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Board/Committee Member

• Senior Advisor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee and IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Haptics, 2006 - Present.
• Member, Software Technical Advisory Board of AGEIA Inc, 2005 - Present.
• Member, Conference Board of IEEE Haptics Symposium, 2005 - 2008.
• Member, NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) Committee of Visitors (COV) 2005.
• Member, Steering Committee of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2001 - 2006.
• Member of Advisory Committee, National Core Research Center for Advanced Media Technology, KAIST, Korea
• Member, Technical Advisory Committee of DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Consortium on Rapid and Affordable Generation of Terrain and Detailed Urban Feature Data, 1996-Present

• Program Committee Member: IEEE Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 2006-2008.
• Program Chair, ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2007.
• Program Chair, IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2007.
• Program Committee Member: Computer Animation and Social Agents 2007.
• Program Committee Member: Robotics: Science and Systems 2007.
• Program Committee Member: ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2007.
• Program Committee Member: IEEE World Haptics Conference 2007.
• Program Committee Member: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2007.
• Chair, Workshop on Edge Computing Using New Commodity Architectures 2006.
• Program Chair, Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments 2006.
• Program Committee Member: Pacific Graphics 2006.
• Program Committee Member: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2006.
• Program Committee Member: ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2006.
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Visualization 2006.
• Program Committee Member: Computer Animation and Social Agents 2006.
• Program Committee Member: ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, Papers Committee.
• Program Committee Member: Eurohaptics 2006, Program Committee.
• Program Committee Member: International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission 2006.
• Program Committee Member: Robotics: Systems and Science 2006.
• Program Committee Member: International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics 2006.
• Program Committee Member: ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2006.
• Program Committee Member: International Symposium on Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering 2006.
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2006.
• Program Chair, Computer Animation and Social Agents 2005.
• Tutorial/Course Chair, Eurographics 2005.
• Program Committee Member: HAPTEX 2005.
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Visualization 2005.
• Program Committee Member: ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Applied Perception on Graphics and Visualization 2005.
• Program Committee Member: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality and Software Technology 2005.
• Program Committee Member: Pacific Graphics 2005.
• Program Committee Member: ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2005.
• Program Committee Member: Computer Animation and Social Agents 2005.
• Program Committee Member: Computer Graphics International Conference 2005.
• Program Committee Member: Robotics: Science and Systems 2005.
• Program Committee Member: IEEE World Haptics Conference 2005.
• Program Committee Member: ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games 2005.
• Program Committee Member: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2005.
• Chair, ACM Workshop on General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processors 2004.
• Chair, NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure and Cyberengineering, April 2004.
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Visualization 2004.
• Program Committee Member: Pacific Graphics 2004.
• Program Committee Member: ACM SIGGRAPH 2004, Sketch Program.
• Program Committee Member: ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2004.
• Program Committee Member: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization 2004.
• Program Committee Member: International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics 2004.
• Program Committee Member: Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments 2004.
• Program Committee Member: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 2004.
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Computer Animation and Social Agents 2004.
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Virtual Reality Conference 2004.
• Steering Committee Member: ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2001 - Present
• Program Committee Member: International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, July 2004
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Computer Animation and Social Agents, May 2004
• Program Commitee Member: IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, March 2004
• Chair and Organizer, IEEE/IRJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Workshop on Robotics for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology, October 2003
• Program Committee Member: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, October 2003
• Program Committee Member: IEEE/IRJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2003
• Program Chair: ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, July 2003
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Computer Animation and Social Agents, May 2003
• Program Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2003
• Program Committee Member: ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics, April 2003
• Program Commitee Member: IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, March 2003.
• Program Committee Member: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2002
• Session Chair: ACM Symposium on Computer Animation 2002
• Program Commiteee Member: ACM Symposium on Computer Animation 2002
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Computer Animation Conference 2002
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Virtual Reality 2002
• Co-Chair, Workshop on Intelligent Human Augmentation and Virtual Environments, October 2002
• Special Session Chair and Organizer, IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation 2002, May 2002
• Session Chair, IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2001
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2001
• Program Committee Member: Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation 2001
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Computer Animation Conference 2001
• Program Committee Member: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2001
• Program Committee Member: IEEE Virtual Reality 2001
• Member, Program Committee, Computer Animation Conference, May 2000
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Virtual Reality 2000 International Conference (VR2000), March 2000
• Chair, Conference Session, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2000
• Session Chair, International Workshop on Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics, 2000
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Virtual Reality Conference, 2000
• Co-Chair, Financial Chair, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Solid Modeling Conference, Ann Arbor, Mich., June 1999
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR '99), Houston, Texas, March 1999
• Member, Program Committee, 13th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, Nice, France, 1997
• Co-Chair, Army Workshop on Battlespace Visualization, July 1997
• Chair, Army Workshop on Human Performance Modeling, Research Triangle Park, N.C., October 1996.
• General Chair, First ACM Workshop on Applied Computational Geometry, Philadelphia, Pa., May 1996
• Chair, Army Research Office (ARO) Advanced Concept Workshop on Basis Functions for Data Representation, Computing and Processing, Research Triangle Park, N.C., April 1996
• Chair, ARO/Academia/ARL Interaction Workshop, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., Sept. 1995
• Member, Program Committee, and Session Chair, First Workshop on Simulation and Interaction in Virtual Environments, Iowa City, Ia., July 1995

• Keynote Speaker, EDUTAINMENT, Hong Kong, June 2007.
• Course Speaker: ACM SIGGRAPH 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006.
• Invited Speaker, 2006 Workshop on Current Progress of Education & Research in Computer Science, Durham, December 2006.
• Invited Course Lecturer, Canadian National Research Council, Montreal, September 2006.
• Banquet Speaker, Virtual Prototyping Engineering Research Center Conference, Research Triangle Park, August 2006.
• Invited Speaker, Mini-Symposium on Physically-based Modeling, Simulation and Animation, Zurich, July 2006.
• Invited Speaker, Summer Seminar on Rendering and Modeling in Computer Graphics, Ayia Napa, June 2006.
• Keynote Speaker, ACM SIGGRAPH International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications, Hong Kong, June 2006.
• Invited Speaker, ARO Workshop on Multiscale Phenomena: Experiment, Theory, and Modeling, Research Triangle Park, July 2005.
• Course Organizer, ACM SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, July 2005.
• Invited Tutorial Speaker, Computer Animation and Social Agents, Geneva, July 2004.
• Invited Speaker, Workshop on Motion Planning in Virtual Environments, Toulouse, January 2005.
• Distinguished Lecture Speaker, Arizona State University, Tempe, December 2004.
• Keynote Speaker, Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications, Seoul, October 2004.
• Invited Speaker, Dagstuhl Workshop on Hierarchical Methods, June 2003.
• Invited Speaker, DIMACS Workshop on Medical Applications in Computational Geometry, April 2003.
• Invited Speaker, Game Developer’s Conference, March 2003.
• Invited Speaker, DIMACS Workshop on Implementation of Geometric Algorithms, December 2002.
• Invited Speaker, Foundations of Computational Mathematics Workshop on Geometric Modeling and Animation, August 2002.
• Invited Tutorial Speaker, ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, June 2002.
• Invited Speaker, IMA Workshop on Haptics, VR and HCI, June 2001.
• Invited Speaker, Joint EU-USWorkshop on Key Research Issues and Opportunities in Motion Planning, June 2000.
• Invited Speaker, Dagstuhl Workshop on Image Synthesis and Interactive 3D Graphics, June 2000.
• Invited Speaker, Computer Game Developer's Conference 2000, March 2000
• Invited Speaker, Computer Game Developer's Conference 1999, March 1999

Journal/Book Editor

• Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2007 - Present.
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Computer & Graphics Journal, 2007 - Present.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2004 - Present.
• Associate Editor, International Journal on Virtual Reality, 2006 - Present.
• Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Conference Editorial Board, 2006-2007.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of Presence on Virtual Reality, 2007-2008.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics on Virtual Reality, 2007-2008.
• Guest Editor, Special Issues of Proceedings of IEEE on Edge Computing, November/December 2007.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of Computers & Graphics on Virtual Environments, January/February 2007.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics on Haptics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, November/December 2005.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds on Computer Animation and Social Agents, July/August 2005.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications on “TOUCH-ENABLED INTERFACES”, November/December 2004.
• Guest Editor: Special issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications on HAPTIC RENDERING: BEYOND VISUAL COMPUTING, March/April 2004.
• Category Editor of Computer Graphics of ACM Computing Reviews, 1997 September - 2003 March.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of International Journal on Computational Geometry and Applications, 1996-1998

• Invited Panelist, NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Research and Grantees Conference, St. Louis, July 2006.
• Invited Panelist, NIH/NSF Workshop on Visualization Research Challenges, Bethesda, September 2004.
• Invited Participant, NSF/ENG Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure, Arlington, January 2004.
• Invited Participant, The National Academies Computer Science and Telecommunication Board Planning Meeting on Fundamental Research Challenges in Computer Graphics, Salt Lake City, December 2003.
• Invited Speaker, ArmyWorkshop on Modeling and Simulation, Research Triangle Park, November 2003.
• Invited Panelist, DIMACS Workshop on Medical Applications in Computational Geometry, April 2003.
• Panel Chair, NSF Workshop on Mathematics and Robotics 2000.
• Member, Panel, NSF Workshop on Motion Support for Virtual Prototyping, May 1999

• NSF Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, April 2007.
• Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, April 2007.
• Departments of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, September 2006.
• Joint HMS & GRASP Seminar Series, University of Pennsylvania, October 2005.
• Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, August 2005.
• Institute of Creative Technology, University of Southern California, September 2004.
• Colloquium Chair, Co-Organizer, Triangle Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer Series, 1998-2001
• Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, February 2000.
• Institute of Creative Technology, University of Southern California, November 1999.
• Computer Science Department, University of California at San Diego, November 1999.
• Computer Science Department, University of California at Los Angeles, May 1999.
• Sony R & D in America, Foster City, July 1999.
• Interval Research, Palo Alto, July 1998.
• NASA Ames, Mountain View, July 1998.
• HP Research Lab, Palo Alto, June 1998.
• Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, June 1998.
• EECS Department, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, March 1997
• Computer Science Department, State University of New York, March 1997.
• Computer Science Department, Northwestern University, February 1997.
• Computer Science Department, University of California at Davis, April 1995.
• AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, April 1995.
• Computer Science Department, University of Florida at Gainsville, March 1995
• Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, March 1995.
• Computer Science Department, NC A&T State University, April 1994.
• Department of Computer Science, Old Dominion University, May 1993.
• Computer Science Department, Naval Postgraduate School, April 1993.
• Department of Math & Computer Science, Mills College, March 1993.

• Books: ACM Press, Morgan Kaufmann Publisher, John Wiley & Sons, MIT Press

• Conferences: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGGRAPH, ACM Solid Modeling Conference, ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, ACM Symposium on 3D Interactive Graphics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE Virtual Reality Conference

• Journals: ACM Transaction on Graphics; Algorithmica; Computer Graphics Forum (International Journal of Eurographics Association); IIE Transaction on Virtual Manufacturing; IEEE Computer; IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications; IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation; Presence

• Organizations: National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Research Office