"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
Rabindranath Tagore
1) Editorial Activities:
Ø Editor-in-Chief, Swarm and Evolutionary Computing, Elsevier (2011 - ).
Ø Associate Editor, IEEE Access, (2013 - )
Ø Associate Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, (2014 - )
Ø Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, (2013 - )
Ø Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part – A (2011 - 2012).
Ø Associate Editor, Information Sciences Journal, Elsevier (2010 - ).
Ø Associate Editor, Neurocomputing, Elsevier (2013 - )
Ø Editor, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier (2013 - )
Ø Editorial Board Member, Progress in Artificial Intelligence, Springer.
Ø Editorial Board Member, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi.
Ø Editorial board member of International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (IJAISC),
Ø Editorial board member of International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems (IJAACS),
Ø Editorial board member of International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (IJSI), ISSN online: 2049-405X, ISSN Print: 2049-4041.
Ø Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation on Differential Evolution.
Ø Guest Editor, Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) on Foraging Theory based Optimization Techniques.
Ø Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part - C on Engineering Applications of Memetic Computing.
Ø Guest Editor, Special Issue of International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research (IJSIR), IGI Globalon Application of Foraging Theory Based Optimization Algorithms to Power Systems Engineering.
Ø Guest Editor, Special Issue of International Journal of Applied Evolutionary Computation (IJAEC), IGI Global on Computational Swarm Intelligence: Recent Advances and Applications to Control, Communication and Power Systems Engineering.
2) Conference Activities
Ø Co-organizer, Competition on testing Evolutionary Algorithms (Single-objective) on Real World Optimization Problems, Under IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), New Orleans, USA, 2011.
Ø Co-chair of Symposium on Differential Evolution, under IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) 2011, April 11 – 15, 2011 Halle aux Farines, Paris, France.
Ø Program Co-chair of Eighth International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL) 2010, 1 – 4 Dec., 2010, Indian Institute of technology (IIT), Kanpur.
Ø Program Co-chair of International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary, and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO), 2010, 16 – 19 Dec, 2010, Chennai, India.
Ø Program Co-chair of International Symposium on Biologically Inspired Computing And Applications (BICA-2009), Bhubaneswar, India December 21-22, 2009.
Ø International Program Committee member:
· ANTS 2010, Seventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, Brussels, Belgium, 2010.
· IEEE World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2010), Japan.
· IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Trondheim, Norway during May 18-21 (Monday - Thursday), 2009.
· 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Milano, Italy, September 15-18, 2009.
· 8th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM 2009) during December 09-11, 2009 in Coimbatore, India.
· International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2009) during December 04-07, 2009 in Malacca, Malaysia.
· IEEE World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2009), December 9-11, 2009, Coimbatore, INDIA.
· International Workshop on Advances in Peer to Peer Technology (IWAP2PT’09), December 9-11, 2009, Bangalore, India.
· The Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2008), Nov. 26-28, 2008, Taiwan.
· The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2007), 22-24 October 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
3) Membership in Professional Bodies:
· Senior Member, IEEE
· Member, IEEE Computational Intelligence (CI) Society
· Member, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society
· Member, Task Force on Memetic Computing, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
· Member, Technical Committee for Intelligent Systems Applications, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
4) Regular Reviewer of the following international journals:
Ø IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computing.
Ø IEEE Trans. on SMC, Part – A
Ø IEEE Trans. on SMC, Part – B
Ø IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology
Ø Evolutionary Computation, MIT Press.
Ø IEEE/ACM Trans. on Computational Bio. and Bioinformatics.
Ø Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier.
Ø Pattern Recognition, Elsevier.
Ø Engineering Optimization, Taylor and Francis.
Ø Engg. Appl. of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), Elsevier.
Ø Neurocomputing, Elsevier.
Ø Information Sciences, Elsevier.
Ø Signal Processing, Elsevier.
Ø Swarm Intelligence, Springer.