Professional Activities
- Vice Chair of the Fuzzy Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
- Senior Member of IEEE.
- Elected member of the EPSRC College.
- Co-Chair Fuzz-IEEE 2007
- Conference Chair and organiser for EUSFLAT2001 organised on behalf of the European Society of Fuzzy Logic and Technology and held at DMU.
- Conference Chair of the Recent Advances in Soft Computing series conferences at De Montfort University in 1998, 1999 and 2000
- Active member of CADRE. This is a consortium of nine Universities that got together to bid for funding for research into autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles.
- External member of Southampton Institute Research Degrees Committee.
- External examiner to the various MSc Computing programs at the University of Ulster.
- External examiner to the MSc Business Intelligence Sheffield Hallam University.
- External Examiner for various MSc program at the University of Westminster.
- Invited speaker at Essex University, University of West England, University of Granada and Oxford Brookes University. International Recognition
- Member of various program committees (the EUROFUSE 2001 Workshop on Preference Modelling and Application; ISDA2001 ;ISDA2002; International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2003), RASC (98,99,2000 and 2003), FUZZ-IEEE 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,2008)
- Invited member of the BISC Special Interest Group on Fuzzy Logic and the Internet.
- Edited special issues of Information Sciences Journal , Journal of Knowledge Based Intelligent Engineering and Fuzzy sets and Systems.
- Organised special sessions at NAFIPS 2001, FUZZ-IEEE 2002 and FUZZ-IEEE 2004/2005/2006/2007.
- Have been a referee for many journals including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, the Journal of the O.R. Society, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, FUZZ-IEEE conference and various other conferences.
