Professional Experience and Service

• Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 2004-2007
  
• Chair of Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee, within IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2007-Present
  
• Program co-Chair of the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, held in Mystic, Conn.
  
• General Chair/co-Chair for the 2001 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing, held Sept. 10-12, 2001 in Falmouth, Mass.
• Associate Editor for the {\it Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology}, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Nov. 2002- present.
• Served on NSF review panels in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2003; reviewer for the Army Research Office;
  
• Elected member of the IEEE Neural Networks for Signal Processing Technical Committee, within the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 1997-present.
• Program committee member for the 1999, 2000, 2002-2007 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks (Machine Learning) for Signal Processing.
• Frequent referee for a wide variety of publications, including the following IEEE Transactions: Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Information Theory, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Neural Networks, Communications, Communications Letters, Proceedings of the IEEE; European Journal of Applied Signal Processing.
• Reviewer for the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in 1996, 1997, and 1998.
  
• Session chair at CISS-98, ICASSP-99, NNSP-99, CISS-02, ICASSP-02, MLSP-03,CISS-04,MLSP-05,MLSP-06,MLSP-07.
  
• Colloquium speaker at Stanford in 1993, Princeton in 1996, Lehigh University in 1998, IBM Yorktown Heights in 2000, and Virginia Tech in 2005.
  
• Invited speaker to 2003 NIPS Workshop on the Information Bottleneck.

Other Accomplishments

• Graduated eight Ph.D. students since joining Penn State in 1995.
  
• Supervised to completion 29 Masters theses and papers at Penn State.