Below is a partial listing of some of my many professional activities. See my Vita for a more detailed list.

Editorships

I am co-Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition which is published by Springer Nature. I serve as an Area Editor for Computer Vision and Image Understanding which is published by Elsevier.

Outside Committees

I serve on the following outside committees: International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR):  Technical Committee 11 “Reading Systems”, Chair, 2009-13; Conferences and Meetings Committee, 2003-18, Chair, 2014-18; Treasurer (elected) and Executive Committee, 2018-present. Computing Research Association:  Board of Directors, 2022 – present. Computing Research Association:  Computing Community Consortium Council (CCC), 2015 – present; Nominations Committee, 2017, Chair 2020 – 2021; Executive Committee, 2017 – present; Intelligent Infrastructure Task Force, Co-Chair with B. Zorn, 2017 – 2018, Co-Chair with E. Mynatt, 2018 – 2019; Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Task Force, 2018 – 2019, Chair 2019 – 2020; Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research Steering Committee, 2018 – 2019; Technology for a Connected and Distributed Life Task Force, 2020 – present; Visioning Workshop Ad Hoc Committee, Chair 2020 – 2021; CCC Council Vice Chair, 2020 – 2022, CCC Council Chair, 2022 – present.

Conference Committee Leadership

In addition to serving on numerous Program Committees, I have served in the following conference leadership roles: Local Arrangements Chair, Brown/MIT Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI and Parallel Systems, Providence, RI, March 1992 Co-Chair (with J. Zhou), Document Recognition V (IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging), San Jose, CA, January 1998 Local Arrangements Chair, Document Understanding Working Group Meeting, Murray Hill, NJ, August 1998 Co-Chair (with J. Zhou), Document Recognition and Retrieval VI (IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging), San Jose, CA, January 1999 Co-Chair (with J. Zhou), Document Recognition and Retrieval VII (IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging), San Jose, CA, January 2000. Co-Chair (with P. Kantor and J. Zhou), Document Recognition and Retrieval VIII (IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging), San Jose, CA, January 2001. Co-Chair (with J. Hu and R. Kashi), Fifth International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Princeton, NJ, August 2002 Co-Chair (with H. Baird), Second International Workshop on Human Interactive Proofs, Bethlehem, PA, May 2005 Founding Co-Chair (with C. Knoblock, S. Roy, and L. V. Subramaniam), Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (in association with the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), Hyderabad, India, January 2007 Co-Chair (with S. Roy, K. Schulz, and L. V. Subramaniam), Second Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (in association with the Thirty-First International ACM SIGIR Conference), Singapore, July 2008 Co-Chair (with S. Roy, K. Schulz, and L. V. Subramaniam), Third Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (in association with the Tenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition), Barcelona, Spain, July 2009 Program Co-Chair (with S. Chaudhury), Second International Workshop on Multilingual OCR (in association with the Tenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition), Barcelona, Spain, July 2009 Co-Chair (with P. Natarajan, V. Govindaraju, and D. Doermann), Ninth International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Cambridge, MA, June 2010 Co-Chair (with R. Basili, C. Ringlstetter, S. Roy, K. Schulz, and L. V. Subramaniam), Fourth Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (in association with the Nineteenth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), Toronto, Canada, October 2010 Co-Chair (with L. Day, C. Ringlstetter, S. Roy), Fifth Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (in association with the Eleventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ), Beijing, China, September 2011 Co-Chair (with S. Chaudhury, V. Govindaraju, and P. Natarajan), Third International Workshop on Multilingual OCR (in association with the Eleventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ), Beijing, China, September 2011 Founding Chair, IAPR 2011 Doctoral Consortium, (in association with the Eleventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition), Beijing, China, September 2011 Program Co-Chair (with T. Breuel and C. L. Tan), Eleventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Beijing, China, September 2011 Track Co-Chair (with K. Kise), Twenty-First International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, November 2012 Executive Co-Chair (with V. Govindaraju and P. Natarajan), Twelfth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Washington, DC, September 2013 Program Co-Chair (with M. Blumenstein and J. Lladós), Twelfth IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Santorini, Greece, April 2016 Program Co-Chair (with C.V. Jawahar and D. Karatzas), Fourteenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Kyoto, Japan, November 2017 Program Co-Chair (with Basilis Gatos, Jean-Marc Ogier, and Koichi Kise), Thirteenth International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Vienna, Austria, April 2018 Co-Chair (with Bertrand Kerautret, Miguel Colom, Bart Lamiroy, Pascal Monasse, Jean-Michel Morel, and Hugues Talbot), Second Workshop on Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition, Beijing, China, August 2018 Area Chair (Document Analysis and Recognition), Publications Chair, Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Beijing, China, August 2018 Organizing Committee, CODE 8.7 Conference on Using Computational Science and Artificial Intelligence to End Modern Slavery, UN Headquarters, New York, NY, February 2019 Tutorials Co-Chair (with Josep Lladós), Fifteenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Sydney, Australia, September 2019 Workshop Co-Chair, CCC / Code 8.7 Workshop on Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery, Washington, DC, March 2020 Program Co-Chair (with Xiang Bai and Dimothenis Karatzas), Fourteenth International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Wuhan, China (virtual), July 2020 Tutorials Chair, Seventeenth International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Dortmund, Germany, September 2020 Area Chair (Document Analysis and Recognition), Twenty-Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, January 2021 Co-Chair (with Bertrand Kerautret, Miguel Colom, Pascal Monasse, Jean-Michel Morel, and Hugues Talbot), Third Workshop on Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, January 2021 Program Co-Chair (with Josep Lladós and Seiichi Uchida), Sixteenth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2021

Guest Editorships

I have served as guest editor for the following journals:: Guest Editor (with J. Hu and R. Kashi), Special Issue on Document Analysis Systems, International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, vol. 6, no. 3, March 2003 Guest Editor (with C. Knoblock, S. Roy, and L. V. Subramaniam), Special Issue on Noisy Text Analytics, International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, vol. 10, nos. 3-4, December 2007 Guest Editor (with S. Roy, K. Schulz, and L. V. Subramaniam), Special Issue on Noisy Text Analytics, International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, vol. 12, no. 3, October 2009

Other Professional Activities

Member, Code 8.7 Organizing Committee, Using Computational Science and Artificial Intelligence to End Modern Slavery, 2019-present. Member, Seed Fund Steering Committee for the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, 2020-present.

Professional Societies

I am a member of the following professional societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Life Member International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)

Honorary Societies

I am a member of the following honorary societies: Phi Beta Kappa Sigma Xi (Secretary-Elect of the Lehigh Chapter 2005-2006, Secretary of the Lehigh Chapter 2006-2007)

Expert Witness

I have served as an expert witness in a number of intellectual property cases involving high tech companies. This has involved both litigation consulting as well as patent validity disputes in the US Patent and Trademark Office. I have also done pro bono work in the area of electronic voting systems. For more details, see my current CV.

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