IEEE Senior Member.
Associate Editor, the journal of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
Associate Editor, the
International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR)
Vice Chair,
Task Force on
Swarm Intelligence, IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society (from 2012).
Member, Task Force on
Evolutionary Computation in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments (ECiDUE),
IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society.
Chair, Task Force on
Large Scale Global Optimization,
IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society (from 2012).
Member,
Technical
Committee on Soft Computing, Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society,
IEEE.
Member, IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society.
Member,
IEEE Computational
Intelligence Society – Webinars Subcommittee.
Vice Chair,
Computational
Intelligence Society Chapter, IEEE Victorian Section, Melbourne, Australia.
Member of the editorial board of the journal
of Swarm Intelligence (Springer), and journal of
Softcomputing (Springer).
Member, IASR Board of Editors,
Journal of Advanced
Research in Evolutionary Algorithms (JAREA).
Member, Steering committee of
Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL).
Advisor,
Scientific Advisory
Board, SolveIT Software.
General Chair,
Seventh International
Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL'08), 7 - 10 December 2008.
Program Co-chair,
22nd Australasian Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09), 1 - 4 December
2009.
Technical Committee Chair, International Conference
on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI'2010), 6 - 9 June
2010.
Publicity Co-Chair,
Seventh International
Conference on Swarm Intelligence
(ANTS 2010), 8 - 10 September 2010.
Visiting research fellow at
CERCIA, University of Birmingham
(12 July - 19 September 2008; 13 - 22 May 2009; 28 August - 11 September
2009), funded by an EPSRC grant.
Guest editor,
Special issue on Swarm Intelligence, IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.
Organizing chair, First Australasian Computational
Intelligence Summer School (ACISS’09), 30 November - 1 December, 2009.
Organizing chair,
2010 IEEE CEC Special Session on
Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization, 18 - 23 July 2010,
Barcelona, Spain.
Invited lecturer,
Sun Yat-sen University
Computational Intelligence Winter School 2011, Guangzhou, China, 24
- 28 January 2011.
Program Chair, IEEE Congress
on Evolutionary Computation 2012 (CEC 2012), part of
2012 IEEE World
Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2012), 10 -
15 June 2012.
Special session chair,
Third International Conference on Swarm
Intelligence (ICSI'2012), Shenzhen, China, 17 - 20 June 2012.
Invited lecturer, an
IEEE & ITEE Evening Lecture on
"Swarm Intelligence", Melbourne, Australia, 6:30 - 7:30pm, 5 September
2012.
Invited lecturer, two talks on
"Swarm Intelligence" and "Decomposition via Cooperative Coevolution for
Large Scale Global Optimization",
2012 International
Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications
(IWNICA'12), Hefei, China, 22 - 25 October 2012.
Organizing chair,
2013 IEEE CEC Special Session on Niching Methods for Multimodal Optimization,
20 - 23 June 2013,
Cancun, Mexico.
Organizing chair,
2013 IEEE CEC Special Session on Large Scale Global Optimization,
20 - 23 June 2013,
Cancun, Mexico
Tuorial speaker, on
"Decomposition
via Cooperative Coevolution for Large Scale Global Optimization", 2013 IEEE CEC, 20 - 23 June 2013, Cancun,
Mexico.