Professional Service

 Journal Editors

• Associate Editor, Knowledge and Information System Journal
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Music Data Mining, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
• Guest Editor, DMKD Special Issue on Data Mining with Matrices, Graphs and Tensors, 2009
• Guest Editor, A Special Issue on Temporal Data Mining with DMKD(Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery) Journal, (Call for Papers)

Conference/Workshop Organization Committee

• Workshop Co-chair, ICDM 2012 Workshop on Optimization-based Methods for Emerging Data Mining Problems (OEDM'12)
• Finance Chair,  The 12th International Confernce on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2011), Miami, FL, USA, Oct. 25-Oct. 29, 2011.
• Workshop Co-chair, ICDM 2011 Workshop on Optimization-based Methods for Emerging Data Mining Problems (OEDM'11)
• Local Arrangement Chair, IHI 2011- 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (ACM IHI 2011), Miami, FL, USA, November 9-11, 2011.
• Workshop Co-chair, ICDM 2010 Workshop on Optimization-based Methods for Emerging Data Mining Problems (OEDM'10)
• Workshop Co-chair, Workshop on Recommender System with The 5th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE’10), Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China, 24-27 Aug 2010
• Workshop Co-chair, KDD 2009 Workshop on Data Mining Using Matrices and Tensors (DMMT'09)
• Workshop Co-chair, ICDM 2009 Workshop on Optimization-based Methods for Emerging Data Mining Problems (OEDM'09)
• Local Arrangement Chair, The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009), Miami, Florida, December, 2009
• Local Arrangement Chair, The Eighth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’09), Miami, Florida, USA. December, 2009
• Workshop Co-chair, KDD 2008 Workshop on Data Mining Using Matrices and Tensors(DMMT08), Las Vegas, USA, August, 2008
• Publicity Co-chair, The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA08), Chengdu, P. R. China, July 2008. (Call For Papers)
• Program Co-chair, The Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'07), Cincinnati, USA, Dec 2007
• Conference Chair, The Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'06), Orlando, USA, Dec 2006 (Call for Papers)
• Workshop Co-chair, KDD 2006 Workshop on Theory and Practice of Temporal Data Mining, Philadelphia, USA, August, 2006 (Call for Papers)
• Workshop Co-chair, ICDM 2005 Workshop on Temporal Data Mining: Algorithms, Theory and Applications, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, November 2005
• Workshop Co-chair, ICDM 2004 Workshop on Temporal Data Mining: Algorithms, Theory and Applications, Brighton, UK, November 2004

Grant Proposal Review

• USA National Science Foundation
• The Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation
• Qatar Science Foundation

Book Review

• Chapman and Hall/CRC Press
• Pearson
• Springer 
• Wiley 

Conference/Workshop Program Committee

• The 36th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2013)
• The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013)
• 2013 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2013)
• The 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2012)
• The 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013)
• The 25th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS' 25)
• The 16th Paci c-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2002)
• 2012 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2012)
• The 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)
• International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM 2012)
• The 3rd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2011)
• The 7th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2011)
• The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL/HLT 2011), Portland, Oregon, USA, June 19th-24th, 2011.
• The 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011), Hyderabad, India, March 28-April 1, 2011.
• 2011 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2011), Phoenix, Arizona,  USA, April 28-30, 2011.
• The 2011 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2011), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 25-27, 2011. 
• International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM 2011),  New York, USA, August 30- September 3, 2011
• The 24th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS' 24), Palm Beach, Florida, USA, May 18-20, 2011
• The 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2011), Shenzhen, China, May 24-27, 2011
• The 2nd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2010), Tokyo, Japan, November 8-10, 2010
• The 5th International Conference on Computer Science & Education (ICCSE’10), Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China, 24-27 Aug 2010
• The 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2010), Toronto, Canada, October 26-30, 2010
• The 33rd ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2010), Geneva, Switzerland, July 19-23, 2010
• The 11th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2010), Jiuzhaigou, China, July 15-17, 2010
• The 2010 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC 2010),  Silicon Valley, USA, August 14-16, 2010
• International Workshop on Topic Feature Discovery and Opinion Mining (TFDOM 2010), Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2010
• The 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM  2010), Sydney, Australia, December 14-17, 2010
• The Ninth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2010), Washington DC, USA, December 12-14, 2010
• The 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2010), San Francisco, USA, July 1-3, 2010
•  The 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2010), Odense, Denmark, August 9-11, 2010
• ACM Fourth International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO'10),  Toronto, Canada, October 26, 2010
• IEEE Symposium on Foundations and Practices od Data Mining(FPDM2010), Silicon Valley, USA, August 14-16, 2010
• MultiCust: 1st International Workshop on Discovering, Summarizing and Using Multiple Clusterings, Washington DC, July, 2010
• The 2010 International Conference on Database Theory and Application (DTA 2010), Bali, Indonesia, December 11-13, 2010
• The 9th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2010), Pachua, Mexico, November 8-13, 2010
• Workshop on Dynamic Networks and Knowledge Discovery (DyNak 2010), Barcelona, Spain, September 24, 2010
• The Second International Symposium on Data, Privacy, & E-Commerce (ISDPE 2010), Buffalo/Niagara Fall, USA,  June 2010
• The 14th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2010), Hyderabad, India, June 2010
• The 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010), Long Beach, California, USA, March, 2010
• The 23rd International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-23), Daytona Beach, Florida, May, 2010
• The 32nd ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), Boston, July 2009
• The 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2009), Paris, France, August, 2009
• The 2009 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2009 (SDM 2009), Sparks, Nevada, April 2009
• The 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2009), Bangkok, Thailand, April 2009
• Data Mining track of the 8th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2009), Guanajuato, Mexico, November, 2009
• The ACM 3rd International workshop of Data and Text Mining Methods in Bioinformatics (DTMbio’09), Hong Kong, China, November, 2009
• The Eighth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’09), Miami, Florida, USA. December, 2009
• The 2009 International Conference on Database Theory and Application (DTA 2009), Jeju Island, Korea, December, 2009
• International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR2009), Madeira, Portugal, October, 2009
• The 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2009), Cyprus, September, 2009
• The Eleventh International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2009), Boston, USA, July 2009
• The European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM09), Algarve, Portugal, June 2009
• The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009), Miami, Florida, December, 2009
• The 21st  IEEE Int'l Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2009), New Jersey, USA, November, 2009
• The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML’09), Nanjing, China, November, 2009
• International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM’2009), Leipzig, Germany, July, 2009
• The 2009 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2009), Milan, Italy, September, 2009
• The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2009), Washington D.C., November, 2009
• The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC 2009), Nanchang, China, August, 2009
• The Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and  Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) (APWeb-WAIM 2009),  Suzhou, China, April, 2009
• The 22nd International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-22), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, May 2009
• The 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-08), Sydney, Austria,  December, 2008
• The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2008), Philadelphia, USA,  November, 2008
• The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008), Pisa, Italy, December 2008
• The 2nd CIKM workshop of Data and Text Mining Methods in Bioinformatics (DTMbio), Napa Valley, CA, October, 2008
• The 20th IEEE Int'l Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2008), Dayton, Ohio, USA, November 2008
• The Second ACM KDD International Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources (MMIS-08), Las Vegas, USA, August, 2008
• The Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'08), San Diego, California, USA, December, 2008
• European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2008), Antwerp, Belgium, September 2008
• The 31^st ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008), Singapore, July 2008
• The 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2008), Las Vegas, USA, August, 2008
• The 21st International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-21),  Coconut Grove, Florida, May 2008
• The 2008 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2008 (SDM 2008), Atlanta, Georgia, April 2008
• The 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2008), Osaka, Japan, May 2008
• The 5 ^th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'08), Jinan, China, October, 2008
• The 20th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2008), San Francisco Bay, USA, July, 2008
• 2008 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE GrC2008), Hangzhou , China, Aug 26-28, 2008
• The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE GrC 2007), Silicon Valley, USA, Nov. 2007
• The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2007), Silicon Valley, USA,  2007
• The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-07), Silicon Valley, USA,  2007
• The 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2007), PATARS, 2007
• The Second International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics (TDMBio) in conjunction with ACM CIKM 2007
• Mining and Management of Biological Data (MMBD) in conjunction with IEEE ICDM 2007
• KDD 2007 Workshop on Mining Multiple Information Sources in conjunction with SIGKDD 2007
• The Thirteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2007), San Jose, California, August 12-15, 2007
• The Nineteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'07), Boston, USA, July 9-11, 2007
• The 4th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2007), Jacksonville, Florida, USA   June 11-15, 2007
• The 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2007 (SDM 2007), Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2007
• The 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), Nanjing, China, May 2007
• Workshop on Text Data Mining and Management (TDMM) In conjunction with 23rd IEEE ICDE Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007
• International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining MLDM´2007, Leipzig, Germany, July 2007
• The 20th International FLAIRS Conference (FLAIRS-20), Key West, Florida, May 2007
• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007
• The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006), Hong Kong, Dec 2006
• The 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2006), Washington D.C., Nov 2006
• The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-06), Hong Kong, Dec 2006
• The Twelfth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2006),Philadelphia, USA, August, 2006
• The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE GrC 2006), Atlanta, USA, May 2006
• The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, Canada, July 2006
• SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2006 (SDM 2006), Bethesda, Maryland, April 2006
• The 10th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2006), Singapore, April 2006
• The First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE), Hong Kong,  May 2006
• The 44th ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE 2006), Melbourne, Florida, USA, March 2006
• The 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2005), Compiegne, France, September 2005
• The 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Salvador, Brazil, August 2006.
• The Fourteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2005), Bremen, Germany, November 2005
• The Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2004), Washington D.C., USA, November 2004

Journal Referee

• Applied Intelligence
• ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
• ACM Transactions on Information Systems
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
• Bioinformatics
• Computational Intelligence
• Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
• Computer Music Journal
• Data and Knowledge Engineering
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Distributed and Parallel Databases
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
• EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
• Knowledge and Information Systems
• Knowledge-based Systems
• IEEE Intelligent Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Network
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
• Information Processing and Management
• Image and Vision Computing Journal
• Information Sciences
• Information Systems
• International Journal of Computers and Their Applications
• International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
• Journal of Classification
• Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
• Journal of Computational Biology
• Journal of Computer Science and Technology
• Journal of Machine Learning Research
• Journal of Systems and Software
• Machine Learning Journal
• Neural Processing Letters
• Neurocomputing
• Pattern Recognition Letters
• Signal Processing
• Soft Computing
• Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
• Theoretical Computer Science
• VLDB Journal