Committees

Ewert Bengtsson
International:

• Lifetime Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 20150101-
  Comment: Member since 1974.
• Member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2004-
• Member of the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC), 2000-
• Editorial Board member of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 1995-
  Comment: Published by Elsevier.
• Editorial Board member of Machine Graphics & Vision, 1994-
  Comment: Published by the Polish Academy of Sciences.
• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Multimedia Information System, 2014-
  Comment: Published by Korea Multimedia Society.
• Program Committee Bioimaging 2015, 12-15 January 2015, Lisbon, Portugal
• Management Committee, EU COST Action TD1201: ``Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage, COSCH'' 2013-
  Comment: Bengtsson is responsible for coordinating the Swedish participation.
• On the International Program Committee for WSCG 2015, 23rd International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision 2015.
• On the International Program Committee for BIOIMAGING 2015, International Conference on Bioimaging.
• Expert evaluator for proposals to the Canadian MITACS research funding program.
• Expert evaluator for proposals to Cancer Research UK funding program.
• Expert evaluator for proposals of funding for research infrastructures for the Academy of Finland.
• Expert evaluator for proposals to the ``TALENT RESEARCH'' (LA RICERCA DEI TALENTI) program to support Scientific Independence of Young Researchers by the Italian Ministry of University and Research
• Expert evaluator at the half time check point for the French Labex projects.

National:

• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 2006-
  Comment: Division VII: Basic and Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences.
• Member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskaps-Societeten), 1998-
  Comment: Elected member of the oldest scientific society in Sweden (founded 1710).
• Board of Swedish Bioimaging, 2012-201512
  Comment: A Swedish network for research infrastructures in biomedical imaging and image analysis.
• Scientific board of Swedish Association for Medical Engineering and Physics, ``Svensk förening för medicinsk teknik och fysik'' 2013-
• Program Committee, Swedish Medical Engineering Days, ``Medicinteknikdagarna'', Uppsala, 2015.
• Scientific board of Hillevi Fries Research Scholarship Foundation, 2006-
  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, 1999-2015
• UU Library Council member, 2011-2015
• Chair of UU committee to manage pilot studies for a proposed new strategy for handling long term storage of scientific data, 2015 -
• Chair of a joint committee by the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy to develop a strategic plan for medical engineering research and education at UU. 201409-201502
• Expert advisor to the head of the Information Technology Unit of UU administration, 2013-
• Board of the Dept. of Information Technology, UU, 2012-201505
• Head of Research (``forskningsprefekt'') at the Dept. of Information Technology, UU, 2013-201503
• Expert for evaluating chair in medical engineering for Linköping University 201409-201502

Gunilla Borgefors

International:

• Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 1998-
  Comment: 1st Vice President 1994-96, Secretary 1990-94, etc., etc.
• Member of the Fellow Committee of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2014-2015
• 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-
• Program committee, International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, ISMM 2015, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2015.
• Track Co-Chair, International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2015, Genoa, Italy, Sept. 2015. 
  Comment: Track Chair together with Leila de Floriani

• Program committee, XX Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2015, Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 2015.
• Pre-examiner of the dissertation manuscript of Arttu Miettinen, Dept. of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, Fall 2015. 
  Comment: Title: Characterization of Three Dimensional Microstructure of Composite Materials by X-Ray Tomography

National:

• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 2011-
  Comment: Division VII: Basic and Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences.
• 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, 2013-
  Comment: The committee selects the speakers for the annual Celsius and Linné lectures and organizes the following one-day Symposium. Member since 2007.
• Member of the Docent committee of the Faculty of Science and Technology, UU, 2014-
• Scientific expert committee for the Vinnova project DTC (Detection-Taget Tracking-Classification) at SSAB Dynamics and Linköping University, running 2014-16 and headed by our alumni Tomas Brandtberg
• Dissertation committee for Anna Mikaelyan, School of information Technology, Halmstad University, 20150417 
  Comment: Title: Compact orientation and frequency estimation with applications in biometry
• Dissertation committee for Erik Johansson, Dept. of Engineering Science and Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, Campus Skellefteå, 20150521 
  Comment: Title: computed tomography and fingerprint traceability in the wood industry

Anders Brun
International:

• Management Committee member, COSCH, Colour & Space in Cultural Heritage, EU COST Action TD 1201.

National:

• Board member, SSBA, 2014-
• Search Committee for a junior faculty member in Machine Learning for the Dept. of Information Technology, UU, 2015

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-

Christer Kiselman
International:

• Evaluation of research and education at Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systémes d'information (LIRIS) in Lyon, organized by Haut Conseil de l'évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur (HCERES), initially by Agence d'évaluation de la recherche et de l'enseignement supérieur (AERES), 201411 -- 201501.
• Program Committee, Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery, DGCI, 2015.
• Reference Group of the International Science Programme, 2002- .
• International Academy of Sciences, San Marino, 1983- .
• Internacia Scienca Akademio Comenius, 1986- .
• Academy of Esperanto, 1989 - 20151215.
• Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci (Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences), 2002- .
• Associate Member, Scandinavian Society for Iranian Studies, 2010- .

National:

• Evaluation of research at Linnaeus University, 20150801--20151020.
• Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, Uppsala, 1983- .
• Royal Society of Sciences, Uppsala, 1984- .
• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1990- .

Kristína Lidayová, Elisabeth Linnér, Johan Nysjö, Pontus Olsson and Tomas Wilkinson

• Editors, SSBAktuellt, the newsletter of the Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis

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 2013-2015
  Comment: Published by Elsevier. PRL is an official journal of the International Association of Pattern Recognition. Luengo was Associate Editor 2011-2012.
• Editorial Board, Mathematical Morphology - Theory and Applications, 2015- 
  Comment: A new journal from De Gruyter Open.
• Steering Committee, International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, 2013-.
• Program Committee, International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM), 2015
• Program Committee, CIARP 2015

National:

• Advisory Board for CBA 2012-2015
  Comment: Representative for SLU.
• Search Committee for a junior faculty member in Machine Learning for the Dept. of Information Technology, UU, 2014-2015
• Scientific Committee, CIM Workshop on Machine Learning, 2015

Filip Malmberg
International:

• Deputy editor of Pattern Recognition Letters, 2015-
  Comment: Published by Elsevier. PRL is an official journal of the International Association of Pattern Recognition.
• Program commitee, XX Iberoamerican Conference on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2015), Montevideo, Uruguay, November 2015.

National

• Organizing committee, ``Medicinteknikdagarna'' (Medical engineering days), Uppsala, October 2015.

Ingela Nyström
International:

• President of the Executive Committee of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) 2014-
  Comment: 2nd Vice President 2008-2010, Secretary 2010-2014

National:

• Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskapssamhället i Uppsala), 2012-
• Member of a joint committee by the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy to develop a strategic plan for medical engineering research and education at UU. 201409-201501
• Chair of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Image Analysis 2012-
  Comment: One of two representatives for UU.
• Member of the Council for Research Infrastructure (RFI), the Swedish Research Council, 2014-
  Comment: Vice-Chair 2015-
• Evaluation Panel for grant applications to the Swedish Research Council: Infrastructures for e-Science (``Beredningsgrupp 4''), 2011-2015
• Dissertation committee of Jane Tufvesson, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Lund University, 20151207  
  Comment: Title: Automatic Segmentation in Cranio-vascular Magnetic Resonance Images

Stefan Seipel
International:

• Board of reviewers for WSCG 2015 - International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, Plzen, Czech Republic
• Board of UpGIS, the network of Geographical Information Systems at UU, 2013-

National:

• Board of the Swedish Computer Graphics Association (SIGRAD), 2015
• Reviewer of three, and supervisor on three, Master's thesis projects at University of Gävle

Ida-Maria Sintorn
International:

• Organizing committee (local arrangements chair), ``womEncourage'', 2nd ACM-W Europe Celebration of Women in Computing, Uppsala, September 24-26, 2015.

National:

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

• Dissertation Committee of Linnea Ahlinder, Dept. of Engineering Sciences UU, 20150604 
  Comment: Title: Raman spectroscopy and hyperspectral analysis of living cells exposed to nanoparticles

Nataša Sladoje
International:

• Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition Letters
  Comment: Published by Elsevier. PRL is an official journal of the International Association of Pattern Recognition.
• Program committee, 9th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), Croatia, 2015.
• Program committee, Intern. Conference on Bioimaging, BIOIMAGING 2016, Rome, Italy
• Dissertation committee for Marija Milojevic Jevric, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, 20151002 
  Comment: Title: The application of meta-heuristics to optimise load distribution in machine elements and assemblies

Robin Strand
International:

• Editorial Board member of Journal of Discrete Mathematics, 2013-
  Comment: Open access. Published by Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
• Program Committee, 17th International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA 2015), Nov. 24-27 2015, Kolkata, India
• Program Committee, 12th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2015), May 27-29 2015, Reykavik, Iceland

National:

• Dissertation Committee of Marcus Björk, UU, 20150508 
  Comment: Title: Contributions to Signal Processing for MRI
• Coordinator of biomedical information technology (biomed-IT) at the Dept. of IT

Fredrik Wahlberg
National:

• Member of the Uppsala Programming for Multicore Architecures Research Center (UPMARC), 2014-2015

Carolina Wählby
International:

• Scientific advisory board member of MULTIMOT, 20150917 
  Comment: MULTIMOT is a H2020 EU funded project that aims to build an open data ecosystem for cell migration research, through standardization, dissemination and meta-analysis efforts.
• Scientific program committee, BioimageInformatics 2015.
• PhD thesis evaluation committee, Violeta N. Kovacheva, Dept. of Systems Biology, The University of Warwick, UK 
  Comment: Title: Modelling and Analysis of the Tumor Microenvironment of Colorectal Cancer

National:

• Member of the Electorial Board (``elektorsförsamlingen") of the Faculty of Science and Technology, UU, 2014-2016
• Licentiate thesis Committee for Benjamin Holmgren, Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology (ICM) BMC
  Comment: Thesis title: The role of the endolysosomal machinery in RNA interference and RNA transport in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.