Professional Activities

• Associate Editors of Journals

• Steering Committee Members

• Conference General Co-Chairs

• Technical Program Committees 

• Member of Visiting Committee

• Services in Singapore

Associate Editors of Journals

• The Visual Computer (Springer-Verlag)

• Multimedia Tools and Applications (Kluwer)

• ACM Transaction of Information Systems (ACM)

• Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval (FnTIR)

Steering Committee Members

• Multimedia Modeling Conference (international)

• International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (international)

• Computer Graphics International

Conference General Co-Chairs

• ACM SIGIR – Aug 2008 (Singapore)

• ACM Multimedia - Nov 2005 (Singapore)

• CIVR (Conference on Image & Video Retrieval) – Jul 2005 (Singapore)

• Computer Graphics International (CGI)- 1990 (Singapore); 2000 (Switzerland); 2001 (Hong Kong); 2003 (Japan)

• Multi-Media Modeling (MMM)-- 1993 (Singapore); 1995 (Singapore); 1997 (Singapore); 2003 (Taiwan)

• Pacific Graphic-- 1998 (Singapore)

Technical Program Committees

• Numerous conferences in computer graphics and multimedia areas, including: ACM Multimedia, ACM SIGIR, ACL (Association of Computational Linguistics), EMNLP, WWW, Computer Graphics International (CGI), Computer Animation, Pacific Graphics, Multimedia Modeling (MMM), IEEE Int’l Conference on MM and Expo (ICME)

Member of Visiting Committee

• Member of Review Panel: Program for “Interactive Multimodal Information Management”, under Swiss National “Centres of Competence in Research" (NCCR IM2), Switzerland (2006-present)

• Member of Industrial Advisory Board: European Network of Excellence Program – INTERMEDIA (http://www.intermedia.miralab.unige.ch). Europe (2007-present)

Services in Singapore

• Chair, The Public Sector R&D Projects Review Panel, SERC, ASTAR (2006 - 2009)

• Chair, Board of Assessor, Certified IT Project Management (CITPM), Singapore (2000 - present)

• Chair, The Public Sector R&D Projects Review Panel, SERC, ASTAR (2006 - to date)

• Chair, Board of Assessor, Certification in Outsourcing Management for IT (COMIT), Singapore (2006)

• Independent Directors: several listed companies in Singapore