Selected Professional Activities

• Services to Professional Societies and Technical Committees
• Board of Directors, American Automatic Control Council, 2015.
• Chair, SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory, 2014-2015.
• Vice Chair, SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory, 2012-2013.
• Program Director, SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory, 2010-2011.
• Chair, SICON Best Paper Prize Committee, 2017
• Chair, SIAM Richard C. DiPrima Prize Committee, 2016
• Chair, SIAM W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize Selection Committee, 2012-2013
• Chair, SIAM SICON Best Paper Prize Committee, 2011
• International Federation of Automatic Control, Technical Committee on Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing, 1999-2002, 2003-2005, 2006-2008, 2009-2011
• SIAM Representative to the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 1995
• Panel for Selecting the CDC Best Student Paper Award, 1995, 1994
• Mathematical Review Data Base Committee
• Conference Organizer
• IMA Annual Thematic Programs, ``Modeling, Stochastic Control, Optimization, and Related Applications,'' Co-oranizer, University of Minnesota, 2018.
• SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT11), Organizing Committee Co-Chair, 2011
• IMA Participating Institution Conference ``Stochastic Processes and Applications,'' Organizer, Wayne State University, 2019
• IMA PI Conference: Asymptotic Analysis in Stochastic Processes, Nonparametric Estimation, and Related Problems, (Co-organizer), 2006
• IMA Workshop on Wireless Communication, (Co-organizer), 2005
• AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference: Mathematics of Finance, (Co-Chair, Organizing Committee), 2003
• Pre-CDC workshop Large and Complex Systems Feasibility and Approximate Optimality, (Co-Organizer), 1999
• AMS-SIAM Summer Seminar in Applied Mathematics (Co-Chair, Organizing Committee), 1996
• Stochastic Systems and Their Applications, (Co-Organizer), Newport, RI, 1994
• Conference Organizing/Program Committees
• Scientific Committee member, The Fourth International Conference on Markov & Semi-Markov Processes & Related Fields, Chalkidiki, Greece, September, 2011.
• Workshop co-chair, Combined 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and 28th Chinese Control Conference, 2009
• Stochastic Theory and Control Workshop, University of Kansas, 2001
• IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2013, 2012, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2001, 1997, and 1994
• IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, 2000
• American Control Conference, 1999
• Conference on Control of Distributed Parameter and Stochastic Systems, Hangzhou, China, 1998
• Industrial Statistics: Aims and Computational Aspects, Athens, Greece, 1997
• The First Youth Automation Conference of the International Federation of Automatic Control, Beijing, China, 1995
• Hong Kong International Workshops on New Directions of Control and Manufacturing, 1994