Professional Service

  • Special issue guest editor for Frontiers Geometries of Learning, 2023-24.
  • Area Chair, Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing (ICVGIP) 2022.
  • Program co-chair, IEEE Face and Gesture (FG) 2021.
  • Senior Program Committee Member, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2019.
  • Technical Area Chair, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2019.
  • Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2018-2021.
  • Area Chair, IEEE Face and Gesture (FG), 2019.
  • Associate editor for Elsevier Pattern Recognition Journal (Nov 2016 to Nov 2018).
  • Special issue guest-editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia (TOMM) on Representation, Analysis and Recognition of 3D Humans, 2017.
  • Special issue guest-editor for Elsevier Pattern Recognition special issue on Discriminative Feature Learning from Big Data for Visual Recognition, Aug 2014-Aug 2015.
  • Area chair for “Computer Vision and Robot Vision” track for IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2016 and 2018.
  • Founding workshop co-chair on Differential Geometry in Computer Vision and Machine Learning (Diff-CVML), held in conjunction with the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) Sep 2015, and CVPR 2016-18,2020.
  • Local arrangements chair for IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2016.
  • Co-chair of poster session on Computational Imaging for Healthcare, held at the IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) Jan 2015.
  • Panel-chair for “Video Summarization” at the joint NSF-FBI-DARPA workshop on Frontiers in Image and Video Analysis, Jan 2014.
  • Co-delivered tutorial on “Video-Based Face Recognition”, at the IEEE Fifth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), September 2012.
  • Co-delivered tutorial on “Differential Geometric techniques for Shape and Activity Analysis”, at IEEE CVPR, Rhode Island, June 2012. This is a premier computer vision venue.
  • Chair of IEEE Phoenix Chapter of Signal Processing and Communication (SP-COM) April 2012-August 2015.