Committees

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Committees

Ewert Bengtsson
International:

Editorial board member of the journal Machine Graphics & Vision, 1994-
Comment: Published by Polish Academy of Sciences.
Editorial board member of the journal Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 1995-
Comment: Published by Elsevier.
Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2004-
Comment: Member since 1974.
Member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
Member of Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics, 1998-
Member of the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC), 2000-
Scientific committee for International Conference on Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern recognition (ICSIPR13) 201208-
Scientific committee for International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG 2012), 20120920-20120922
International Program Committee for 20th and 21st International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG 2012) and (WSCG 2013)
Planning group for workshop Sweden-Singapore March 2013, 201209-
Comment: Appointed to be member of this committee by VR.
Member of the Evaluation Panel PE7 for advanced grant applications to the European Research Council (ERC): Natural and Engineering Sciences-Biomedical Engineering, 2008-2012

National:

Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Section VII: Basic and Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences. 2006-
Vice Chair of Section VII of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 091119-121231
Member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskapssocieteten), 1998-
Chair of Uppsala University IT Council, 2008-2012
Advisor to the Rector on Information Technology at UU, 1998-2012
Comment: Advisor appointed to lead the strategic planning of UU and give advice to the Rector.
Member of the Board of UpGIS, the network for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 1999-
Member of the UU student cooperation group, 2000-2012
Comment: A group where the leadership of the university and the student unions meets to discuss matters of common interest.
Member of the scientific board of Hillevi Fries Research Scholarship Foundation
Comment: A Swedish foundation that accepts applications and gives out research grants for urology research.
Member of the UU Library Council 2011-
Member of the Board of Swedish Bioimaging, 20120301-
Comment: A Swedish network for researchers in biomedical imaging and image analysis.
Member of the board of the Department of Information Technology, 20120701-
Member of the Uppsala University IT strategy group, 20120615-
Comment: A committee headed by the university director to create a new strategy for support of administrative IT at UU.
Licentiate Thesis Opponent for Mohammed Ali Khorshidis, 20120222
Comment: A Licentiate Thesis at KTH School of Engineering
PhD half time seminar, 20121022
Comment: One of two external experts at this half time PhD seminar for Janne West at CMIV, Linköping University

Gunilla Borgefors
International:

Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters, 20110101-
Comment: Pattern Recognition Letters is published by Elsevier and is an official journal of the International Association of Pattern Recognition. Borgefors was Associate Editor and Area Editor 2004-2010.
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), 2007-
Comment: Senior member since 1998.
Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 1998-
Member of Nominating Committee of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, 2010-2012
Editorial Board member of the journal Image Processing and Communications, 1994-
Comment: Published by the Institute of Telecommunications, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Editorial Board member of the journal Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Advances in Mathematical Theory and Applications, 1993-
Comment: Published by Interperiodica Publishing in cooperation with the ``Cybernetics'' Scientific Council, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Editorial Board of the book series Computational Imaging and Vision, published by Springer, 2003-
Steering committee for Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI) conferences, 2000-
Steering committee for International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM), 2011-
Programme committee member, International Conference on Computer Vision and and Graphics, ICCVG 2012, Warsaw, Poland Sep. 2012
Programme committee member, 7th International Conference on Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, ICNNAI 2012, Minsk, Belarus Oct. 2012

National:

Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten), Member No. 19, 2000-
Comment: Elected member of the oldest scientific society in Sweden (founded 1710), (5 meetings).
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 2011-
Comment: Member of Division VII: Basic and Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences (4 meetings).
Member of the Committee for Future Strategy, Work group 1: The Big Global Society Challenges, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 20120601-20130228
Comment: 5 meetings
Swedish Parliamentarians and Scientists, 1987-
Comment: Members are elected. Only one scientist per field admitted.
Board/Steering Committee for Onsala Space Observatory, 2011-
Comment: (2 whole day meetings)
Celsius-Linné committee, TN-faculty, UU, 2007-
Comment: The committee selects the speakers for the annual Celsius and Linné lectures, (4 meetings).
Member of the Board of UpGIS, the net for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 1999-2012
Comment: Representing TN-faculty, UU.
Expert Evaluator for two positions as Full Professors in Medical imaging and image analysis at Chalmers University of Technology and The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, both in Göteborg.
Comment: 15 applicants.
Expert evaluator of Matthew Thurley's application to become Associate Professor/Docent in Signal processing at Luleå Technical University.

Anders Brun
International:

Program Committee member of the SSPR2012 Workshop organized in conjunction with ICPR, 20121107

Ingrid Carlbom
International:

Member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
Member of ACM SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques)
Member of SIGMA XI, The Scientific Research Society

National:

Expert advisor for promotion to full professor at Mid Sweden University, 121115
Project leader for the Vinnova Agenda for ``Image-based medical diagnostics - a Swedish area of strength with great potential"

Anders Hast

International:

Founding Organizer and program committee member for the UnConventional High Performance Computing (UCHP)
Member of the program committee of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP)
Member of the program committee of the Asian Simulation Technology Conference (ASTEC)
Member of the program committee of the Industrial Simulation Conference, Virtual Reality and Graphical Simulation in Industrial Simulation
Member of the program committee of the The Middle Eastern Modelling and Simulation MultiConference Simulation in Archaeology (MEMS)
Member of the program committee of the The Simulation and AI in Games Conference (GAMEON ASIA)

Cris Luengo
International:

Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2010-
Comment: Member since 2001.
Member of the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC), 2006-
Reviewer for the Habilitation Thesis of Petr Matula, Centre for Biomedical Image Analysis, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Member of the Technical Programme Committee of the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'2012), 121111-15
Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition Letters 110606-121231

National:

Member of evaluation panel TN-A (medical technology) of the Swedish Research Council
Opponent for licentiate thesis Anders Landström, Luleå Univeristy of Technology, 20121121

Ingela Nyström
International:

Member of the Executive Committee, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
- 2nd Vice President 2008-2010
- Secretary 2010-
Member of Advisory Committee of CERN School of Computing, 2011-
Local Arrangements Chair of 35th CERN School of Computing, Uppsala, Sweden, Aug 2012

National:

Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskapssamhället i Uppsala), 2012-
Board Member of Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA), 2000-2012
Comment: President 2002-2006
Board Member of the Swedish University computer NETwork (SUNET), 2008-
Board Member of the Faculty of Science and Technology, UU, 2011-
Member of the Docent Committee of the Faculty of Science and Technology, UU, 2011-
Member of the Electorial Board ("elektorsförsamlingen") of the Faculty of Science and Technology, UU, 2011-
Member of the Evaluation Panel for grant applications to the Swedish Research Council: Infrastructures for e-Science (Beredningsgrupp 4), 2011--

Stefan Seipel
International:

Program Committee for the 16th International Conference on Information Visualization (IV2012), Montpellier, France, 20120710-20120713
Member of Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics, 20120101-20121231
Member of the Evaluation Panel of the European Research Council Executive Agency, Unit B3: Advanced Grants, 20120901

National:

Chair of SIGRAD - Swedish Computer Graphics Association, 20120420-20121231
Comment: Chair since 20th of April 2012
Chair of the Postgraduate Education Board at the University of Gävle, 20120101-20121231
Dissertation committee member of Daniel Johansson, NT-Faculty, Örebro University, 20120210 Comment: Title: Convergence in Mixed Reality - Virtuality Environments: Facilitating Natural User Behaviour
Co-chair of the National Annual Computer Graphics Conference 2012, 20120901-20121128
Member of the Evaluation Panel of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, 20120920
Comment: IT&Media Technology cluster
Dissertation committee member of Anja Johansson, ITN, Linköping University, 20121109
Comment: Title: Affective Decision Making in Artificial Intelligence: Making Virtual Characters With High Believability

Ida-Maria Sintorn
National:

Board member of Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA), 2008-
Comment: Treasurer from 2009.

Robin Strand
International:

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Discrete Mathematics
Member of the technical program committee, 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2012, 2012, Tsukuba Science City, Japan
Member of the program committee, S+SSPR 2012, November 7-9, 2012, Miyajima-Itsukushima, Hiroshima, Japan (ICPR 2012 pre-conference workshop)

National:

Member of the Electorial Board (``elektorsförsamlingen") of the Faculty of Science and Technology, UU

Carolina Wählby
International:

Program committee member, ISMB 2012: 20th Annual international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, July 15-17, Longbeach, California, USA, 20120715-20120717
Programme committee member, ECCB 2012: The 11th European Conference on Computational Biology, September 9-12, 2012, Basel, Switzerland, 20120909-20120912
Program committee member, ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine, Orlando, Florida, October 7-10, 2012., 20121007-20121010

National:

Expert evaluator of Emma Lundberg's application to become Assistant Associate Professor (Biträdande lektor) in Cellbiological proteomics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 20120101-20120315
Thesis opponent at dissertation of Charlotte Stadler, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm., 20121109 Comment: Title: Towards subcellular localization of the human proteome using bioimaging

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