Service - Department/College

Information and Decision Sciences Department, UIC:
• Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2004-2007.
• Chair, MIS Committee, 2002-2007.
• Chair, MS-MIS Program Revision Committee, 2003.
• Chair, PhD Program Revision Committee, 2003.
• Member, Advisory Committee to the Department Head, 1999-2004, 2006-07.
• Member, MIS committee, 1998-2001.
• Member,Graduate Committee, 1998-2000.
• Member, Department Undergraduate Committee, 2001-2004.
• Chair, Department Scholarship Selection Committee, 1999-2001.

College of Business Administration, UIC
• Member of the CBA Executive Committee, 2005-2007.
• Member of the CBA Student Relations Committee, 2001-2004.
• Member of the CBA Research Committee. 1998-99.
• Member of the CBA Coordinating Committee, 1999-2000.

Professional Activities

Editorial

• Guest Editor, Decision Support Systems Journal, Special Issue on Web Data Mining, 2000.
• Editorial Board, Journal of Database Marketing, 1998-present.

Journal Reviewer:

Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, Knowledge and Information Systems, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Systems in Accounting Finance and Management, Journal fo Database Management, Data Base, Evolutionary Computation, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management,, Annals of OR, IIE Transactions, etc.

Program Comittees, etc.

• Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS-2007), Montreal, 2007.
• Program Committee,6th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL06) , Hefei, China, 2006.
• Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS-2006), Milwaukee, 2006.
• Member, IEEE Data Mining Task Force, 2005.
• Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS-2005), Las Vegas, 2005.
• Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS-2004), Washington DC, 2004.
• Program Committee, 4rd International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF-2005), Salt Lake City, Utah, 2005.
• Program Committee, Workshop on information Technology and Systems (WITS 2003), December 2003.
• Program Committee, The Third International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF'2003), September 2003.
• Program Committee, The Second International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF'2002), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, March 8-13, 2002.
• Program Committee, 2002 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference, May 19-22, 2002, Seattle, Washington.
• Program Committee, Workshop on Data Mining for Marketing Applications, Joint 12th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML'01), Freiburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2001.
• Program Committee, The First International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Economics and Finance (CIEF'2000), Atlantic City, New Jersey, February 27-March 3, 2000.
• Track Chair, AI and Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, Orlando, November, 2000.
• Coordinator for Technical Sessions, College of Artificial Intelligence, INFORMS Spring 2000 Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2000.
• Cluster Chair, College of Artificial Intelligence, INFORMS, Philadelphia, Nov 7-10, 1999.
• Program Committee, INFORMS Information Systems and Technology Conference, San Diego, May, 1997.
• Session Chair, Data Mining, INFORMS National Meeting, Montreal, 1998.
• Session Chair, Practice and Applications of AI, INFORMS National Meeting, New Orleans, October, 1995.