Conference Chair, International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, 2003

Member, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing. (This is the leadership council for the field of multimedia computing from the largest and most prominent professional society on computing)

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 1999.

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Embedded Software Engineering, International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 2002.

Member, Internet 2 Health Science Group (I am one of the founding members of this nation-wide task force on bringing together advanced networking and computing with medicine and healthcare)

Panel Member, NSF Information Technical Research (ITR) Program, 2002.

Associate Editor and Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, World Scientific Press, 1997 - Present.

Program Committee Co-Chair, International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 1998. (Program Committee Chair is responsible for organizing technical programs of the conference.)

Program Committee Member, 14^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

Program Committee Member, 13^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

Program Committee Member, 11^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

Program Committee Member, 9^th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering.

Program Committee Member, International IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.

Program Committee Member, International IEEE Workshop on Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange (KDEX), 1998.

Program Committee Member, the 5^th World Conference on Design and Process Technology.

Program Committee Member, 7^th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, 2000.

Program Committee Member, International IEEE Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics, 2001.

Program Committee Member, International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering.

Program Committee Member, IASTED International Conference on Computer Science and Technology.

Referee, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Computer, International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Systems and Software, and a number of conferences.

Co-Chair, FIU Information Technology Cross-Function Action Planning Team, 2002.

Coordinator, FIU Information Technology Programs Assessment Committee, 2002.

Member, FIU IT Compensation Council, 2002.

Member, FIU College of Arts & Sciences Dean Search Committee, 2002 - 2003.

Founding Director, University Wide Type IV Research Center - Center for Advanced Distributed Systems Engineering (CADSE) - at FIU, 1997 - 2000. (The Center grew in 2 years to nearly 30 members (faculty, postdoctoral research associates, graduate students, and staff and 5 laboratories.)

Member, University Research Council, University of Texas at Dallas, 2000 - 2001.

Managing Director, Embedded Software Center, University of Texas, 2000 - 2002. (This is a university-wide research center co-founded by University of Texas, Texas Instruments, Inc, and Alactel USA, Inc. and housed in the School of Engineering and Computer Science.)

Chair, Software Engineering Ph.D. Degree Committee, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University Texas at Dallas, 2000 - 2001.

Director of External Relations, SCS/FIU, 1996 - 1997.

Member, Graduate Committee, SCS/FIU, 1999 - 2000.

Member, Faculty Search and Screening Committee, SCS/FIU, 1996 - 1997.

Member, Faculty Search and Screening Committee, SCS/FIU, 1997 - 1998.

Member, Faculty Search and Screening Committee, SCS/FIU, 1998 - 1999.

Member, SCS/FIU Equipment Committee, 1997 - 1998.

Member, SCS/FIU Equipment Committee, 1998 - 1999.

Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2000 - 2001.

Member, Ph.D. Program Committee, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2002.

Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2002.

Member, Ad Hoc (tenure/promotion) Committee, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, 2002.