Professional Experiences
- Vice President - Publication, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2006 - 2008.
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2003 - 2005 (Introduced new management system and features that significantly improve the scope and content appealing to broader readership, and undertook the leadership to reach the top-rank Thomson JCI citation impact in the entire electrical and electronic area out of 205 indexed journals. SPM ranked top three in citation impact consecutively from 2003 to 2005.).
- Founding Editor-in-Chief, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Dec. 2000- Dec 2002. (provided the vision of special issue oriented journal and led EURASIP JASP to become a highly respected, leading journal for signal processing and communications research in less than two years.)
- Prime architect of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Signal Processing, (based on the proposal developed in 1997), 2005.
- Prime architect and proposer of IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, 2004.
- General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hawaii, 2007.
- Chairman, Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, March, 1999 - Dec. 2001.
- General Chair, IEEE International workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, Newport, May 2005.
- Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Baltimore, Aug. 2003.
- Series Editor, EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications, 2003 - 2005.
- Senior Advisory Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2002 - 2005.
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Multimedia over IP, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, March 2001.
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Multimedia Communications Over Networks, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, July 2000.
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Signal Processing for Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, Oct. 1998 and Dec. 1998.
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Multimedia Signal Processing and Technology, Proceedings of The IEEE, May and June, 1998.
- Editor, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems, 1996 - present.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, May 1994 - April, 1997.
- Series Editor, The Marcel Dekker Book Series on Signal Processing and Communications, Marcel Dekker Publisher, New York City, 1997 - 2002.
- Publication Board, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2003 - present.
- Conference Board, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2003 - present.
- General Co-Chair, First IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Multimedia and Exposition, Sydney, Dec. 2000.
- Technical Co-Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sep. 1999.
- Panelist, review and selection of national centers of excellence, Academy of Finland, 2005.
- Panelist, Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER Award), Signal Processing Systems, National Science Foundation, 1997, 2000.
- Panelist, DARPA Low-Power Computing Program, 1998.
- Panelist on "Multimedia - Current Status and Future Directions", IEEE Int'l Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Aug. 2000, New York City.
- Invited Guest, Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Redmond, July 2003; Aug 2004.
- Member of Fellow Search Committee, 1999-2001; Technical Directions Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1999-2001; Publication Board, 2003 - present; Conference Board, 2003 -present; IEEE Signal Processing Society.
- Referees and Reviewers for: National Science Foundation; United States Department of State (for International Science and Technology Center, Moscow, Russia); Swedish Research Council, Sweden; Israel Science Foundation; National University of Singapore; Alberta Ingenuity Fund, Canada; University Grants Committee, Hong Kong; Office of Technology Development, State of Maryland; Science Foundation Ireland.
- Founding Member, Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, 1996 - present; Member, Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee, 1996 - 1997; Member, VLSI Signal Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1992 - 1996.