Other Professional Activities

I. Activities in professional organizations

•    Member of IEEE Periodicals Committee (2009-....)

•    Member of IEEE TAB Nominations & Appointments Committee (2007-2008)

•    Vice Chair of IEEE Membership Development Committee (2006)

•    Member of IEEE RAB/TAB Section/Chapter Support Committee (2005)

•    Member of Member of  IEEE Teaching Award Committee (2004 – 2006)

•    Member of IEEE Fellow Committee (2004 – 2006)

•    Vice-President (Conferences of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2004 – 2005)

•    President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2002 – 2003)

•    AdCom Member of IEEE Neural Networks Society (2002 – 2003)

•    AdCom Member of IEEE Education Society (2000 – 2003)

•    President Elect of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (2000 – 2001)

•    Vice President (Administration) of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (1998 – 1999)

•    Vice President (Technical Activities) of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (1996 – 1997)

•    Vice President (Publication) of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (1994 – 1995)

•    Administration Committee member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (1990 – ......).

•    Chairman of Technical Committee on Emerging Technologies, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (1991 – 1996)

•    General Chair of 10th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems - VSS 2008, 8-10 June 2008, Antalya, Turkey.

•    General Chair of IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference - IEMDC 2007, 3-5 May 2007, Antalya, Turkey.

•    General Chair of ICSC Congress on Computational Intelligence: Methods and Applications, Dec. 15-17, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.

•    Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'2004, 6-9 Nov. 2004, Busan, Korea.

•    General Chair of 12th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation: MED'04 (June 6-9, 2004, Kusadasi, Izmir, Turkey)

•    General Chair of International Conference on Mechatronics:ICM'04 (June 3-5, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey)

•    General Chair of 5th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training: ITHET 2004 (May 31-June 2, 2004, Istanbul, Turkey)

•    Technical Program Co-Chair of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics- ISIE 2003 (June 9-12, 2003, Rio de Janerio, Brazil)

•    General Chair of International Fuzzy Systems Association Congress, IFSA 2003  (29 June - 2 July 2003, Istanbul, Turkey).

•    General Chair of Joint 13^th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and 10th International Conference on Neural Information Processing- ICANN/ICONIP 2003 (26-29 June 2003, Istanbul, Turkey).

•    General Chair of IEEE Conference on Control Applications, CCA 2003 (23-25 June 2003, Istanbul, Turkey)

•    Vice Co-Chair of 3^rd Int. Conf. on Information Technology based Higher Education and Training - ITHET 2002 (Budapest, Hungary, July 4-6, 2002).

•    General Chair of Int. Conf. on Information Technology in Mechatronics - ITM 2002 (Istanbul, Oct. 3-5, 2001).

•    Vice Co-Chair of 2^nd Int. Conf. on Information Technology based Higher Education and Training - ITHET 2001 (Kumamoto, Japan, July 4-6, 2001).

•    General Chair of Int. Conf. on Information Technology based Higher Education and Training - ITHET 2000 (Istanbul, July 3-5, 2000).

•    Has served on Advisory, Organizing and/or International Program Committees of numerous international meetings.

•    Associate Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics  (2008 - …..)

•    Guest Editor of IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, Industrial Applications of Sliding Mode Control, 2008.

•    Member of Executive Scientific Board of International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (Springer), (2007 - …….)

•    Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Education,  Special Issue on Plagiarism, 2007.

•    Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sensors  (2006 -…….).

•    Area (Robotics and Mechatronics) Editor of  Springer-Verlag Int. Journal on Soft Computing  (2006-….).

•    Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2005 - 2006).

•    Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks  (2002 - 2005).

•    Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics  (1995 - …..).

•    Guest Editor of International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Special Issue on Learning in Intelligent Systems, 2003.

•    Guest Editor (with Yavuz Akpinar) of Industry & Higher Education, Special Issue on ITHET 2000 – Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, v. 15,  no: 2, April 2001.

•    Guest Editor of IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, Special Section on Computationally Intelligent Methodologies and Sliding-Mode Control, v. 48, no: 1, Feb. 2001

•    Guest Editor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue on Mechatronics, vol. 19, no: 2, Dec. 1996.

•    Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Special Section on Mechatronics, vol. 43, no: 1, February 1996.

•    Guest Editor (with Gunduz Ulusoy) of Industry & Higher Education, Special Issue on Technology Management: University-Industry-Government Collaboration, v. 10,  no: 6, December 1996.

•    Member of Management Committee of IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (Jan.. 1995 – Dec. 1998, Jan. 2001-…..).

•    Member of Editorial Board of the KAIST Press journal; Neural Information Processing – Letters and Reviews (May 2003 - ….).

•    Member of Editorial Board of the Elsevier journal; International Journal of Computational Intelligence and

     Applications (Oct.. 2001 - ….).

•    Member of Editorial Board of the Elsevier journal; Applied Soft Computing  (Jan. 2001 - ….).

•    Member of Editorial Board of Asian Jornal of Control (Jan. 2001 - ….).

•    Member of Editorial Board of International Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence (1997 -....).

•    Member of Advisory Board of the Journal on Industry & Higher Education  (1996 -....).

•    Member of Editorial Board of IEEE Spectrum (Jan. 1996 - Dec. 1998).

•    Occasionally referees papers for

-          Automatica

-          IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems

-          IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

-          Fuzzy Sets and Systems

-          Int. J. of Control

-          Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems

-          Computers & Electrical Engineering

-          Int. J. of Systems Science

-          Many others

IV. Invited presentations

•    Presented a keynote talk at International Conference on Mechatronics, - ICOM 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18-20 December 2008.

•    Presented a keynote talk at 2nd Int. Symp. on Systems and Control in Aeronautics and Astronautics- ISSCAA 2008, Shenzhen, China,10 -12 December 2008.

•    Presented an invited talk at XV Congreso Internacional de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Sistemas, “INTERCON 2008,” Trujillo-Peru, 4-8 August 2008.

•    Conducted a mechatronics training course on mechatronics in Rabat, Morocco on invitation from Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), during Feb. 11-15, 2008.

•    Conducted a mechatronics training course on mechatronics in Jakarta, Indonesia on invitation from Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), during Dec. 15-19, 2007.

•    Presented a keynote talk during the International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, ICMEM2007, November 5-7, 2007 in Wuxi, P. R. China.

•    Presented seminars on mechatronics at various universities in Malaysia within the Distinguished Lecturer Program of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 7-11 August 2007.

•    Presented a plenary talk during the 2nd IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2007, 23-25 May 2007, Harbin, China.

•    Presented a plenary talk during 2nd Asia International Symposium on Mechatronics (AISM 2006), December, 11-14, 2006, Hong Kong, China.

•    Presented a plenary talk during 2006 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, August 16–19, 2006, Kunming, China.

•    Presented a plenary talk during IEEE 7^th Int. Conf. On Information Technology Based Education and Training, ITHET 2006, 10-13 July 2006, Sydney, Australia.

•    Presented an invited talk during National Instruments Academic Day, 6-7 July 2006, Beirut, Lebanon.

•    Presented seminars on intelligent systems at Xian Jiaotong University and Shenyang Northeastern University China on invitation by the stated universities during June 28 - July 3, 2006.

•    Presented a plenary talk at The First International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan, April 22-23, 2006.

•    Presented seminars on mechatronics at Pachuca, Mexico on invitation by Universidad Politénica de Pachuca during Feb. 13-14, 2006.

•    Presented an invited seminar at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennesse, USA titled “Intelligent Systems: An Assesment of the Past and the Prospects for the Future” on February 7, 2006.

•    Presented a plenary talk at 1st International Symposium on Systems and Control in Aerospace and Astronautics: ISSCAA 2006, Jan. 19-21, 2006, Harbin, China.

•    Presented a plenary talk at International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and Automation - CIMCA'2005, Nov. 28-30, 2005, Vienna - Austria.

•    Presented an invited “research lecture” at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology  (one of the research institutes of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research: A*STAR), titled, “Industrial Informatics in 21^st Century” on August 15, 2005.

•    Presented a tutorial during the International Syposium on Neural networks (ISNN 2005), Chongqing, China, May 30-June 2, 2005.

•    Presented a seminar as an ARRI Distinguished Lecturer at University of Texas at Arlington, USA titled “Mechatronics in 21^st Century” on February 27, 2004.

•    Presented an invited seminar at Auburn University, Alabama, USA titled “Mechatronics in 21^st Century” on February 27, 2004.

•    Presented two seminars on mechatronics and VSS thory based learning at Tebriz University, Iran during December 2-5, 2004.

•    Presented a plenary talk during the Joint 2nd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 5th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems - SCIS & ISIS 2004, titled “Intelligent Systems: An Assesment of the Past and the Prospects for the Future,” September, 21-24, 2004, Yokohama, Japan.

•    Presented a plenary talk during the 6th IASTED Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control – ISC 2004, titled “Evolution of Intelligent Systems,” August 23-25, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

•    Presented a plenary talk during the First AUS (American Universty of Sharjah) International Symposium on Mechatronics, titled “Mechatronics in 21^st Century,” May 25-27, 2004, Sharja, UAE.

•    Presented a keynote speech during the opening session of IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics: ISIE 2004, titled “Industrial Electronics in the 21st Century,” May 4-7, 2004, Ajaccio, France.

•    Presented an invited lecture, titled “Mechatronics in 21^st Century” at Pusan National University, Pusan, Rep. of Korea, on Sept. 24, 2003.

•    Presented invited lectures and seminars on “Variable Structure Systems Theory and its Applications in Intelligent Systems” at Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, during Sept. 15-20, 2003.

•    Presented a tutorial during 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2003; June 9-12, 2003, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

•    Presented a keynote speech during 2002 IEEE Conference on Industrial Technology, titled “Mechatronics in the 21^st Century” Dec. 11-14, 2002, Bangkok, Thailand.

•    Presented invited lectures and seminars on “Responding to Issues and Trends in Mechatronics in the 21st Century” at AMA Computer University, Manilla, Phillipines, during Sept. 23-24, 2002.

•    Presented a tutorial during the International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2002, August 27-31 2002 , Madrid, Spain.

•    Presented a tutorial during The 27th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society: IECON’01, Nov. 29 - Dec. 2, 2001, Denver, USA.

•    Presented an invited talk during the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Limitations and Future Trends in Neural Computation, Oct. 22-24, 2001, Siena, Italy.

•    Presented an invited talk during the 2nd International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training 2001: ITHET 2001, July 4-6, 2001, Kumamoto City, Japan.

•    Presented the keynote talk during the First International Conference on Mechatronics – ICOM’01; 11-12 February 2001, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

•    Presented a tutorial during the IEEE 26th Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON 2000, 22-28 October 2000, Nagoya, Japan.

•    Presented a plenary talk during the 2000 International Symposium on Mechatronics and Intelligent Mechanical System for 21 Century (ISIM2000), 4-6 October 2000, KyongSangNam-Do, South Korea.

•    Directed a workshop during the IEEE 25th Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'99, 29 Nov.  – 3 December 1999, San Jose, U.S.A.

•    Presented a plenary (opening) talk during the Jubilee Conference of Banki Donat Polytechnic, 1-3 September 1999, Budapest, Hungary.

•    Presented a tutorial during the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE'99), 12-16 July, 1999, Bled, Slovenia.

•    Presented a tutorial during the IEEE 24th Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'98, Aug. 31 – Sept. 4, 1998, Aachen, Germany.

•    Presented a public lecture on invitation from National University Singapore, during the Singapore Robotics Games '98, on 22 May 1998

•    Presented the keynote address during the IEEE 23rd Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation; IECON'97, Nov. 10-14, 1997, New Orleans, USA.

•    Presented an invited talk during the Spring Conference of Korean Mechanical Engineers, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea, April 18, 1996.

•    Presented an invited paper during IEEE Int. Workshop on Neuro-Fuzzy Control, Muroran, Japan, March 22-23, 1993.

•    Presented an invited paper during IEEE Int. Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, AMC '92, Nagoya, Japan, March 15-18, 1992.

•    Ph. D. Thesis, A Neuro-Fuzzy Equaliser for Channel Distorsion, by Tayseer A.M. Alsanableh, Near East University, Northern Cyprus Turkish Republic, 2007.

•    Ph. D. Thesis, Fault Diagnostics and Vibration Control of Paper Winders by Timo Virtanen, Helsinki University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2006.

•    M. Sc. Thesis, Design and Implementation of Real-time Neural Control Systems by Sarah Pule, University of Malta, Malta, 2005.

•    Ph. D. Thesis, Development of Learning Control Algorithms by Zhao Shao, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2005.

•    M. Sc. Thesis, High Precision Optimum Control of a Linear Motor Drive Using Genetic Algorithm, by Keck Meng Teck, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2000.

•    Ph. D. Thesis, Control of Planar Flexible-Link Robots, by Yang Hong, National University of Singapore, 1999.

•    M. Sc. Thesis, The Design and Building of a 4-Legged Walking Machine, by Cheong Choon Ghee, National University of Singapore, 1998

•    M. Sc. Thesis, Trajectory Following of a Robotic Manipulator, by Ding Ming Zohn, National University of Singapore, 1998

•    Ph. D. Thesis, Actuation Redundancy Control of 2 Co-operating Industrial Robots, by Dilek Bilgin Tukel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1997.

•    Ph. D. Thesis, Unconventional Control of Industriaql Energetic Processes of Large Scale Heating Furnaces, by Milne Stankovski, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, Rep. of Macedonia, 1997.