Program Committees and Service

(NOT Up-to-date for a few years now!!!)

Member of the Biomedical Library and Informatics Reivew Committee (BLIRC) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). 2008-2012.
Area chair for Text Mining at ISMB'10: The 18th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2010.
Co-chair of the Tenth BioLINK SIG Workshop (BioLINK'10) on biomedical text mining. In association with ISMB'10.
General Co-Chair of the Fourth ACM International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics (DTMBIO 2010).
Scientific Co-Chair of the Fourth International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics , (IWPACBB 2010).
Co-chair of the BioLINK SIG Workshop (BioLINK'09) on biomedical text mining. In association with ISMB'09.
Program committee for ISMB'09: The 17th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2009.
Program committee for BioNLP'09: The BioNLP Workshop of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2009.
Program committee for ACL'09: The 47th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2009.
Program committee for BSB'09: The Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, 2009.
Program committee for BIBM'09: The IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2009.
Area chair for Text Mining at ISMB'08: The 16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2008.
Co-chair of the BioLINK SIG Workshop (BioLINK'08) on biomedical text mining. In association with ISMB'08.
Program committee for ECCB'08: The European Conference on Computational Biology, 2008.
Program committee for BioNLP'08: The BioNLP Workshop of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2008.
Program committee for BIBM'08: The IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2008.
Organizing committee for the C-SHALS
Program committee for SMBM'08: The Third International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine, 2008.
Organizing committee for the C-SHALS Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences, 2008.
Program committee for ISBRA'08: The International Symposium on Bioimformatics Research and Applications, 2008.
Co-chair of the BioLINK SIG Workshop (BioLINK'07) on biomedical text mining. In association with ISMB'07.
Program committee for ISMB'07: The 15th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2007.
Conference Scientific Committee for the BioCreative 2 Workshop. Madrid, 2007.
Program committee for PSB'07: The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2007.
Program committee for LBM'07: The International Symposium on Lanugages in Biology and Medicine.
Program committee for ISBRA'07: The International Symposium on Bioimformatics Research and Applications, 2007.
Program committee for BioDM'07: The PAKDD 2007 Workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications May 2007, Nanjing, China.
Co-chair of the Joint BioLINK and Bio-Ontologies Workshop (JBB'06) on biomedical text mining and ontologies. In association with ISMB'06.
Program committee for ISMB'06: The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2006.
Program committee for AAAI'06: The 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006.
Tutorials and Workshops committee for ECCB'06: The 5th European Conference on Computational Biology, 2006.
Editorial board of The International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics.
Program committee for BioNLP'06: The HLT-NAACL Workshop on Linking Natuaral Language Processing and Biology, 2006.
Program committee for TMBIO'06: The 1st ACM International Workshop on Text Mining in Bioinformatics, 2006.
Co-chair of the joint BioLINK/ACL'05 workshop on biomedical text mining. In association with ISMB'05.
Program committee for The First International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine.
Program committee for The International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, ISMB'05.
Steering committee for the TREC Genomics Track since its beginning in 2003.
Founder of BLIMP: Biomedical Literature (and text) Mining Publications resource.
Reviewer for a variety of journals and conferences in bioinformatics, computational biology, artificial intelligence and information retrieval.

Last modified: December 5, 2009