Service

• Member of ACM(since 2000), IEEE(since 2005), SIAM(2008-2011)
• Associate Editor or Editorial Board
  • Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA), Springer, since 2018
  • Data Mining & Management, Frontiers, since 2018
  • Transactions on Data Privacy, Spanish Higher Research Council, since 2008
  • International Journal of Social Network Mining, InderScience Publishers, since 2010
  • Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Springer, 2008-2020
  • Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, 2016 – 2020
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, special issue editor, 2014
• Program Committee Co-chair of the 29th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Sydney, Australia, May 2025
• Program Committee Co-chair of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Miami, Florida, Dec 18-20, 2024
• Program Committee Co-chair of the 3rd ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Ethical Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications, Barcelona, Spain, August 25, 2024
• Program Committee Co-chair of the 2nd ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Ethical Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications, Long Beach, CA, August 7, 2023
• Program Committee Co-chair of the 1st ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Ethical Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications, Washington DC, August 15, 2022
• Program Committee Co-chair of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Atlanta, GA, USA, Dec 10-13, 2020
• Program Committee Co-chair of the 2nd International Symposium on Data, Privacy and E-Commerce, Buffalo/Niagara Fall, June 20-22, 2010.
• Tutorial chair of the 9^th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, 2022.
• Award co-chair of DSAA Next Generation Data Scientist, 2018, 2019
• Publication Co-chair of the 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Sydney, Australia, August 10-13, 2015
• Steering Committee member of IEEE International Workshop on Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM), 2011
• NSF CISE panelist, 2003,2006,2009(twice), 2012(twice),2013,2014,2015,2016(twice),2017, 2018(three), 2019, 2020 (four), 2021(four), 2022, 2023 (twice)
• Proposal review for
  • Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • NSF 2011, 2021
  • NASA Intelligent Systems, 2004
  • NASA Technology Office of Earth Science, 2004

 

• Program Committee Member
  • Area Chair of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Barcelona, Spain, August 25-29, 2024
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 28th Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD), Taipei, May 7-10, 2024
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Sorrento, Italy, Dec 15-18, 2023
  • 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Macao, China, Aug 19-25, 2023
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Vienna, Austria, 2022
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 26th Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD), Chengdu, China, May 16-19, 2022
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Vancouver, Canada Feb 21-27, 2022
  • Area Chair of the 30^th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Montreal, Canada, 2021
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 30^th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Nov 1-5, 2021
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 25th Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD), New Delhi, India, May 11-14, 2021
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Singapore, Feb 2-9, 2021
  • Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 5-12, 2020
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Diego, CA, August 22-27, 2020
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Yokohama, Japan, July 11-17, 2020
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 24th Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD), Singapore, May 11-14, 2020
  • the Web Conference (WWW), Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms track, Taipei, April 20-24, 2020
  • The 8th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks (CSoNet), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Nov 18-20, 2019
  • Area Chair of IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Beijing, China, November 8-11, 2019
  • the 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Anchorage, Alaska, August 4-8, 2019
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Macao, China, August 10-16, 2019
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 23rd Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD), Macau, China, April 14-17, 2019
  • the Web Conference (WWW), Social Network Analysis and Graph Algorithms track, San Francisco, May 13-17, 2019
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 33^rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Jan 27-Feb 1, 2019
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Lingotto, Turin, Italy, Oct 22-26, 2018
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), London, August 21-23, 2018
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 27^th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-19, 2018
  • the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Barcelona, Spain, August 28-31,2018
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 22nd Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD), Melbourne, Australia, June 3-6, 2018
  • the 18^th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), San Diego, CA, May 3-5, 2018
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 26^th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Singapore, Nov 6-10, 2017
  • the 5^th CCF BigData Conference, Shenzhen, China, Oct 13-15, 2017
  • the IJCAI 2017 Workshop on Abuse Preventive Data Mining, Melbourne, Australia, Aug 19-25, 2017
  • the 23rd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Halifax, Canada, August 13-17, 2017
  • the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Sydney, Australia, July 31-August 3,2017
  • the 17^th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Houston, Texas, April 27-29, 2017
  • the 21st Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD), Jeju, South Korea, May 23-26, 2017
  • Senior Program Committee Member of the 25^th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Indianapolis, Oct 24-28, 2016
  • the 22^nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Francisco, CA, August 13-17, 2016
  • the 16^th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Miami, Florida, May 5-7, 2016
  • the 20^th Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD), Auckland, New Zealand, April 19-22, 2016
  • the 16^th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), Miami, Florida, USA, Oct 18-20, 2015
  • the 15^th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Atlantic City, NJ, USA, Nov 14-17, 2015
  • the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Washington DC, Nov 9-12, 2015
  • the 21st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Sydney, Australia, August 10-13, 2015
  • the 15^th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Vancouver, Canada, April 30-May 2, 2015
  • the 19^th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, May 19-22, 2015
  • the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Belfast, UK, Nov 2-5, 2014
  • the 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), New York City, NY, August 24-27, 2014
  • the WWW 2014 Ph.D. Symposium, Seoul, Korea, April 7-11, 2014
  • the 14^th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 24-26, 2014
  • the 18^th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Taiwan, May 13-16, 2014
  • the 1st IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), Silicon Valley, CA, Oct 6-9, 2013
  • the 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Dallas, TX, Dec 8-11, 2013
  • the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), San Francisco, CA, Oct 27-Nov 1, 2013
  • the 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Chicago, USA, August 11-14,2013.
  • the 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Gold Coast, Australia, April 14-17, 2013.
  • the 13th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM),Austin, Texas, May 2-4, 2013.
  • the 6th International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP), Washington D.C., April 2-5, 2013.
  • the 14th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), Beidaihe, China, June 14-16, 2013.
  • International Conference on Social Intelligence and Technology (SOCIETY), State College, Pennsylvania, May 8-10, 2013
  • the 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining(ICDM), Brussels, Belgium, Dec 10-13, 2012
  • the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Istanbul, Turkey, August 26-29,2012
  • the 8th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), Nanjing, China, Dec 15-18, 2012
  • the 18th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Beijing, China, August 12-16, 2012
  • the 5th International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP), College Park, MD, April 3-5, 2012
  • the 5th Workshop on Privacy in Information Society (PAIS), Berlin, Germany, March 30, 2012
  • the 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 29-June 1, 2012
  • the 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), Beijing, China, Dec 17-19, 2011
  • the 12th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), Wuhan, China, Sept 14-16, 2011
  • the 11th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Mesa, Arizona, April 28-30, 2011
  • the 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Shenzhen, China, May 24-27, 2011.
  • the 4th International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP), College Park, MD, March 29-April 2, 2011
  • the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Biopolis, Singapore, March 22-25, 2011
  • the 4th Workshop on Privacy in Information Society (PAIS), Uppsala, Sweden, March 2011.
  • the 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Sydney, Australia, Dec 13-17, 2010
  • the 11th International Conference on  Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), Jiuzhaigou, China, July 15-17, 2010
  • the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-26, 2010
  • the 10th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Columbus, Ohio, April 29- May 1, 2010
  • the 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD),  Hyderabad, India, June 21-24, 2010
  • the 3rd International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP), Bethesda,MD, March 29- April 1, 2010
  • the 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Perth, Australia, April 20-23,  2010
  • the 3rd Workshop on Privacy in Information Society (PAIS), Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2010.
  • the 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Miami, Florida, Dec 6-9, 2009
  • the 9th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Sparks, Nevada, April 30- May 2, 2009
  • the 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Bangkok, Thailand, April 27-30, 2009
  • the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Washington D.C., Nov 1-4, 2009.
  • the 18th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), Prague, Czech, Sept 14-17, 2009
  • the International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis (PPDA), Brisbane, Australia, April 20, 2009
  • the Joint International Conference on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), Suzhou, China, April 5-7, 2009
  • the 2nd International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP), Phoenix, March 31- April 1, 2009
  • the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Bradford, UK, May 2009
  • the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Pisa, Italy, Dec 15-19, 2008
  • the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM),  Philadelphia, PA, Nov 7-9, 2008
  • the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases(ECML/PKDD),Antwerp, Belgium, Sept 15-19, 2008
  • the 14th ACM  International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Las Vegas, Aug 24-27,2008
  • the KDD08 Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS), Las Vegas, August 12-15, 2008
  • the 10th Pacific Rim Intenational Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI), Hanoi, Vitetnam, Dec 15-19,2008
  • the 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery(FSKD), Jinan, China, Aug 25-27, 2008
  • the 1st International Workshop on Practical Privacy-Preserving Data Mining(P3DM08), co-located with SDM08, Atlanta, April 26, 2008
  • the 1st Workshop on Privacy in Information Society (PAIS), co-located with EDBT08, Nantes, France, Mar 29, 2008
  • and session chair of the 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Osaka, Japan, May 20-23, 2008
  • the 22nd IEEE Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Okinawa, Japan, May 25-28, 2008
  • the 7th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Omaha, NE, Oct 28-31, 2007
  • the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Silicon Valley, Nov 2-4, 2007
  • the IEEE workshop on Mining and Management of Biological Data (MMBD), Omaha, NE, Oct 28, 2007
  • the 13th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), San Jose, August 12-15, 2007
  • the KDD07 Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS), San Jose, August 12-15, 2007
  • the Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining(AIDM), Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, Dec 2-6, 2007
  • the IADIS-European 1st International Conference on Data Mining (ECDM), Lisbon, Portugal, July 6-8, 2007
  • the 4th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), 2007
  • the 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD),  Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007
  • the International Workshop on High Performance Data Mining and Application(HPDMA), Nanjing, China, May 22-25,2007
  • the 1^st International Symposium on Data, Privacy, & E-Commerce(ISDPE), Chengdu, China, August 2007
  • the Workshop on Integrating AI and Data Mining(AIDM), Hobart, Australia, Dec 4-8, 2006
  • the 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Washington D.C., Nov 13-15, 2006
  • the 5th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), Alexandria, VA, Oct 30,  2006
  • the 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining(ICDM), Hong Kong, Dec 18-22, 2006
  • the 8th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (Privacy, Security and Trust track), Fredericton, Canada, August 14-16, 2006
  • the 1st Southeast Workshop on Data and Information Management, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 30-31, 2006
  • the 16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), Bari, Italy, Sept 27-29, 2006
  • the IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE GrC), Atlanta, May 10-12, 2006
  • the 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), Singapore, April 9-12, 2006
  • the 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), New Orleans, Louisiana, Nov 27-30, 2005
  • the 15th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS), Saratoga Springs, New York, May 25-28, 2005.
  • the 4th SIAM on Data Mining Conference (SDM),  Kissimmee, Florida, April 22-24, 2004
  • the 3rd SIAM on Data Mining Conference (SDM),  San Francisco, May 1-3, 2003
• Referee/reviewer for
• book review for Addison & Wesley
• Journal of Intelligent Information System
• Journal of Knowledge and Information System
• ACM Computing Survey
• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
• Journal of Discrete Applied Mathematics
• ACM SIGKDD Explorations
• VLDB Journal
• IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
• IEEE Internet Computing
• IEEE Security & Privacy
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Journal of Computer Science and Technology
• NeuroComputing
• Electonics and Telecommunications Research Institute Journal
• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
• Artificial Intelligence Review
• and various conferences