Professional Activities

Member:

Senior Member IEEE, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Listed in Who’s Who in Engineering Education

Member, Association for Computing Machinery.

Associate Member COSPAR, Committee on Space Research, International Council of Scientific Unions

Phi Kappa Phi, The National Interdisciplinary Honor Society.

Order of the Engineer, The Canadian Engineering Society.

NIH Study Section ZRG1 BST-C (50), Data Sharing and Collaboration Tools (NIH-NSF Joint Program), George Chacko, Feb 2004

NIH Study Section ZRG1 SSS-H (90), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Software, George Chacko, Nov 2003

NIH Study Section ZRG1 SSS-H (91), Biological Software Maintenance 02-141, George Chacko, June 2003

NSF Panelist, Information Technology Research (Small ITR), Bhavani Thuraisingham, IT3SIISIM, March 2003.

NSF Panelist, Strategic Technologies for the Internet, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, Gregory Monaco, June 2002.

Grant Review, U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) Science Center programs, U.S. Department of State, 2002

NSF Panelist, High Performance Network Connections, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, 2001.

NASA Panelist or Reviewer, 1995, 1996 (Applied Information Systems Research), 1999.

Member of IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Socity (GRSS) Technical Committee on Data Archiving and Distribution

University of Missouri Research Board grant reviewer, 1998-2002.

Conference Organization:

1. Program Committee, IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion (in conjunction with CVPR 2004), Washington, DC, June 27, 2004.

2. Program Committee, Int. Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception, Palmero, Italy, July 4-6, 2005.

3. Program Committee, Reviewer and Session organizer, IASTED Int. Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Salzburg, Austria, June 25-27, 2003.

4. Session chairman, IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Information Systems, GIS and Visualization, Toronto, Canada, June 24-28, 2002.

5. Session chairman, American Meteorological Society Annual Conference, 18th IIPS Electronic Theater, Orlando, FL, Jan. 14-17, 2002.

6. Session chairman, American Meteorological Society Annual Conference, 17th IIPS Electronic Theater, Albuquerque, NM, Jan. 14-19, 2001.

7. Program Committee, Reviewer and Session organizer, IASTED Int. Conference on Computer Graphics and Imaging, Las Vegas, Nevada, Nov. 20-23, 2000.

8. Session chairman, IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), Visualization and Interactive Image Analysis, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 24-28, 2000.

9. Session chairman, American Meteorological Society Annual Conference, 16th IIPS Electronic Theater, Longbeach, CA, Jan. 11-14, 2000.

10. Session chairman, American Meteorological Society Annual Conference, 15th IIPS Electronic Theater, Dallas, TX, Jan. 11-14, 1999.

11. Session chairman, American Meteorological Society Annual Conference, 14th IIPS Electronic Theater, Phoenix, AZ, Jan. 11-17, 1998.

12. Session chairman, American Meteorological Society Annual Conference, 13th IIPS Electronic Theater, Longbeach, CA, Feb. 2-7, 1997.

13. Session co-chair, American Geophysical Union, SH03 Advanced Visualization of Scientific Results from Space Physics, Aeronomy and Atmospheres, Baltimore, MD, Spring, 1996.

14. Session chairman, American Meteorological Society Annual Conference, 12th Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography and Hydrology (IIPS), Electronic Theater, Atlanta, GA, Jan. 29-Feb. 1, 1996.

15. Session chair, Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Symposium, "Advances in Interactive Analysis and Visualization Techniques for Remotely Sensed Observations of Earth, Ocean and Atmosphere", Hamburg, Germany, July 1994

Reviewer:

IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

IEEE Tran. on Signal Processing

IEEE Tran. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing

Image Vision and Computing

International J. Imaging Systems & Technology

Int. Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition

Int. Conf. Computer Vision,Workshop on Computer Vision

NASA Graduate Fellowships in Global Change Research

NASA Center for Excellence in Space Data and Information Systems

Committees:

1. Winter 2004 Promotion and Tenure Committee, CS Dept.
Faculty Search Committee, CS Dept.
Computer Science Information Technology Program Committee
Computer Science Curriculum Committee
Doctoral Qualifying Exam Committee, CS Dept.
Space Committee, CS Dept.

2. Fall 2003 Promotion and Tenure Committee, CECS Dept.
Faculty Search Committee, CECS Dept.
Computer Engineering Transition Committee (Undergraduate)
Computer Engineering Transition Committee (Graduate)
Computer Science Information Technology Program Committee
Computer Science Curriculum Committee
Doctoral Qualifying Exam Committee, CECS Dept.
Space Committee, CECS Dept.
Space Committee, College of Engineering

3. Winter 2003 Promotion and Tenure Committee, CECS Dept.
Faculty Search Committee, CECS Dept.
Computer Engineering Transition Committee (Undergraduate)
Computer Engineering Transition Committee (Graduate)
Computer Science Information Technology Program Committee
Computer Science Curriculum Committee
Doctoral Qualifying Exam Committee, CECS Dept.
Space Committee, CECS Dept.
Space Committee, College of Engineering
Education Laboratories (ABET), CECS Dept.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.

4. Fall 2002 Associate Dean for Academic Programs Search Committee, College of Engineering
Promotion and Tenure Committee, CECS Dept.
Faculty Search Committee, CECS Dept.
Doctoral Qualifying Exam Committee, CECS Dept.
Space Committee, CECS Dept.
Education Laboratories (ABET), CECS Dept.
College of Engineering Design Fair/Capstone committee.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.

5. Winter 2002 Computer Engineering Curriculum Committee, CECS Dept.
Promotion and Tenure Committee, CECS Dept.
Faculty Search Committee, CECS Dept.
Faculty Search Committee, Institute for Commercial Remote Sensing
Doctoral Qualifying Exam Committee, CECS Dept.
Education Laboratories (ABET), CECS Dept.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.
UMC College of Engineering Open House Exhibits, Multimedia Comm. and Visualization Lab

6. Fall 2001 Faculty Search Committee, CECS Dept.
Promotion and Tenure Committee, CECS Dept.
Thompson Endowed Chair Committee, College of Engineering
Education Laboratories (ABET), CECS Dept.
UM System SAP undergraduate teaching advisory committee.
College of Engineering Design Fair/Capstone committee.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.

7. Winter 2001 Computer Engineering Committee, CECS Dept.
Graduate Committee, CECS Dept.
Education Laboratories (ABET), CECS Dept.
UM System SAP undergraduate teaching advisory committee.
College of Engineering remote sensing ICREST director search committee.
College of Engineering Design Fair/Capstone committee.
College of Engineering Audio-Visual committee for Ketcham.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.
UMC College of Engineering Open House Exhibits, Multimedia Comm. and Visualization Lab. (Third place, $2,000 award)

8. Fall 2000 Computer Engineering Committee, CECS Dept.
Graduate Committee, CECS Dept.
Education Laboratories (ABET), CECS Dept.
UM System SAP undergraduate teaching advisory committee.
College of Engineering remote sensing search committee.
UMC Campus Research Support Computing Advisory Committee.
College of Engineering Audio-Visual committee for Ketcham.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.

9. Winter 2000 Computer Engineering Committee, CECS Dept.
UM System SAP undergraduate teaching advisory committee.
College of Engineering remote sensing search committee.
UMC Campus Research Support Computing Advisory Committee.
College of Engineering Audio-Visual committee for Ketcham.
Reviewer of graduate student applicants, CECS & EE Dept.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.
UMC College of Engineering Open House Exhibits, Multimedia Comm. and Visualization Lab. (First place $10,000 award)

10. Fall 1999 Computer Engineering Committee, CECS Dept.
UM System SAP undergraduate teaching advisory committee.
College of Engineering remote sensing search committee.
UMC Campus Research Support Computing Advisory Committee.
Reviewer of graduate student applicants, CECS & EE Dept.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.

11. Winter 1999 Computer Engineering Committee, CECS Dept.
CECS/EE Space Utilization Task Team.
UMC Campus Research Support Computing Advisory Committee.
Reviewer of graduate student applicants, CECS & EE Dept.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.
UMC College of Engineering Open House Exhibits, Multimedia Comm. and Visualization Lab.

12. Fall 1998 Computer Engineering Committee.
UMC IATS (Information and Access Technology Services) Research Support Computing Advisory Committee.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.

13. Winter 1998 Faculty Search Committee Co-chairman, CECS Dept.
CECS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, CECS Dept.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.
UMC College of Engineering Open House Exhibits, Multimedia Comm. and Visualization Lab.

14. Fall 1997 Faculty Search Committee Co-chairman, CECS Dept.
CECS Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.

15. Winter 1997 Graduate Committee, CECS Dept.
Advising for undergraduate Computer Engineering students.
UMC College of Engineering Open House Exhibits, Multimedia Comm. and Visualization Lab.