Professional Activities

• Chair / Co Chair
• The working group 3, The Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JT1, Information Technology, Subcommittee SC37, Biometrics (Singapore). (ISO stands for the International Organization for Standardization and IEC stands for the International Electrotechnical Commission) 2009-2012.
• The UW and IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Section Joint Workshop on Knowledge and Data Mining, UW, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 30-31, Oct 2006.

 

• Associate Editor
• Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2026-
• The Visual Computer, 2026-
• IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, 2 Feb 2026-
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 15 March 2017-15 March 2021

 

• Area Chair
• WACV 2027, ICLR 2027, CVPR 2027
• CVPR 2026 (Outstanding Area Chair), ICLR 2026, ECCV 2026, BMVC 2026, NeurIPS 2026 (Top AC Area Chair)
• CVPR 2025, IJBC 2025, BMVC 2025
• ECCV, 2024, BMVC 2024
• IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024
• International Conference on Joint Biometrics, 2021

 

• Senior Program Member
• AAAI, 2026, 2027
• IJCAI, 2025, 2021

 

• Publicity Chair
• International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2009.

 

• Session Chair / Poster Coordinator / Organizer
• AAAI 2026
• International Conference on Joint Biometrics. 2021
• International Conference on Biometrics 2018
• International Conference on Image Processing, 2010.
• International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2009.
• International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2009.
• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 37 WG Meetings in Singapore 2010.

 

• Invited Presentations
• Invited speaker, Webinar: Fundamentals of Hand Biometrics: Commercial and Forensic Applications, by IEEE Biometrics Council
• Panel speaker, NVAITC × JDI Symposium, 18 August 2026 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
• From Docking to Deployment: Robust and Generalizable AI for Bioactivity Prediction in Drug Discovery, IEEE Lecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 9 April 2026
• AI Research Week 2026 - AI for Online Safety Day. 26 Jan 2026
• ST Engineering Cybersecurity Tech innovation Workshop, 2025 (1 Oct 2025)
• Panelist, Symposium on Responsible AI in Medicine, organized by LKC, NTU, 2025
• A Transformer-based Architecture and a Progressive Collaborative Learning Framework for Supervised and Scribble-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation, IEEE EMB AI and Medtech Forum 2025 (03-04 April 2025).
• Advancing Bioactivity Prediction through Molecular Docking and Self-Attention, Innovation Fridays event, NTU, March 2025
• Vulnerability, Misuse and Protection of Deep Networks, Sichuan Normal University, Feb 2025
• Vulnerability, Misuse and Protection of Deep Networks, Sichuan University, Feb 2025
• Privacy concerns on vitiligo study and a solution for automatic vitiligo diagnosis, Dialogue on Digital Trust in AI for Healthcare, organized by NTU and Newcastle University, 13 November 2024
• Panelist, Dialogue on Digital Trust in AI for Healthcare, organized by NTU and Newcastle University, 13 November 2024
• Vulnerability, Misuse and Protection of Deep Networks, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, April 2024
• Vulnerability, Misuse and Protection of Deep Networks, South China University of Technology, April 2024
• Vulnerability, Misuse and Protection of Deep Networks, Guangdong polytechnical normal university, April 2024
• Risk and Safety Concerns in Deep Networks, Ukraine Global Faculty, May 2024 (online)
• AI: Good, bad and the risk, International Conference on Innovative Research In Engineering Sciences, Karamadai Coimbatore, March 2024 (online)
• Securing Tomorrow: Deepfake Workshop on Advancing Future Security in the Region at Naif Arab University for Security Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 2024
• NTU Cybersecurity Workshop, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2024
• Panelist, Symposium on Digital Trust, at the Digital Trust Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2024
• MOE, the Engineering & Tech Program Scholarship (ETPS) workshop, 2024
• The Hong Kong Baptist University, July 2023
• Invited talk for Global Alliance of Industries @NTU industry speaker series on ‘Electric Vehicles Can Power the Future.’ Jan 2023, NTU
• Keynotes, IEEE 3rd Information Technology, Networking, Electronic and Automation Control Conference, 15-17 March, 2019.
• Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 10 Jan 2019
• Sichuan University, 8, Jan, 2019
• Sichuan Normal University, 7, Jan 2019
• Keynotes, 2018 Workshop on Image/video processing and information Information Security with Applications in Forensic Science in Xi’an, 27-28 Sept, 2018
• Xi’dian University, 27, Sept, 2018
• Invited talk, special section, BTAS, 2018
• Keynotes, 2016 Workshop on Image/video processing and information Information Security with Applications in Forensic Science in Xi’an, 21-22 Nov, 2016
• Sichuan University, 15, Nov, 2016
• Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2012.
• The Hong Kong Baptist University, 2012.
• Innovation in Surgical Practice Forum, A*Star, at Duke-NUS, Graduate Medical School 2012.
• Singapore Eye Research Institute, 2011.
• Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, 2010.
• Keynote address, International Conference on Advances in Information, Communication Technology and VLSI Design, Aug 6 and 7, 2010, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Keynote address, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, August 25-27, 2010, Singapore.
• GOVERMENTWARE 09 organized by Ministry of Home Affairs, Civil Service College and Image Engine, 2009.
• The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration & Customs Enforcement, Los Angeles, 2009.
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2009.
• Singapore Police Force, 2009.
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2007.
• Nanyang Technological University, 2007.
• Hong Kong Baptist University, 2006
• Graduate Student Research Talks, University of Waterloo, 2006.

 

• External Examiner for PhD Students
• Anna University, Chennai, India 2009.
• Anna University, Chennai, India 2008.