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Professional Services

2025 Organizer of a workshop “Safe Control and Learning in Autonomous Systems”, Co-organizers Pan Zhao, Astghik Hakobyan and Tigran Bakaryan, 23rd European Control Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece
2025 Organizer of a Tutorial Session “Autonomy and Advanced Air Mobility: Aviation Paradigm Change”, Co-organizers I. Gregory, E. Theodorou, S. Cheng, American Control Conference, Denver, CO
2025 Member of Global Academic Inventors Network (NAI)
2025 Organizer of 6^th workshop “Agriculture-Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Vision in Agriculture”, In IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, co-organizers Honghui Shi (Georgia Tech), Pan Zhao (University of Alabama), Jing Wu (AWS), Ripudaman Arora, Jim Ostrowski and Chris Padwick (Blue River Technology), Ignacio Ciampitti and Leonardo Lemes Bosche (KSU), Leandro Almeida (TeleSence)
2024 GoAero expert for GoAero Prize Competition for $2mln UAV challenge
2024 Organizer of workshop “Innovations in Autonomous Systems”, World Congress on Innovations and Technology, co-organizers A. Hakobyan (CSIE), T. Bakaryan (CSIE), Yerevan, Armenia
2024 Organizer of 5^th workshop “Agriculture-Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Vision in Agriculture”, In IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, co-organizers Honghui Shi (Georgia Tech), Pan Zhao (University of Alabama), Jing Wu (UIUC), Ripudaman Arora, Jim Ostrowski and Chris Padwick (Blue River Technology), Ignacio Ciampitti and Leonardo Lemes Bosche (KSU), Leandro Almeida (TeleSence)
2023 Co-chair of US-Swiss Workshop on Swarm Intelligence, Zurich, Switzerland
2023 Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board member
2023 Guest Editor of Special Issue “Chatbots and Talking Robots” of Robotics
2023-25 Member of Selection Committee for IEEE CSS Award “Transition to Practice”
2023 Guest Editor of Special Issue “Collection in Honor of Women’s Contributions in Robotics” of Robotics
2023 Organizer of a workshop “Robust and Resilient Autonomy: Progress and Challenges”, Co-organizers: M. Ornik, S. Cheng, P. Zhao, H.-J. Yoon, S. Mitra, A. Gahlawat, In IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, 2023.
2023 Organizer of 4^th workshop “Agriculture-Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Vision in Agriculture”, In IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, co-organizer Jennifer Hobbs (Intelinair)
2023 Member of the Scientific Committee of International Conference on Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in Agricultural Management, Stockholm, Sweden
2023-25 Chair of Selection Committee for IEEE CSS Award “Technical Excellence for Aerospace Controls”
2023 Organizer of a workshop “Machine-Learning for Safety-Critical Control Systems”, In SciTech Forum, co-organizers Sheng Cheng, Evangelos Theodorou, Irene Gregory, Michael Ackerson, National Harbor, MD
2023 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems
2023 Member of Advisory Committee of 7^th International Conference on Control Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Sanya, China
2022 Organizer of 3^rd workshop “Agriculture-Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Vision in Agriculture”, In IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, co-organizers Honghui Shi (University of Oregon), Jennifer Hobbs (Intelinair)
2022 Member of Advisory Committee of 4^th Asia Conference on Automation Engineering
2022 Organizer of a workshop “The Role of Soil in Climate Change” in EGU meeting (Conveners: Carla S.S. Ferreira, Nicolas Martin, Wenwu Zhao, Zahra Kalantari)
2021 Organizer of workshop “Multi-Vehicle and Assured Autonomous Control for Aerospace Applications” In 5^th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, San Diego, CA
2021 Organizer of workshop “Rethinking Socio-Cyber-Physical Systems of Tomorrow: Health, Security, Safety & Resilience” in NSF CPS PI review meeting

2021-2023 Member of the Selection Committee for George Axelby Outstanding paper award of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control for 2018-2020
2018-2022 Member of Selection Committee for IEEE CSS Award for Excellence in Aerospace Controls
2021 Guest Editor of Special Issue “Autonomous Systems: Navigation, Learning and Control” of IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics, 2021
2021 Organizer of 2^nd workshop “Agriculture-Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Vision in Agriculture”, In IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, co-organizers Honghui Shi (University of Oregon), Jennifer Hobbs (Intelinair)
2021 Guest Editor of Special Issue “Women in Robotics” of Robotics ((ISSN 2218-6581)
2021 Member of Program Committee of 35^th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, CA
2021 Member of Organizing Committee of SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, Spokane, WA
2021 Member of Advisory Committee of 5^th International Conference on Control Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Phuket, Thailand
2020 Organizer of workshop “Challenges in Aerospace Control”, co-organized with Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls of IEEE CSS, In IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany
2020 Organizer of 1^st workshop “Agriculture-Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Computer Vision in Agriculture”, In IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, Seattle, WA, co-organizers Honghui Shi (University of Oregon), Thomas Huang (UIUC)
2020 Panel member for review of U-Flyte project at National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), funded by Science Foundation of Ireland
2020 Organizer of workshop “Current Topics in Aerospace Controls”, conducted with Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls of IEEE CSS (July 1-3), In American Control Conference, Denver, CO
2020 Member of Program Committee for selection of invited sessions in American Control Conference, Denver, CO
2020 Member of Committee for selection of best student paper award in American Control Conference, Denver, CO
2019 Member of selection committee for plenary speaker of AIAA GNC Conference in 2020
2019 Organizer of workshop “Aerospace Controls: Current Topics in Theory and Practice”, conducted with Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls of IEEE CSS (July 10-12), In American Control Conference, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Member of Program Committee of ICINCO, Prague, Czech Republic
2019 Member of Program Committee of American Control Conference, Philadelphia, NJ
2019 Member of Scientific Committee of 6^th International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics, Ottawa, Canada
2019 Member of Advisory Committee of 3^rd International Conference on Control Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Los Angeles, CA
2018-2021 Chair of Advisory Board of NSF project “Excellence in Research: Developing a Robust, Distributed, and Automated Sensing and Control System for Smart Agriculture”, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC
2018 NSF CPS startup companies panelist
2018 Member of Advisory Board of Journal of Robotics
2018 Member of Scientific Committee of 5^th International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics, Toronto, Canada
2018 General Co-Chair of ICNPAA World Congress: Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Sciences and Aerospace, Yerevan, Armenia
2018 Member of the Prize committee for Syngenta Annual Crop Analytics Challenge
2018 Member of Advisory Committee of 2^nd International Conference on Control Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Boracay, Philippines
2017 General Co-Chair of NSF workshop “Machine Learning for Discovery Sciences”, Yerevan, Armenia, co-sponsored by Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology
2017 Organizer of workshop “Guidance, Navigation and Control Applications in the Aerospace Industry – Current Problems and Modern Solutions”, conducted with Technical Committee on Aerospace Controls of IEEE CSS (August 27-30), In IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Kohala Coast, HI
2017 Member of Advisory Board of College of Science and Engineering, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
2017 Member of Advisory Board of Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology
2017 Commencement speaker for American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
2017 General Chair of 54^th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Allerton, IL
2017 Member of Scientific Committee of 4^th International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics, Toronto, Canada
2017 Organizing Committee of SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, Pittsburg, PA
2016 Member of IEEE Control Systems Society Awards Selection Committee
2016 Member of Scientific Committee of 3^rd International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics, Ottawa, Canada
2016-21 Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award Selection Committee
2016 Program Chair of 54^th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, control and Computing, Allerton, IL
2016 Scientific Board Member of New Technology Education Fund, Yerevan, Armenia
2015 Subject Editor for Adaptive Control, Journal of Franklin Institute
2015 International Program Committee, Indian Controls Conference, Chennai, India
2014 International Program Committee, 16^th ISDG Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Advisory board member and Editor-at-Large, Springer Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems
2014, 2015 TPC Member of 26^th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Changsha, China
2014, 2015 Member of Scientific Committee of the 1^st and 2^nd Canadian Conference on Dynamic Systems and Control, Ottawa, Canada
2013 Aerospace Controls and Guidance Systems Committee member
2013 Associate Editor of Journal of the Franklin Institute
2013 Member of Organizing Committee of SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications
2013 TPC Member of Chinese Control and Decision Conference
2012 Editorial Advisory Board member of Versita
2012 Associate Editor of AIAA Journal of Aircraft
2008 Member of steering committee of Midwest Workshop on Game and Control Theory, Urbana-Champaign, IL
2009 Member of Organizing Committee of HiCoNS, CPS week, Beijing, China
2012 Member of IPC of 15^th ISDG Symposium, Czech Republic
2011 Member of advisory board for SPACE center at CalState University of Los Angeles, CA
2011 – Organizer of multiple invited sessions on problems in drilling automation in IEEE MSC (jointly with the Society for Petroleum Engineering, co-organizer Geoff Downton, Schlumberger)
2009 – present Member of Editorial Board of Mathematics in Engineering, Science and Aerospace
2008 – IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology Outstanding Paper Award Committee
2008 – Publications Chair for American Control Conference
2007 – AIAA Society Review Chair for American Control Conference
2006 – AIAA Society Review Chair for American Control Conference
2005 – International Program Committee Member for the IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications
2005 – Program Committee Member for the joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference
2005 – present Associate Editor of Computational Management Science, Springer
2005 – present Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
2004 – 2007 Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
2004 – present Associate Editor of International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems
2004 – Organizer of Invited Session “Theory and Techniques for Distributed Parameter Control Design” in 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Co-organizer Prof. Belinda King, Oregon State University
2000 – present Associate Editor of Conference Editorial Board for IEEE Control Systems Society
2004 – Program Committee Member for American Control Conference
2004 – 2007 Member of AIAA Guidance Navigation, Control Technical Committee
2003 – NSF Workshop for the Retention and Advancement of Underrepresented Engineering Educators
2003 – Organizer of Invited Session “Theory and Applications of Neurocontrol” in American Control Conference(Co-organizer Dr. Eugene Lavretsky from the Boeing Company)
2002 Member of Academic Committee of the International Congress of Mathematicians
2002 (ICM-2002), Satellite Conference in “Game Theory and Applications”.
2000– 2004 Editor of Newsletter for Women in Control, IEEE Control Systems Society

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