Selected Scholarly and Professional Activities

  • Senior Member of IEEE since 1994
  • Voting Member of ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) since 1994
  • IBM CAS Fellow 2003-2006

  • Associate Dean (Acting) - Research and Graduate Faculty of Engineering (2010-2011)

  • Associate Chair - Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2008-2010)

  • Program Chair of the Symposium on Human and Socio-Cultural Service Oriented Computing in conjunction with 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference - Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH 2009) , Toronto, Canada, Sept. 27-29, 2009

  • Program Co-chair of the 2009 IEEE Workshop Web2Touch - living experience through web in cojunction with 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Milan, Italy, Sept. 15-18, 2009

  • Program Co-chair of the 2008 IEEE Workshop Web2Touch - living experience through web held in cojunction with 2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2008), Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 16-18, 2008

  • Member of Alberta Ingenuity Graduate Student Scholarship Review Committee (2009, 2010)

  • Member of OGSST Selection Panel (ECE dept level) (2006)
  • Member of Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) Selection Panel (2005 - )

  • Member of Canadian delegation to present at Canada Europe IST Research Collaboration partnering session at IST 2006 to develop partnerships related to the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for Research and Development, Helsinki, Finland, Nov. 2006

  • Women into Engineering Project Advisory Committee to help develop the “The Gender Issues Training Kit.” (A Partners For Change Project with Professional Engineers Ontario / Women Engineers' Advisory Committee,Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)/ Nortel Networks Joint Chair for Women in Science and Engineering in Ontario, Ontario Women’s Directorate)(Mar. 2002 – Mar. 2003)

  • Committee Member of the Symposium “Challenges of the Academic Journey: A Symposium on Women in the Sciences and Engineering at UWO” held in May 4-5, 2004

  • Invited Speaker at Sixth International Conference on Human and Computer – HC-2003, Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan (Aug. 28-30, 2003)

  • Program Committee Member of 24th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (CBSOFT-SBES2010), Salvador, Bahia, Sep. 27-Oct.01, 2010
  • Program Committee Member of The Second International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications (FUTURE COMPUTING 2010), Lisbon, Portugal, November 21-26, 2010
  • Program Committee Member of Annual International Conference on Green IT (GREENIT), Singapore, July 2010
  • Program Committee Member of International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT (ABICT'10), Wis?a, Poland, October 18-20, 2010
  • Program Committee Member of 2010 Workshop Web2Touch – living experience through web (W2T’2010), Tozeur, Tunisia, May 29-30, 2010
  • Program Committee Member of 1st International Workshop on Reuse in Business Process Management (rBPM), Hoboken, NJ, USA, September 13-16, 2010
  • Program Committee Member of 3rd International Conference on Business Process and Services Computing (BPSC 2010), Leipzig, Germany, September 27-28, 2010
  • Program Committee Member of International Conference on Information Quality, Data & Metadata Management, Singapore, September 2010
  • Program Committee Member of 9th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality (SBQS 2010), Belem, Brazil, Jun. 7-11, 2010
  • Program Committee Member of 6th International Conference on Networked Computing (INC2010), Gyeongju, Korea, May 11-13, 2010
  • Program Committee Member of IV Brazilian Workshop on Business Process Management (WBPM 2010), Marabá, Brazil, Jun. 16-18, 2010
  • Program Committee Member of 11th IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE 2009), Edmonton, Canada, Sep. 26-27, 2009
  • Program Committee Member of 35th Latin American Conference on Informatics, Pelotas, Brazil, Sep. 22-25, 2009
  • Program Committee Member of III Workshop on Business Process Management, Fortaleza, Brazil, Oct. 5-7, 2009
  • Program Committee Member of 2nd International Conference on Business Process and Services Computing, Leipzig, Germany, Mar. 23-24, 2009
  • Program Committee Member of International Workshop on Self Healing Web Services (SHWS 2009) in conjunction with 7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), Los Angeles, Jul. 10, 2009
  • Program Committee Member of 23rd Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, Fortaleza, Brazil, Oct. 5-9, 2009
  • Program Committee Member of 8th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality, Ouro Preto, Brazil, Jun. 1-5, 2009
  • Program Committee Member of International Conference on Convergence and hybrid Information Technology, Busan, Korea, Nov. 11-13, 2008
  • Program Committee Member of 7th Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality, Florianopolis, Brazil, Jun. 2-6, 2008
  • Program Committee Member of II Workshop on Business Process Management, Vila Velha, Brazil, Oct. 27-28, 2008
  • Program Committee Member of 22nd Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, Campinas, Brazil, Oct. 13-17, 2008
  • Program Committee Member of Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems(DNIS) , Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan, Oct. 17-19, 2007
  • Program Committee Member of 21st Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering , Joao Pessoa, Brazil, Oct. 15-19, 2007
  • Program Committee Member of European Computing Conference: ECC2007 , Athens, Greece, Sept. 25-27, 2007
  • Program Committee Member of Ninth International Conference on Humans and Computers (HC2006), Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan & Duesseldorf , Germany (September 6-9, 2006)
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Information Technology (ITCC2005) – Software Engineering Track , Las Vegas, Nevada, (April 11-13, 2005)
  • Program Committee Member of The 3rd International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT '05) , Austin, Texas (July 24-27, 2005)
  • Program Committee Member of The 11th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS 2005) , Orlando, Florida (July 14 - 17, 2005)
  • Program Committee Member of the Eighth International Conference on Humans and Computers (HC2005) , Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, (August 31 - September 2, 2005)
  • Program Committee Member of Fourth International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS 2005) , Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan, 2005
  • Program Committee Member of 2004 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice: SERP’04 , Las Vegas, Nevada (June 21-24, 2004)
  • Program Committee Member of Second International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies: CCCT’04 , Austin, Texas (Aug. 14-17, 2004)
  • Program Committee Member of Tenth International Conference on Information System and Analysis and Synthesis: ISAS 2004 and the International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications: CITSA 2004, Orlando, Florida (July 21-25, 2004)
  • Program Committee Member of Seventh International Conference on Human and Computer – HC-2004 , Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan (Sep. 1-4, 2004)
  • Program Committee Member of Sixth International Conference on Human and Computer – HC-2003 , Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan (Aug. 28-30, 2003)
  • Program Committee Member of Sixth International Conference on Information Technology – CIT 2003 , Bhubaneswar, India (Dec. 22-25, 2003)
  • Program Committee Member of 3rd International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems - DNIS 2003 , Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan (Sep. 22-24, 2003)
  • Program Committee Member of Information Technology: Prospects and Challenges in the 21st century, an International Conference , Kathmandu, Nepal May 23-26, 2003)
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance - ICSM'94, Victoria, British Columbia

  • Consulting Work Undertaken, 1982-1988 - Sao Paulo, Brazil. Consultancy and development of software systems related to judicial accountancy.