Professional Activities
  • Active Member, Voted into an 8-person Voice Identification Policy Group (VIPG) of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.

  • Active Liaison, in the U.S. Delegation of ISO/SC 37 JTC 1 WG3 (Biometrics), Standards development for Common Biometric Exchage Format.

  • Active Liaison and driving force for Speaker Recognition, ANSI/INCITS, Standards development for Biometric Data Interchange Formats.

  • Active Liaison and driving force, VoiceXML Forum, Standards development for Speaker Recognition (Speaker Biometrics) Data Format.

  • Senior Member, IEEE, (Member Since 1989)

  • Member, IEEE Control Systems Society

  • Associate Editor, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal, Since 1994

  • PostScript Format PDF Format Guest Editor, Special Issue on Learning and Repetitive Control, Special Issue of the Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing Journal, Volume 8, No. 2, 2002

  • Member, The Advisory Board Committee of the IEEE Spectrum Magazine since May 1994

  • Reviewer, Pattern Recognition, since 2006

  • Reviewer, ICASSP (IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2012

  • Scientific Review Committee Member, Interspeech Conference, 2009, 2010, 2011

  • Reviewer, IEEE Transaction of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI)

  • Reviewer, IEEE Transaction of Neural Networks

  • Reviewer, International Journal of Control

  • Reviewer, AIAA (American Instritute of Aerospace and Avionics)

  • Organizer, the Pattern Recognition Division of the World Automation Congress 2000 (WAC'2000), June 11-16, 2000

  • International Technical Chair (USA), the World Manufacturing Congress 1997 and 1999

  • Technical Chair, the Pattern Recognition Division of the World Automation Congress, Alaska, 1998

  • Technical Chair, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1997 (ICRA 97)

  • Invited Honorary Speaker, the Foundations of Distributed Information Systems (FDIS 97) conf., Aspen, Colorado, 1997

  • Editor, the Handwriting section of the Berkeley Initiative on Soft Computing (BISC), since 1994

  • Conference Chair, the Conference on Technological Advancement in Developing Countries, 1995

  • Executive Committee Member, the Society for Technological Advancement in Developing Countries, 1991-1995

  • Technical Chair, Mechanical, Chemical and Industrial Engineering Division of the Society for Technological Advancement in Developing Countries, 1991-1993