Professional Activities

1. Conference Activities:
   • Co-organizer of Special Session & Competition on Real-World Multiobjective Constrained Optimization at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021), Krakow, Poland, 28 June -01 July 2021 and at Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO 2021), Lille, France, 10-14 July 2021.

   • Co-organizer of Special Session & Competitions on Real-World Single Objective Constrained Optimization at IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2020), Glasgow, UK, 19-24 July 2020 and at Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference (GECCO 2020), Cancun, Mexico, 8-12 July 2020.

   • General Co-chair, SEMCCO 2019 & FANCCO 2019 - 7-th Joint International Conferences on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing Conference (SEMCCO 2019) & Fuzzy And Neural Computing Conference (FANCCO 2019), Maribor, Slovenia, EU, 10-12 July 2019.

   • Co-Chair, Symposium on Differential Evolution (SDE), under the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2014, Dec. 9 - 12, Orlando, FL, USA.

   • General Co-Chair, the 6-th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI) and the 2nd BRICS Congress on Computational Intelligence (Springer LNCS Proceedings), Beijing, China, June 26 - 29, 2015.

   • Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2015, Dec. 7 - 10, Cape Town, South Africa.

   • General Co-Chair, 6-th Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing Conference (SEMCCO), 18 - 20 Dec, 2015, Hyderabad, India.

   • Competitions Chair, IEEE WCCI (World Congress on Computational Intelligence) 2014, Beijing, China.

   • Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE CEC (Congress on Evolutionary Computation) 2013, Mexico.

   • Keynote-Tutorial Chair, SSCI 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), April 16-19, 2013, Singapore.

   • General Co-chair of third Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing Conference (SEMCCO), 2012 20 - 21 Dec, 2012, Bhubaneswar, India.

   • Program Co-chair of second Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing Conference (SEMCCO), 2011, 18 - 21 Dec, 2011, Vizag, India.

   • Program Co-chair of Eighth International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL) 2010, 1-4 Dec., 2010, Indian Institute of technology (IIT), Kanpur.

   • Program Co-chair of International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO), 2010, 16-19 Dec, 2010, Chennai, India.

   • Program Co-chair of International Symposium on Biologically Inspired Computing and Applications (BICA-2009), Bhubaneswar, India December 21-22, 2009.

2. International Program Committee member:
   • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2019-2022), (CORE A* Ranking)

   • NeurIPS - Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (2020-2021) (CORE A* Ranking)

   • ICLR - International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022 (CORE A* Ranking)

   • ACM Multimedia ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2020-21 (CORE A* Ranking)

   • AISTATS - Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2020 (CORE A ranking)

   • GECCO - Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference, 2016-18. (CORE A ranking)

   • BMVC - British Machine Vision Conference, 2020-21

   • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2010 - 2018. (CORE B ranking)

   • GECCO 2011, Dublin, Ireland.

   • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), New Orleans, USA, 2011

   • ANTS 2010, Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, 2010.

   • IEEE World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2010),

   • IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Trondheim, Norway during May 18-21 (Monday - Thursday), 2009.

   • 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Milano, Italy, September 15-18, 2009.

   • 8th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM 2009) during December 09-11, 2009 in Coimbatore, India.

   • International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2009)during December 04-07, 2009 in Malacca, Malaysia.

   • IEEE World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009), December 9-11, 2009, Coimbatore, INDIA.

   • International Workshop on Advances in Peer to Peer Technology (IWAP2PT-09), December 9-11, 2009, Bangalore, India.

   • The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2008), Nov. 26-28, 2008, Taiwan.

   • The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2007), 22-24 October 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

3. Regular Reviewer of the following international journals:
   • IEEE/ACM Trans. on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

   • IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computing.

   • IEEE Trans. on SMC, Part A

   • IEEE Trans. on SMC, Part B

   • Evolutionary Computation Journal, MIT Press.

   • Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier.

   • Pattern Recognition, Elsevier.

   • Engineering Optimization, Taylor and Francis.

   • Engg. Appl. of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), Elsevier.

   • Neurocomputing, Elsevier.

   • Information Sciences, Elsevier.

   • Signal Processing, Elsevier.

   • Swarm Intelligence, Springer.

4. Memberships in Professional bodies/Organizations    
   • Senior Member, IEEE.

   • Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

   • Member, Technical Committee for Intelligent Systems Applications, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

   • Member, Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

   • Member, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society.

   • Member, Task Force on Memetic Computing, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

   • Member, Task Force on Large Scale Optimization, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.