Professional Activities 1985-2008

Standards
          
MIT X Consortium, OSF, US International Standards Organization, BioPAX, Chair ANSI X3H3.6, HL7

Societies
          Vice Chair International Federation for Information Processing WG5.10
          IEEE Computer Society
          ACM (SIGGRAPH, SIGKDD and SIGCHI)
          Eurographics
          Society for Information Display
          AAAI, AMIA, DIA

Journals and Book Series
       
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of:
            Computer Graphics Forum
            Computers and Graphics Journal,
            Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

       Co-editor of IFIP Series on Computer Graphics.

       Scientific committee or organizing committee for a number of Journal special issues.  

Conferences and Workshops

IV Conferences (2006-2008): Symposia chair (IVBi, VDM)

IEEE Visualization Conferences (1990-2008): program co-chair, panels co-chair, conference co-chair ('93,'94), contest co-chair ('04, '05)

IEEE VAST Symposium contest co-chair (2006-2008)

Program committee for several international visualization and interaction conference (BELIV'06, CMV’06)

Advisor to and co-chair of numerous CHI, IBC and other commercial bioinformatics conferences (2000-2008)

Co-chair Workshop in Visualization in Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics (2002)

ACM Workshop on Visual Data Mining (2001)

Co-chair IEEE'97 Workshop on the Integration of Data Mining and Visualization

Program committee for the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'96,  KDD'97, KDD'98 and KDD'02)

Co-chair SPIE'95-97 Visual Data Exploration and Analysis Conferences

Program co-chair, panel co-chair, conference co-chair ('93,'94) IEEE

Co-chair IFIP Conference on Psychological and Cognitive Issues in the Data Visualization

Co-chair IEEE'93 and '95 Workshops on the Database Issues in Visualization

Program or conference committee for numerous Eurographics and IFIP visualization and virtual reality conferences

Co-chair for the AAAI and IEEE 1997 Workshops on Integration of Data Mining and Visualization

Participant in the ACM SIGGRAPH Workshops on Visualization Education, University of Washington/Microsoft Research First Summer Institute on Data Mining ('97)

NATO Experts Workshop Visualization of Massive Military Data Sets ('96-97', 2003)

Reviewer

       ESPRIT, NASA, NSF, NATO and various IEEE and  ACM journals and conferences.

Tutorials

Visualization and Data Mining Tutorials and Workshops given over the last 15 years at most major conferences. For example, IV2008, IEEE Visualization 1990-2005, Drug Discovery Technology 2002-2005, BioIT 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, O’Reilly Bioinformatics 2002, ACM Knowledge Discovery in Databases 2002, IBC Bioinformatics 2002 Summit, as well as commercial organizations such as CHI (2002-2006), IBC (2002-2006), NCBC (2006-2007) and DIA 2003.

Consortia

Founding Member National Visual Analytics Consortium