Current Extramural
[1] Associate Editor. Biomedical Ontologies.
[2] Journal Editorial Board Members. International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA), International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (IJCIBSB), and Proteomics Insights.
[3] Journal Guest Editor. International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IJBRA) (2006), Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB) (2007)
[4] Journal Reviewer. Major Bioinformatics journals including: Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research, Plos ONE, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, IEEE Magazine on Biology and Medicine, IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Journal of Proteome Research, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, and Bioessays.
[5] Editorial Advisory Board Member. Advances in Chemoinformatics and Computational Methods (ACCM) Book Series, IGI Global (2007); Biological Data Mining in Protein Interaction Networks Book (2009)
[6] Book Proposal Reviewer. Major academic publishers including Elsevier, Morgan Kaufman, World Scientific, Imperial College Press, Wiley Interscience, and Springer.
[7] Chair. Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, IEEE Central Indiana Section (since 2005)
[8] Steering Committee and Co-founder. Indiana Biomedical Entrepreneur Network (since 2004)
[9] Systems Biology Chair and Proteomics Chair. Life Sciences Society (since 2005)
[10] Board Member and Vice President. Association of Chinese Bioinformaticians, (since 2001)
[11] Senior Member. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (since 2004. Regular membership since 1998)
[12] Member. International Society of Computational Biology (since 1996)
[13] Member. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (since 1997)
Intramural: University-wide (Indiana University)
[14] Faculty and Scholarly Excellence Task Force Member. Indiana University Information Technology Strategic Planning Committee. (2008). Plan how information technology can continue to enable IU’s faculty and scholars to pursue and achieve academic excellence in teaching, discovery, and creative activity, including path-breaking research and scholarship in the next decade.
Intramural: Campus-wide (IUPUI)
[15] Committee Member. IUPUI Graduate Fellowship Committee (since 2008). Review and determine university fellowship awards to incoming graduate students.
[16] Panelist. IUPUI Research Support Fund Grant (RSFG) review committee (since 2006). Review research proposals submitted to the Office of Vice Chancellor for Research at IUPUI and make recommendations for funding.
[17] Committee Member. IUPUI Program Review and Assessment (PRAC) Committee (2004-2006) Establish guidelines for comprehensive program review for academic and administrative units and provide guidance for student outcomes assessment throughout the institution.
[18] Scholar. IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning (2004-2005) Developed plan for enhancing preparation of the university for open access journals and open publication phenomena as a new form of scholarly communication.
Intramural: School-wide (IUPUI School of Informatics)
[19] Committee Member. IUPUI School of Informatics Graduate Admissions Committee (since 2006) Review and accept MS and PhD program Informatics graduate students for the School of Informatics.
[20] Committee Member. IUPUI School of Informatics Faculty Search Committee (2006) Screen, evaluate, and recommend faculty candidates to the School of Informatics.
[21] Committee Member. IUPUI School of Informatics Nomination Committee (2004-7) Nominate and help elect School of Informatics faculty members to perform institutional service duties at the campus and the school level.
[22] Committee Member. IUPUI School of Informatics Bioinformatics Program Curriculum Committee (since 2006) Review and proposal revised MS and PhD Bioinformatics program graduate curriculum for the School of Informatics.
[23] Committee Member. IUPUI School of Informatics Budgetary Affairs Committee (since 2007) Recommend and approve budget related issues at the school level.
[24] Committee Member. IUPUI School of Informatics Colloquium Committee (since 2007) Recommend and arrange for invited speakers to seminar series at the school level.
2008
[25] Proposal Review Panel. Alzheimer’s Association.
[26] Proposal Review Panel. Texas Advanced Research Program.
[27] Program Area Chair. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM ‘08), Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 7-9, 2008.
[28] Program Committee Member. Second International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Life Sciences Applications, 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER ‘08), Barcelona, Spain, October 20-23, 2008.
[29] Program Committee Member. 2nd Annual Midwestern Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Symposium (MSCBB ’08), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champion, IL, USA, October 3, 2008.
[30] Program Committee Member. 7th Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB ‘08), San Diego, CA, USA, August 25 - 29, 2008.
[31] Program Chair. 8th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD ‘08), ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD '08), Las Vegas, NV, August 24-27, 2008.
[32] Program Committee Member. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC ‘08), Hanzhou, China, August 26-28, 2008.
[33] International Committee Member. International Conference on Biocomputation, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Technologies (BIOTECHNO ‘08), Bucharest, Romania, June 29 - July 5, 2008.
[34] Program Co-Chair. Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems, 21st IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, June 17-19, 2008.
[35] Program Committee Member. International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI ‘08), Sanya, Hannan, China, May 28-30, 2008.
[36] Program Committee Member. 2008 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA ’08), Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, May 6-8, 2008.
[37] Program Committee Member. 8th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM ‘08), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 24-26, 2008.
[38] Program Co-Chair. Special Session on Modeling Agent-based Biological Computing. The 2nd KES International Symposium on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications (KES-AMSTA), Inha University, Korea, 26 - 28 March 2008.
[39] Program Committee Member. IEEE International Workshop on Bio-Computing (BioCom '08), in conjunction with the IEEE 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, March 25-28, 2008.
2007
[40] Panelist. National Science Foundation, Directories in Biological Databases and Informatics, DC, USA.
[41] Program Committee Member. International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Life Sciences Applications, 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER ‘07), Auckland, New Zealand, November 5-9, 2007.
[42] Program Committee Member. International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences, Papeete, French Polynesia, November 4-9, 2007.
[43] Program Committee Member. 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC ‘07), San Jose, California, November 2-4, 2007.
[44] Program Committee Member. 2007 IEEE International Conference on BioInformation and BioMedicine (BIBM ‘07), San Jose, California, November 2-4, 2007.
[45] Program Committee Member, IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (BIBE ‘07), Cambridge - Boston, MA, USA, October 14-17, 2007.
[46] Program Committee Member. 5th International Workshop on Biological Data Management at the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA ‘06), Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7 2007.
[47] Program Committee Member. Workshop on Computational Intelligence Approaches for the Analysis of Bioinformatics Data, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Orlando, Florida, August 17, 2007.
[48] Program Committee Member. 6th Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB ‘07), San Diego, CA, USA, August 13-17, 2007.
[49] Program Chair. 7th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD07), ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD '07), San Jose, California, August 12-15, 2007.
[50] Program Committee Member. The First International Conference on Global Defense and Business Continuity (ICGD&BC ‘07), San Jose, CA, July 1-6, 2007.
[51] Technical Program Chair. Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems, 20th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Maribor, Slovenia, June 20-22, 2007.
[52] Program Committee Member. 2nd International Workshop on Bioinformatics and Security at the 2006 International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, Vienna, Austria, April 10-13, 2007.
[53] Steering Committee Member. IEEE Workshop on Biomedical Applications for Digital Ecosystems (BADE ‘07) at the Inaugural IEEE International Digital Ecosystems and Technology Conference, Cairns, Australia, Feb 21-23, 2007.
2006
[54] Panelist. “Brilliant Minds, Powerful Technology & Life Sciences: Pushing the Frontiers of Knowledge for Indiana” at Indiana Technology TechPoint Summit 9 Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
[55] Panelist. National Science Foundation, Directories in Biological Databases and Informatics, DC, USA.
[56] Program Committee Member. Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics at the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Hong Kong, China, December 18, 2006.
[57] International Program Committee Member. IASTED International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology (ICCSB ‘06), Dallas, TX, USA, November 13-14, 2006.
[58] Session Chair & Program Committee Member. IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB ‘06), Stanford, CA, USA, August 14-18, 2006.
[59] Program Committee Member and Session Chair. Special Track on Ontologies for Biomedical Systems, 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS ’06), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, June 23, 2006.
[60] Program Committee Member. International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IWBRA ‘06), University of Reading, Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006.
[61] Chair, Network and Pathway Biology Track. Third Annual Indiana Bioinformatics Conference, Indianapolis, IN, USA, May 19, 2006.
[62] Program Committee Member. IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE GrC ‘06), Atlanta, GA, USA, May 12-16, 2006.
2005
[63] Co-chair. International Workshop on Bioinformatics at the 3rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA ‘05), Nankin, China, November 2-5, 2005.
[64] Chair & Conference Program Committee Member. Special Session “Computer Infrastructure for Systems Biology” at the 18th International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSENG ‘05), Las Vegas, NV, USA, August 17, 2005.
[65] Session Chair & Program Committee Member. IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB ‘05), Stanford, CA, USA, August 8-11, 2005.
[66] Scientific Committee Member. Workshop on Computational Intelligence Approaches for the Analysis of Bioinformatics Data (CI-BIO ‘05), Montréal, Québec, Canada, August 5, 2005.
[67] Program Committee Member. International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IWBRA ‘05), Atlanta, GA, USA, May 22-25, 2005.
[68] Scientific Committee Member. IADIS Virtual Multi Conference on Computer and Information Systems -Bioinformatics Conference, worldwide locations, April 11-29, 2005.
[69] Session Chair & Program Committee Member. International Workshop on Biomedical Data Engineering (BMDE ‘05) at the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE, 2005), Tokyo, Japan, April 3-4, 2005.
2004
[70] Invited University PhD Thesis Examiner. University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
[71] Session Chair & Program Committee Member. Session on Systems Biology and Informatics. The 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, USA.
[72] Organizing Committee Member. The 1st Indiana Bioinformatics Conference (2004), Indianapolis, IN, USA.
[73] Session Chair & Program Committee Member. IEEE Computer Society Computational Systems Biology Bioinformatics Conference (CSB ‘04), Stanford, CA, USA, August 16-19, 2004.
[74] Co-chair, Bioinformatics Track. ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC-BIO ‘04), Cypris.
2003
[75] Board Member. Chinese Association for Science and Technology –Utah (2002-2003), Salt Lake City, UT.
[76] Session Chair & Program Committee Member. IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB ‘03), Stanford, CA, USA, August 11-14.
2001-2002
[77] Founding Chairperson. Bay Area Young Scientists Forum, (2001-2003), Stanford, CA, USA.
[78] Session Chair. IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (2002), Stanford, CA, USA.