Activities & Honors

 

  

  • Guest Professor. Xi'an Jiaotong University, China (April, 2000 --).
  • Guest Professor. Shandong University, China (June, 2006 --).
  • China's Young Outstanding Overseas Researcher (class-B, at Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (2009).
  • K.C. Wong Research Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008).
  • Nominated for the President's Excellence in Teaching Award, MSU-Bozeman (Feb, 2004).
  • Achievements Award, Friends of The Libraries, MSU-Bozeman (April, 2004).
  • Outstanding Research Award (CS), College of Engineering, MSU-Bozeman (May, 2004).
  • Outstanding Research Award (CS), College of Engineering, MSU-Bozeman (May, 2005).
  • Invited Speaker, ISVD'06, Banff, Alberta, Canada (July, 2006).
  • Professor of the Year, Computer Science Department, MSU-Bozeman (April, 2008).
  • Professor of the Year, Computer Science Department, MSU-Bozeman (April, 2012).
  • Invited Speaker, TAMC'09, Changsha, China (May, 2009).
  • Invited Speaker, CGGA'2010, Dalian, China (Nov, 2010).

  

Organizer, reviewer, committee member

  •  Member of editorial board: Algorithms (since June, 2023).
  •  Member of editorial board: Acta Informatica (since Apr, 2023).
  •  Member of editorial board: Journal of Computers (since May, 2007).
  •  Steering committee member for AAIM Conference Series, since 2006. General Conference co-Chair for AAIM'2010.
  •  I have been actively involved in refereeing research papers for the following international journals: Algorithmica, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Computational Geometry: The-ory and Applications, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Information Processing Letters, International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, International Journal ofFoundation of Computer Science, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Journal of Computational Biology, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, SIAM Journalon Computing, Theoretical Computer Science, Theory of Computing Systems. I am also a regular reviewer for Mathematical Reviews.
  • I have been serving at the NIH panel on comparative genomics (2009). I have been serving at the NSF panel on geometric computation (2005), and CDI (2011). I have been actively involved in reviewing research proposals (e.g., NSF CAREER proposal, Canada NSERC proposals, and HK RGC CERG proposals) and conference papers (e.g., ACM Symp. on Computational Geometry, ACM-SIAM Symp. on Discrete Algorithms and many others).
  •  Program committee member for COCOA'2012 (Banff, Canada, August 5-9, 2012); COCOA'2008 (St. John's, NFld, Canada, August 21-24, 2008).
  •  Program committee co-chair for FAW-AAIM'2011, Jinhua, China, May 28-31, 2011.
  •  Program committee member for FAW'2010, Wuhan, China, Aug 11-13, 2010.
  •  Program committee members for ISVD'2012 (Rutgers University, NJ, June 27-29, 2012); ISVD'2011 (Qingdao, China, June 28-30, 2011); ISVD'2010 (Quebec City, Canada, June 28-30, 2010); ISVD'2009 (Copenhagen, Denmark, June 23-26, 2009); ISVD'2007 (Pontypridd, Wales, England, July 9-12, 2007); ISVD'2006 (Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 2-5, 2006).
  •  Program committee member for TAMC'2010, Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-June 11, 2010.
  •  Program committee member for LATA'2010, Trier, Germany, May 24-28, 2010.
  •  Program committee member for BIOSYSCOM'10, Cancun, Mexico, March 7-March 13, 2010.
  •  Program committee member for AAIM'2009 (San Francisco, CA, June 16-18, 2009); AAIM'2007 (Portland, Oregon, June 20-22, 2007); AAIM'2006 (Hong Kong, China, June 20-22, 2006).
  •  Program committee co-chair for COCOA'2007, Xi'an, China, August 12-15, 2007. (Guest editor for J. of Combinatorial Optimization , special issue for COCOA'07.)
  •  Program committee member for COCOON'2007 (Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 16-19, 2007); COCOON'2005 (Kunming, Yunnan, China, August 16-19, 2005); COCOON'2000 (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, July 26-28, 2000).
  •  Program committee member for ISAAC'2005, Sanya, Hainan, China, Dec 19-21, 2005. (Guest editor for Journal of Combinatorial Optimization , special issue for bioinformatics papers at ISAAC'05.)
  •  Program committee co-chair for AAIM'2005, Xi'an, China, June 22-24, 2005. (Guest editor for Theoretical Computer Science , special issue for AAIM'05.)
  •  Program committee co-chair for COCOON'2003, Big Sky, MT, July 25-28, 2003. (As a consequence, I am the guest editor for Theoretical Computer Science, special issue for COCOON'03; and, the guest editor forInternational Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications , special issue for geometry papers at COCOON'03.)
  •  Local arrangement co-chair for ICA3PP'00, Hong Kong, Dec, 2000.
  •  Program committee member for ICCI'2000, Kuwait, Nov, 2000.
  •  Organizer, 1999 Northern Ontario Computational Geometry Workshop.
  •  I have served various departmental, college and university committees at Montana State University: University Faculty Senate, University Committee on Grievance Hearing, COE P&T Committee, COE Curriculum Committee, COE Strategic Planning Committee, CS Faculty Search Committee, and CS P&T Committee, etc. Currently I am serving on the University Faculty Senate, COE Strategic Planning Committee and CS P&T Committee. I served as the CS PhD Program Coordinator between Sep, 2003 and Nov, 2006.

 

Edited Volumes: Conference Proceedings and Journal Special Issues.

Editorial Board: Acta Informatica, Algorithms, Journal of Computers

Conference Organizations