Associate Professor and Founding Faculty
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California at Merced
Member of Committee to Establish Award for Excellence in Graduate Interdisciplinary Study (AEGIS) Fellowship, 2007-8
Member of Search Committee for Senior Faculty Position in Electrical Engineering, 2007-8
Faculty Vice-Chair for School of Engineering, 2005-6 & 2006-7
Executive Committee Member, School of Engineering, 2006-7
Chair of Committee on Committees, School of Engineering, 2006-7
Chair of Computer & Information Systems Graduate Group, 2005-6 & 2006-7
Co-Coordinator for Mind, Technology and Society Invited Speaker Series, 2005-6 & 2006-7
Chair of Search Committee for Senior CSE Faculty Position in Data Analysis, 2006-7
Chair of Search Committee for Junior CSE Faculty Position in Data Analysis, 2006-7
Member of Search Committee for Senior Faculty Position in Electrical Engineering, 2006-7
Member of Search Committee for Junior Faculty Position in Bioinformatics, 2006-7
Member of Search Committee for Senior CSE Faculty Position in Systems, 2006-7
Member of Search Committee for Junior CSE Faculty Position in Systems, 2006-7
Member of Search Committee for Senior CSE Faculty Position, Broad Search, 2006-7
Member of Search Committee for Junior CSE Faculty Position, Broad Search, 2006-7
Chair of Search Committee for Senior CSE Faculty Position in Data Analysis, 2005-6
Chair of Search Committee for Junior CSE Faculty Position in Data Analysis, 2005-6
Member of Search Committee for Senior CSE Faculty Position in Graphics/AI, 2005-6
Member of Search Committee for Junior CSE Faculty Position in Graphics/AI, 2005-6
Member of Search Committee for Senior CSE Faculty Position in Systems, 2005-6
Member of Search Committee for Junior CSE Faculty Position in Systems, 2005-6
Member of Search Committee for Junior Faculty Position in Systems Biology, 2005-6
Member of Search Committee for Cross-School Junior Faculty Position in Cognitive Science, 2005-6
Member of Search Committee for CSE Lecturer, 2005-6
Member of Search Committee for Computing Research Manager, 2005-6 & 2006-7
Member of Search Committee for Teaching Lab Manager, 2005-6 & 2006-7
Member of Ad-hoc Committee for Community College Computer Science Curriculum Articulation, 2005-6
Member of Ad-hoc Committee for Vetting General Education Across Schools, Fall 2005
Member of Ad-hoc Committee for Mid-Semester Teaching Assistant Evaluation, Fall 2005
Co-organizer, UC Discovery Grant funded Cognitive Animation Workshop, 2008
Reviewer, UC Discovery Digital Media Grants, 2007
Judge, CITRIS Student White Paper Competition, 2007
Panelist, CITRIS Future of Search Conference, 2007
Panelist, National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, 2006
Reviewer, U.S. Department of Energy Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Grant, 2006
Panelist, National Science Foundation IGERT Grant, 2005
Committee Member, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2006
Committee Member, INSTICC International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2006, 2007 & 2008
Committee Member, IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet, 2006
Committee Member, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2005
Member of IEEE, ACM, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi
I have served as referee for the following: