Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

Vasant Honavar: Professional Activities
Professional Organizations

  • Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Member, 2014-2017, Computing Research Association (CRA)
  • Senior Member, Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
  • Senior Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Senior Member, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
  • Fellow, International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM)
  • Member, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
  • Member, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
  • Elected Member, New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)
  • Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Member, International Neural Networks Society (INNS)
  • Associate, Behavioural and Brain Sciences (BBS)
  • Elected Member, Sigma Xi
  • Member, Society for Neuroscience
  • Member, Cognitive Science Society
  • Member, ACM Special Interest Group In Artificial Intelligence (SIGART)
  • Member, Neural Networks Council (NNC)

Conferences, Symposia, and Workshops Organized

Invited Lectures at Conferences

  • Invited Talk, Computational Prediction of Protein Interfaces and Complexes, Zing Conference on Protein Folding, 2014.
  • Invited Keynote Talk, From Big Data Analytics to Computational Discovery and Discovery Informatics. 9th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Austin, Texas, 2013.
  • Invited Talk, From Data Analytics to Discovery Informatics. NIH NIAID Symposium on Unlocking the Power of Big Data. National Institutes of Health, 2013.
  • Invited Keynote Talk, From Big Data Analytics to Discovery Informatics. Conference on Complex Adaptive Systems, Washington DC. November 2012.
  • Invited Talk, Computational Prediction of Protein Interfaces and Interactions. Conference on Modeling Protein Interactions, Lawrence, Kansas, November 2012.
  • Invited Keynote Talk, Learning Predictive Models from Distributed Data. Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding, Boulder, CO, October 2012.
  • Invited Keynote Talk, Humanities as Information Sciences. Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Chicago, November 2009. li> Invited Keynote Talk, Aligning Macromolecular Networks. Sixth International Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT 2009), Lincoln, Nebraska, October 2009.
  • Invited Plenary Talk, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA 2008), Cagliari, Italy, September 2008.
  • Invited Keynote Talk, International Congress on Pervasive Computing and Management (ICPCM 2008), New Delhi, India, December 2008.
  • Invited Talk, Telluride Meeting on Characterizing the Landscape From Biomolecules to Cellular Networks, Telluride, Colorado, July 2008.
  • Invited Talk, Privacy-preserving Reasoning, Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, USA, May 2008
  • Invited Keynote Talk, Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop, IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Silicon Valley, 2007.
  • Invited Talk, Making Biology and Medicine a Predictive Science. NSF Workshop on Biomedical Informatics. Oregon, 2007.
  • Invited Talk, Knowledge Acquisition from Semantically Disparate Distributed Data. NSF Workshop on Next Generation Data Mining and Cyber-Enabled Discovery, Baltimore, Maryland, 2007.
  • Invited Talk, On Selective Sharing and Reuse of Ontologies, Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, USA, May 2007
  • Invited Keynote Talk, Semantic Web for Collaborative e-Science, International Conference on Intelligent Sensing and Information Processing, Bangalore, India, 2006.
  • Invited Lecture: Querying Semantically Heterogeneous Data Sources from a User’s Point of View, Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, USA, March 2006.
  • Honavar, V. Invited Plenary Lecture: Algorithms and Software for Collaborative Discovery from Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous, Distributed, Information Sources, Algorithmic learning theory (ALT 2005) and Discovery Science (DS 2005), Singapore, October 2005.
  • Invited Lecture: Querying Semantically Heterogeneous Data Sources from a User's Point of View, Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, USA, March 2006.
  • Honavar, V. Plenary Talk, Data-Driven Discovery of Macromolecular Sequence-Structure-Function Relationships. International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications, 2003.
  • Honavar, V. Invited Talk, Agent-Based Distributed Intelligent Information Networks for Computational Inference and Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics. In: Workshop on Agents in Bioinformatics, Italy, 2002.
  • Honavar, V. Plenary Talk, Computational Discovery of Protein Sequence-Structure-Function Relationships, Diversity in Information Science and Technology, Nebraska EPSCOR Conference, 2002
  • Honavar, V. Keynote Address, Learning from Large, Distributed, Heterogeneous Data Sets. International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ISAI 2001), Kohlapur, India.
  • Honavar V. Invited Talk, Distributed Intelligent Information Networks. Midwestern Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 2000.
  • Honavar, V. Invited Talk, Cumulative Learning in Open Environments. International Workshop on Current Computational Architectures Integrating Neural Networks and Neuroscience. Durham Castle, United Kingdom. 2000.
  • Honavar, V. Invited Talk, Distributed Knowledge Networks. Artificial Intelligence for Distributed Information Networks (AiDIN '99) Workshop held during the 1999 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 99), Orlando, Florida. July 1999.

Tutorials

Conferences, Symposia, and Workshop Program Committee Memberships

Referee

  • BMC Bioinformatics
  • FEBS Letters
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
  • IEEE Expert / IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • IEEE Computer
  • Proteins Structure, Function and Bioinformatics
  • Protein Engineering
  • Applied Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Neural Networks
  • Neural Computation
  • Information Sciences
  • Connection Science
  • Image and Vision Computing
  • Numerous National and International Conferences

Grant Review Panels

  • Council Member, NIGMS, National Institutes of Health, 2014
  • CISE Review Panel, National Science Foundation, 2014
  • Member of Review Panel Department of Energy, 2013
  • Member of Special Emphasis Study Section, National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, 2013
  • Reviewer, National Centers for Biomedical Computing, National Institutes of Health
  • Member of Study Section, Biological Data Management and Analysis, National Institutes of Health, 2010
  • Reviewer, Israeli Science Foundation, 2010
  • CISE Review Panels National Science Foundation, 2010
  • Member of Study Section, Bioinformatics Resource Centers for Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 2010
  • Member of Genomics, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Review Panel European Research Council Genetics, and Systems Biology, 2010
  • Member of Review Panel Chaires de Recherché du Canada, 2009
  • CISE Review Panel National Science Foundation, 2009
  • CISE Review Panel National Science Foundation, 2009
  • Chair of Study Section, Data Ontologies and Sharing Data and Tools National Institutes of Health, 2008
  • Member of Biological Data Management and Analysis Study Section, National Institutes of Health, 2004-2007.
  • Member of the Bioinformatics Special Study Section, National Institutes of Health, 2001, 2002, 2003.
  • Member of Review Panel, Intelligent Information Systems, National Science Foundation, 2005.
  • Member of Review Panel, Intelligent Information Systems, National Science Foundation, 2004.
  • Member of Review Panel, Bioinformatics, National Science Foundation, 2003.
  • Member of Review Panel, Information and Intelligent Systems Program, National Science Foundation, 2002
  • Member of Review Panel, SBIR Program, National Science Foundation, 2000.
  • Member of Review Panel, U.S. Civilian Research Development Foundation, 2000.
  • Member of Review Panel, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Program, National Science Foundation, 1999.
  • Member of Review Panel, CISE Research Instrumentation Grants, National Science Foundation, 1994.
  • Reviewer, National Science Foundation
  • Reviewer, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Reviewer, National Scientific and Engineering Research Council, Canada.