Professional Activities

• Member of ACM, IEEE, SIAM
• Editorial Board

• Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Springer, since 2008
• Transactions on Data Privacy, Spanish Higher Research Council, since 2008
• International Journal of Social Network Mining, InderScience Publishers, since 2010

• PC co-chair of the 2nd International Symposium on Data, Privacy and E-Commerce, Buffalo/Niagara Fall, June 20-22, 2010.
• Steering Committee member of IEEE International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM), since 2011
• PC Member
  • the 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining(ICDM), Brussels, Belgium, Dec 10-13, 2012
  • the 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Beijing, China, August 12-16, 2012
  • the 5th Workshop on Privacy in Information Society (PAIS), Berlin, Germany, March 30, 2012
  • the 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 29-June 1, 2012
  • the 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), Beijing, China, Dec 17-19, 2011
  • the 12th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), Wuhan, China, Sept 14-16, 2011
  • the 11th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Mesa, Arizona, April 28-30, 2011
  • the 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Shenzhen, China, May 24-27, 2011.
  • the 4th International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP), College Park, MD, March 29-April 2, 2011
  • the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Biopolis, Singapore, March 22-25, 2011
  • the 4th Workshop on Privacy in Information Society (PAIS), Uppsala, Sweden, March 2011.
  • the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Sydney, Australia, Dec 13-17, 2010
  • the 11th International Conference on  Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), Jiuzhaigou, China, July 15-17, 2010
  • the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-26, 2010
  • the 10th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Columbus, Ohio, April 29- May 1, 2010
  • the 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD),  Hyderabad, India, June 21-24, 2010
  • the 3rd International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP), Bethesda,MD, March 29- April 1, 2010
  • the 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Perth, Australia, April 20-23,  2010
  • the 3rd Workshop on Privacy in Information Society (PAIS), Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2010.
  • the 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Miami, Florida, Dec 6-9, 2009
  • the 9th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Sparks, Nevada, April 30- May 2, 2009
  • the 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Bangkok, Thailand, April 27-30, 2009
  • the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Washington D.C., Nov 1-4, 2009.
  • the 18th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), Prague, Czech, Sept 14-17, 2009
  • the International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis (PPDA), Brisbane, Australia, April 20, 2009
  • the Joint International Conference on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), Suzhou, China, April 5-7, 2009
  • the 2nd International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP), Phoenix, March 31- April 1, 2009
  • the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Bradford, UK, May 2009
  • the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Pisa, Italy, Dec 15-19, 2008
  • the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM),  Philadelphia, PA, Nov 7-9, 2008
  • the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases(ECML/PKDD),Antwerp, Belgium, Sept 15-19, 2008
  • the 14th ACM  International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Las Vegas, Aug 24-27,2008
  •  the KDD08 Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS), Las Vegas, August 12-15, 2008
  • the 10th Pacific Rim Intenational Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), Hanoi, Vitetnam, Dec 15-19,2008
  • the 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery(FSKD), Jinan, China, Aug 25-27, 2008
  • the 1st International Workshop on Practical Privacy-Preserving Data Mining(P3DM08), co-located with SDM08, Atlanta, April 26, 2008
  • the 1st Workshop on Privacy in Information Society (PAIS), co-located with EDBT08, Nantes, France, Mar 29, 2008
  • and session chair of the 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Osaka, Japan, May 20-23, 2008
  • the 22nd IEEE Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Okinawa, Japan, May 25-28, 2008
  • the 7th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Omaha, NE, Oct 28-31, 2007
  • the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Silicon Valley, Nov 2-4, 2007
  • the IEEE workshop on Mining and Management of Biological Data (MMBD), Omaha, NE, Oct 28, 2007
  • the 13th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Jose, August 12-15, 2007
  • the KDD07 Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS), San Jose, August 12-15, 2007
  • the Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining(AIDM), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, Dec 2-6, 2007
  • the IADIS-European 1st International Conference on Data Mining (ECDM), Lisbon, Portugal, July 6-8, 2007
  • the 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2007
  • the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD),  Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007
  • the International Workshop on High Performance Data Mining and Application(HPDMA), Nanjing, China, May 22-25,2007
  • the 1^st International Symposium on Data, Privacy, & E-Commerce(ISDPE), Chengdu, China, August 2007
  • the Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining(AIDM), Hobart, Australia, Dec 4-8, 2006
  • the 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Washington D.C., Nov 13-15, 2006
  • the 5th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), Alexandria, VA, Oct 30,  2006
  • the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining(ICDM), Hong Kong, Dec 18-22, 2006
  • the 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (Privacy, Security and Trust track), Fredericton, Canada, August 14-16, 2006
  • the 1st Southeast Workshop on Data and Information Management, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 30-31, 2006
  • the 16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), Bari, Italy, Sept 27-29, 2006
  • the IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE GrC), Atlanta, May 10-12, 2006
  • the 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Singapore, April 9-12, 2006
  • and Session Chair of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov 27-30, 2005 
  • and Session Chair of the 15th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), Saratoga Springs, New York, May 25-28, 2005.
  •  the 4th SIAM on Data Mining Conference (SDM),  Kissimmee, Florida, April 22-24, 2004
  • and Session Chair of the 3rd SIAM on Data Mining Conference (SDM),  San Francisco, May 1-3, 2003

• Proposal review for

• • NSF CISE panelist, 2003,2006,2009
  • NSF OISE, 2011
  • NASA Intelligent Systems, 2004
  • NASA Technology Office of Earth Science, 2004

• Referee/reviewer for

• book review for Addison & Wesley
• Journal of Intelligent Information System
• Journal of Knowledge and Information System
• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
• Journal of Discrete Applied Mathematics
• ACM SIGKDD Explorations
• VLDB Journal
• IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Journal of Computer Science and Technology
• NeuroComputing
• Electonics and Telecommunications Research Institute Journal
• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
• and various conferences