Professional Activities

I have been actively involved in leadership and service activities across the artificial intelligence, data science, and high-performance computing communities. My professional service includes advisory roles for national research programs and universities, leadership positions in major conferences such as KDD, ICDM, and the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, and editorial leadership for journals and book series. These activities reflect a long-standing commitment to advancing interdisciplinary research at the intersection of AI, data science, and scientific discovery.

Advisory Boards and National Panels

  • Advisory Board, Environmental Data Science, Cambridge University Press (2021–present)
  • Technical Advisory Council, Planet Texas 2050, University of Texas at Austin (2018–present)
  • Scientific Advisory Panel on AI/ML, Global Development Lab, USAID (2018–2019)
  • Member, National Academies Panel on Information Science, Army Research Laboratory (2015–2017)
  • Chair, Board of Visitors, Computer Science Division, Army Research Office (2012)
  • Member, Board of Visitors, Computer Science Division, Army Research Office (2010)

Additional service includes participation on numerous advisory panels and site visit committees for the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy.

Conference Leadership

  • Co-Chair, ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2019)
  • Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2002)
  • Program Chair, First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2001)
  • Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (2015)
  • Co-Chair, KDD AI and Science Day (KDD 2025)

AI for Science Workshops

  • Co-Chair, NSF Workshop on the AI-Enabled Scientific Revolution (NSF Headquarters, 2023)
  • Co-Chair, Second NSF Workshop on the AI-Enabled Scientific Revolution (Minneapolis, 2024)

Editorial Leadership

  • Series Editor, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Series, Chapman & Hall / CRC Press (2006–present)
  • Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining (Wiley) (2006–2009)
  • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin (2006–2009)

Editorial Boards

  • npj Artificial Intelligence (Springer Nature), 2024–present
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2005–present
  • Knowledge and Information Systems, 2000–present
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1994–present
  • International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 2004–present
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2008–2012

Conference Steering Committees

  • Steering Committee Member, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (2001–present)
  • Steering Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (2002–present)
  • Steering Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics
  • Board of Directors, ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics (2010–2015)

Additional Professional Service

Program committee member for major conferences including AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, ICDM, SDM, and ICML, as well as numerous workshops and international conferences in artificial intelligence, data mining, and high-performance computing.