Professional Activities
University Services
Faculty Search Committee, Dept. of software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte (2006 - onwards)
Undergraduate Committee (Chair), Dept. of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte (2003 - onwards)
University Faculty Council Representative, Dept. of software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte (2004 - 2005)
College Curriculum Review Ad-hoc Committee, College of Computing and Informatics, UNC Charlotte (2005 - 2006)
PhD Committee, Dept. of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte (2004 - 2005)
Graduate Committee, Dept. of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte (2003 - 2004)
Professional Services
Program Committee Member - The 4th IEEE International Symposium on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2008), Dec. 18 -19, Jhongli, Taiwan, 2008.
Program Committee Member – European Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (EuroISI ’08), Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 3-5th, 2008.
Program Committee Member – The First International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law (RELAW ’08), in conjunction with the 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’08), Barcelona, Spain. September 08 – 12, 2008.
Program Committee Member – The Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV ‘08), in conjunction with the 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’08), Barcelona, Spain. September 08 – 12, 2008.
Program Committee Member – The First International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK 08), in conjunction with the 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’08), Barcelona, Spain. September 08 – 12, 2008.
Program Committee Member – The Third International Workshop on Multimedia and Enjoyable Requirements Engineering (MERE'08) — Beyond Mere Descriptions and with More Fun and Games, in conjunction with the 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ’08), Barcelona, Spain. September 08 – 12, 2008.
Program Committee, Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS 08) co-located with ARES 2008 Barcelona , Spain, March 4th-7th, 2008.
Co-organizer/chair, The 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems (SESS 07), co-located with the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 07), 20-26, May, Minneapolis, MN, USA. 2007.
Program Committee: MeRE'07: 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering - Beyond Mere Descriptions, co-located Workshop with the Conference on Software Engineering (SE 2007), 27th of March, Hamburg, Germany, 2007.
Editorial Board Member: The Journal of Software Patterns
Program Committee, ACMSE, 2007, The 45th ACM Southeast Conference (ACMSE 2007), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, March 23-24, 2007.
Working Group Member, Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) Software Assurance: Processes and Practices working group, Technology, Tools and Product Evaluation working group, National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) 2005 – onwards (Inter-Lab Collaboration with NIST, NSA, DHS and MITRE etc. )
Program Committee, the 5th International Workshop onRequirements for High-Assurance Systems (RHAS), in conjunction with the 16th IEEE Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'2005), Chicago, Illinois, November 8-11, 2005.
Program Committee, Requirements Engineering for High-Availability Systems (RHAS) Workshop in the 13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE ‘05), 8/29 – 9/2, Paris, France, Software Engineering Institute, IEEE, ACM Press
Program Committee, ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2005), July 14-16, 2005, Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel, Jeju Island, South Korea
Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI-2005), Atlanta, Georgia, May 19-20, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer. 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Program Committee, the first IEEE International Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering, Software Architecture, and Reuse (COMSAR 2005), June 14, 2005 at Las Vegas Hilton, Nevada, USA. It will be held in conjunction with the IEEE IRI 2005 (June 12-14, 2005).
Program Committee and Publicity Chair, 3rd ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management & Applications (SERA2005), CMU, Aug. 11-13, 2005. IEEE Press.
International Program Committee, The 8th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA '04), Nov, MIT, Cambridge, MA. 2004, 2005, 2006
Technical Committee, The IASTED Int'l conference on Software Engineering (SE '04: part of the 22nd IASTED Int'l Multi-conference on Applied Informatics), Feb. 17-19, 2004, Innsbruck, Austria.
Technical Committee, The IASTED Int'l conference on Modelling and Simulation (MS'04), March 1-3, 2004 Marina del Rey, CA, USA
Technical Committee, International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Software Engineering Track (2003-2006)
Program Committee, The 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE '04), June 20-24, 2004, Banff Alberta Canada.
Board of Reviewers, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), World Scientic Publishing Co. (Fall 2003 - onwards)
Journal Referee, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), Kluwer Academic Publishers, United Kingdom. 1999-2000.
Student Volunteer, the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-99), July 18-22, Orlando, Florida, 1999.
Referee, the Fourth International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning (MSL-98), June 11-13, Desenzano del Garda (Brescia, Italy), 1998.
Journal Referee, Machine Learning, Kluwer Academic Publishers, United Kingdom. 1998.
Reviewer and contributing co-author, the book/chapters in Tecuci, G., Building Intelligent Agents: An Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Theory, Methodology, Tool and Case Studies. Academic Press, London, England, 1998.
Student Volunteer, the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), July 26-30, Madison, Wisconsin, 1998.
Reviewer, the chapters in Michalski, R.S., Bratko, I. and Kubat, M. (Eds.), Machine Learning and Data Mining: Methods and Applications, London: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Student Volunteer, the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-97), July 27-31, Providence, Rhode Island, 1997.
Presentations
Invited Talk, "Software Assurance - Requirements Engineering Approach", Shanghai Jia Tong University, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, & Sejong University, Seoul, Korea May 2006
Invited Seminar Speaker, “XML Introduction and Best Practices”, TIAA-CREF, October 8 & 15, 2004. Charlotte (New York, St. Louis, Denver via Conference Bridge).
Invited Lecturer, “GenOM: Generic Object Model & GIS System Integration”, GEOG6615: Spatial Decision Support Systems & GIS research seminar, Dept. of Geography and Earth Sciences, (Hosted by Dr. Wei-Ning Xiang). Sep. Nov. 2004.
Invited Talk, “Context-aware software computing environment: Conceptual Modeling, Specification, and Applications”, Sejong University (Seoul), Dongguk University (Seoul), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (Daejeon), June – July, 2004, Korea.
Invited Talk, “Proxy Viewpoints Model-based Requirements Discovery: A New NASA NET Course”, A NASA-NET Technical Presentation, Washington DC. Dec. 2003.
Invited Talk, “Proxy Viewpoints Model-based Requirements Discovery”, Department of Software and Information Systems, University of North Carolina (Host: Dr. William Tolone and Dr. Bill Chu) Charlotte, NC. Feb. 26. 2003.
“Business Rules Engine Design and Implementation in TEDS”, SAIC ISSG, Presented at TE/GE, International Revenue Service (IRS) HQ, Washington D.C. December 12, 2002.
Invited Talk, “ML-FromForms: Document Classification and Data Extraction System”, SAIC ISSG, Presented at International Monetary Fund (IMF) HQ, Technology and General Services Department, Washington D.C. June 13th 2001.
Invited Talk, “A Methodological Knowledge Discovery Framework through Pattern Classification and Inductive Concept Learning”, The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine(NLM), National Institute of Health(NIH). (Host: Center Director Dr. Alexa, McCray) Bethesda, MD. Nov. 15. 1999.
Invited Talk, “A Methodological Knowledge Discovery Framework through Pattern Classification and Inductive Concept Learning”, IBM Thomas. J. Watson Research Center, (Host: Dr. J. Hellerstein) Yorktown Heights, New York, Oct. 28-29. 1999.
Invited Talk, “Building High Performance Ontologies from Shared Knowledge Repositories through Exception-driven Knowledge Discovery and Learning”, Information Extraction & Transport Inc (IET), (Host: Dr. Robert Schrag) May 5, 1999.
“Constructing and Refining Knowledge Bases: A Collaborative Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Approach,” GMU Learning Agents Laboratory, Presented at DARPA High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) Workshop, DARPA/ISO, Hilton, Austin, Texas, 19-21 Jan. 1999.
Invited Talk, “A Methodological Knowledge Discovery Framework for Constructive Induction-based Multistrategy Learning”, the 1998 Korea-U.S. Technical Conference on Strategic Technologies (KUTC-98), Information Sciences Track (Host and Chair: Dr. Se Jun Hong, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center), Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA), October 22-24, Vienna, VA. 1998.
"Constructing and Refining Knowledge Bases: A Collaborative Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Approach: Analysis Report of the 1st Year Evaluation," GMU Learning Agents Laboratory, DARPA High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) Workshop, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, The Information Systems Office (DARPA/ISO), Capital Hilton, Washington, D.C., 7-10 July 1998. (Analysis Report of the 1st Evaluation).
“Demonstration: Building a Workarounds Knowledge Base, Constructing and Refining Knowledge Bases: A Collaborative Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Approach, '' GMU Learning Agents Laboratory, Poster presentation at the DARPA High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) Project Principal Investigator Meeting, December 3, San Diego, 1997.
"Constructing and Refining Knowledge Bases: A Collaborative Apprenticeship Multistrategy Learning Approach," GMU Learning Agents Laboratory, Poster presentation at the DARPA High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) Project Kick-off Meeting, Staunton, VA, June 3-5, 1997.
Third International Workshop on Multistrategy Learning (MSL-96), GMU Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, Harpers Ferry, WV, May 23-25, 1996.
Professional Associations and Memberships
1992-present: Member of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery, SIGART:Intelligence, SIGKDD), AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence), IEEE Computer, SMC (Systems, Man, and Cybernetics) and Software Engineering Society, NYAS (New York Academy of Sciences), and KSEA (Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association)
Last Updated - Oct. 2006.