Activities

Service to the Profession:

  • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) Journal since June 2011

  • Associate Editor of International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (IJDMMM), Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland since 2008.

  • Associate Editor of Computer Standards and Interface Journal by Elseiver Publishing from 2006-2009.

  • Guest Editor of International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Vol. 10, No. 2, Springer (2006).

  • Guest Editor of International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer.

  • Member of IEEE Kanai Award Committee, 2005 and 2006.

Keynote Speech:

  • Matching Words and Pictures: Problems, Application and Progress, 9th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2006.

Award:

  • Yohan Jin, Kibum Jin, Latifur Khan, B. Prabhakaran, "The Randomized Approximating Graph Algorithm for Image Annotation Refinement Problem", Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia in conjunction with 2008 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Alaska, USA, July 2008 (Best Paper Award)

  • Chancellor Award from the President of Bangladesh.

Chair/Co-Chair:

  • Program Co-Chair of IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI-2009), June 8-11, 2009, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.

  • Program Co-Chair of ACM 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2005), August 2005, Chicago, IL, USA.

  • Program Chair of ACM 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2004), August 2004, Seattle, Washington.

  • Program Co-Chair in First International Workshop on Geographic and Biological Data Management (GBDM04) in conjunction with COMPSAC 2004, September 2004, Hong Kong.

Program Committee Member of:

  • 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, July 2010, Washington DC.

  • The 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Hyderbad, India, June 2010.

  • 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009), December 2009, Miami, Florida, USA.

  • 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, July 2009, Paris, France.

  • SDM'09: 2009 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 30-May 2, Nevada, USA.

  • 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD-09), Bangkok, Thailand, April 27-30, 2009.

  • International Conference on Computers and Information Technology, December 2009, Bangladesh.

  • SDM'08: 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 24-26, 2008.

  • 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), April 7-12, 2008, Cancún, México.

  • Twelfth ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Nice, France, July 2008.

  • International Conference on Computers and Information Technology, December 2008, Bangladesh.

  • 2007 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Omaha, NE, December 2007.

  • 12th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 2006, Philadelphia, USA.

  • IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), ICDM 2006 December 18 - 22, 2006, Hong Kong.

  • 17th European Conference on Machine Learning and 10th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, September 2006, Berlin, Germany

  • Program Committee Member of International Conference on Computers and Information Technology, December 2006, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

  • 11th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 2005, Chicago, Illinois.

  • Workshop on Clustering High Dimensional Data and its Applications, in Conjunction with the Fifth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2005), April 2005, Newport Beach, California.

  • International Conference on Computers and Information Technology, December 2004, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

  • 16th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), November, 2004, Boca Raton, Florida.

  • 12th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2004), October 2004, Larnaca, Cyprus.

  • International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2004, September, 2004, Zaragoza, Spain.

  • 15th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), November, 2003, Sacramento, California.

  • 12th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, October, 2003, Dallas, Texas.

  • International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2003, September, 2003, Prague, Czech Republic.

  • International Workshop on Web Semantics - WebS 2003, in conjunction with International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications DEXA 2003, September, 2003, Prague, Czech Republic.

  • ACM 4th International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2003), August 2003, Washington DC.

  • Fifteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, July, 2003, San Francisco Bay.

  • 2003 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Global Services and Infrastructure for Next Generation Networking Symposium, May 2003, Alaska.

  • 2003 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), July 2003, Baltimore, Maryland.

  • International Conference on Computers and Information Technology, December 2002, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

  • ACM Third International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2002), July 2002, Alberta, Canada.

  • International Conference on Computers and Information Technology, December 2001, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

  • ACM Second International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2001), August 2001, San Francisco, USA.

  • International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Multimedia Processing & Retrieval, June 2001, Las Vegas, USA.

  • ACM 2001 Symposium on Applied Computing, March 2001, Las Vegas, USA.

  • Program Committee Member of ACM 2001 Symposium on Applied Computing, March, 2001, Las Vegas, USA.

Tutorial:

  • Half Day Tutorial, "Matching Words and Pictures: Problems, and Applications in the Web", 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-08), December 2008, Sydney, Australia.

  • Half Day Tutorial, "Matching Words and Pictures - Problems, Applications, and Progress," 14th ACM International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2005, May 2005, Chiba, Japan.

  • Half Day Tutorial, "Translating Images to Keywords: Problems, Applications, and Progress," MIS 2005 International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, September 2005, Sorrento, Italy.

  • Half Day Tutorial, "Matching Words and Pictures: Problems, Applications and Progress," ACM Fourteenth Conference on information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 2005, Bremen, Germany.

  • Half Day Tutorial, "Matching Words and Pictures - Problems, Applications, and Progress," 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, April 2007, Bangkok, Thailand.

Session Chair:

  • 15th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, July 2009, Paris, France.

  • 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008), Pisa, Italy, December, 2008.

  • ACM 6th International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining (MDM/KDD2005), August 2005, Chicago, Illinois.

  • Workshop on Multimedia and Web Design in IEEE Sixth International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering, December 2004, Miami, Florida.

  • 2nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Databases in Conjunction ACM CIKM 2004, November 2004, Arlington, Virginia.

  • 16th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), November 2004, Boca Raton, Florida.

  • Bioinfo-9 Session (Clustering Algorithms), 3rd IEEE Symposium on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, March 2003, Bethesda, Maryland.

  • 3rd Session (Image Retrieval), 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems, October 2002, Tempe, Arizona.

  • International Conference on Internet Computing 2002, June 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada.

  • International Conference on Computers and Information Technology, December 2001, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Panelist:

  • NSF Panelist at Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) Division in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2008.

Invited Talk:

  • Topic: SPARQL query Optimization using Semantic Web, Wright State University, Ohio, November, 2009.

  • Topic: Stream Mining and Text Mining at Boeing, Seattle, November 2009.

  • Topic: GeoSpatial Data Management, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, July, 2009.

  • Topic: Stream Mining, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), April 2009.

  • Topic: Malware Detection, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, February, 2008.

  • Topic: GIS Data Integration at Raytheon, TX, 2008.

  • Topic: Intrusion Detection at Rockwell Collins, TX, 2008.

  • Topic: Multimedia Mining, University of Lille, France, December, 2008.

  • Topic: Text Mining at NASA, California, 2007.

Annual Review Meeting:

  • Text Mining, at NASA Meeting, California 2009 and Washington DC 2008.

  • Geo-Spatial Data Integration at MURI Meeting, Stanford University, California, October 2009

  • Semantic Web Service for Geo Spatial Data at NGA meeting, University of Minnesota, September, 2007.

  • Intrusion Detection at AFOSR Meeting, Washington DC 2008 and Buffalo, New York, 2007.

Reviewer:

  • Invited Reviewer of Book, Database Systems by Elmasri and Navathe, Addison, Wesley.

  • Invited Reviewer of Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, John Wiley & Sons.

  • Invited Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, TKDE.

  • Invited Reviewer of IBM Systems Journal.

  • Invited Reviewer of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology.

  • Invited Reviewer of VLDB Journal, ACM/Springer Publisher.

  • Invited Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

  • Invited Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part A.

  • External Reviewer of ACM Transactions in Asian Language and Info Processing.

  • Invited Reviewer of International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS).

  • External Reviewer of International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Springer-Verlag.

  • Invited Reviewer of Information and Software Technology, Elsevier Publisher.

  • Invited Reviewer of World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), Kluwer Academic Publishers.

  • Invited Reviewer of International Journal of Computers and Applications, ACTA Press, Calgary, Canada.

  • External Reviewer of Research Grant at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.