Professional Service

  • National Science Foundation. Role: Review Proposals. Panelist. 09/21/2023 - 11/01/2023
  • IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration. Role: Organize and review. Advisory Committee, Program Committee. 07/12/2022 - 06/07/2023
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Role: Reviewer. Program Committee. 07/11/2022 - 06/14/2023
  • IEEE. Role: Technical Program Committee. IEEE Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration. 07/2021 - 09/2022
  • IJCAI. Role: Reviewer. Technical Program Committee. 07/2021 - 07/2022
  • Intelligent Autonomous Systems. Role: Reviewer. Technical Program Committee. 07/2021 - 06/2022
  • IEEE. Role: Advisory Committee. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). 07/2021 - 06/2022
  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Role: member. Program Committee. 07/01/2020 - 06/30/2021
  • Intelligent Autonomous Systems Conference. Role: Member. Program Committee. 07/01/2020 - 06/30/2021
  • IEEE Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration. Role: Member. Program Committee. 07/01/2020 - 06/30/2021
  • IEEE. Role: Committee Member. Advisory Committee for Cyborgs and Bionic Systems Conference. 08/30/2019 - 06/01/2020
  • IEEE R&A. Role: Committee Member. Advisory Committee for Intl Conf on Intell Robots and Systems (IROS). 08/01/2019 - 11/30/2019
  • IEEE R&A. Role: Committee Member. Advisory and Program Committees for Intl Conf on Multisensor Fusion and Integration. 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2020
  • DDDAS. Role: Committee Member. Advisory and Program Committee for Conference on Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems. 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2020
  • AAAI. Role: Committee Member. Program Committee for Intl Joint Conf on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2020
  • IEEE. Role: Advise and vote on administration of conference. Advisory Committee for IEEE Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2019. 01/01/2019 - 12/31/2019
  • IEEE. Role: Advise and help organize conference. Advisory Committee Multisensor Fusion and Integration 2019. 01/01/2019 - 12/31/2019
  • IJCAI. Role: Reviewer. Program Committee. 11/01/2016 - 12/30/2016
  • IEEE Multisensor Fusion and Integration. Program Committee Organizing Committee. 02/09/2016 - 11/23/2016
  • IEEE. Program Chair, IEEE Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems. 03/03/2015 - 12/15/2015
  • Robot Science and Systems Conference 2014. Role: Member. Workshops Committee. 01/01/2014 - 12/31/2014
  • AFOSR. Role: Reviewer. Reviewer. 01/01/2014 - 12/31/2014
  • IEEE Multisensor Fusion and Integration 2015. Program Chair. 01/01/2014 - 12/31/2014
  • AFOSR. Reviewer. 09/2013 - 09/2013
  • UK EPSRC . Reviewer. 08/2013 - 08/2013
  • Robot Science and Systems Conference. Workshop Co-Organizer (with T. Asfour, Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech and M. Stilman, Ga. Tech);``From Concepts to Experience and Back," Berlin, Germany, June 2013. 06/2013 - 06/2013
  • European Commission. Role: Panelist. European Union Cognitive Robotics (FP-7) Large-scale Proposal Evaluation Panel, Feb-Mar 2013, Brussels, Belgium. 02/24/2013 - 03/09/2013
  • Ministry of Science, Research and Art. Role: Member. Final Evaluation Committee for BW-FIT Program (Major Computer Science Research Projects in the German state of Baden-Wissemberg). 10/2012 - 11/2012
  • National Science Foundation. Role: Chair. Science and Technology Center Site Visit (MIT). 09/2012 - 12/2012
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Role: Reviweers. Proposal Reviewer. 08/2012 - 12/2012
  • National Science Foundation. Role: Member. Panelist. 06/2012 - 08/2012
  • IEEE ICRA. Role: Co-Program Chair. Co-Program Chair, IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013. 05/2012 - 05/2013
  • European Commission. Role: Member. Proposal Reviewer and Panelist. 04/2012 - 07/2012
  • National Science Foundation. Panelist. 04/2012 - 06/2012
  • International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems. Role: Member. Technical Program Committee. 01/2012 - 12/2012
  • North Carolina A&T University. Role: Member. Advisory Board . 12/2011 - 07/2013
  • IEEE Intl Conf on Multisensor Fusion and Integration. Role: Member. Steering Committee. 09/2010 - 10/2012
  • Xperience Project. Role: Overview project and give feedback. Advisory Board. 08/03/2010 - 08/02/2015
  • National Science Foundation. Role: Review and Fund Proposals; develop new research programs. Program Director (CISE/IIS/RI). 08/03/2010 - 08/02/2011
  • IEEEInternational Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Role: Memeber. Advisory Committee. 03/15/2007 - 03/16/2022

Honors & Awards

  • Best paper Award Multisensor Fusion and Integration . IEEE, 2008

Internal Service

  • Internal Review Committee for the School of Biological Sciences. Reviewer, 05/31/2023 - 12/04/2023. University service.
  • Honors Faculty advisor. Advise CS Honors Students, 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2023. Department service.
  • UPTAC. Member, 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2023. University service.
  • Undergraduate Thesis Director. Supervise all CS undergraduate theses, 07/01/2022 - 06/30/2023. Department service.
  • Diversity Commitee. Chair, 07/2021 - 06/2022. Department service.
  • Director, Deep Learning in AI& Robotics Program. Director, 07/2021 - 06/2022. Department service.
  • UPTAC. 07/2021 - 06/2022. University service.
  • SoC Honors Faculty advisor. Advisor, 06/2021 - 07/2022. University service.
  • Undergraduate Thesis Advisor. Advise all thesis students, 07/01/2020 - 06/30/2021. Department service.
  • UPTAC. Member, 07/01/2020 - 06/30/2021. College service.
  • Honors Advisor. advise CS honors students, 07/01/2020 - 06/30/2021. Department service.
  • Undergraduate Thesis Director. Director, 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2020. Department service.
  • Computer Science Honors Advisor. Advisor, 07/01/2019 - 06/30/2020. Department service.
  • Undergraduate Studies Committee. Member, 01/01/2019 - 12/31/2019. Department service.
  • SoC Undergraduate Thesis Advisor. Oversee undergraduate theses, 01/01/2019 - 12/31/2019. Department service.
  • Undergraduate Studies Committee. Member, 01/01/2016 - 12/30/2016. Department service.
  • Undergraduate Scholarships Committee. Reviewer, 01/01/2016 - 12/30/2016. College service.
  • General Recruiting Committee. Member, 07/15/2015 - 12/31/2015. Department service.
  • Executive Committee. Member, 01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015. Department service.
  • Undergraduate Studies Committee. Member, 01/01/2015 - 01/01/2015. Department service.
  • General Recruiting Committee. Member, 08/12/2014 - 12/31/2014. Department service.
  • Executive Committee. Member, 01/01/2014 - 12/31/2014. Department service.
  • Graduate Admissions. Member, 01/01/2014 - 08/12/2014. Department service.
  • Curriculum Committee. Member, 01/01/2014 - 08/12/2014. Department service.
  • Senate Member. Serve in Academic Senate, 08/2012 - 07/2014. University service.
  • Co-Program Committee Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013. Member, 09/2011 - 05/2013. Other service.
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Seoul, South Korea, June 2012. Member, 06/2011 - 06/2012. Other service.
  • Steering Committee, IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration in Intelligent Systems, Hamburg, Germany, September 2012. Organizer, 09/2010 - 09/2012. Other service.
  • Consolidated Hearing Pool. Member, 08/2010 - 07/2013. University service.
  • Organizer (with A. Kirsch, R. Alami, and R. Dillmann), Schloss Dagstuhl Seminar: Learning, Planning and Sharing Robot Knowledge for Human-Robot Interaction, September 2010. Organizer, 09/2009 - 10/2010. Other service.
  • Program Committee, International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Canada, 29-31 August, 2010. Member, 08/2009 - 08/2010. Other service.
  • Program Committee Americas Regional Chair, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, October, 2010. Chair, 06/2009 - 10/2010. Other service.
  • General Chair, IEEE Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration, Fort Douglas, UT, September 2010. Chair, 08/2008 - 04/2011. Other service.

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