Professional Activities
I regularly contribute to the professional community in a variety of ways, including serving on editorial boards, as well as on conference and professional society committees. This page includes a sampling of some of my professional activities.
Advisory Boards and Committees
- Advisory Board (2017-present), Atlantic Cape Community College, Computer Information Systems and Office Systems Technology Advisory Council
- Eastern Region Steering Committee (2012-present), Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges: The Steering Committee provides guidance and oversight for eastern regional activities, including the annual regional conference
Journal Editorial Boards
Current Editorial Boards:
- Associate Editor (1/2024-present), IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
- Associate Editor (3/2024-present), Journal of Open Research Software
- Academic Editor (9/2025-present), PeerJ Computer Science
- Section Editor (6/2021-present), Applied Sciences, Section on Computing and Artificial Intelligence
- Special Issue Editor (5/2024-present), Applied Sciences, Special Issue on State of the Art in AI-Based Co-creativity
Past Editorial Boards:
- Special Issue Editor (8/2021-2/2024), Applied Sciences, Special Issue on Evolutionary Computation: Theories, Techniques, and Applications
- Co-Editor-in-Chief (6/2020-12/2023), EAI Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications
- Area Editor (3/2020-12/2023), Scalable Information Systems
- Topic Editor, Machine and Deep Learning (6/2021-5/2023): I served as one of three Topic Editors for the Topic Machine and Deep Learning, spanning the journals (1) Applied Sciences, (2) Big Data and Cognitive Computing, (3) Mathematics, (4) Electronics, and (5) Entropy.
- Co-Editor-in-Chief (5/2020-8/2021), EAI Transactions on Cognitive Communications
Conference Chair or Chair of Conference Committees
I served as the chair of the following conference and conference committees:
- Workshops, Tutorials, Panels Chair, 2018 Eastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges
- Workshops, Tutorials, Panels Chair, 2017 Eastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges
- Speakers Chair, 2016 Eastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges
- Conference Chair, 2015 Eastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, hosted at Stockton University
- Special Tracks Chair, 2015 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies
- Program Committee Vice Chair, 2015 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies
- Track Co-Chair, 2015 EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, Special Track on Combinatorial Optimization
- Poster Chair, 2014 Eastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges
- Conference Chair, 2012 Eastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, which would have been held at Stockton University, but was canceled at the last minute due to Hurricane Sandy. The conference proceedings was still published, and most conference presentations rescheduled as part of the following year's conference.
- Local Arrangements Chair, 2005 IEEE Second Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability, held at Drexel University.
- Local Arrangements Chair, 2004 IEEE First Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability, held at Drexel University.
Conference Program Committees
I serve (or have served) as a member of the program committees of many conferences, including the following:
- International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS): every year since 2011 through 2026
- AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence: EAAI 2026, EAAI 2024, EAAI 2023, EAAI 2022, EAAI 2021
- ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education: every year since 2009 through 2026
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST): AST 2025, AST 2024
- International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications: ECTA 2025, ECTA 2024, ECTA 2023, ECTA 2022, ECTA 2021
- International Conference on Medical Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: CMRAI 2026, CMRAI 2025
- International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences (ASEC): ASEC 2023
- AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: AAAI 2022, AAAI 2021, AAAI 2011, AAAI 2005
- EAI International Conference on Intelligent Transport Systems: INTSYS 2022, INTSYS 2021
- EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies: BICT 2019, BICT 2017
- IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched) in 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007 (this conference was held every two years)
- 11th IEEE International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies (IEEE ICOSST) in 2017
- 2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling and Network Design (IEEE CISND)
- 2016 IEEE CISND Special Session: Metaheuristics and Hybrid Methods for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
- International Conference on Complex Distributed Systems: CODS 2011, CODS 2010, CODS 2009, CODS 2008, CODS 2007
- Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: GECCO 2007, GECCO 2006, GECCO 2005
- 2006 European Conference on Complex Systems Workshop on Multi-Agents for Modeling Complex Systems (MA4CS '06).
- International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: AAMAS 2005, AAMAS 2004
- 2005 IEEE Second Symposium on Multi-Agent Security and Survivability
- AAMAS Workshop on Engineering Self-Organizing Applications: ESOA 2006, ESOA 2005.
- ICAPS 2005 Workshop on Constraint Programming for Planning and Scheduling (CPPS-05).
- IJCAI 2001 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing.
Reviewer for Journals and Conferences
- Reviewer for several IEEE journals and magazines, including:
- Reviewer for the journal: ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems.
- Reviewer for many other journals, including:
- Adaptive Behavior
- AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication
- AI Communications
- AIEDAM AI for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
- Annals of Combinatorics
- Annals of Operations Research
- Applied Soft Computing
- Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
- Computer-Aided Design
- Computers and Operations Research
- EAI Transactions on Cloud Systems
- EAI Transactions on Energy Web
- EAI Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems
- EAI Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology
- Entropy
- European Journal of Operational Research
- Foundations of Data Science
- Information Sciences
- Journal of Computational Science
- Journal of Computer and Information Science in Engineering
- Journal of Heuristics
- Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
- Journal of Machine Learning Research
- Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Journal of Scheduling
- Journal of Supercomputing
- Machine Learning Journal
- Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
- Pattern Analysis and Applications
- Pattern Recognition
- Results in Engineering
- Software: Practice and Experience
- SoftwareX
- SpringerPlus
- Symmetry
- Reviewer for the following conferences:
- 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI)
- ACM's annual conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education: ITiCSE 2014, ITiCSE 2013, ITiCSE 2012, ITiCSE 2011, ITiCSE 2010
- Eastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges: 2013, 2010, 2008, 2007
- Northeastern Conference of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges: 2009
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: IJCAI 2007, IJCAI 2005
- 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC)
- 1999 ASME 4th Design for Manufacturing Conference (ASME DFM-99)