• Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, 2003-06.

  • Best Paper Award Panel for IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (3 transactions), 2002-04.

  • Outstanding Young Author Award Panel for IEEE CAS Society, 2002-04.

  • Steering committee chair, IEEE Trans. VLSI Systems, 2001-02.

  • Steering Committee Member, IEEE Trans. VLSI Systems, 1999-00.

  • IEEECS Technical Committee on VLSI (TCVLSI) Chair, 1997-2001.

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Circuits & Systems, 1997-99.

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on CAS for Video Technology, 1997-00.

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, 1995-1997.

  • Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition Journal, 1993-02.

  • Editorial Board, International Journal of VLSI Design, since 1994.

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on VLSI, Intl. Journal. of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, (9)2, April 1995.

  • IEEE Computer Society Activities:
  • IEEECS Distinguished Visitors Program Speaker, 1995-2001.
    Executive Committee Member of IEEECS SAC, 1993-95.
    Executive Member, IEEECS Membership Activities Board MAB, 1996-97.
    Executive Member, IEEECS Educational Activities Board EAB, 1996-97.
    Coordinator, IEEECS intl. student newsletter looking .forward, 1996-1998.
    Faculty Advisor, IEEECS Student Chapter, Uni. of S. Florida, 1990-1998.


  • Conferences Organization:
  • Steering Com. Member, Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design, 1992-Present.
    Steering Com. Member, IEEECS Annual Symposium on VLSI, 1992-present.
    Steering Com. Member, Intl. Symp. Quality of Electronic Design, 2000-02.
    General Chair, IEEECS Annual Symposium on VLSI, Tampa, Feb 2005.
    Program Co-Chair, IEEECS Annual Symposium on VLSI, Tampa, Feb 2003.
    Publications Chair and IEEE Liasion, Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design, 2003, 2004, 2006.
    General Chair, IEEECS Annual Workshop on VLSI, Orlando, April 1999.
    General Co-Chair, IEEECS Workshop on VLSI, Orlando, April 1998.
    General Co-Chair, Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design, Madras, Jan 4-7, 1998.
    Publicity Chair, Intl. Workshop on CAMP, Boston, Oct 20-22, 1997.
    Workshop Chair, IEEECS Workshop on VLSI, Orlando, April 1998.
    Program Chair, IEEECS Workshop on VLSI, Clearwater, Nov 3-6, 1996.
    Publicity Chair, Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design, 1992, 1996, 1997.
    General Co-Chair, Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design, New Delhi, Jan 1995.
    Program Chair, Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design, Calcutta, Jan. 1994.
    IEEE Liaison, Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design, 1993, 1999-2005.
    Local Arrangements Chair, IEEECS VLSI Workshop, Tampa, Feb 2-5, 1992.
    Best Paper Award Panel, Intl. Conf. VLSI Design, 1996, 99, 2001.


  • Conferences Program Committee Member:
  • Intl. Conference on Parallel Processing, ICPP, August 15-17, 1995;
    Intl. Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, SPDP, 1995.
    Intl. Conf. on High Performance Computing, ICHPC, 1995-1997.
    Intl. Parallel Processing Symposium, IPPS, Santa Barbara, April 1995.
    Intl. Conf. on Computer Design, ICCD, 1994-1997, 1999, 2002-05.
    Intl. Conference on VLSI Design, 1993-2006.
    IEEE Computer Society Annual Workshop on VLSI, 1992-1999, 2002.
    IEEECS Intl. Symposium on VLSI, 2003-06.
    Intl. Workshop on CAMP - 1997, 2000, 2003.
    IEEE 8th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI, Feb 1998, 2002.
    Intl. Workshop on Asynchronous Systems, ASYNC99-00.
    Intl. Workshop on Design, Test and Applications, WDTA99, Croatia.
    Intl. Conf. Parallel & Distr. Proc. Techniques & Applns., PDPTA99.
    Microelectronic Systems Education Conference, 1999, 2000-05.
    Intl. Sym. on Quality of Electronic Design, Santa Clara, Mar 20-23, 2000.
    Intl. Sym. on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2004, 2005.


  • Conferences Session Chair:
  • VLSI Algorithms, Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design, New Delhi, Jan 4-8, 1991.
    Layout, Fifth Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design, Bangalore, Jan 4-8, 1992.
    Special Purpose Architectures, Sixth IPPS, Beverly Hills, Mar 23-26, 1992.
    VLSI for Machine Vision, SPIE Conf. on Applications of AI X: Machine Vision and Robotics, Orlando, April 20-24, 1992.
    DSP, Intl. Conf. on VLSI Design, Bombay, Jan 4-7, 1993.
    Computer Arithmetic, Intl. Conf. on Computer Design, Boston, Oct 1994.
    Architecture/Design, Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, Buffalo, Mar 1995.
    Special Purpose Architectures, 9th IPPS, Santa Barbara, April 1995.
    Algorithms on Networks I, ICPP,Wisconsin, Aug 1995.
    Arithmetic Modules, Intl. Conf. on Computer Design, Austin, Oct 1995.
    Image Processing, ICHPC, High Performance Computing, Dec 27-30, 1995.
    Arithmetic Circuits, ICCD, Austin, Oct. 7-9, 1996.
    VLSI, Computer Arch. for Machine Perception, Boston, Oct 20-22, 1997.
    VLSI Architectures I, Intl. COnf. on VLSI Design, 2002.
    Low Power, IEEE Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, 2002.
    Low Power, International Conference on VLSI Design, 2004.


  • Review Work:
    National Science Foundation ITR Panel, 2003, 2004.
    National Science Foundation Design Automation Panel, 2003.
    VLSI RISC Architectures and Organization by S. Furber, book review appeared in Journal of ComputerSystems Science and Engineering, 6(1), Jan 1991;
    Parallel and Distributed Computing Handbook by A. Zomaya, book review appeared in IEEE Concurrency Magazine, 5(3), Sept 1997;

  • Reviewer for: IEEE Trans. on Computers, VLSI Systems, Computer Aided Design, Circuits and Systems, SMC, Parallel and Distributed Processing, CSVT, Signal Processing and PAMI, IEEE Computer, Proc. of IEEE, IEEE Micro, Machine Vision and Applications Journal, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE Design and Test, Pattern Recognition Journal, Pattern Recognition Letters; Conferences: Robotics and Automation, IROS, Phoenix Conf. on Computers and Comm., ICPP, IPPS, SPDP, MPPS, VLSI Design, and DAC; National Science Foundation (since 1990).