Editorship

• Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (InderScience Publishers)

• Co-editor, “Intelligent Information Systems”, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2010

• Co-editor, “Interesting Knowledge Mining”, International Journal of Data Mining, Modeling and Management, Nescience, 2011

Organizer

• Honorary Chair and Advisory Board member, the 4th International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science (NISS), May 11 -13, 2010, Gyeongju, Korea

• Program Committee Chair, The 1^st International Workshop on Interesting Knowledge Mining ( IKM 2009), In conjunction with NCM 2009, August 25-27, 2009, Seoul, Korea

• Program Committee Chair, The 3^rd International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science (NISS), June 30 – July 2, 2009, Beijing, China

• Program Committee Chair, Special session on Mining Interesting Knowledge (MIK) at  the Twenty Second International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE'09), June 24-27, 2009, Tainan, Taiwan

Program Committee Member:

• The 6^th International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'11), Oct 9-12, 2011, Banff, Canada

• The International Conference on Man-Machine Interactions 2011 (ICMMI 2011), October 6-9, 2011,The Beskids, Poland

• The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE 2011), June 10-12, 2011, shanghai, China

• The 19^th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'11), June 28-30, 2011, Warsaw, Poland

• The 7^th International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC 2010), June 28-30, 2010, Warsaw, Poland

            Submission of papers: February 28, 2010

• The 5^th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'10), October 18-20, 2010, Wisla, Poland

            Submission of papers: May 31, 2010

• The 5^th International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology (RSKT2010), Beijing, China, October 15-17, 2010

           Submission of papers: March 20, 2010

• The 15^th Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI 2010) November, 2010, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

           Submission of papers: June 1, 2010

• The 5^th International Joint Conference on INC, IMS and IDC (NCM2009), August 25-27, 2009, Seoul, Korea.

• The 4^th International Symposium on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'09), October 12-14, 2009, Mragowo, Poland  

• The 3^rd International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science (NISS), June 30 – July 2, 2009, Beijing, China

• The 4^th International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'09), Gold Coast, Australia, July 14-16, 2009

• The 18^th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS'09), September 14-17, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic

• The IEEE/ICDM 4^th International Workshop on Mining Complex Data - MCD 2008, December 15, 2008, Pisa, Italy

• The 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2008), Xiamen, China, November 17 – 18, 2008

• The International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC 2008), October 23 – 25, 2008, University of Akron, Ohio, USA

•  The 3^nd International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT'08), May 17-19, 2008, Chengdu, P.R. China

• The 17^th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), May 20-23, 2008, Toronto, Canada

• Rough Sets and Emerging Intelligent Systems Paradigms (RSEISP'07), June 28-30, 2007, Warsaw, Poland

•  The Information Resources Management Association International Conference (IRMA'2007), May 19-23, 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• The 16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), Sept 27-29, 2006, Bari, Italy

Reviewer

• The International Journal of Data Mining, Modeling and Management

• The International Journal of Engineering Research and Innovation

• The 2008 IAJC-NAIT-IJME International Conference, November 18-22, 2008, Nashville, Tennessee,

• The Second International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2006), August 14-16, 2006, Xi'An, China

Other Affiliations

• Associate Graduate Faculty, Indiana State University Consortium Ph.D. Degree Program in Technology Management

• Affiliate member, KDD Laboratory, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

• member, International Rough Set Society

• member, Advanced Institute of Convergence Information Technology

Awards

• "DB-driven Web Applications”, Sun Microsystems Change Your World Grant Program,PI, funded

• “Mining Actionable Patterns”, DORED- 2008 Summer Faculty Fellowships, NCAT

• “On objective measures of actionability in knowledge discovery”, SoT Faculty Development Grant, NCAT