Professional Activities

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Organizer for BBN's Science Development Program Seminar Series on Education and Training (since 2005)

2009 (Current as of Nov 2009):

Invited panel member of "Challenges of Training Millennial Generation in School and the Military" Panel, Joint Accessions Research and Best Practices Symposium (JAR&BPS) conference, (April 21-23, Cape May, NJ).
Presented at the 2009 Joint Accessions Research and Best Practices Symposium (JAR&BPS) conference, (April 21-23, Cape May, NJ).
Attended the 2009 Games for Health Conference (Boston, MA, June 11-12)
Attended the NATO Modelling & Simulation Group (NMSG) MSG-078 Workshop on Exploiting Commercial Games and Technology For Military Use (Suffolk, VA, Sept 23)
Presented at the 2009 United States Coast Guard Human Performance Technology Workshop (Williamsburg, VA, Sep 23-25)
Will present at the 2009 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (Orlando, FL, Nov 30-Dec 3)
Will participate as a finalist in the 2009 Serious Games Showcase & Challenge (Orlando, FL. Nov 30-Dec 3)

2008:

Attended the 2008 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (Orlando, FL, Dec 1-4)

2007:

Program committee member for Real-World Applications track of GECCO-2007 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference)
Attended the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence (Apr 1-5, Honolulu, HI)
Attended the 2007 Learning Strategies Consortium Conference (July 18-19, Orlando, FL)
Attended the 2007 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) (Nov 26-29, Orlando, FL)

2006:

Industry Liaison on organizing committee for the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games
Presented at the 2006 World Congress on Computational Intelligence (July 16-20, Vancouver, BC).
Invited presentation at the Evolutionary Computing in Practice (ECP) Programme at the 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO2006) ((July 8-12, Seattle, WA)
Reviewer for Evolutionary Computation journal
Program committee member for GECCO-2006 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference)
2003-2006 Coordinator for BBN's Robotics Interest Group
2004-2006 Co-Organizer for BBN's Science Development Program Seminar Series on Robotics

2005:

Presented at the Fall Simulation Interoperability Workshop (Sept 18-23, Orlando, FL) (Paper was winner of a 2005 Fall SIWzie award)
Organized Workshop on Achieving Functional Integration of Diverse Neural Models at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Aug 4, Montreal, QC) IJCNN Workshop on 'Achieving Functional Integration of Diverse Neural Models'
Presented and chaired session at Unmanned Systems North America Conference (June 28-30, Baltimore, MD)
Presented at the Unmanned Ground Vehicle VII conference (Mar 29-31, Orlando, FL), held as part of the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium.
Attended the 3rd International Multi-Robot Systems Workshop (Mar 14-16, Washington, D.C.) held at NRL.
Program committee member for GECCO-2005 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference)

2004:

Presented at IJCNN-2004 (International Joint Conference on Neural Networks) (July 25-29, Budapest, Hungary)
Presented at MSAEC-2004 (Military and Security Applications of Evolutionary Computation Workshop) (June 26, Seattle, WA), held as part of GECCO-2004
Presented at GECCO-2004 (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference) (June 26-30, Seattle, WA)
Attended the Collaborative Technologies Alliance Conference (May 6, Washington, D.C.)
Attended the Emerging Robotics Technologies and Applications Conference (Mar 9-10, Cambridge, MA)

2001: Presented demo at DISCEX II (DARPA Information Survivability Conference and Exposition) (June 12-14, Anaheim, CA)

2000:

Presented at IEEE Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks (May 11-13, San Antonio, TX)
Program committee member for First IEEE Symposium on Combinations of Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks.
Invited peer reviewer for journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, special issue on neural networks and evolutionary computation.
1994-2000: Co-supervisor of five 4th year Honours projects on neural networks in the Robotics and Perception Laboratory at Queens University.
1998-2000 Founded and organized graduate student seminar series in the Dept. of Computing and Information Sciences at Queens University.

1999:

Organized birds-of-a-feather workshop on Advanced Grammar Techniques within Genetic Programming and Evolutionary Computation, held at GECCO99: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (July 13-17, Orlando, FL)
Presented at Graduate Student Workshop of GECCO99

1998:

Invited organizer for workshop on Advanced Grammar Techniques at 1998 Joint Conference on Information Sciences (Oct 23-28, Research Triangle Park, NC)
Presented at the Graduate Student Workshop at the Genetic Programming 1998 Conference (July 22-25, Madison, WI)
Presented at Twelfth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Workshop on Evolutionary Computation (June 17, Vancouver, BC)
Gave tutorial at the 1998 CITO Researcher Retreat (May 12-14, Hamilton, ON)
Presented at 1998 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (May 4-9, Anchorage, AK)

1997: Gave tutorial at 1997 ITRC/TRIO Researcher Retreat (May 6-8, Kingston, ON)

1994: Presented at AI'94: Tenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (May 16-20, Banff, AB)

1991: Presented at 4th UNB Artificial Intelligence Symposium (Sept 20-21, Fredericton, NB)