Sample of Recent Conferences, Symposia, Workshops, Panels and Sessions Duties:


  • Co-Chair, 9th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications, ISORA 2002, Orlando, Florida, June 2002.

  • General Chair and Chair of the International Organizing Committee, International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology and Automation (IETA 2001), Cairo, Egypt, December 2001.

  • Co-Organizer, Workshop on Electronic Web-Based Assessment. In the annual New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) Fall Forum, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts, November 2004.

  • Invited Keynote Speaker, the International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS 2001), Foros, Crimea , Ukraine, July 2001.

  • Invited Plenary talk, Merit International Institute of Technology, Engineering School Opening Ceremony, Ooty, India, September 2000.

  • Invited General Chair, 7th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 98), October 1998, Stamford, Connecticut.

  • Invited Plenary talk on ``Robotics and Automation'', 6th International Computer Systems Symposium, October 1997, Ixtapa, Mexico

  • Track Chair - Discrete-Event/Hybrid Systems and Control Track at the 5th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 96), November 1996, Kauai, Hawaii.

  • Track Chair - Discrete-Event/Hybrid Systems and Control Track at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 97), October 1997, UCLA, CA.

  • Invited Workshop Chair and Organizer, ``Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems'', IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1997.

  • Invited Symposium Chair and Organizer, ``New Trends in Prototyping Design and Automation'', IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, San Francisco, California, April 2000.

  • Technical program committee, 1994 IEEE 9th International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC 94).

  • Technical program committee, 1995 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC 95).

  • Program Committee, 22nd International Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 96).

  • Program Committee, 23rd International Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2000).

  • Technical Committee, the 1997 Measurement Science Conference, Pasadena, California, January 1997.

  • Technical program committee, International Symposium on Manufacturing with Applications (ISOMA 98), Anchorage, Alaska, May 1998.

  • International Program Committee, World Manufacturing Congress (WMC 97), Auckland, New Zealand, November 1997.

  • International Program Committee, International Symposium on Manufacturing Systems (ISMS 99), Sunderland and Newcastle-upon Tyne, U.K., September 1999.

  • International Program Committee, International Symposium on Manufacturing Technology (ISMT 99), Sunderland and Newcastle-upon Tyne, U.K., September 1999.

  • International Program Committee, World Manufacturing Congress (WMC 2001), Rochester, New York, September 2001.

  • Member, Technical Committee, International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS 2001), Foros, Crimea , Ukraine, July 2001.

  • International Program Committee, WSES (World Scientific Engineering Society) International Conference on: Robotics, Distance Learning and Intelligent Communication Systems 2001, Malta, September 2001.

  • International Technical Committee, International Congress on Autonomous Intelligent Systems (ICAIS), Melbourne, Australia, March 2002.

  • Invited Panel member on ``Innovative Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Control.'' 10th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control (ISIC 95), Monterey, California, August 1995.

  • Invited Panel member on Collaborative Power Engineering for the 1997 IEEE PICA Conference, Columbus, Ohio.

  • Invited session organizer (Robotics, Automation and Prototyping) for the AMSE International Conference on Science, Technology and Enterpreneurship, Washington, D.C., October 2000.

  • Invited session organizer for the 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 97), October 1997, Tucson, Arizona.

  • Invited Panel member on graduate education and opportunities for graduate students; AMSE International Conference on Science, Technology and Enterpreneurship, Washington, D.C., October 2000.

  • Invited session organizer for the International Symposium on Manufacturing with Applications (ISOMA 98), Anchorage, Alaska, May 1998.

  • Invited session organizer for the Seventh International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA 98), Anchorage, Alaska, May 1998.

  • Invited session developer for the 1998 World Automation Congress (WAC 98), Alaska, May 1998.

  • Invited Workshop organizer the 1998 World Automation Congress (WAC 98), Alaska, May 1998.

  • Invited session organizer, for the 1997 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Caracas, Venezuela, July 1997.

  • Invited session organizer, for the 1998 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, July 1998.

  • Invited session organizer, for the 2000 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, July 2000.

  • Invited session organizer, for the 2002 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, July 2002.

  • Invited session/workshop organizer, for the International Congress on Information Science Innovations (ISI 2001), American University in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 2001.

  • Invited paper submission for the 1999 European Control Conference (ECC), Karlsruhe, Germany, September 1999.

  • Invited paper submission for the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 99), Detroit, Michigan, May 1999.

  • Invited paper submission for the 2nd International Conference on Earth Observation and Environmental Information (EOEI 2000), Cairo, Egypt, November 2000.

  • Chair, Session on Object Recognition, 1994 IEEE 2nd CAD-Based Vision Workshop, Pittsburgh, February 1994.

  • Session Chair, the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation session on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, May 1994.

  • Session Chair, the 1995 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation session on Inspection, May 1995.

  • Session Chair, the 1997 Measurement Science Conference, session on Measuring Sense Data for Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, California, January 1997.

  • Chair, Session on Mobile Robots, IFAC Fifth Symposium on Robot Control (SYROCO '97), Nantes, France, September 1997.

  • Session Chair, the 1998 World Automation Congress. session on Sensing and Recognition, Anchorage, Alaska, May 1998.

  • Session Chair, the Third International Conference on Industrial Automation. session on Robotics, Montreal, Canada, June 1999.

  • Technical program committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 1999), Detroit, Michigan, May 1999.

  • Technical program committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2000), San Francisco, California, April 2000.

  • Technical program committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2001), Seoul, Korea, April 2001.

  • Technical program committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2002), Washington, D.C., May 2002.

  • Technical program committee, European Workshop on Service and Humanoid Robots (SERVICEROB-2001), Santorini, Greece, June 2001.

  • Technical program committee, AMSE International Conference on Science, Technology and Enterpreneurship, Washington, D.C., October 1999.

  • Technical program committee, AMSE International Conference on Science, Technology and Enterpreneurship, Washington, D.C., October 2000.

  • Organizing committee member, AMSE International Conference on Science, Technology and Enterpreneurship, Washington, D.C., October 2000.

  • Technical program committee, AMSE International Conference on Science, Technology and Enterpreneurship, Dearborn, Michigan, October 2001.

  • Organizing committee member, AMSE International Conference on Science, Technology and Enterpreneurship, Dearborn, Michigan, October 2001.

  • Session Chair, the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation session on Calibration and Tolerances, Detroit, Michigan, May 1999.

  • Session Chair, the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation session on Flexible Manipulators II, Detroit, Michigan, May 1999.

  • Session Chair, the 1999 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechatronics (ICRAM 99), May 1999, Istanbul, Turkey. Session on Analysis of Mechatronic Systems.

  • Session Chair, the 1999 AMSE International Conference on Science, Technology and Enterpreneurship, Washington, D.C., October 1999. Session on Mechanical Engineering.

  • Session Chair, the 8th International Sympsium on Robotics and Automation (ISORA 2000), session on Techniques and Applications in Service Robotics, Maui, Hawaii, May 2000.

  • Session Chair, Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2001), Session on Web Classroom Technology, Reno, Nevada, October 2001.

  • Technical program committee, Fifth Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis Conference (ISAS 99), Orlando, Florida, July 1999.

  • Technical program committee, International Conference on Intelligent Automated Manufacturing (IAM 2001), American University in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 2001.

  • Technical program committee, International Conference on Engineering of Natural and Artificial Intelligent Systems (ENAIS 2001), American University in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March 2001.

  • Technical program committee, 2001 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI), Orlando, Florida, July 2001.

  • Technical program committee, 2002 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI), Orlando, Florida, July 2002.