Committees

Figure 33: Journals with CBA staff in the editorial board.

Ewert Bengtsson
International:

• Senior lifetime member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2004-
  Comment: Member since 1974.
• Member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2004-
• Member of the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC), 2000-
• Associate Editor of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2012-
  Comment: Published by Elsevier. Bengtsson was Editorial Board member 1995-2011.
• Editorial Board member of Machine Graphics & Vision, 1994-
  Comment: Published by the Polish Academy of Sciences.
• Scientific committee, International Conference on Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern recognition (ICSIPR13), Karunya Nagar Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, Feb. 2013.
• Program Committee, 21st International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG 2013), Plzen, Czech Republic, June 2013.
• Management Committee, EU COST Action TD1201: ``Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage, COSCH'' 201305-
  Comment: Bengtsson is responsible for coordinating the Swedish participation.

National:

• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 2006-
  Comment: Division VII: Basic and Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences.
• Member No. 2 of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten), 1998-
  Comment: Elected member of the oldest scientific society in Sweden (founded 1710).
• Coordinating group of Medtech4Health, 201201-
  Comment: Medtech4Health is a national Swedish initiative to build a Strategic Innvotion Area in medical engineering.
• Board of Swedish Bioimaging, 201203-
  Comment: A Swedish network for researchers in biomedical imaging and image analysis.
• Scientific board of Hillevi Fries Research Scholarship Foundation, 200611-
  Comment: A Swedish foundation that accepts applications and gives out research grants for urology research.
• Board of UpGIS, the network for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 1999-
• UU Library Council member, 2011-
• IT strategy group at UU, 201206-201310
  Comment: A committee headed by the university director to create a new strategy for support of administrative IT at UU.
• Expert advisor to the head of the Information Technology Unit of UU administration, 2013-
• Board of the Dept. of Information Technology, UU, 201207-
• Head of Research (``forskningsprefekt") at the Dept. of Information Technology, UU, 2013-
• Head of the research program ``Image analysis and man-machine interaction," Dept. of Information Technology, UU, 1996-
• PhD education responsible professor for ``Computerized Image Processing"

Gunilla Borgefors
International:

• Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 1998-
  Comment: 1st Vice President 1994-96, Secretary 1990-94, etc., etc.
• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), 2007-
  Comment: Member since 1997. Senior member 1998.
• Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters, 2011-
  Comment: Published by Elsevier. PRL is an official journal of the International Association of Pattern Recognition. Borgefors was Associate Editor/Area Editor 2004-2010.
• Editorial Board member of Image Processing and Communications, 1994-
  Comment: Published by the Institute of Telecommunications, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
• Editorial Board member of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Advances in Mathematical Theory and Applications, 1993-
  Comment: Published by Interperiodica Publishing in cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Editorial Board of the book series Computational Imaging and Vision, 2003-
  Comment: Published by Springer.
• Steering committee for Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI) conferences, 2000-
• Steering committee for International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM), 2011-
• General Chair, 11th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2013), Uppsala, Sweden, May 2013.
  Comment: See section 7.1.
• Programme committee, 17th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2013), Sevilla, Spain Mar. 2013.
• Programme committee, 15th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2013), York, England Aug. 2013.
• Programme committee and Prize committee, 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2013), Naples, Italy Sep. 2013.
  Comment: Three prizes where awarded to the best papers in various categories.
• Programme committee, 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2013), Havanna, Cuba, Nov. 2013.
• Dissertation committee of Ole Thomsen Buus, Dept. of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Flakkeberg, Denmark, 20130705
  Comment: Title: Analysis of the Indented Cylinder by the Use of Computer Vision

National:

• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 2011-
  Comment: Division VII: Basic and Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences.
• Member of the Committee for Future Strategy, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 201206-201302.
  Comment: Work group 1: The Big Global Society Challenges.
• Member No. 19 of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten), 2000-
  Comment: Elected member of the oldest scientific society in Sweden (founded 1710).
• Member of Swedish Parliamentarians and Scientists, 1987-
  Comment: Members are elected. Only one scientist per field admitted.
• Board/Steering Committee for Onsala Space Observatory, 2011-
• Chair of the Celsius-Linné committee, TN-faculty, UU, 201306-
  Comment: The committee selects the speakers for the annual Celsius and Linné lectures and organizes the following one-day Symposium. Member since 2007.
• Nominating committee for ``Björkénska priset", the foremost scientific prize awarded by UU. 201303-201310.
  Comment: This year the prize was for ``Physics, Mechanics, and Engineering sciences. The winners were Olle Eriksson (physics) and Erik Hagersten (IT).
• Advisory Board for CBA 2012-
  Comment: One of two representatives for SLU.
• Dissertation committee of Johan Skog, Dept. of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, Campus Skellefteå, 20130531.
  Comment: Title: Characterization of Sawlogs Using Industrial X-ray and 3D Scanning
• Dissertation committee of Yuanyuan Qu, Dept. of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Campus Norrköping, 20131011.
  Comment: Title: Color Prediction and Separation Models in Printing - Minimizing the colorimetric and spectral differences employing multiple characterization curves
• Expert evaluator for the ``Ingvar Carlsson Award," from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, 201301.
• Expert evaluator of Lennart Thurfjells application to become Adjunct Professor at Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, 201307-201310.

Ingrid Carlbom
International:

• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1987-
• Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1971-
• Member of ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH), 1976- Member of SIGMA XI, The Scientific Research Society 1979-

National:

• Project leader for the Vinnova Agenda for ``Image-based medical diagnostics - a Swedish area of strength with great potential" 201209-201305

Vladimir Curic
International:

• Organizing committee and Program Committee, 11th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2013), Uppsala, Sweden, May 2013.

Anders Hast
International:

• Program committee, Asian Simulation Technology Conference (ASTEC 2013), Shanghai, China, Mar. 2013
• Conference committee, Simulation and AI in Games (GAMEON-ASIA), Shanghai, China, Mar. 2013.
• Conference committee, Industrial Simulation Conference (ISC 2013), Ghent, Belgium, May 2013.

National:

• Dissertation Committee of Erik Sintorn, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 20130226
  Comment: Title: Efficient real-time visibility testing

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-
• Area Editor for Pattern Recognition Letters 201301-
  Comment: Published by Elsevier. PRL is an official journal of the International Association of Pattern Recognition. Luengo was Associate Editor 201106-201212.
• Chair of Programme Committee, 11th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2013), Uppsala, Sweden, May 2013.
• Programme committee, 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2013), Havanna, Cuba, Nov. 2013.
• Programme Committee, 21th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 12th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2013), Berlin, Germany, July 2013.

National:

• Swedish Research Council (VR) review panel TN-19 (medical physics), 201309
• Head of the Machine Learning Arena, Dept. of Information Technology, UU, 201301-201312 
  Comment: A committee to promote machine learning research and teaching.
• Advisory Board for CBA 2012-
  Comment: One of two representatives for SLU.
• Dissertation committee of Ali Khorshidi, Div. of Proteomics and Nanobiotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 20131018 
  Comment: Title: Live Single Cell Imaging and Analysis Using Microfluidic Devices
• Dissertation committee (reserve) of Marcin Kruczyk, Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, UU, 201310 
  Comment: Title: Rule-Based Approaches for Large Biological Datasets Analysis - A Suite of Tools and Methods
• Half-time Evaluation Committee of Richard Nordenskjöld, Dept. of Radiology, Oncology and Radiation Science, UU, 201310 
  

Ingela Nyström
International:

• Secretary of the Executive Committee of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) 2010-
  Comment: 2nd Vice President 2008-2010
• Dissertation examiner of Francois Cokelaer, GIPSA-Lab, University of Grenoble, France, 20130222 
  Comment: Title: Advanced Path Operators for n-D Images and Efficient Implementation

National:

• Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskapssamhället i Uppsala), 2012-
• Member of the Organizing committee for the 350-year Anniversary of the Equestrian Dept., UU, 20130912.
• Board of the Swedish University computer NETwork (SUNET), 2008-2013
• Board of the Faculty of Science and Technology, UU, 2011-
• Docent committee of the Faculty of Science and Technology, UU, 2011-
• Electorial Board (``elektorsförsamlingen") of the Faculty of Science and Technology, UU, 2011-2013
• Board of Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (SNIC-UPPMAX), UU, 2013-
• Advisory Board for CBA 2012-
  Comment: One of two representatives for UU.

• Dissertation committee of Umut Kocak, Dept. of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Campus Norrköping, 20130605 
  Comment: Title: Haptic Interaction with Deformable Objects
• Evaluation Panel for grant applications to the Swedish Research Council: Infrastructures for e-Science (``Beredningsgrupp 4''), 2011--
• Evaluation Panel for grant applications for Future Research Leaders at the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), 2013

Alexandra Pacureanu
International:

• Programme Committee, 21th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and 12th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2013), Berlin, Germany, July 2013.

Stefan Seipel
International:

• Program Committee, 21st International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG 2013), Plzen, Czech Republic, June 2013.
• Program committee, 17th International Conference on Information Visualisation (iV 2013), London, U.K., July 2013.

National:

• Chair of the Swedish Computer Graphics Association (SIGRAD), 201206-
• Expert evaluator for the Swedish Higher Education Authority (``Universitetskanslersämbetet"), subject IT& New Media, 201209-201306.
• Scientific program committee, SIGRAD 2013, Norrköping, July 2013.
• Dissertation committee of Quan Ho, Norrköping, Dept. of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Campus Norrköping, 20130529
  Comment: Title: Architecture and Applications of a Geovisual Analytics Framework
• Dissertation committee of Patrik Lundblad, Dept. of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Campus Norrköping, 20130530
  Comment: Title: Applied Geovisual Analytics and Storytelling

Ida-Maria Sintorn
International:

• Programme committee, 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2013), Havanna, Cuba, Nov. 2013.
• Dissertation examiner of Swamidoss Isaac Niwas, Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, 201306
  Comment: Title: Complex Wavelet based Multiresolution Texture Analysis of Microscopic Images for Breast Cancer Diagnosis.

National:

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

Robin Strand
International:

• Editorial Board member of Journal of Discrete Mathematics, 2013-
  Comment: Open access. Published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
• Chair of local organization and Programme committee member, 11th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2013), Uppsala, Sweden, May 2013.
• International advisory committee, International Conference on Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern recognition (ICSIPR13), Karunya Nagar Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, Feb. 2013.
• Programme committee, 17th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI 2013), Sevilla, Spain, Mar. 2013.
• Programme committee, 9th Workshop on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition (GbR2013), Vienna, Austria, May 2013.
• Programme committee, 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2013), Havanna, Cuba, Nov. 2013.

National:

• Member of the Electorial Board (``elektorsförsamlingen") of the Faculty of Science and Technology, UU, 2011-2013

Carolina Wählby
International:

• Track Chair, Proceedings manager, and Programme committee, 21st International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and 12th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2013), Berlin, Germany, July 2013.

National:

• Opponent for the Licentiate thesis of Frida Nellros, Dept. of Computer Science, Space and Electrical Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 20130517 
  Comment: Title: Quantitative Image Analysis - A Focus on Automated Characterization of Structures in Optical Microscopy of Iron Ore Pellets.
• Opponent for the Licentiate thesis of Qaiser Mahmood, Dept. of Signals and Systems , Chalmers Universtiy of Technology, 20130531 
  Comment: Title: Automated Patient-Specific Multi-tissue Segmentation of MR Images of the Head.

• Opponent for the Licentiate thesis of Obaid Aftab, Dept. of Medical Sciences, UU, 20131106
  Comment: Title: High-throughput phenotypic and systemic profiling of in vitro growing cell populations using label-free microscopy and spectroscopy: Applications in cancer pharmacology

• Dissertation committee of Petter Hammar, Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, UU, 20130614 
  Comment: Title: lac of Time: Transcription Factor Kinetics in Living Cells