Professional Activities, Memberships, Offices

•     Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2000 -)
•    Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (1989 - 2000)
•    Member, IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) (1993 -)
•    Member (appointed), IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors (2007 -)
•    Member (elected), IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors (2007 -)
•    Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) (2005 -)
•    Member (elected), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Administrative Committee (2006 - )
•    Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Technology Transfer, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2006 - )
•    Member, IEEE Women in Engineering (2005 - 2006)
•    Member, IEEE Control Systems Society Control Education Committee (2003-2005)
•    Panelist, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2002-2005)
•    Chair, Standing Committee on Engineers At Risk, IEEE CSS (1997-98)
•    Co-chair, International Affairs Committee, IEEE CSS (1999- 2000)
•    Chair, Standing Committee on Women in Control, IEEE CSS (2000-2002)
•    Member, Steering Committee, Southeastern Symposium on Systems Theory (SSST) (1998-2000)
•    Panelist, National Science Foundation Small Business Innovations Research (SBIR) Program (1997)
•    Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
•    Member, AIAA Digital Avionics Technical Committee (DATC)
•    Organizer and chair/co-chair, international conference sessions:

• Co-chair, Special Session “Plain Talk on Control for a Wide Range of the Public”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2007.
• Organizer and co-chair, Special Session “How to Present Your Work and Yourself”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2007.
• Organizer and chair, NSF Special Session “Research Ethics and Related Issues”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2007.
• Co-organizer, Invited Special Session, “Mid-career Changes”, American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 2005.
• Session chair, “Signal Processing II”, International Workshop on Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing, Adelaide, Australia, Dec. 2004.
• Session chair or co-chair: American Control Conference (1995 - 2007)
• Organizer and chair, invited session: “Integrating Research and Education”, ASEE GulfSouth Conference, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, March 2001
• Organizer and chair, invited session:  “Neural Networks for Real-time Input-Output Modeling and Control”, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Session WM15, San Diego, CA, Dec. 1997
• Co-organizer and co-chair: “Neural Networks in Process Control”, IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, Session ISIC-TP5, Dearborn, MI, Sept. 1996
• Session chair or co-chair: IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Sponsors: IEEE, SIAM) (1997, 2000); Conference on Control Applications (Sponsor: IEEE) (1996, 1999, 2002); International Symposium on Intelligent Control (Sponsor: IEEE) (1996); Mediterranean Conference on Systems and Control (Sponsor: IEEE) (1998); Southeastern Symposium on Systems Theory (Sponsor: IEEE and various universities) (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999)