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

Associate Editorships

I serve as an Associate Editor for the following journals: Computer Vision and Image Understanding International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition

Outside Committees

I serve on the following outside committees: International Association for Pattern Recognition:  Technical Committee 11 ("Reading Systems") (chair), Conferences and Meetings Committee

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

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

Professional Societies

I am a member of the following professional societies: Assocation for Computing Machinery (ACM) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

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)

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