Service

Reviewer

  • Book Proposals: CRC Press -- Research Trends in Bio-inspired Algorithms for Bigdata Analytics, CRC Press -- Big Data Analytics: Systems, Algorithms and Applications, CRC Press -- Enhancement of K-means Clustering Algorithm with Hybrid Optimization Approach, CRC Press -- Big Data in E-Health: Challenges and Perspectives

    Journals: Nature Communications, Nature Mental Health, FEBS Letters, Information Systems, PLoS Comput Biol, PLoS One, J Phys Chem Lett, Scientific Reports, F1000 Research, BMC Genomics, Proteins: Struct, Funct, and Bioinf, Proc Natl Acad Sci (PNAS), J Amer Chem Soc (JACS), Biophysical J, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (General Subjects) Structural Dynamics, J of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Neural Processing Letters, Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), Robotica, IEEE Trans Evol Comput (TEVC), J of Applied Mathematics and Computation, Entropy J, IEEE Trans on Comp Biol and Bioinf (TCBB), IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience, BMC Structural Biology J, Molecules, J Computer-aided Molecular Design, Proteome Science J, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Chemistry J, Intl J Mol Sciences, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, J Bioinf and Comp Biol, Bioinformatics J, J Chem Info and Model, J Comput Chemistry, Molecular Biology Reports, Comput and Struct Biotechnology J

    Conferences and Workshops: AAAI, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, NeurIPS-AI4Science, ICML-SPIGM, ICLR-GEM, ICANN, ACM Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference (ACM BCB), IEEE Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Intl Conf Res Comp Mol Biol(RECOMB), Intelligent Systems Mol Biol (ISMB), Intl Conf on Bioinf and Comput Biol (BiCoB), Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), Comput Struct Biol Workshop (CSBW), Intl Conf Comp Sys Bioinf (CSB), Intl Workshop Algo Found of Robotics (WAFR), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Inlt Conf Bio-inspired Models of Network, Info, and Comput (Bionetics) IEEE Intl Conf Net Dig Tech (NDT)

    Grant Proposal Reviewing:
    NIH Pioneer, 2023.
    UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), 2023.
    The Marsden Fund, New Zealand, 2023.
    NIH SuRE Program, 2023.
    NIH BBBT-F (02), 2023.
    European Research Council (ERC), ERC Consolidator Grant Program, 2022.
    French National Research Agency (ANR), 2022.
    DARPA I2O, 2022.
    Common Wealth of Virginia Cyber Initiative (CCI) Program, 2021.
    Mason Internal Jeffress Applications, 2021.
    Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), 2020.
    Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, Army Research Office, 2019.
    Spark Initiative, Swiss National Science Foundation, Reviewer, 2023, 2019.
    Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), Panelist, 2019.
    National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Felloships, Panelist, 2019
    Executive Review Committee for the Inaugural Inova Translational Research Funding Program, 2018
    NIH NINDS NST-2 (K99/R00 and F32) study section member, 2019
    Chair, NIH ZRG1 Special Emphasis (S10) study section, 2018
    NIH BST-80 AREA (R15) Bioengineering study section member, 2019-2018
    NIH BDMA study section member, 2017-2015
    NIH Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) for Biomedical Research Shared Instrumentation (S10), 2016
    Panelist and ad-hoc reviewer for various NSF programs (STC, AI Institutes, CISE:IIS:III CAREER and Core, CISE:CCF:FET, CISE:CCF:AF, CISE:OAC:SI2, CISE:OAC:CSSI, CISE:CNS, CISE:BIO:MCB) 2022-2010
    Accelerating Scientific Discovery (ASDI) (Netherlands e-Science Center + Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), 2016
    NIH Bioinformatics, Topics in Computational Biosciences Special Emphasis Shared and High-End Instrumentation study section member, 2015
    AgreenSkills (EU + INRIA), 2014-2013

Professional Associations

  • Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR)
    American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, Women in Engineering
    IEEE CIS BBTC
    ACM, SIGBCB, SIGACT, SIGART, SIGSIM, SIGEVO, SIGKDD
    International Society for Computational Biology (ICSB)
    Biophysical Society
    American Chemical Society (ACS)
    Mason Nanotechnology Initiative

Selected Professional Activities

  • Editorial Boards:
    Guest Editor of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS, IF: 6.208) Special Issue on Deep Learning for Modeling the Structure, Dynamics, and Function of Small and Large Molecules, 2022-2023.
    Guest Lead Editor of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS, IF: 6.208) Special Issue on Recent Advances in Computational Structural Bioinformatics, 2022-2023.
    Member, Big Data Interagency Working Group, 2019-2022
    Chair of ACM/IEEE Trans Bioinf and Comp Biol (TCBB) Steering Committee, ACM representative, 2018-2021
    Associate Editor, ACM/IEEE Trans Bioinf and Comp Biol (TCBB), 2017-present
    Associate Editor, Molecules, 2019-2021
    Co-editor of Section on Theory and Simulation/Computational Methods at Current Opinion in Structural Biology Journal, 2019-2021.
    Guest Co-Editor of Molecules, 2021-2020, special issue on deep learning.
    Guest Editor of Biomolecules, 2019-2018, special issue.
    Guest co-editor, IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol and Bioinf 2017, special issue of ACM-BCB 2017 (with Tamer Kahveci and Giuseppe Pozzi).
    Guest co-editor, J Biomedical and Health Informatics 2017, special issue of ACM-BCB 2017 (with Tamer Kahveci and Giuseppe Pozzi).
    Guest co-editor, PLoS Comput Biol 2015, special collection on Macromolecular Structure and Dynamics to celebrate journal's tenth anniversary (with Ruth Nussinov).
    Guest co-editor, IEEE/ACM TCBB 2015, special issue (with Illhoi Yoo).
    Guest co-editor, J Comput Biol 2015, special issue (with Jing He, Nurit Haspel, and Brian Chen).
    Guest associate editor, Education collection, PLoS Comp Biol, 2014.
    Guest co-editor, Robotica 2014, special issue (with Lydia Tapia, Juan Cortes, and Jianlin Cheng).
    Member, Intl J of Data Mining & Bioinformatics (IJDMb), 2013-present.
    Guest co-editor, BMC Structural Biology J 2013, special issue on Bioinformatics (with Jing He, Nurit Haspel, and Brian Chen).
    Guest co-editor, J Bioinf Comput Biol 2012, special issue on Bioinformatics (with Jing He, Nurit Haspel, and Brian Chen).
    Guest co-editor, J Bioinf Comput Biol 2011, special issue on Bioinformatics (with Nurit Haspel).

    Workshop Organization:
    [18] "Large Language Models for Biological Discovery ( LLMs4BIO )," AAAI Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, February 26, 2024. (with Yana Bromberg and Liang Zhao).
    [17] "Ethics and AI Undergraduate Minor at George Mason University: Planning Workshop I," at George Mason University, March 25, 2022. (with Jesse Kirkpatrick, Alexander Monea, Rachel Jones, Peng Warweg).
    [16] "Spatial & Spatial-Temporal informatics: Methods, Tools and Emerging Opportunities for Translational Bioinformatics " W23 at AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium, October 31, 2021, San Diego, CA. (with Arvind Rao/U Michigan Ann Arbor, Mary Saltz/Stony Brook, Shashi Shekhar/U Minnesota, Joel Saltz/Stony Brook Medicine, and Li Zhu/NIH.)
    [15] "Computational Structural Biology Workshop" (CSBW) at ACM BCB, August 20, 2017, Boston, MA. (with Nurit Haspel/UMass Boston, and Kevin Molloy/GMU).
    [14] "Women @ GECCO" at ACM GECCO, July 15, 2017, Berlin, Germany (chairing with Tea Tusar).
    [13] "Evolutionary Computation in Computational Biology" at ACM GECCO, July 15, 2017, Berlin, Germany (with José Santos/University of A Coruña, Julia Handl/University of Manchester, and Mostafa Ellabaan/Technical University of Denmark).
    [12] "Women @ GECCO" at ACM GECCO, July 20, 2016, Denver, Colorado (with Emma Hart, Carola Doerr, Una-May O'Reilly, Julia Handl, Gabriela Ochoa, and others).
    [11] "Evolutionary Computation in Computational Structural Biology" at ACM GECCO, July 20, 2016, Denver, Colorado (with José Santos/University of A Coruña and Julia Handl/University of Manchester).
    [10] "Computational Structural Biology Workshop" (CSBW) at IEEE BIBM, November 09, 2015, Washington, D.C. (with Jing He/Old Dominion University, Nurit Haspel/UMass Boston, and Brian Chen/Lehigh University).
    [9] "Evolutionary Computation in Computational Structural Biology" at ACM GECCO, July 11, 2015, Madrid, Spain (with José Santos/University of A Coruña and Julia Handl/University of Manchester).
    [8] "Computational Structural Biology Workshop" (CSBW) at ACM BCB, September 20, 2014, Newport Beach, CA (with Jing He/Old Dominion University, Nurit Haspel/UMass Boston, and Brian Chen/Lehigh University).
    [7] "Workshop on Robotics Methods for Biological Structures and Kinematics Modeling" at RSS, July 12, 2014, Berkeley, CA (with Juan Cortes/CNRS-LAAS, Jianlin Cheng/University of Missouri, and Lydia Tapia/University of New Mexico).
    [6] "NSF CISE CAREER Writing Workshop" CAREER, March 31, 2013, Arlington, VA (with Huzefa Rangwala/George Mason University).
    [5] "Computational Structural Biology Workshop" (CSBW), September 22, 2013, Washington, D.C. (with Jing He/Old Dominion University, Nurit Haspel/UMass Boston, and Brian Chen/Lehigh University).
    [4] "Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Method in Computational Biology" at AAAI, July 15, 2013, Bellevue, WA (with Juan Cortes/CNRS-LAAS and Jianlin Cheng/University of Missouri).
    [3] "Computational Structural Biology Workshop" (CSBW), October 4, 2012, Philadelphia, PA (with Jing He/Old Dominion University, Nurit Haspel/UMass Boston, and Brian Chen/Lehigh University).
    [2] "Computational Structural Biology Worksho"p (CSBW), November 12, 2011, Atlanta, GA (with Jing He/Old Dominion University, Nurit Haspel/UMass Boston, and Brian Chen/Lehigh University).
    [1] "Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics Workshop" (BioLearn) at BIONETICS, Boston, Dec. 1-3, 2010 (with Kenneth De Jong/George Mason University and Uday Kamath/George Mason University)

    Tutorial Organization:
    [7] Modeling Macromolecular Structures and Motions: Computational Methods for Sampling and Analysis of Energy Landscapes with Kevin Molloy/James Madison University and Nasrin Akhter/George Mason University, ACM BCB, 2018
    [6] Robotics-inspired Algorithms for Modeling Protein Structures and Motions with Kevin Molloy/George Mason University and David Morris/George Mason University, ACM BCB, 2017
    [5] Evolutionary Algorithms for Protein Structure Modeling with with Kenneth De Jong/George Mason University, Emmanuel Sapin/George Mason University, ACM BCB, 2016
    [4] "Evolutionary Algorithms for Protein Structure Modeling" with Kenneth De Jong/George Mason University, ACM GECCO, 2015
    [3] "Robot Motion Planning Methods for Modeling Structures and Motions of Biomolecules" with Nurit Haspel/UMass Boston, ACM BCB, 2014
    [2] "Evolutionary Search Algorithms for Protein Modeling: From De-novo Structure Prediction to Comprehensive Maps of Functionally-relevant Structures of Protein Chains and Assemblies" with Kenneth De Jong/George Mason University, ACM GECCO, 2014
    [1] "From Robot Motion Planning to Modeling Structures and Motions of Biological Molecules" with Juan Cortes/CNRS-LAAS and Nurit Haspel/UMass Boston, ACM BCB 2013.

    Program and Organizing Committees:
    Steering Committee member, Impact AI Symposium, Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), 2024.
    Area Chair, ACM BCB 2023, Houston, TX
    Senior Program Committee Member, KDD, 2020
    Tutorial Chair, ISMCO 2019, Lake Tahoe, NV
    General Chair, ACM BCB 2018, Washington, D.C.
    Special Session chair, IEEE CIBCB 2018, Saint Louis, Missouri
    PC chair, ACM BCB 2017, Boston, MA
    PC member, IEEE ICCABS 2017
    PC member, ISMB 2019, 2016
    PC member, RECOMB 2016
    PC member, ACM BCB 2016-present
    PC member, IEEE BIBM, 2013-present
    PC member, BICOB, 2015-present
    PC member, IEEE ICCABS 2016
    PC chair, IEEE BIBM, 2015, Washington, D. C.
    Tutorial co-chair with Vasant Honavar, ACM BCB, 2014, Newport Beach, CA.
    Local area co-chair with Cathy Wu, ACM BCB, 2013, Washington D.C.
    Systems Biology session chair, ACM BCB, 2012, Orlando, FL.
    Co-chair of poster session in IEEE BIBM, 2012, Philadelphia, PA.
    Organizing Committee vice-chair of BIONETICS, 2010, Boston, MA.
    Co-organizer and co-chair of Bioinformatics track of BIONETICS, 2010, Boston, MA.

    Awards:
    NSF Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment (Group) as member of NSF-wide Molecular Foundations for Biotechnology Working Group, 2022. Individual role: Representative of CISE.
    The State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) Outstanding Faculty Award, 2022.
    Fellow of the American Society of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE), 2022. CEC Press release.
    Outstanding Reseach Award, Department of Computer Science, GMU, 2022
    Beck Family Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Research and Scholarship, 2021.
    Nominated for the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) Outstanding Faculty Award, 2021.
    NSF Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment (Group) as member of NSF-wide COVID-19 RAPID Coordination Group, 2021. Individual role: Coordinator for CISE.
    Outstanding Reseach Award, Department of Computer Science, GMU, 2019
    George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award, 2018
    Outstanding Teacher Award, Department of Computer Science, GMU, 2018
    Distinguished Service Award, Department of Statistics, GMU, 2017
    Nominee for CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award 2017, 2016
    Nominee for Mason Career Connection Award 2016
    Mason Emerging Researcher/Scholar/Creator Award 2014
    Mason OSCAR Undergraduate Mentor Excellence Award 2013
    Nominee for Mason Career Connection Award 2013
    Young Faculty Research Award, Department of Computer Science, GMU, 2012
    Honorable Mention, Human-Competitive award at GECCO 2012
    Nominee for Mason OSCAR Undergraduate Mentor Excellence Award, 2012
    Nominee for Mason Advisor of the Year, 2012
    Recipient of Mason Vice President Research and Economic Development Seed Grants, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2012, 2013
    Recipient of Mason Volgenau School Bioengineering Seed Grant, 2009
    Recipient of Predoctoral Fellowship of NIH Nanobiology Training Program, 2005-2007

    Mentor:
    Thomas Jefferson Internship Program Mentor 2015-2017
    Executive supporter of Girls Computing League , 2015-2016
    Thomas Jefferson Summer Internship 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017
    CRA-W DREU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) 2014, 2012, 2009
    OSCAR (then Apprentice) 2014, 2013, 2011, 2010
    ASSIP (Aspiring Scientist Summer Internship Program) 2012, 2009
    ACE (Academic Challenges and Enrichment Program) 2009–2010
    Real World Design Challenge 2008–2009

    Other Outreach and Scientific Activities:
    Panelist, Roundtable Discussion on Standards in the Executive Order in Artificial Intelligence, Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 30, 2024, Washington D.C.
    Judge, Student AI Research Proposals, Ideaventions Academy for Mathematics and Science, May 23, 2023, Reston, VA.
    Panelist, Session on "AI Applications: Biological Systems", Foundations of Machine Learning and its Applications for Scientific Discovery in Physical and Biological Systems Workshop, June 23, 2022, Tysons Corner, VA.
    Panelist, Session on "Responsible AI", NVTC Impact AI, May 11, 2022, Tysons Corner, VA.
    Panelist , Session on "Ready or Not, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Arrive" , Government IT Sales Summit 2018, Reston, VA
    "Investing in Our Undergraduate Students." George Mason Review, April 26, 2019. Contributor: Amarda Shehu.
    "Will China surpass the US in AI technology? Mason experts weigh in." The George, April 26, 2019. Contributors: Amarda Shehu and Craig Yu.
    ISCB Youth Bioinformatics Conference (YBS), panelist, George Mason University, January 12, 2019.
    "Undergraduate research highlights" section writer of ACM SIBIO newsletter, 2017.
    Judging panel member (Computer Science category) of The Undergraduate Awards (international), 2017-2015.
    Women in Bioinformatics (WiB) panelist, ACM Conf on Bioinf and Comput Biol (BCB), 2014, 2012.
    "Computer Scientist in Profile" section writer of ACM SIGBIO newsletter, 2012-2014. NSF Grants Conference, October 2012
    State Department 3rd Young Scientist Forum, People to People Exchange, October 2012
    Organizer of Chantilly High School Computer Science Tour, September 2011
    Organizer of Chantilly High School Bioengineering Tour, June 17, 2011
    Co-organizer of Chantilly High School Bioengineering Summer Internship Program, Summer 2011
    GMU CSters Faculty Mentor 2008–present
    Grace Hopper Conference Two-body Problem Panel 2009
    Virginia State Science Fair Judge 2009
    Rice University Outreach Week 2006–2008
    Rice CSters Women in Computer Science and Engineering 2005-2008
    KECK Rice Speaker Selection Committee 2007
    Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium Judge 2006

    Comprehensive Exam, PhD Proposal, and PhD Defense Committees:
    Zhenyi Huang (GMU, Statistics, Dissertation Proposal committee, chair: Wanli Qiao), Spring 2024
    Gaurab Pokharel (GMU, Comprehensive Exam committee, chair: Sanmay Das), Fall 2023
    Milind Agrawal (GMU, Comprehensive Exam committee, chair: Antonios Anastasopolous), Fall 2023
    Samuel Blouir (GMU, Comprehensive Exam committee, chair: Amarda Shehu), Fall 2023
    Fardina Alam, (GMU, PhD Dissertation Pre-defense and Defense, committee chair: Amarda Shehu), Spring 2023
    Parastoo Kamranfar, (GMU, PhD Dissertation Pre-defense and Defense, committee chair: Amarda Shehu), Spring 2023
    Taseef Rahman, (GMU, PhD Dissertation Pre-defense and Defense, committee chair: Amarda Shehu), Spring 2023
    Bahman Pedrood, (GMU, PhD Dissertation Pre-defense and Defense, committee chair: Carlotta Domeniconi), Spring 2023
    Kourosh Teimouri Baghaei (GMU, Comprehensive Exam committee, chair: Antonios Anastasopolous), Spring 2023
    Huayu Zhou (GMU, Comprehensive Exam committee, chair: Antonios Anastasopolous), Spring 2023
    Samuel Blouir (GMU, Comprehensive Exam committee, chair: Antonios Anastasopolous), Spring 2023
    Eric Scott (GMU, PhD defense committee, chair: Carlotta Domeniconi), Fall 2022
    Jonathan Mbuya, (GMU, committee chair: Amarda Shehu), Fall 2022
    Abhisekh Rana, (GMU, committee chair: Carlotta Domeniconi), Fall 2022
    Fardina Alam, (GMU, PhD proposal defense committee chair), Spring 2021
    Tasfia Mashiat, (GMU, committee chair: Amarda Shehu), Spring 2021
    Bahman Pedrood, (GMU, PhD proposal defense, committee chair: Carlotta Domeniconi), Spring 2021
    Xiaojie Guo, (GMU, committee chair: Liang Zhang), 2021-2019
    John Hamre, (GMU, committee chair: Saleet Jafri), 2021
    Sivani Tadepali, (GMU, committee chair: Huzefa Rangwala), 2021
    Lutful Kazi Kabir, (GMU, committee chair: Huzefa Rangwala), 2021
    Fardina Alam (GMU, committee chair: Zoran Duric), 2021 Anowarul Kabir, (GMU, committee chair: Carlotta Domeniconi), 2021
    Taseef Rahman, (GMU, committee chair: Jana Kosecka), 2021
    Kahyun Lee, (GMU, committee chair: Ozlem Uzuner), 2021
    Jooyeon Lee, (GMU, committee chair: Ozlem Uzuner), 2021
    Fatemah Husain, (GMU, committee chair: Ozlem Uzuner), 2021
    Angela Achary, (GMu committee chair: Carlotta Domeniconi), 2020
    Yong Yang, (GMu committee chair: Carlotta Domeniconi), 2020
    Manpriya Dua, (GMU, committee chair: Huzefa Rangwala), 2020
    Li Zhang, (GMU, committee chair: Carlotta Domeniconi), 2020
    Parastoo Kamranfar, (GMU, committee chair: Jessica Lin), 2020
    Xavier Gitiaux, (GMU, committee chair: Jana Kosecka), 2020
    Zahra Rajabi, (GMU, committee chair: Amarda Shehu), 2020
    Ahmed Bin Zaman, (GMU, committee chair: Alexander Brodsky), 2020
    Gideon Gogovi, (GMU, dissertation director: Estela Blaisten-Barojas), 2018-2020
    Jing Lei, (GMU, dissertation director: Wanli Qiao), 2019
    Ahmed ElMolla, Task Allocation Using Efficient Auctions for Self-interested Agents (GMU, dissertation director: Sean Luke), 2019
    Joseph Graus, Mesh Decomposition and Edit Propagation through Spectral Shape Analysis (GMU, dissertation director: Jyh-Ming Lien), 2018
    Achyuthan J.R., Optimal Design of Structures, Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering (GMU, dissertation director: David Lattanzi), 2018
    Zhonghua Xi, Origami Simulation, Origami Motion Planning and Polyhedra Unfolding/Folding, Computer Science (GMU, dissertation director: Jyh-Ming Lien), 2017
    Yoseph Abere, Computational Data Sciences (GMU, dissertation director: Estela Blaisten-Barojas), 2017
    Christopher Siwy, School of Systems Biology (GMU, dissertation director: Dmitri Klimov), 2017-2021
    Jose Colbes, Protein Design, Computer Science (CICESE-Mexico, thesis director: Carlos Brizuela), 2015
    Greg Helmick, Computational Data Sciences (GMU, dissertation director: Estela Blaisten-Barojas), 2015-2022
    Irina Hashmi, Protein-protein Docking (GMU, dissertation director), Computer Science, 2015
    Kevin Molloy, Robotics-inspired Structure and Motion Modeling (GMU, dissertation director), Computer Science, 2015
    Brian Olson, Evolutionary-inspired Protein Conformational Search and Optimization (GMU, dissertation director), Computer Science, 2013
    Yanyan Lu, Path Planning with Moving Obstacles, Computer Science (GMU, dissertation director: Jyh-Ming Lien), 2013
    Evan Behar, Geometric Modeling - Dynamic Minkowski Sums, Computer Science (GMU, dissertation director: Jyh-Ming Lien), 2013
    Adam Cadien, Modeling Phase Transitions in Metals, Computational Data Sciences (dissertation director: Howard Sheng), 2013
    Nada Basit, Computational Mutagenesis, Computer Science (dissertation director: Harry Wechsler), 2012

    Departmental Service:
    Ideator and Co-organizer of "Ask Me Anything" series targeting Assistant Professors, GMU Computer Science Department 2020-2023
    Ideator and Co-organizer of AI Tea Series Seminar, GMU Computer Science Department 2020-2023
    AI Lab Coordinator, GMU Computer Science Department 2020-2022
    Member of GMU Computer Science Department Executive Committee 2020-2022
    Member of GMU Information Sciences and Technology Department Search Committee 2021-2022
    Member of working group (with Hakan Aydin and Daniel Menasce) on revising comprehensive exam guidelines for PhD students, 2021
    Member of GMU Computer Science Department Chair Search Committee 2018-2019
    Co-chair of GMU CS Distinguished Lecture Series organization committee 2018--present
    Member of GMU CS Advisory Council, 2018-2019
    Member of GMU CS faculty evaluation committee, 2018-2019
    Member of GMU CS Recruitment committee 2018-2017
    Mentor for junior faculty, 2017
    Organizing committee member of Ph.D. research symposium, GMU CS, 2015-2017
    Co-organizer (with Jana Kosecka), GMU CS Seminar, 2014-2018
    Member of GMU CS Graduate Studies Committee 2016-present
    Member of GMU CS Executive Committee, 2014-2018
    Member of GMU CS Strategic Vision and Planning Committee, 2014
    Member of GMU CS & IT PhD Qualifying Exam 2013-present
    Member of GMU CS Ph.D. Admissions Committee 2013-present
    Member of GMU CS Undergraduate Studies Committee 2008–2011

    College of Engineering and Computing Service:
    Member of VSE (now CEC) Research Council 2020-present
    L1 Promotion Committee Chair, 2022
    Member of GMU CEC Computational Systems Biomedicine Search Committee 2021-2022
    Member of GMU IST Department Search Committee 2021-2022
    Member of GMU Statistics Department Chair Search Committee 2018-2019
    Member of GMU Statistics Department Search Committee 2016-2017
    Member of GMU Statistics Department Search Committee 2015-2016
    Member of GMU Bioengineering Department Curriculum 2011-2012
    Member of GMU Bioengineering Program Committee 2008-2011

    University Service:
    Member of the Office of Research Innovation and Economic Impact (ORIEI) Leadership Council, 2022-present
    Member of VPR Research Council, 2019-present
    Member of Fuse TTIP Infrastructure Committee, 2023-present
    Member of Research Advancement Committee, 2022-present
    Member of University Institutes Strategic Planning Committee, 2022-present
    Member of University Communications Planning Committee, 2022-present
    Member of Fuse-Mason Square Programmatic Planning Committee, 2022-present
    Member of ORIEI Strategic Planning and Initiatives Search Committee, 2022
    Member of ORIEI Executive Assistant Search Committee, 2022
    Member of Department of Philosophy (TTIP) AI/Ethic Faculty Search Committee, 2022
    Mentor of SCHEV Candidates, 2022
    Member of Presidential Awards Review Committee 2021-2022
    Member of TTIP AI \& Society Search Committee, 2021-2022
    Member of TTIP Computational Biomedicine Search Committee, 2021-2022
    Conceptualizer and lead of working group of “Ethics and AI” – Proposed Transdisciplinary Undergraduate Minor, winner of Curriculum Impact Grant in Spring 2021 (together with Rachel Jones, Jesse Kirkpatrick, Alexander Monea, and Peng Warweg)
    Member of TTIP Thematic Hiring Winning Team for AI \& Society, 2020
    Member of Advanced Computational Research Infrastructure Steering Committee, GMU, 2020
    Member of Working Group, Envisioning Retreat, GMU School of Medicine, 2019
    Member of School of Computing Planning Committee, 2019
    Member of University Research Advisory Committee, 2018-2021
    Portfolio Consultant, Teaching Excellence Awards, 2018-2019
    Member of Steering/Advisory Board for the Office of Research Computing at George Mason University, June 2017-2018
    Co-chair of Network Science Group, January 2017-2018
    Mentor for Mason NSF CAREER program, March-July 2017
    Panel member of GMU NSF Career Workshops, 2019, 2018, 2017
    Member of University Scholars Selection Committee, Feb 20, 2016
    Member of Cyber and Computer Mason Multidisciplinary Grants Review Panel, July 16, 2015
    Member of Student Scholarly Activities subcommittee of the Students as Scholars QEP Leadership Council, 2013-present
    Member of GMU NSF CAREER panel, April 28, 2012
    Member of GMU Research Highlight Series, ACE Scholars 2009, 2011

Professional Development

  • Yale School of Management Women's Leadership Program, April 06-May 18, 2022.
    NSF CISE Career Writing Workshop, Norfolk, VA, April 15, 2011
    NSF Early Career Writing Workshop, Williamsburg, June 2, 2010
    AASCU Proposal Development Workshop, Washington D.C., February 25-27, 2010