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Recent Professional Activities

Professional Societies/Services

·         Elected Member, Administrative Committee, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2003–2009.

·         Member, Publications Board, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2007.

·         Member, Board of Governors, Australian Cooperative Research Centre on Photonics, 2003–2006.

·         Member, Advisory Board, Sir Lawrence Wackett Centre for Aerospace Design Technology, 2003–Present.

·         Member, Steering Committee, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2002–2004.

·         Member, Australian Computer Society National Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, 2000–Present.

·         Member, Technical Committee on Control, International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) (2000–Present).

·         Member, Technical Committee on Modelling and Simulation, International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) (2000–Present).

·         Member, Technical Committee on Variable Structure and Sliding Mode Control, IEEE Control Systems Society (2000–Present)

Journals

·         Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, (2007-Present)

·         Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, (2005–Present)

·         Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part I, (2001–2004)

·         Associate Editor, Journal of Control Theory and Applications (English Edition), (2004–Present)

Conference Organizations

·         General Chair, the 37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Melbourne, Australia, November 2011.

·         General Co-Chair, AI’09, Melbourne, 2009

·         General Co-Chair, the 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Daejeon, Korea, 13-16 July 2008.

·         Member, International Advisory Board, 2008 2nd International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST’08), Phitsanulok, Thailand, 26-29 February 2008

·         Member, International Advisory Board, 2nd International Symposium on Systems and Control in Aerospace and Aeronautics (ISSCAA’08), Shenzhen, 10-12 December 2008

·         Member, International Advisory Board, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA’08), Singapore, 3-5 June 2008

·         Member, International Advisory Board, Inaugural IEEE International Digital Ecosystems and Technologies Conference, Cairns, 21-23 February 2007

·         Member, International Advisory Board, 9th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems, Aghero, 5-7 June 2006

·         Member, International Advisory Board, 2008 IEEE Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI’08), Krakow, Poland, 27-27 May 2008

·         Technical Track Co-Chair, “Computer and Control Systems,” 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE’08), Cambridge UK, June 2008.

·         Technical Track Chair, “'Interdisciplinary Research”, Inaugural IEEE International Digital Ecosystems and Technologies Conference, Cairns, February 2007

·         Technical Track Chair “Emerging Trend in Industrial Informatics”, the 4th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, Singapore, 16-18 August 2006

·         General Co-Chair, the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, Perth, Australia, September 2005

·         Vice-Chair, International Program Committee, 2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vancouver, Canada, July 16-21, 2006

·         General Co-Chair, the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, Perth, Australia, September 2005

·         Co-Chair, the 3rd Asia-Pacific Workshop on Chaos Control and Synchronization, Melbourne, Australia, July 19-20, 2004

·         Advisory Co-Chair and Program Committee Co-Chair, AI’04, Cairns, Australia, December 2004

·         Advisory Co-Chair, Complex’04, Cairns, Australia, December 2004

Conference Committee Memberships

·         Member, International Program Committee, International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG 2009), Lisbon, Portugal, 18 – 20 March, 2009 http://www.uninova.pt/powereng2009

·         Member, International Program Committee, the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2008), Singapoer, 12 - 15 October 2008. http://www.smc2008.org/.

·         Member, International Program Committee, The Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence,  Hanoi, Vietnam, 15-19 December 2008. http://www.jaist.ac.jp/PRICAI-08/

·         Member, International Program Committee, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hong Kong, China, 1-6 June 2008. http://www.wcci2008.org

·         Member, Technical Program Committee, the 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007)

·         Member, Program Committee, Inaugural IEEE International Digital Ecosystems and Technologies Conference, Cairns, 21-23 February 2007

·         Member, Program Committee, 9th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems, Aghero, Italy, 5-7 June 2006

·         Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives, Setubal, Portugal,  April 12-14, 2007.

·         Member, Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC 2006), Honolulu, USA, August 14-16, 2006.

·         Member, Program Committee, Joint the 2nd International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC’06) and the 3rd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD’06), 24 - 27 September 2006, Xian, China.

·         Member, Technical Program Committee, the 2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2006), Vancouver, BC, Canada  July 16-21, 2006

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

·         Member, International Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications (CA 2006), Montreal, Canada, May 24-26, 2006

·         Member, International Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Simulation and Optimization (MSO 2006), Gaborone, Botswana, September 11-13, 2006

·         Member, Program Committee, 6th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL06), Hefei, China, October 15-18, 2006.

·         Member, IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications (CA 2006), Montreal, Canada, May 24-26, 2006.

·         Member, Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS 2006), Montreal, Canada, May 24-26, 2006.

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

·         Member, Program Committee, 2006 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN'06), Vancouver, Canada, July 2006

·         Member, Program Committee, 1st IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, Singapore, 24-26 May, 2006

·         Member, International Advisory Committee, the 1st International Symposium on Systems and Control in Aerospace and Astronautics, Harbin, China, January 2006.

·         Member, International Advisory Board, the 2nd International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM’05), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 10-12 May 2005.

·         Member, Program Committee, The 2nd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'05), Hunan, 24-26 September 2005.

·         Member, Program Committee,, IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2005), Calgary, Canada, July 04-06, 2005

·         Member, Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications (CA2005), Cancun, Mexico, May 18-20, 2005

·         Member, Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS2005), Cancun, Mexico, May 18-20, 2005

·         Member, Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control (ISC2005), Cambridge, USA, Oct 31-Nov 2, 2005

·         Member, Program Committee, the 34th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (MIC2005), Innsbruck, Austria, February 16-18, 2005

·         Co-Chair, the 3rd Asia-Pacific Workshop on Chaos Control and Synchronization, Melbourne, Australia, July 19-20, 2004

·         Member, Program Committee, VIII Triennial International SAUM Conference on System Automatic Control and Measurement SAUM'04 Belgrade, Serbia, November 5-6, 2004.

·         Member, Program Committee, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Portland, Oregan, 20-23 June, 2004

·         Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Ajaccio, France, May 4-7, 2004.

·         Member, Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (MIC 2004), Grindelwald, Switzerland, 22-25 February, 2004

·         Member, Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS 2004), Marina del Rey, CA, USA, 1-3 March, 2004

·         Member, Program Commttee, Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Canberra, Australia, 8-12 December 2003

·         Member, Program Committee, 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Auckland, New Zealand, 9-13 August 2004

·         Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society (1995-2000)

·         Member, International Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modelling, Marbella, Spain, Sept 03 - 05, 2003

·         Member, Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on "Modelling, Simulation and Optimization" (MSO-2003), Banff, Alberta, Canada from July 2-4, 2003

·         Member, International Program Committee, the Third Triennial ETAI International Conference on Applied Automatic Systems - AAS 2003, Ohrid, Macedonia, September 18-20, 2003.

·         Member, International Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Intelligent System and Control (ISC-2003), Salzburg, Austria, June 25-27, 2003

·         Member, Program Committee on Soft Computing, The International Fuzzy Systems Association Congress (IFSA2003), Istanbul, June 29 – July 3, 2003.

·         Member, International Program Committee, the 5th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control of Biomedical Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 21-23 August 2003

·         Member, International Advisory Committee,  Shanghai International Symposium on Nonlinear Science and Application 2003 (Shanghai NSA'03)

·         Member, International Program Committee, 2003 IEEE CSS Int. Conf. on Control Applications, Istanbul, 23-25 June 2003

·         Member, International Program Committee, the 2003 IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS 2003), Palm Springs, USA, February 24-26 2003.

·         Member, International Program Committee,  the 2003 IASTED International Conference on MODELLING, IDENTIFICATION, AND CONTROL (MIC 2003), Innsbruck, Austria, February 10-13 2003.

·         Member, International Program Committee, the 7th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems,  Sarajevo, Bosnia, 17-19 July 2002.

·         Member, International Program Committee, the 18th International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Houston, USA, 5-8 October 2003.

·         Member, International Program Committee, the 4th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA’02), Shanghai, 10-14 June 2002.

·         Member, Program Committee, the 5th Pacific Rim International Workshop on  Multi-Agents (PRIMA’02), Tokyo, Japan, 18-19 Aug 2002.

·         Member, International Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modelling (ASM’02), Crete, Greece, June 25-28, 2002.

·         Member, International Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Optimization, Marina del Rey, California, USA, May 13-15, 2002

·         Member, International Program Committee, the First International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’02) Bologna, Italy July 15-19 2002.

·         Member, International Organizing Committee, 4th International Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Aviation and Aerospace, Daytona Beach, Florida, May 15-17 2002.

·         Member, International Program Committee, the 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'02)