Professional Activities

Professional Activities (since 1995)

· Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, since July 2008.

Technical Editor, International Journal of Information Acquisition, since 2004
Examiner, ARC Applications (Australia), 2002.
Advisory Committee Member, CIE-YC’2002, Hefei, China.
Executive Committee Member, IEEE Hong Kong Computer Chapter (1999 - 2000).
Committee Member, HKIE Biomedical Engineering Division (1996 - 1999).
Program Committee Member, Third IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'97).
Contributor, Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering, Phil Laplante, Editor-in-Chief, CRC Press LLC, 1997.
External Examiner, PhD Thesis, The Flinders University of South Australia, 2002.
External Examiner, Master of Engineering and PhD Theses, University of Sydney, 1998 - 2007.
External Examiner, PhD Thesis, University of Wollongong, Australia, 2004.
External Examiner, MPhil and PhD Theses, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006 and 2007.
Local Arrangement Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Information Acquisition (IEEE ICIA 2005), Hong Kong and Macau, July 9 – 13, 2005.
Program Committee Member, Second International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2005), Chongqing, China, May 30 – June 1, 2005.
Program Committee Member, 2005 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2005), Hefei, China, August 23-26, 2005.
Program Committee Member, the 9th International Conference on Visual Information Systems (VISUAL 2007), Shanghai, China, 28 – 29 June 2007.
Program Committee Member, the Fourth International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2007), Nanjing, China, 3-7 June 2007.
Program Committee Member, the Third International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2006), Chengdu, China, May 28 – June 1, 2006.
Special Session Co-chair, International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video & Speech Processing (ISIMP2004), Hong Kong, October 20-22, 2004.
Co-organizer, Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Image/Signal Processing, The 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2000), 16-19 July 2000, San Diego, USA.
Program Committee Member, The 10th IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2001), December 2-5, 2001, Melbourne, Australia.
Program Committee Member, The First IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, December 13-15, 2000, Sydney, Australia.
Program Committee Member, 2000 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, December 11-13, Sydney, Australia.
Organizing Committee Member, 2001 International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video & Speech Processing, 2-4 May 2001, Hong Kong.
Area Moderator, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP98).
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Learning in Intelligent Systems Design, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence, 1999.
Visiting Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Nagasaki University, Japan, January 29 - February 16, 1997, supported by the Telecommunications Advanced Organization (TAO) of. Japan.
Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong, July 31 - 25 August, 2000.

· Reviewer for Journal Papers, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (2002, 2004, 2007)/ Neurocomputing (2007)/ IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (2001, 2003, 2007)/ International Journal of Information Acquisition (2006, 2007)/Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (2003)/International Journal of Images and Graphics (2002)/IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (2001)/ IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (1995, 2003)/ IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1996, 1999, 2001)/ IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (1999, 2003)/ IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems(1996, 1997)/ Neural Networks/ Information Sciences (1995)/ Journal of Electronic Imaging (1997)/ Pattern Recognition Letters (since 1996)/ Journal of Computing and Information Technology (2000)/ Optical Engineering (1997-98).