Service

Executive Committee Member:

• Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance (BioAdvance, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Drexel University, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Penn State, Temple University, Thomas Jefferson University, University of Pennsylvania, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, The Wistar Institute), 2002 - Present.

Advisory Board and Scientific Committee:

• International Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Society, 2005 - Present.

Editorial Board Member:

• International Journal of Computational Models and Algorithms in Medicine, 2009 - Present
• Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, 2008 - Present
• Advances in Bioinformatics, 2008 - Present
• International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, 2007 - Present
• Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 2006 - Present
• International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 2006 - Present.
• International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 2005 - Present.
• Multiple Valued Logic journal, 1995 - Present.
• IEEE Trans. on Education, 1997 - 2001.
• Journal of Computational Intelligence in Finance, 1995 - 1999.

Guest Editor:

• BMC Bioinformatics, Special Issue on First International Workshop on Text Mining in Bioinformatics (co-edited with M. Song), vol. 8, supp. 9, 2007.
• Knowledge and Information Systems, Special Issue on Selected and Revised Papers from KDD-2000 Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Knowledge Discovery, vol. 3, no. 4, 2001. (co-edited with J. Ghosh, H. Kargupta and V. Kumar)
• Journal of Computational Intelligence in Finance, Special Issue on Financial News Analysis using Distributed Data Mining, vol. 7, no. 2, March 1999, (co-edited with S.H. Rubin).
• Journal of Computational Intelligence in Finance, Special Issue on Hybrid Neural Networks for Financial Forecasting, vol. 5, no. 1., January 1997.

Program Chair:

• Ninth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Atlanta, Reno, April, 2009 (Program Co-Chair).
• NIEEE 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, San Jose, CA, Nov. 2007 (Program Co-Chair with X.T. Hu and I. Mandoiu; and Steering committee member).
• NThe 39th Symposium on the Interface of Statistics, Computing Science and Applications, Philadelphia, PA, May 2007 (Co-Chair with A. Izenman).
• NACM First International Workshop on Text Mining in Bioinformatics, Arlington, MD, Nov. 2006 (Co-Chair with M. Song).
• NDistributed and Parallel Knowledge Discovery Workshop, The Sixth ACM SIGKDD Int'l. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Boston, August, 2000 (Co-chair).

Track Co-Chair:

• Eight SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Atlanta, Georgia, April, 2008 (Applications Track Chair).
• The 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV, June 2007 (Program Vice Chair).
• The 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Las Vegas, NV, June 2007 (Program Vice Chair).
• The 2007 International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, Las Vegas, NV, June 2007 (Program Vice Chair).
• The 2007 International Conference on Scientific Computing, Las Vegas, NV, June 2007 (Program Vice Chair).
• IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007 (Program Vice Chair for Distributed Database and Data Mining).
• Sixth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Bethesda, MD, April 2006 (Bio-Medical Informatics Track Chair).

Program Committee Member:

• The 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Paris, France, June 2009.
• The 7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Application (ICMLA 2008) San Diego, California, Dec., 2008.
• The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Philadelphia, PA, Nov 7-9, 2008.
• The 2008 ACM Second International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics, in conjunction with CIKM 2008, Napa Valley, California, Oct., 2008.
• 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Osaka, Japan, May, 2008.
• Data Mining in Medicine Workshop, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Omaha, Nebraska, October, 2007.
• 2nd IAPR Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, Singapore, October, 2007.
• 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Nanjing, China, May, 2007.
• 2nd BioDM Workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications, Nanjing, China, May, 2007.
• Seventh SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April, 2007.
• 2007 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Data Mining Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007.
• 6th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics, 12th ACM SIGKDD Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Philadelphia, Aug. 2006.
• 2006 IAPR Workshop Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, Hong Kong, Aug. 2006
• IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, Luoyang, Henan, China, June 2006.
• The 38th Symposium on the Interface of Statistics, Computing Science and Applications, Pasadena, CA, May 2006.
• 9th Workshop on Mining Scientific Datasets, Bethesda, Maryland, April 2006.
• 5th IEEE Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oct. 2005.
• IEEE Region 8 EUROCON Int.l Conf. on Computer as a Tool, Belgrade, Serbia, Nov. 2005.
• 4th Int.l Conf. Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance, special session on Forecasting Volatility in Financial Market, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 2005.
• 2005 IEEE Int.l Conf. Mechatronics and Automation, Niagara Falls, Canada, July 2005.
• Fifth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Newport Beach, CA, April 2005.
• Emerging Information Technology Conference, Princeton University, Oct. 2004.
• Fourth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Orlando, FL, April 2004.
• Bioinformatics Workshop at the Fourth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Orlando, FL, April 2004.
• 3rd Workshop on Bioinformatics in Data Mining (BIOKDD 2003), ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Washington, DC, August 2003.
• Third SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, San Francisco, CA, May 2003.
• Sixth Workshop on Mining Scientific Dataset, San Francisco, CA, May 2003.
• Second Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics, The Eight ACM SIGKDD Int'l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, July 2002.
• Int'l Conf. on Neural Networks Applications in Electrical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia, September 2002.
• Soft Computing in Financial Markets Conference, Int'l Congress on Computational Intelligence Methods and Applications, Rochester Institute of Technology, N.Y., June 1999.
• Distributed and Parallel Data Mining Workshop, Knowledge Discovery in Databases Conference, New York City, N.Y., August 1998.
• 4th Int'l Conf. Neural Networks Applications in Electrical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia, September 1997.

Advising Expert:

• Bioinformatics Faculty Recruitment Committee, Faculty of Science and Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2003.

Grant Proposal Review Panel Member:

• The National Science Foundation, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2008.
• The First Int'l Nonlinear Financial Forecasting Competition, Performance Analyst Evaluating Prediction Strategy Entries, 1996.

Selected Invited Lectures:

• "Knowledge Discovery from Biological Databases for Understanding Protein Disorder," Keynote Lecture at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Philadelphia, PA, Nov., 2008.
• "Data Mining Support for Retrieval and Analysis of Geophysical Parameters," Plenary Lecture at the 10th IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control, Cambridge, MA, November 2007.
• "Using Prior Knowledge to Reduce Uncertainty when Mining Microarray Data," IBC's Chips to Hits/Discovery to Diagnostics Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 2007.
• "Data Mining Support for Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval and Analysis," IEEE Section of Serbia and Monte Negro, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Belgrade, Serbia, Aug. 2007.
• "Data Mining Approach to Functional Characterization of Protein Disorder," Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Aug. 2007.
• "Data Mining Support for Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval and Analysis," Keynote Lecture at the IEEE Data Mining and Information Retrieval Conference, Niagara Fall, May 2007.
• "Data Mining Support for Retrieval and Analysis of Geophysical Parameters," Computer Science Department, Drexel University, Feb. 2007.
• "Data Mining Approach to Functional Annotation of Protein Disorder," College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Nov. 2006.
• "Data Mining Support for Aerosol Retrieval and Analysis," 1st Workshop on the Assessment of Global Aerosol Product, Univ. Maryland, Sept. 2006.
• "Using Gene Ontology Graphs for Biomarkers Selection from Integrated Microarray, Proteomics and Clinical Data," International Mathematical Conference - Topics in Mathematical Analysis and Graph Theory Conference, Belgrade, Serbia, Sept. 2006 (a satellite to International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, Aug. 2006).
• "Integration of Deterministic and Statistical Algorithms for Aerosol Retrieval," 38th Symposium on the Interface of Statistics, Computing Science and Applications, Pasadena, CA, May 2006.
• "A Toolbox for Characterization of Gene Functional Expression Profiles," Keynote lecture at Indiana Bioinformatics Conference, School of Medicine, University of Indiana, Indianapolis, May 2006.
• "Earth Science Applications of Data Mining," Mathematics and Computer Science Dept., Saint Joseph.s Univ., March 2006.
• "Integration of Deterministic and Statistical Algorithms for Aerosol Retrieval ," Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Sept. 2005.
• "A Toolbox for Characterization of Gene Functional Expression Profiles," IEEE Section of Serbia and Monte Negro, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Belgrade, Serbia, Sept. 2005.
• "Characterization of Gene Functional Expression Profiles," School of Public Health UMDNJ and Americal Statistical Association, New Jersey Chapter, April 2005.
• "Data Mining Approach to Study of Protein Disorder," Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Univ. of Medicine and Dentisty New Jersey, April 2005.
• "Data Fusion and Models Fusion for Efficient and Accurate Aerosol Retrieval," Jet Propulsion Latoratories and Caltech University, Pasadena, CA, March, 2005.
• "Data Mining for Efficient and Accurate Large Scale Retrieval of Geophysical Parameters," American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2004.
• "Data Mining Approach to Study of Protein Disorder," Emerging Information Technology Conference, Princeton University, Oct. 2004.
• "Characterization of Gene Functional Expression Profiles of Plasmodium Falciparum," Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatics Alliance Retreat, Oct. 2004.
• "Learning from Large Data Streams," IEEE Section of Serbia and Monte Negro, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Belgrade, Serbia, Sept. 2004.
• "Understanding Functions of Disordered Proteins through Data Mining," School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, June 2004.
• "Bioinformatics Approach to Study of Protein Disorder," Georgetown University, May 2004.
• "Predicting Intrinsic Disorder from Amino Acid Sequence," Harvard University, Aug. 2003.
• "Exploiting Unlabeled Data for Improving Accuracy of Predictive Data Mining," Rockefeller University, June 2003.
• "Exploring Bias in the Protein Data Bank Using Contrast Classifiers," Uppsala University, Sweden, May 2003.
• "A Distribution Based System for Discovering Interesting Knowledge in Scientific Databases," Inauguration Workshop for the Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala University, Sweden, November 6, 2002.
• "Protein Disorder Prediction and Function Analysis," Center for Bioinformatics Retreat, University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 18, 2002.
• "Towards Solutions to Some Challenging Open Problems in Scientific Data Mining," The Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia, Sept. 04, 2003.
• "Efficient Mining at Large Spatial Databases," IEEE Section of Yugoslavia, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Belgrade, Serbia, June 24, 2003.
• "Analysis of Deregulated Electricity Markets for Trading Optimizations," Plenary lecture, Balkan Power Conference 2002, Belgrade, Serbia, June 19, 2003.
• "Understanding Protein Disorder and Their Flavors," Bioinformatics and Genome Research 2002, Beyond Genome, Information and Ideas for the Post-genomic Era, San Diego, CA, June 4, 2002.
• "Controllable Data Reduction for Efficient Data Analysis of Spatial Databases," Fifth Workshop on Mining Scientific Datasets, Second SIAM Int'l Conf. on Data Mining, Arlington, VA, April 13, 2002.
• "Supervised Clustering of Disordered Proteins," Bioinformatics 2002, April 7, 2002 Bergen, Norway, April 17, 2002.
• "Data Reduction for Spatial Data Analysis," Computer Engineeting Dept., University of South California, January 18, 2002.
• "Knowledge Discovery in Spatial and Temporal Databases," Mathematical Challenges in Scientific Data Mining, NSF Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles, January 18, 2002.
• "Commonness, Complexity, Flavors and Function of Intrinsic Protein Disorder: A Bioinformatics Study," Mathematical Challenges in Scientific Data Mining, NSF Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California Los Angeles, January 17, 2002.