Professional Activities

Comprehensive overview of professional, editorial, and leadership activities

Professional Activities in Research & Academic Organizations/Bodies
Chair, IEEE fellowship evaluation committee of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2024-2026.
Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2024-2026.
Member, IEEE fellowship evaluation committee of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2023.
Member, AI Singapore (AISG) Management Committee, National Research Foundation, Singapore, Since 2017.
Member, AI Singapore (AISG) Management Committee, National Research Foundation, Singapore, 2017 - Present.
Member, AI Singapore (AISG) Scientific Committee, National Research Foundation, Singapore, 2017 - 2023.
Co-Chair, AI Singapore (AISG) Grand Challenge - Urban Mobility, National Research Foundation, Singapore, 2017 - 2018.
Scientific Advisor of Singapore Digital Economy, National Research Foundation, Singapore, 2016 - 2018.
Chair, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee, 2013, 2014.
Chair, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Emergent Technology Technical Committee, 2011, 2012.
Chair, Task Force on New Standards Proposal, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Standards Committee, 2012.
Member, Emergent Technology Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Founding Chair of the Task Force on Memetic Computing in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Emergent Technology Technical Committee.
Vice-Chair, Asia/Pacific/Australia IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Emergent Technology Technical Committee, 2007.
Member, Working Group on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Chair, IEEE Chapter on Computational Intelligence, Singapore, 2009.
Member, IEEE Chapter on Computational Intelligence, Singapore, 2000-2008.
Member, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, 2000-Present.
Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2000-Present.

Journal Editorship / Editorial Board
Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
Founding Technical Editor-in-Chief, Memetic Computing Journal, Springer-Verlag
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Senior Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Network & Learning Systems
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Associate Editor (2015 - 2018), IEEE Transactions on Big Data
Associate Editor (2010 - 2016), IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine
Associate Editor (2012 - 2014), Information Sciences
Associate Editor (2006 - 2017), Soft Computing
Associate Editor, International Journal of Systems Science
Associate Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics
Associate Editor, International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation
Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Computational Intelligence
Guest Co-Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Special Issue on Advances in Memetic Computation, 2010.
Guest Co-Editor, Soft Computing Journal, Special Issue on 'Emerging Trends in Soft Computing - Memetic Computing', 2008.
Guest Co-Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B : Cybernetics, Special Issue on Memetic Algorithms, Vol. 37, No. 1, Feb 2007.
Guest Co-editor, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Special Issue on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2006.

Book Editorship
New Chief Editor, Springer-Verlag Book Series: PALO 'STUDIES IN PROCEEDINGS IN ADAPTATION, LEARNING, AND OPTIMIZATION', 2014.
NewChief Editor, Springer-Verlag Book Series: ELO ADAPTATION, LEARNING, AND OPTIMIZATION, 2008.
Co-editor, Book on Multi-Objective Memetic Algorithms, Springer Series on Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Vol. 171, ISBN: 978-3-540-88050-9, Feb 2009.
Co-editor, Book on Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments, Springer Series on Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Vol. 51, ISSN: 1860-949X, ISBN-10: 3-540-49772-2, ISBN-13: 978-3-540-49772-1, March 2007. Co-edited with ShengXiang Yang and Yaochu Jin.
Co-editor, Advances in Natural Computation Part I, II & III, Lecture Notes on Computer Science, LNCS 3610, LNCS 3611, LNCS 3612, Springer Verlag, August 2005.

General & Program & Workshop & Chair
General Chair, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation Jun. 21 - 26, 2026, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Program Chair, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Hangzhou, China, June 8-12, 2025.
Program Chair, 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE CAI), Santa Clara, California, USA, June 5-6, 2023.
Advisory Chair, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2022), Singapore, December 4-7, 2022.
Late-Breaking Abstracts Chair, The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2022), Boston, USA, July 9-13, 2022.
Plenary Session Chair, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022), Padua - Italy, July 18-23, 2022.
Workshop Chair, Metaheuristic Optimization, Machine Learning and AI Virtual Workshop with University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and National University of Singapore, The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, US. March 8-12, 2021.
Workshop Chair, 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2020 Workshop 8 - 10 July, 2020
Workshop Chair, Workshop on Secure Learning, The IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI)/International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020), 19 - 24th July, 2020, Glasgow (UK).
Workshop co-chairs, 2019 IEEE ICDM Workshop on Autonomous Machine Learning (ICDM-AML 2019), Mahardhika Pratama, Ong Yew Soon, Jie Zhang, Edwin Lughofer, Weiping Ding and Ms. Monidipa Das, In conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2019), November 8-11, 2019, Beijing, China.
Workshop co-chairs, 2019 IJCAI Workshop on Multi-output Learning, (IJCAI-MoL 2019), Chen Gong, Weiwei Liu, Xiaobo Shen, Joey Tianyi Zhou, Yew-Soon Ong and Ivor W. Tsang, 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 10-16, 2019, Macao, China.
Conference co-chairs, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge, Xindong Wu and Ong Yew Soon, Singapore, November 17-18, 2018.
General co-chairs, 2018 IEEE Smart World Congress (IEEE SWC 2018), Guojun Wang and Ong Yew Soon, Guangzhou, China, October 8-12, 2018.
Co-organizer of WCCI 2018/CEC 2018 Special Session on "Memetic Computing", with Feng Liang, July 8-13 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Co-organizer of WCCI 2018/CEC 2018 Special Session on "Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization of Computationally Expensive Problems", with Chaoli Sun and Jonathan Fieldsend, July 8-13 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Co-organizer of WCCI 2018/CEC 2018 Special Session on "Transfer Learning in Evolutionary Computation", with Bing Xue, Feng Liang and Mengjie Zhang, July 8-13 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Co-organizer of 2017 IEEE Symposium on Model Based Evolutionary Algorithms (IEEE MBEA'17) in Hawaii, USA, Special Session on Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization of Computationally Expensive Problems, with Chaoli Sun and Jonathan Fieldsend
Program Committee Chair, 21st Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, IES 2017, 15-17 November, 2017, Hanoi, Vietnam.
General Co-Chair, 11th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications , BIC-TA 2016, October 28th -30th, 2016, Xian, China.
General Co-Chair, 18th Asia Pacific Symposium of Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, IES 2014, 10 - 12 Nov 2014, Singapore.
Program Committee Co-Chair, Ninth International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'2012), 16-19 December 2012, Ha Noi, Vietnam
Local Advisor, Asian Conference on Machine Learning, ACML2012, 7-9 Nov 2012, Singapore.
General Co-Chair, International Conference on Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics, CSBio 2011, Singapore.
Track Chair: ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014 GECCO 2014, 12-16 Vancouver, Canada.
General Co-Chair: International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics, CSBio 2010, 3-5 November 2010, BangKok, Thailand.
Program Co-Chair: Joint International Conference on Natural Computation and International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, ICNC'05-FSKD'05, 27 - 29 August 2005, Changsha, China.

Keynote / Plenary / Invited Speech / Tutorial
Keynote speaker, 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Japan, ICONIP2025, November 20-24, 2025.
Keynote speaker, 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2025.
Keynote Speaker, Joint Symposium on Emerging Technologies and Future Talents by Harvard, Stanford and The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 8 - 10 May 2025.
Keynote Speaker, Immersive Learning and Metaverse in Education (CILME) Annual workshop, The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), 20 February 2025.
Keynote Speaker, 23rd IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT'24), December 9-12, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.
Keynote Speaker, 2024 IEEE International Conference on New Trends in Computational Intelligence, October 18-20, 2024, Qingdao, China.
Keynote Speaker, AI for Education Singapore conference, 4 - 5 November 2024, Singapore.
Keynote Speaker, International Learning Festival, Singapore Polytechnic, 24 September 2024, Singapore.
Keynote Speaker, 2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence - Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE WCCI-CEC 2024), Jun 30 - Jul 5, 2024, Yokohama, Japan.
Keynote Speaker, 2023 IEEE Smart World Congress (IEEE SWC 2023), August 28-31, 2023, Portsmouth, UK.
Keynote Speaker, 2023 Global AI Technology Conference (GAITC 2023) 9-11 June 2023, Hangzhou, China.
Keynote Speaker, 11th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET 2023), Fujisawa (Kanagawa), Japan, March 18-20, 2023.
Keynote Speaker, 15th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT 2022), Tokyo Japan, October 14-16, 2022.
Keynote Speaker, 2021 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Education, Xi'an, China, November 19-21, 2021.
Keynote Speaker, The 14th International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE), Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China, September 17-19, 2021.
Panelist, A*STAR Scholars Network Hackathon/Ideathon Panel Discussion, Singapore, June 25, 2021.
Panelist, WAIC 2021 International Webinar: Co-Shaping our Sustainable Future with AI, Organized by Artificial Intelligence International Institute (AIII), Shanghai, China, June 22, 2021.
Panelist, 5th Deep Learning and AI Summer School (DLAI5), APNNS/IEEE-CIS Education Forum Series, Bangkok, Thailand, May 6-10, 2021.
Invited Speaker, Machine Learning and AI Virtual Workshop, The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, March 8-12, 2021, US. Co-Organized by University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.
Keynote Speaker, NIE's Innovations in Teaching and Learning (ITL) Seminar, NIE, Singapore, March 2, 2021.
Invited Speaker, 'General Optimization Intelligence', ECOLE Summer School 2020, Funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, 29 September 2020.
Distinguished Speaker, 'AI for Societal Good', Forum on Artificial Intelligence Applied Research, Education and Innovation in Asia, Temasek Foundation International-NTU, Singapore, 09 September 2020.
Keynote Speaker, Hunan Artificial Intelligence International Graduate Summer School, Central South University, Changsha, China, 20 August 2020.
Invited Speaker, Westlake Master Forum, Hangzhou, China, 16 December 2019.
Invited Speaker, SAINT-CIS Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Its Applications, Shenzhen, China, 10th December 2019.
Keynote speaker, The 9th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudComp2019), 4th-5th Dec 2019, Sydney, Australia.
Keynote speaker, The 11th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE 2019), 24-26 October, 2019, Da Nang, Vietnam.
Invited Speaker, SAINT Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Its Applications, Shenzhen, China, 25-26 March 2019.
Invited Speaker for The Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Promise and Reality, stars Singapore symposium 2019, Future-ready Asia, 27 February - 2 March 2019, Changi Cove, Singapore.
Keynote Speaker, GIST AI Forum, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, 13 November 2018.
Invited Speaker, Global Forum on Development of Computer Science Discipline, Tsinghua University, China, 15-16 September 2018.
Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Multi-objective Optimisation, Shenzhen, China, 20-21 August 2018.
Plenary Speaker, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2018 in IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2018), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 08-13 July 2018.
Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Data-driven Optimisation of Complex Systems and Applications, Taiyuan, China, 28 - 29 April 2018.
Tutorial, The 10th International Conference on Advanced Computational Intelligence, Xiamen, China, 29 - 31 March 2018.
Keynote Speaker, The 11th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL 2017), ShenZhen, China, 10-13 November, 2017.
Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Visualization, Graphics and Image Processing (CVGIP 2017), Taiwan, August 21-23, 2017.
Keynote Speaker, Joint AI Conferences: ICCSE-ICA-ICAA, Beijing, China, 6 -9 July, 2017.
Invited Speaker, China Computer Federation, Xi An, 24 - 25 June, 2017.
Invited Speaker, Workshop on Complex System Optimization, Hefei, Anhui, China, 29-30 April, 2017.
Keynote Speaker, FASLIP, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligent, Athens, Greece, 6 -9 December 2016.
Keynote Speaker, Applied Informatics and Technology Innovation Conference, Newcastle, Australia, 22 -24 November 2016.
Keynote Speaker, Computational Intelligence Forum (CIF'2016), Shenzhen, China, October 27-28, 2016.
Keynote Speaker, 8th International Conference on Knowledge and Systems Engineering (KSE 2016), Ha Noi, Vietnam, 6-8 October 2016.
Keynote Speaker, 8th Search Based Software Engineering Symposium, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 8-10 October 2016.
Invited Speaker, 2016 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Summer School ('Advanced Topics in Computational Intelligence - Theory and Applications'), PES University, Bangalore, India, 8 - 12 August 2016.
Keynote Speaker, International Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Applications, 23-25th May, 2016, New Delhi, India.
Keynote Speaker, Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence (ACALCI 2016), Canberra, Australia, 2-5 February 2016.
Invited Speaker, 'Course Topic: Evolutionary Multi-tasking', IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Winter School ('Emerging Research Trends in Computational Intelligence - Theory and Applications') at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Ahmedabad, India, March 1-4, 2016.
Keynote Speaker, The Sixth International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (SoICT 2015), Hue Royal city, Vietnam, 3 - 4 Dec 2015.
Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models, 17-19 Dec 2015, Jaipur, India.
Keynote Speaker, 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications, FICTA 2015, Durgapur, 16-18 November, 2015.
Invited Talk: Computer Science & Information Technology, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
Keynote Speech: The Seventh IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2014), Hanoi, Vietnam, 14-17 December 2014.
Keynote Speech: 4th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2014), Melaka, Malaysia, 8 - 10 December 2014.
Plenary Speech: 3rd Complex Adaptive Systems Conference 2014 (CAS 2014), Conquering Complexity: Challenges and Opportunities, November 3-5, 2014, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Invited Speeches: The 2014 International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications (IWNICA 2014), IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, April 2013, Hefei, China.
Keynote Speech: Artificial Intelligence & Swarm Intelligence in Interactive Digital Media and Entertainment Game, The Fifth International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI'2014). October 17-20, 2014, Hefei, Anhui Province, China.
Keynote Speaker: Advancements in Memetic Computation, 17th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, Seoul, Korea, (IES 2013), November 7-9, 2013.
Keynote Speech: Towards Human-Inspired Memetic Computational Search Paradigm, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence (CIHLI 2013), IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, April 2013.
Keynote Speech: Advances in Memetic Computation: Ninth International Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'2012), 16 - 19 December 2012.
Keynote Speech: Advances in Memetic Computation: Seventh International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Application, 2012 (BIC-TA 2012) ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, Gwalior, India, December 14 - 16, 2012.
Keynote Speech: Optimization Made Smarter with Memetic Computation: Sixth International Symposium on Intelligence Computation & Applications, October 2012, Wuhan, China.
"Topic: Advances in Memetic Computation": Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, 168, University Road, Min-Hsiung, Chiayi, Taiwan, May 2012.
"Topic: Advances in Memetic Computation": AI Forum 2012, E-Da World, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 11 - 12 May 2012.
"Topic: Memetic Computation": National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, May 2012.
"Topic: Memetic Computation": Foreign Scholars Workshop for Graduate Students in Yonsei University, Korea, Feb 2-5, 2012.
Invited Speaker: 'Course Topic: Advances in Memetic Computing', IEEE Sun Yat-sen University Computational Intelligence Winter School, Jan. 24 to Jan. 28, 2011 in the south campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China.
"Keynote Speech: Towards Memetic Computing": International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO), December 2010.
'Topic: Towards Memetic Computing', Osaka Prefecture University, Japan, Host: Professor Hisao Ishibuchi, August 2010. 'Topic: Towards Memetic Computing', The University of Tokyo, Japan, Host: Professor Hitoshi Iba, July 2010.
'Topic: Towards Memetic Computing', Department of Computer Science Seminar 2010 Series, Faculty of Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Jun 2010.
'Topic: Towards Memetic Computing', ShenZhen University, ShenZhen, China, Host: Professor Ji Zhen, Jun 2010.
'Topic 1: Memetic Computing', 'Topic 2: Computational Expensive Problems', National Academic Conference for PhD candidates, Key Lab of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education of China, Institute of Intelligent Information Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an, China, Oct 2009.
'Topic: A Development Platform for Memetic Algorithm Design', Joint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, SCIS&ISIS 2006, 20-24 September, 2006, O-okayama Campus West Bldg. 9, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
Judge, Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Award (TKKYIA), Computer & IT Category, 2005, 2006, Singapore.
'Plenary Topic: Open Problems and Challenges in Natural Computation and Knowledge Discovery' in International Conference on Natural Computing and Fuzzy System & Knowledge Discovery, ICNC and FSKD'05, Changsha, China, 2005.
'Topic: Research on Memetic Algorithms', School of Computer and Communication, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan 410082, China, August 2005.
'Topic: Inverse Multi-Objective Robust Evolutionary Design', Honda Research Institute Europe, Frankfurt, Germany, May 2005.
'Topic: Grid-enabled Optimization Environment for Complex Engineering Problems', Honda Research Institute Europe, Frankfurt, Germany, December 2003.
'Topic: Evolutionary Design of Computationally Expensive Problem', Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications (CERCIA), School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK, December 2003.

International Advisor / International Technical Program Committee
Co-Chair of The Second International Workshop on Efficient Artificial Intelligence, International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, July 7-10, 2021 (tentative), Washington DC, USA.
Technical Programme Co-Chair, 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, June 28- July 1, 2021, Kraków, Poland.
Co-Organizer of Metaheuristic Optimization, Machine Learning and AI Virtual Workshop with University of California at Los Angeles, Stanford University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and National University of Singapore, The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, March 8-12, 2021, US.
Co-Chair of Workshop on Secure Learning, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2020), International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020), 19 - 24th July, 2020, Glasgow (UK).
Senior PC member, 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-19, August 10-16, 2019, Macao, China.
Co-Chair of IJCAI-MoL 2019: Workshop on Multi-output Learning. 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-19, August 10-16, 2019, Macao, China.
33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Honolulu, HI, USA. February 2019. PC member.
Co-Chair of ACML-MoL 2018: Workshop on Multi-output Learning. 10th Asian Conference on Machine Learning, Beijing, Beijing Jiaotong University, ACML-18, November 14 - 16, 2018.
Advisory Board, 3rd INNS Conference on Big Data and Deep Learning, Bali, Indonesia, 17-19 April 2018.
Steering Committee, SoICT 2017: The 8th International Symposium on Information and Communication Technology, NhaTrang, Vietnam, 7 - 8 December 2017.
Steering Committee, 21st Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, IES 2017, 15-17 November, 2017, Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA'09, Pisa (ITALY), November 30- December 2, 2009. International Advisor.
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 8-12, 2009, Montreal, Canada. Program Committee.
EvoWorkshops: EvoSTOC, 2009 in Tübingen, Germany. Program Committee.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway during May 18-21, 2009. Program Committee.
23rd EUROPEAN Conference on Modelling and Simulation, June 9th - 12th, 2009 in Madrid, Spain. Program Committee.
International Conference on Intelligent Computing, September 16-19, 2009 in Ulsan, Korea. Program Committee.
IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, March 30 - April 2, 2009 Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville, TN, USA. Program Committee.
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Memetic Algorithms: Special Session Co-Chair with Ferrante Neri, Hisao Ishibuchi and Meng Hiot Lim
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Evolutionary Computation for Expensive Optimization Problems: Special Session Co-Chair with Yoel Tenne, Chi Keong Goh.
International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology, 20-22 October 2008, Wisla, Poland - workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO2008). Program Committee.
Workshop and Summer School on Evolutionary Computing, Lecture Series by Pioneers, 18-22 August 2008, Derry, Northern Ireland. Program Committee.
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 12-16, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Program Committee.
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre during June 1-6, 2008, Hong Kong. Program Committee.
Special Session on Memetic Algorithms, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007, Singapore, Special Session Co-Chair with Ferrante Neri, Hisao Ishibuchi and Meng-Hiot Lim.
Special Session on Evolutionary Computation for Expensive Optimization Problems, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007, Singapore, Special Session Co-Chair with Chi Keong Goh, Kay Chen Tan and Joshua Knowles.
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007, Singapore, Special Session General Chair.
IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007. Program Committee.
2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Image and Signal Processing (CIISP 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1-5, 2007. Program Committee.
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, July 16-21, CEC 2006, Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Program Committee.
2007 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 7-11, 2007, University College London, London, UK. Program Committee.
Joint 3rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, SCIS&ISIS 2006, 20-24 September, 2006, O-okayama Campus West Bldg. 9, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.
IEEE Conference on Cybernetic and Intelligent System, CIS 2006, 7-9 June 2006, Bangkok, Thailand.
Joint 2nd International Conference on Natural Computation and 3rd International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, ICNC'06-FSKD'06, 24 - 27 September 2006, Xi'an, China.
6th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL06), October 15-18, 2006, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China.
EvoWorkshops 2006: EvoSTOC, 10-12 April 2006 in Budapest, Hungary.
EvoWorkshops 2005: EvoSTOC, 30 March - 1 April 2005 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
International Symposium on Bio-Inspired Computing (BIC'05), September 5-7, 2005, Johor, Malaysia.
IEEE International Conference on Tools with AI 2005, Hong Kong.
IEEE Conference on Cybernetic and Intelligent System, CIS 2004, CIS 2005, Singapore.
International Conference on Scientific and Engineering Computation, Workshop: Grid Computing and Applications, IC-SEC 2004, Singapore.

Reviewer
IEEE Transaction on Evolutionary Computation
IEEE Transaction on System, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B and C
Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems
European Journal of Operational Research
International Journal of Systems Science
International Journal of Computational Intelligence
International Journal of Information Technology
Parallel Computing Journal
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics
International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems
International Conference on Neural Information Processing
Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Others