Professional Experience

Editor-in-Chief	International Journal of Robotics and Automation, since June 2015
Editor-in-Chief	Journal of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, since June 2012
Editor-in-Chief	International Journal of Complex Systems - Computing, Sensing and Control , since Jan 2013
Associate Editor	IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, since July 2006
Associate Editor	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Oct. 2007 to Dec. 2010
Associate Editor	International Journal of Robotics and Automation, since July 2006
Associate Editor	Control and Intelligent Systems, since June 2006
Technical Editor	International Journal of Information Acquisition, since Dec. 2003
Advisory Editorial Board	Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, since Jan. 2013
Advisory Editorial Board	Journal of Intelligent Learning Systems and Applications, since Sept. 2010
Editorial Board	Sensors, since Oct. 2015
Editorial Board	International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, since Jan. 2006
Editorial Board	International Journal of Automation and Systems Engineering, since April 2007
Editorial Board	Journal of Robotics, since Jan. 2008
Editorial Board	International Journal of Computing and Information Technology, since Jan. 2009
Guest Editor	Special issue on "Sensing and Perception for Autonomous and Networked Robotics", International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, to be published in 2017
Guest Editor	Special issue on "Robotic Applications Based on Deep Learning" of International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, to be published in 2017
Guest Editor	Special issue on "Sensors for Transportation" of Sensors, to be published in 2016-2018
Guest Editor	Special issue on "Sensors for Agriculture" of Sensors, published in 2015-2017
Lead Guest Editor	Special issue on "Theory and Applications of Bioinspired Neural Intelligence for Robotics and Control" of Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, published in 2016
Guest Editor	Special issue on "Sensor fusion" of International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, published in March 2013
Guest Editor	Special issue on "Robotics and Intelligent Systems" of International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems, Vol. 4, No. 1, Jan. 2011
Guest Editor	Special issue on "Robotics and Automation with Biologically Inspired Intelligence" of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Vol. 15, No. 2, June 2009
Guest Editor	Special issue on "Networking, Sensing, and Control" of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C, Vol. 37, No. 2, March 2007
Guest Editor	Special issue on "Biologically Inspired Robotics" of International Journal of Robotics and Automation. Vol. 17, No. 4, Nov. 2002
Panel Member	2016-2019 NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)Discovery Grants - EG 1510 Electrical and Computer Engineering
Panel Member	2016-2017 CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) Research Grants Selection Committee
Panel Member	2016-2017 NSERC-CIHR Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) Program Grants Selection Committee
Panel Member	2011-2012 NSERC-CIHR Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) Program Grants Selection Committee
Panel Member	2010-2011 NSERC Strategic Grants Selection Committee – Biomedical Technologies
Co-Chair	15th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA'2016), World Automation Congress (WAC'2016), Puerto Rico, USA, July 31-Aug. 4, 2016
Program Chair	2015 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA'2015), Lijiang, China, Aug. 8-10, 2015
Co-Chair	14th International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA'2014), World Automation Congress (WAC'2014), Hawaii, USA, Aug. 3-7, 2014
Program Co-Chair	2014 IEEE World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA'2014), Shenyang, China, June. 29-July 4, 2014
General Chair	2011 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics (ICAL'2011), Chongqing, China, Aug. 15-18, 2011
Organizing Co-Chair	2008 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Logistics (ICAL'2008), Qingdao, China, Sept. 3-5, 2008
General Chair	2006 International Conference on Sensing, Computing and Automation (ICSCA'2006), Chongqing, China, May 8-11, 2006
Program Co-Chair	2006 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA'2006), Luoyang, China, June 25-28, 2006
General Co-Chair	2005 International Workshop on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (DEDS'2005). Guelph, Canada, July 29-31, 2005
Program Co-Chair	2005 International DCDIS Conference on Engineering Application and Computational Algorithms (DCDIS'2005), Guelph, Canada, July 27-29, 2005
Organizing Chair	2005 IEEE International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN'2005), Chongqing, China, May 30-June 1, 2005