International Activities
- Vice-President elect for Education of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), 2015-2016
- Member of the Board of Directors of the International Neural Network Society (INNS), 2015-2017
- Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2014-2016 term.
- Vice-President for Education of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), 2013-2014
- Member of the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), 2012-2014
- Member of the Board of Directors of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS), 2010-2013
- Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Awards Committee (2012)
- Member of the IEEE Frank Ronsenblatt award committee (2011-2013)
- Associate Editor IEEE Compuattional Intelligence Magazine (since 2010-)
- Associate Editor of the IEEE-Transactions on Neural Networks (2004-2011)
- Guest Associate Editor, IEEE-Transactions on Neural Networks & Learning Systems (2012-2013)
- Associate Editor of the IEEE-Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements (2003-2010)
- Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Neural Networks of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2008-2010)
- Co-Chair of the Technical Committee TC-22 Intelligent Measurement Systems of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (2004-2009)
- Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Research grant sub-committee (2011)
- Vice-Chair of the EU COST Action IC0806 –Intelligent Monitoring, Control and Security of Critical Infrastructure Systems (since 2009)
Conference activity (Only recent)
- General Chair: IEEE ICIST 2015 (Changsha, China), ICICIP 2013 (Beijing, China); IEEE IJCNN 2012 (the major world-wide event in the field, Brisbane, AUS); IEEE HAVE 2009 (Lecco, Italy); IEEE ROSE 2009 (Lecco, Italy); IEEE CIMSA 2009 (Hong Kong, HK);
- General Program Chair: IEEE SSCI 2014 (Orlando, USA)
- Program Chair: IJCNN 2014 (the major world-wide event in the Neural Networks field), Beijing; ISNN 2011, ICANN 2009 (the major European Neural Networks event);
- Steering or Advisory Committee: ISNN 2010; IEEE CIMSA 2005-2012
- Program Co-Chair: IEEE JCNN 2011 (the major Neural Networks event world-wide, San Jose’, USA); IEEE IMS 2005 (Orlando, USA);
- Conflict of Interest paper Chair: World congress on Computational Intelligence 2016 (Vancouver, Canada)
- Plenary session Chair: ISNN 2012 (Shenyang, China)
- Keynotes/plenaries: IJCCI14 (Rome, Italy); IDEAL14 (Salamanca, Spain); ICATET14 (Jaipur, India); BICS13 (Beijing, China), ISNN13 (Dalian, China), M2M 2012 (Taipei, Taiwan), IWACI 2010 (Suzhou, China); IEEE ICST 2009 (Tainan, Taiwan); IEEE ROSE 2007 (Ottawa, Canada); IJCNN15 (invited talk, Killarney, Ireland),
- Steering or Advisory Committee: ISNN 2010; IEEE CIMSA 2005-2012, IEEE CIVEMSA 20013-
- Regional chair: WCICA 2016 (Guilin, China)