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 6th 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 5th 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 4th 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 7th International Conference on Control Engineering and Artificial Intelligence, Sanya, China
- 2022 Organizer of 3rd 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 4th 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 5th 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 2nd 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 35th 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 5th 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 1st 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 6th International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics, Ottawa, Canada
- 2019 Member of Advisory Committee of 3rd 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 5th 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 2nd 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 54th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Allerton, IL
- 2017 Member of Scientific Committee of 4th 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 3rd International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics, Ottawa, Canada
- 2016-21 Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award Selection Committee
- 2016 Program Chair of 54th 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, 16th ISDG Symposium, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2013 Advisory board member and Editor-at-Large, Springer Journal of Intelligent Robotic Systems
- 2014, 2015 TPC Member of 26th Chinese Control and Decision Conference, Changsha, China
- 2014, 2015 Member of Scientific Committee of the 1st and 2nd 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 15th 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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