Committee, 2002 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetic, Tunisia, October 2002.

Program Committee, Workshop on Formal Methods Applied to Defense Systems, Adelaide, Australia, June 2002.

Kayamori Best Paper Award Committee, 2002 IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington D.C., May 2002.

Program Committee, 2002 IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington D.C., May 2002.

Program Committee, 2001 IEEE Int. Symp. on Electronics and the Environment, Denver, CO, May 2001

Program Committee, 2001 IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seoul, Korean, May 2001.

Elected member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, 2000-2002.

Program Committee, 2000 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Nashville, TN, Oct. 2000

Program Committee, 2000 IEEE Int. Symp. on Electronics and the Environment, San Francisco, CA, May 2000.

Program Committee, IFAC Conference on Control Systems Design (CSD2000), June 18-20, 2000, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

Selection Committee for the Lucent Global Science Scholars Program, 1999.

Organizing Committee, WRSA Symposium on 21^st Century China and the Challenge of Sustainable Development, Washington D.C., September 3-5, 1999.

Program Committee, 1999 IEEE Int. Symp. on Electronics and the Environment, Boston, MA, May 10-12, 1999.

Program Committee, Rensselaer’s Conference on Agile, Intelligent and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Troy, NY, October 7-9, 1998.

International Program Committee, Symposium on Discrete Events and Manufacturing Systems, IMACS/IEEE Conference on Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, France, July 1998.

Program Committee, 1998 IEEE Int. Symp. on Electronics and the Environment, Oak Brook, IL, May 4-6, 1998.

Program Committee, 1997 IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque, NM, April 21-24, 1997.

Program Committee, IEEE Int. Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Hawaii, November 1996.

Student Paper Award Committee, 1996 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Beijing, China, October 14-17, 1996.

Program Committee, the 22nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society - IECON96, Taipei, August 5-9, 1996.

International Program Committee, Symposium on Discrete Events and Manufacturing Systems, IMACS/IEEE Conference on Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, Lille, France, July 9-12, 1996.

Program Committee, Rensselaer's Fifth Int. Conf. on Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Automation Technology, Grenoble, France, May 29-31, 1996.

Program Committee, 1995 IEEE Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Paris, France, Oct. 10-13, 1995.

Organizing Committee, 1994 IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, San Antonio, Oct. 2-5, 1994.

Program Committee, Rensselaer's Fourth Int. Conf. on Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Automation Technology, Troy, NY, Oct. 8-11, 1994.

Program Committee, 1993 IEEE Regional Conference on Aerospace Control Systems, Thousand Oaks, CA, May 25-27, 1993.

Program Committee, 1993 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies for Factory Automation.

Program Committee, 1992 Japan-USA Symposium on Flexible Automation, San Francisco, CA, July 1992.

3. Sessions Chaired/Organized

• In 2000
• In 1999
• In 1998
• In 1997
• In 1996
• In 1995
• In 1994
• In 1993 & 1992
• In 1991 & 1990

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