• Elected as a senior member of IEEE.

• Appointed as a member of editorial board of International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems.

• Guest editor of special issue on "Computational Modeling of Neural and Brain Development", IEEE Trans. on Autonomous Mental Development.  vol. 3, no. 4, 2011.

• New book: Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems, Studies in Complexity Intelligence, vol. 355, Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-642-20759-4, Springer. 2011.   

• Chair of special session on "Autonomous Social Learning and Knowledge Representation" at the 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).

• Guest editor of special issue on  "Evolutionary and Developmental Robotics", IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol.5, no.4, 2010.

• Tutorial on “Morphogenetic Robotics: A New Emerging Field of Self-Organizing Robotic Systems” at the 2011 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

• Chair of Special session on “Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Systems” at the 2010 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC)

• Chair of Workshop on “Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems” at the 2010 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

• Chair of task force on "Bio-inspired Self-organizing Collective Systems" in Emerging Technology Technical Committee in Computational Intelligence Society (since 2010)

• Appointed as committee member, Continuing Education sub-committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2009-2010)

Research Grants

• Received a grant ($423,840) on "Optimizing peripheral nerve regeneration using computational intelligence based technologies" from NIH. Funding period: 09/15/2011-08/31/2013. (as sole co-PI, PI is Prof. Xiaojun Yu in Biomedical Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology)

• Received a grant ($126.144) on "A hierarchical gene regulatory network model for generating robust emerging behaviors for interacting collective systems" from Honda Research Institute Europe .  Funding period: 3/16/2009-3/15/2011. (as sole PI)

• Received a grant ($200K) on "Cognitive architecture for embodied intelligent multi-agent systems" from DoD. Funding period: 9/1/2009-5/31/2012.  (as PI)

• Received a grant ($50K) on "Bio-inspired self-organizing robotic systems" from DoD. Funding period: 9/1/2010-5/31/2011. (as PI)

• Received a grant ($150K) on "Bio-inspired hierarchical neural networks for machine learning" from DoD. Funding period: 6/1/2009-5/31/2010. (as PI)

• Received a grant ($305K) on "REU: Integrated software radio and radio frequency test bed for wireless research in cognitive networks" from NSF.  Funding period: 5/1/2008-4/30/2010. (as co-PI)

• Received a grant ($300K) on "Bio-inspired distributed multi-robot/multi-sensor Systems" from US Army, Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) at Picatinny. Funding period: 8/1/2007-7/31/2010. (as PI)

• Received a grant ($285,534) on "Perimeter defense using cooperative multiple robots with fiber optic sensors" from National Security Agent. Funding period: 8/1/2007 - 1/31/2009. (as PI)

• Received a grant ($296,754) on "REU: Integrated software radio and radio frequency test bed for wireless research in dynamic spectrum access" from NSF.  Funding period: 5/1/2005-4/30/2008. (as co-PI)

• Received a grant ($170K) on "Situation awareness and response using a cooperative multi-robot system" from US Army, ARDEC at Picatinny. Funding period: 9/1/2006-8/30-2007 (as PI)

• Received a grant ($300K) on "Remote robotic weapon systems" from US Army, ARDEC at Picatinny. Funding period: 6/1/2005-5/30/2006. (as co-PI).

Technical Program Committee of International Conference

o 2012 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICNIP 2012)
o 2012 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA 2012)
o 2012 International Conference on Brain-Mind (ICBM 2012)
o 2011 IEEE The Tenth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications
o 2011 The Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence (IWACI 2011)
o 2011 International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2011)
o 2011 Internal Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2011)
o 2011 The Seventh International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2011)
o 2011 IEEE symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (CIDUE 2011) within the IEEE Symposia Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2011)
o IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Industry (CII 2011) within the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2011).
o 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2011)
o Special session on Autonomous Learning at IEEE Ninth Inter. Conf. on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2010)
o Special session on Bio-inspired multi-agent systems at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2010)
o 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2010)
o 2010 The Seventh International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2010)
o IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 2010)
o 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC2009)
o 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2009)
o 2009 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA 09)
o IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2009)
o 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2008)
o 2008 IEEE International Conference on Information Acquisition (ICIA 2008)
o IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC 2008)
o International Workshop on Embedded Parallel and Distributed Computing (EPDC 2007)
o The 4th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Computing (SEC 2007)
o International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-07)
o International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2006)
o International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS-05)