• General Co-Chair, Workshop on Multi-modal Video Analysis and Moments In Time Challenge, ICCV 2019.
  • Co-organizer, MMAC: Multi-Modal Affective Computing of Large-Scale Multimedia Data, ICMR 2019 special session.
  • Guest Editor, ACM TOMM journal special issue on Affective Computing for Large-scale Heterogeneous Multimedia Data.
  • Technical Program Committee Member :
    • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), 2018 (Area Chair - Multimedia Art, Entertainment, and Culture).
    • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), 2017 (Organizing Committee Member).
    • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2014 (Area Chair - Multimedia Search and Retrieval).
    • IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics (SMC), 2014 - Demo Program.
    • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), 2014 - Social Media and Collective Online Presence Track.
    • IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), 2014.
    • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), 2013 (Area Chair - Multimedia Analysis).
    • IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013.
    • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), 2012.
    • ACM Workshop on Geotagging and its Applications in Multimedia 2012 (in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2012).
    • IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012.
    • International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS) 2011 – Mobile and Social Network Track.
    • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), 2010.
    • ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), 2010 (Also Organizing Committee Member - Registration and Visa Chair).
    • International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), 2010.
    • ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia), 2009.
    • ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), 2008.
    • IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2008.
  • Member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Signal Processing Society.
  • Panelist at National Science Foundation (NSF), IIS Division, 2013.
  • Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society Rochester chapter, 2011-2012.
  • Vice Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society Rochester chapter, 2009-2010.
  • Panelist in the Industrial Mathematics Session at the Summer Mathematics Institute (SMI) Teacher’s Workshop, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2010.
  • General Co-Chair of Joint IEEE/IS&T Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, NY, 2012.
  • General Co-Chair of Joint IEEE/IS&T Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, NY, 2011.
  • Co-organizer of Joint IEEE/IS&T Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, NY, 2010.
  • Co-organizer of Joint IEEE/IS&T Western New York Image Processing Workshop, Rochester, NY, 2009.
  • Co-organizer of a special session, Image Aesthetics, Moods, and Emotions at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Diego, USA, October 2008.
  • Participant in Kodak Visiting Scientist Program (Jan. 2008 - June 2008) under Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science – RACCEMS.
  • Reviewer for National Science Foundation (NSF).
  • Reviewer for several IEEE and ACM conferences and journals in the area of multimedia analysis, vision, learning, and retrieval.