General (co-) Chair of over 30 International Conferences including:

• 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning Applications, ICMLA-2024, Miami, USA

• 32nd International Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), Crete, Greece, 26-29 Sept. 2023

• 16th Intern. Conf. on AI Applications and Innovations, 5-7 June 2020, Khalkidhiki, Greece

• 15th Intern. Conf. on AI Applications and Innovations, 24-26 May 2019, Crete, Greece

• The 2018 IEEE Intern. Conf. on INnovations in Intel. SysT. and Applic., INISTA2018, 3-5 July, 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece

• 15th UK Conference on Computational Intelligence, UKCI2016, Lancaster, UK

• 2nd INNS Conference on Big Data, 2016 , Thessaloniki, Greece

• Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Conference, IRAS2016 , Lancaster, UK

• Inaugural INNS Conference on Big Data, 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA

• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN-2013 , Dallas, TX, US

including Founding General co-Chair of annual IEEE conferences on Evolving Intelligent Systems:

• 2006 International IEEE Symposium on Evolving Fuzzy Systems, Ambleside, UK

• 2008 International IEEE Workshop on Genetic & Evolving Fuzzy Systems , Germany

• 2009 IEEE Workshop on Evolving and Self-Developing Intelligent Systems, ESDIS , within 2009 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Nashville, USA

• International Symposium on Evolving Intelligent Systems, EIS’10, Leicester, UK, 2010

• IEEE Conference on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems, EAIS

  • EAIS-2011 within IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI2011), Paris

  • EAIS-2012 , Madrid, Spain

  • EAIS-2013 within SSCI2013, Singapore

  • EAIS-2014 , Linz, Austria

  • EAIS-2015 , Douai, France

  • EAIS-2016 , Natal, Brazil

  • EAIS-2017 , Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • EAIS-2018 , Rhodes, Greece

  • EAIS-2020, Bari, Italy

  • EAIS-2022, Larnaca, Cyprus

• IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems, EALS-2014 within the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence,

  • EALS-2014 within SSCI2014 , Orlando, FL, USA

  • EALS-2015, within SSCI2015 , Cape town, South Africa

  • EALS-2016, within SSCI2016 , Athens, Greece

  • EALS-2017, within SSCI2017 , Honolulu, Hawaii

  • EALS-2018, within SSCI2018 , Bengaluru, India

  • EALS-2019, within SSCI2019, Xiamen, China

  • EALS-2020, within SSCI2020, Canberra, Australia

  • EALS-2022 within SSCI2022, Singapore

• IEEE Symposium on Deep Learning, DL-2017 within the SSCI2017 , Hawaii

• IEEE Symposium on Deep Learning, DL-2018 SSCI2018 , Bengaluru, India

• IEEE Symposium on Deep Learning, DL-2019, SSCI2019, Xiamen, China

• IEEE Symposium on Deep Learning, DL-2020, SSCI2020, Canberra, Australia

• IEEE Symposium on Deep Learning, DL-2022 within SSCI2022, Singapore

• Member-at-large of the Board of Governors (BoG), Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, IEEE, 2022-2024 (elected for second term after 2015-2017) 

• Programme co-Director of Human-Centred Machine Learning of ELLIS, since 2019

• Previously: member-at-large of the Board of Governors (BoG), International Neural Network Society (INNS), 2014-2023 (elected for three consecutive terms); previously - Vice President of INNS, 2017-2020 (elected for two consecutive terms)

• Chaired the Standards Committee of the Computational Intelligent Society, IEEE (2010-2011), now - member of it; initiated and chaired the Working Group (WG) on the IEEE Standard on Explainable AI (XAI), P2976

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More details can be found on "More > Conferences" web page

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Founding Chair of:

• Evolving Intelligent Systems Technical Committee (TC), SMC Society (SMCS) , IEEE, since 2011

• Task Force (TF) on

  • Adaptive Fuzzy Systems, Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) , IEEE, since 2008

  • Autonomous Learning Systems, NNTC , CIS, IEEE, since 2013

  • Deep Learning, NNTC , CIS, IEEE, since 2015

• Advisory Group on Big Data, INNS , since 2014

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Chair of the Program/Technical Committee:​​

• 2024 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE SMC 2024 (Cybernetics Track IPC co-chair)

• 2022 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE 2022 within the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI2022, Padova, Italy

• 31st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), 5-7 September 2022, Bristol, UK 

• 9th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Systems, 2020, Sofia, Bulgaria;

• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2019), Budapest, Hungary;

• IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE-2018) within the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;

• 3rd INNS Conference on Big Data and Deep Learning, 2018 , Bali, Indonesia;

• 9th International Conference on Big Data technologies and Applications, 2018, UK

• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2016) within the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2016 , Vancouver, Canada;

• 7th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Systems, 2016 , Sofia, Bulgaria;

• IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE-2014) within the World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI2014, Beijing, China;

• 6th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Systems, 2014 , Warsaw, Poland;

• IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics, CYBCONF-2013 , Lausanne, Switzerland

 

Publications Chair

• 19th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2018, 3-5 Sept. 2018, Bristol, UK

• 2014 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence , Orlando, FL, USA

• 2007 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE 2007, London

 

Area Chair

• 2017 IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Conference , Banff, Canada

• 5th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems , London, 2010

 

Awards Chair

• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN2023, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia

• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN2015, Killarney, Ireland

Tutorials Chair

• World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI2020, Glasgow, Scotland

 

Advisory/Honorary Committee member

• 14th International Conference on AI Applications and Innovations, AIAI2018 , 25-27 May 2018, Rhodes, Greece

• 16th Intern. Conference on Engineering Applications on Neural Networks,  EANN 2015, Rhodes, Greece, 25-28 Sept. 2015

• 2014 International Conference on Adaptive and Intelligent Systems - ICAIS'14 , Bournemouth, UK

• Senior Program Committee Member, 25th Intern. Joint Conference on AI, IJCAI-2016 , 9-15 July 2016, New York City, USA

• Senior Program Committee Member, 28th Intern. Joint Conference on AI, IJCAI-2019 , 6-10 August 2019, Macao

• Senior Program Committee Member, 24th European Conference on AI, ECAI-2020, 29 August – 8 Sept., Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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Founding Director of Lancaster Intelligent, Autonomous systems Centre

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co-founder of:

• Data Science Institute , Lancaster University (2014)

• Centre of Excellence on CyberSecurity, Lancaster University (2012)

 

Membership:

 

• TC on Fuzzy Systems, CIS, IEEE , since 2006

• TC on Neural Networks, CIS, IEEE , since 2012

• TC on Diagnostics and Prognostics, SMCS , since 2013

• Committee on Standards, CIS, IEEE , since 2007

• Committee on Fellows, SMCS, IEEE , 2016-2017

• TF on Machine Learning, Emerging Technologies, CIS, IEEE, since 2006

• Special Interests Group (SIG) on Autonomous Machine Learning, INNS, since 2008

• Member of the Committee on Senior Members, CIS, IEEE, 2008-2010

• Autonomous Systems National TC, Aerospace and Defence KTN , 2009-2014

• Best paper awards, 2008 IEEE WCCI, Hong Kong and IJCNN2015 , Killarney, Ireland

• Innovation Award, World Congress on NBIC, 2009, China