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Member of the editorial board for
  • IEEE Transactions On Neural Networks1996-1998
  • International Journal of Computational Intelligence in Finance
  • Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems.
  • Computer Science and Informatics (1995-1998)
IEEE Societies
Formed the IEEE Regional Interest Group on Neural Networks (Victoria) and have served as chairman of the IEEE SIG(Vic) from 1992. Founding Chair for IEEE Neural Networks Chapter (Victoria) (2003).
Plenary, Keynote Lectures and Invited Talks

 

  • Invited Talk, Sixth International Conference on Information Technology (CIT03), Bhuvaneswar, Dec. 2003.
  • Plenary Speaker for the IASTED International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Melbourne, 2002
  • An invited lecture in the international conference on intelligent systems, Singapore, Oct. 2002.
  • Keynote lecture in the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Jan. 2001.
  • Plenary lecture in the international conference on measurement and control, Aug. 2001.
  • Invited lecture in the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Bangalore, India, December, 2001.
  • Keynote Lecture in an International Conference on AI, Hobart, Australia, December 2000.
  • An invited lecture for the International Conference on Expert Systems and Neural Networks, Duneiden, New Zealand, Nov., 2001.
External Boards, Committees and Directorships
  • Member of the Advisory Board, Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Research Centre, Univ. of South Australia.
  • Member, 1996 Selection Committee for Best Transaction Paper in the IEEE Trans on       Neural Networks.
  • External Member of the Promotion Committee for Associate Professor/Reader, Monash University, Australia, 2000, 2001.
External Consultancies
Consultancies to the following local industries have been provided: CMPG consultants for ESSO; KRAFT, Australia, MelbIT.
Conferences
  1. Publicity Chair, World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, 2006.
  2. General Chair, International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, Chennai, 4 7 Jan. 2005.
  3. General Chair, International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, Melbourne, 13 - 17 Dec. 2004.
  4. General Chair, International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, Chennai, Jan 4-7, 2004.
  5. Honorary Chair, International Conference on E-Learning, Namakkal, March , 2004.
  6. Track Chair, 11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Nov. 22-25, Calcullta, 2004.
  7. Member of Scientific Advisory Board, International Congress on Medical and care Compunetics, Hague, June 2-4, 2004.
  8. Member of International program Committee, Second international symposium on neural computation, May 2000, Germany.
  9. Member of International Advisory Committee, IEEE Region 10 Conference, TENCON99, Cheju-Korea, September, 1999.
  10. Member of International Program committee, IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, 1996.      
  11. Member of Organising Committee, Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Melbourne, June 1997.
  12. Member of Local Organising Committee, Third International Workshop on Applications of Neural Networks to Telecommunications, Melbourne, June 1997.
  13. Technical Session Chair, International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, Singapore, 1996.
  14. Technical Program Co-Chairman, IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, Perth, 1995.
  15. Member of International Program committee, IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control of National and Regional Economies, Brisbane, Australia, July 2-5, 1995.
  16. Technical Session Chair, Process Control Session WA2, Control 95, Melbourne,   Oct 23-25, 1995.
  17. Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, Orlando, USA, 1994. Part of the first World Conference on Computational Intelligence, 1994.
  18. Member of International Program Committee, International Conference on Intelligent Control, Singapore, 1995.
  19. Member of Technical Program Committee for the Fifth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Melbourne, February, 1994.
  20. Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Australia and New Zealand Conference on Intelligent Information Processing Systems (ANZIIS), Brisbane, 1994.
  21. Technical Session Chair - Supervised Learning, Technical Session Chair - Image Processing, World Conference on Computational Intelligence, Orlando, USA, 26 June - 2 July, 1994.
  22. Member of Technical Program Committee for the Fourth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Melbourne, February, 1993.
  23. Technical Program Chairman, IEEE Australia and Newzealand Conference on Intelligent Information Processing Systems (ANZIIS), 1993.
  24. Member of International Program Committee, Asia Pacific Conference on Control and Measurement, Kunming, P.R. China, 1993.
  25. Member of Exhibition Committee for the TENCON92 IEEE Region 10 Conference on Computers, Automation and Communication Systems, Melbourne. 1992.
  26. Member of Organising Committee for the IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Aug. 1992.
  27. Member of Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Aug. 1992.
  28. Tutorials Chairman, IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Aug. 1992.
  29. Member of Technical Program Committee for the Third Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Canberra, February, 1992.
  30. Technical Session Chairman, Third Australian Conference on Neural Networks, Canberra, February, 1992.
  31. Chairman, Technical Session on Machine Vision II, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Singapore, November, 1991.
  32. Technical Session Chairman, International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, Singapore, Sep., 1990.
Short Courses, Tutorials
  1. Invited Tutorial on Support Vector Machines, International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, Jan 4-7, 2004.
  2. An invited tutorial on Support Vector Machines, World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Honolulu, USA,  May, 2002.
  3. An Invited Tutorial on “Practical Introduction to Support Vector Machines, in the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Como, Italy, and July 2000.
  4. An Invited tutorial on Introduction to Support Vector Machines with Case Studies, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Washington. D.C, July 2001.
  5. An invited tutorial in the international conference on intelligent systems, Singapore, Oct. 2002.
  6. An invited tutorial in the international conference on evolutionary computing for computers, communication, control and power, Chennai, Jan, 2000.
  7. Presented an Invited Tutorial on neural networks for signal processing, 3rd International Symposium on Signal Processing and Its Applications, Gold Coast, August 1992.
  8. A full Short Course on Financial Applications of Neural Networks organised for Industry by the Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute, Melbourne.
  9. One of the lecturers (along with Prof. H. Watson) for a Short Course in Engine Emissions for Automotive Industry, Centre for Manufacturing, Melbourne.
  10. Short Course on Mechatronic Applications of Fuzzy Systems and Neural networks, Centre for Manufacturing, June 1998.
  11. A tutorial on Machine Learning with applications at the Wipro General Electric Medical Systems, R and D centre, Bangalore, Dec. 2001

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