Professional Activities
Editorial Services
Associate Editor, IEEEÂ Computational Intelligence Society Magazine (2023-2024)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2015-2021)
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Big Data: Data Mining and Management, Frontiers (2018-)
Associate Editor, IEEE ACCESS (2019-2021)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems (2013-2018)
Editorial Board Member, IEEE ACCESS (2013-2018)
Editorial Board Member, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier (2013-2019)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environment, IOS Press (2011-)
Editorial Board Member, Web Intelligence, IOS Press (2015-)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Database Management, IGI Publishing (2009-)
Editorial Board Member, Applied Intelligence, Springer (1998-)
Guest Editor, Journal of Artificial General Intelligence, Special Issue on AI Architectures and Autonomy (2012)
Guest Editor, Applied Intelligence, Special Issue on Text and Web Mining (2003)Â
Scientific Board Member / Examiner / Advisor / Judge
Member, Belt and Road Innovative Talent Exchange Foreign Expert Project, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China, 2021-2022.
Member, International Scientific Board, Cardiff Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Human-Machine Systems (IROHMS), Cardiff University, United Kingdom, Â 2019-2022.
Member, Judge Panel, 2020 DIGIX Global AI Challenge, Organized by Jiangsu Association of Artificial Intelligence, China (2020)
Member of Review Panel, AI Ethics Book of Knowledge, Singapore (2020)
External Reviewer, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (2011-2016, 2018-2020)
Advisory Committee Member, The 5th International Conference on Ageless Aging (ICAA 2018), Singapore, July 28-31, 2018
Advisory Committee Member, The 4th International Conference on Ageless Aging (ICAA 2017), Beijing , China, July 6-9, 2017
Panel Judge, Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award - IT Category (2010-2015)
External Examiner, Diploma in Information Technology, Ngee Ann Polytechnic (2010-2014)
Reviewer, National Research Foundation Study Panel on Information & Communications Technology/Computer Science ("ICT/CS") research & innovation in Singapore (2013)Â
Reviewer, National Young Scientist Award (YSA) (2011)
Reviewer, MOE Translational R&D and Innovation Fund (TIF) (2011)
Reviewer, DSO Core Research Projects (2011)
Member, National Infocomm Competency Framework (NICF) Technical Committee on Service Science (2010-2011)
Advisory Committee Member, The Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (UIC'10), Xi’an, China, 26-29 October 2010
Technical Advisor, A*Star SERC Tech Scan Panel on Information Management (2004)
External PhD Thesis examiner for Queensland University of Technology, Australia (2011)
External PhD Thesis examiner for University of Melbourne, Australia (2009)
External PhD Thesis examiner for University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (2006)
External PhD Thesis examiner for University of Melbourne, Australia (2003)Â
Chapter Chair / Conference Chair / Program Chair / Area Chair / Panel Chair
Chair, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Singapore Chapter (2023-2024)
General Co-Chair, 2024 IEEE/WIC Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT’24), Bangkok, Thailand, December 2024
Area Chair, The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024), Jeju Island, South Korea, August 2024.
Panel Co-Chair, IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2024), Singapore, June 2024
Area Chair, The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2023), Macao, 19th-25th August 2023.
General Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2022), Singapore, December, 2022
Area Chair, The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021), Montreal, Canada, 2021
Co-Director, Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Singapore Research Center (2014-2020)
Vice Chair, IEEE ETTC Task Force on Towards Human-Like Intelligence (2014-)Â
General Co-Chair, 2019 International Conference on Advanced Information Science and Systems (AISS 2019), Singapore, November 16, 2019
General Co-Chair, 3rd International Conference on Agents (ICA 2018). Singapore, July 28-31, 2018
General Co-Chair, 3rd INNS Conference on Big Data and Deep Learning (INNS BDDL), Bali, Indonesia, April 17 – 19, 2018
General Co-Chair, Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2018, Singapore, April 5-6, 2018Â
General Chair, 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Web Intelligence (WI’15), Singapore, December 6-9, 2015
General Chair, 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT’15), Singapore, December 6-9, 2015Â
Program Committee Co-Chair, International Conference on Brain Informatics and Health (BIH’14), Warsaw, Poland, 2014
Poster Chair, Fourth International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Dublin, Ireland, 3-5 December, 2013
General Co-Chair, International Neural Network Society Winter Conference (INNS-Winter’12), Bangkok, Thailand, October 3-5, 2012
Academic Liaison Co-Chair, 15th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION’12), Singapore, July 9-12, 2012
Program Vice-Chair, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT’10), Toronto. Toronto, 31 August – 3 September 2010
Program Co-Chair, Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (UIC'09), Brisbane, Australia, 7 -10 July 2009
Regional Organization Co-chair, Fifth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'09), Beijing, 17-19 August 2009
Workshop Chair, Pacific Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'06), Singapore, 2006
Organizing Chair, PAKDD Workshop on Biomedical Data Mining, Singapore, 2006
Co-chair, International Workshop on Language, Semantics, and Web, Singapore, 2003
Co-chair, PAKDD'2002 Workshop on Text Mining, Taipei, 2002Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Co-chair, PRICAI'2000 Workshop on Text and Web Mining, Melbourne, 2000
Panel chair, PAKDD Workshop on Web Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Kyoto, April 2000