Professional Activity

• Member of Editorial Board: Image and Vision Computing Journal, Elsevier.
• Program Committee member: International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2009), Amsterdam.
• Serve on a number of NSF Panels.
• Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR08), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR08), Anchorage, Alaska.
• Program Committee Member, First IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis, 2008. Anchorage, Alaska.
• Program Committee Member, IEEE 11th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV07), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Program Committee Member, The 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Hong Kong.
• Program Co-Chair, First International Workshop on Video Processing for Security in conjuction with AI/GI/CRV'06, Quebec City, Canada.
• Computer Graphics Chair, International Symposium on Visual Computing 2005, Lake Tahoe, Nevada/California. PC member for ISVC 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
• Technical Program Committer Member, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. (ICME05), Amsterdam, Netherland.
• Program Committee Member, Second IEEE Workshop on Face Processing in Video, in conjuction with AI/GI/CVR05 in British Columbia, Canada.
• Program Committee Member, First IEEE Workshop on Face Processing in Video, in conjuction with IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR04)
• Session Chair (Detecting faces in video) at IEEE FPIV, 2004, Washington, DC.
• Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2004, ICIP2005, and ICIP2006)
• Session Chair in Face Analysis I, IEEE SMC2004, Hague, The Netherlands.

• Member, IEEE
• Advisory Committee Member, Standards Council of Canada, CAC/JTC1/SC29
• Member, MPEG4, SNHC-FBA
• Member, ACM SIGGRAPH

• Invited Talk: Selected Lectures for Presentation at Lockheed Martin, Owego, NY, 2004
• Invited Talk: Kodak Research Center, Rochester, NY., and distinguished lecture of IEEE Signal Processing Section in Rochester, NY, 2007.

Connection

• Edmonton, University of Alberta, Canada
• Shanghai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• HongKong, City University of Hong Kong
• Beijing, Beijing University of Post&Telecom.
• Syracuse, SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY.
• Troy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.