Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition 

Manuscript Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; IEEE Transactions on Communications; IEEE Transactions on Control; IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks; IEEE Control Systems Magazine; Pattern Recognition; Neural Networks; Annals of Biomedical Engineering; ASME Journal on Dynamic Systems and Control; Journal of the Franklin Institute; American Control Conference. 

Member, Awards Committee, IEEE Neural Network Council 1992-1993 

Member, GOLD Committee, 1999 

Petition Candidate, Region 2 Director Elect, 1998 

Pennsylvania Area Representative, 1999-present  

GOLD Chair, 1999-present  

Member, TWGDOC Subcommittee for Standardization of Operating Procedures, 1997-present. 

Chairman of the Circuit and Systems and Control Systems Chapters, 1987-present 

Vice Chairman of the Communication Systems and Information Theory Chapter,  1990-present.

Drexel University: Feedback in Distributed Detection (1999) 

Drexel University (honor program distinguished lecturer inaugural): Adventures in Decision Theory (1998) 

Duke University: Decision Fusion with Memory (1998) 

Wagner Associates: Decision Fusion with Memory (1998) 

The 55th Annual Meeting of the American Questioned Document Examination Society: Keynote Address, The Assault on Questioned Document Examiners (1997) 

IEEE Drexel Student Chapter: Graduate Education in the Engineering (1996) 

US Department Of Justice:  
Forensic Handwriting Screening Research in the Next Decade (1996) 

IEEE Philadelphia Section: Progress in Adaptive Decision Fusion (1995) 

Lehigh University: Adaptive Decision Fusion (1994) 

Pennsylvania State University: A Gentle Introduction to Decision Fusion (1994) 

Temple University: A Gentle Introduction to Decision Fusion (1993) 

New Jersey Institute of Technology: Simple Distributed Detection (1992) 

Philadelphia Electric Co.: Applications of Distributed Detection and Sensor Fusion (1992) 

Cornell University, Department of Electrical Engineering: Distributed Detection (1991) 

George Mason University, School of Information Technology: Sensor Fusion (1990) 

Tufts University: Sensor Fusion with Neural Networks (1990) 

Temple University: Binary Neural Networks (1990) 

Boston IEEE  Neural Network Lecture Series: State Space Design for Neural Networks (1989) 

Delaware Valley Human Factors Society: Neural Networks and their Applications (1989) 

Delaware Valley Artificial Intelligence Society: Neural Networks and their Applications (1988) 

Philadelphia Area Computer Society: Neural Networks as Emerging Engineering Tools (1988) 

Princeton University EE Seminar Series: State Space Analysis of Neural Networks (1988) 

Organizer and Moderator, Workshop on Hard Signature Authentication Problems, the 56th Annual meeting of the American Questioned Document Examination Society, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1998.  

Organizer, Workshop on Hard Document Examination Problems, the 55th Annual meeting of the American Questioned Document Examination Society , Scottsdale, Arizona, 1997. 

Organizer and lecturer, a Full-day Tutorial Workshop: Neural Networks and Their Applications in Control and Power Systems, International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Singapore, May 1991 (with R. Fischl and J. Zurada). 

Organizer and lecturer, a Full-day Tutorial Workshop: Neural Networks for Control, The American Control Conference, May 1990. 

Lecturer, Full-day Tutorial: Control with Neural Networks, The Decision and Control Conference, December 1990 (with T. Miller and G. Kraft, University of New Hampshire). 

Lecturer, Half-day Tutorial: Neural Networks for Control, The International Symposium on Intelligent Control, August 1988 (with A. Guez). 

Organizer and moderator, IEEE Philadelphia Section Educational Seminar on Neural Networks and Their Applications, December 1987 (with S. Grossberg, D. Ballard, B. Kosko, and R. Hecht-Nielsen). 

Organizer and chairman, Invited Session: The Relations Between Information Theory and Control, The American Control Conference, June 1987. 

Organizer and chairman, Invited Session: Neural Networks and Their Applications, The American Control Conference, June 1988. 

Organizer and chairman, Invited Session: Optimization and Control with Neural Networks, The American Control Conference, June 1989. 

Member of the program committee, 1990 American Control Conference, 1990 Intelligent Control Conference, 1991 IFAC  
International Symposium on Distributed Intelligence Systems. 

Panel member, Trends in Sensor Fusion, 1989 SPIE Conference on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems; Neural networks for power system applications, IEEE PES, Summer 1990. 
 
 

American Academy of Forensic Science (Provisional Member) 

International Neural Network Society (Member) 

Sigma Xi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Tau Beta Pi (Member)