Professional organizations:

• member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)


• Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA)


• Chair of the Division of Computer Science of the Illinois State Academy of Science (ISAS).
  
  • 2006 Annual Meeting, April 20-22, 2006, University of Illinois at Chicago.
  • 2007 Annual Meeting April 20-21, 2007 in Springfield, IL.
       The year 2007 marked the 100th Anniversary of the ISAS.
  • 2008 Annual Meeting, April 4-5, 2008 the Illinois Natural History Survey and the University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana
  • 2009 Annual Meeting, April 17-18, 2009, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.
  • 2010 Annual Meeting, April 9-10, 2010, Millikin University
  • 2011 Annual Meeting, April 8-9, 2011, Eastern Illinois University
  • 2012 Annual Meeting, March 30-31, 2012, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
  • 2013 Annual Meeting, April 5-6, 2013, Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL
  • 2014 Annual Meeting, April 25-26, 2014, Governors State University, University Park, IL
  • 2015 Annual Meeting
    • I was the Vice President (organizer) for the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Academy of Science (ISAS), April 10-11, 2015, at Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL.
    • There were 106 posters and 69 oral presentations. There were 240 registrants for this conference.
    • The Keynote Address was given by Professor C. Victor Jongeneel, on "Biology Meets Big Data: High-Throughput Computing for Genomics and Beyond".
  • 2016 Annual Meeting, April 15-16, 2016, SIU Edwardsville.
  • 2017 Annual Meeting, March 31 - April 1, 2017, Harper College, Palantine, IL
  • 2018 Annual Meeting, April 13-14, 2018, Millikin University, Decatur, IL.
  • 2019 Annual Meeting, April 5-6, 2019, Bradley University, Peoria, IL.
  • 2021 Annual Meeting, April 9-10, 2021, Virtual format, hosted by Eastern Illinois University.
  • 2022 Annual Meeting, April 9, 2022, Virtual format, hosted by Illinois College.
  • 2023 Annual Meeting, Saturday, April 15, 2023, Bradley University.
  • 2024 Annual Meeting,
    Saturday, April 13, 2024, Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.