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

• Program Co-Chair, IEEE Conference on Big Data (2014).
• Program Committee co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (2014).
• Organizer and Chair, ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Discovery Informatics (2014)
• ACM Workshop on Immunoinformatics and Computational Immunology (in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (2010-2014))
• Workshop on Discovery Informatics in Discovery Informatics in Biological and Biomedical Sciences: Research Challenges and Opportunities in (in conjunction with the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (2015)).
• IJCAI 2007 Workshop on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa 2007), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, India, January 2007.
• First International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO 2006), International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, Georgia, USA, November 2006.
• AAAI 2006 Fall Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition (SWeCKa 2006), Arlington, VA, USA, October 2006.
• IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition from Distributed, Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous Data Sources, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Houston, Texas, USA, November 2005.
• Co-Chair, Workshop on Cognitive Agents and and Multi-Agent Interaction, International Conference on Cognitive Science, Beijing, China, August 2001.
• Track Co-Chair, Agents and Adaptive Behavior, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2002)
• Program Chair, Fourth Conference on Computational Biology and Genome Informatics (CBGI-02), Durham, North Carolina, 2002.
• Chair, Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Heterogeneous, Distributed, Autonomous, Dynamic Data and Knowledge Sources, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, Washington, August 2001.
• Artificial Life, Adaptive Behavior, and Agents Committee Chair Genetic and Evolutionary Computing Conference, Orlando, Florida, July 1999.
• Co-Chair, AAAI 99 Workshop on Computation with Neural Systems, Orlando, Florida, July 1999.
• Chair, Fourth International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 98), Ames, Iowa. July 1998.
• Organizer and Co-Chair, Workshop on Automata Induction, Grammatical Inference, and Language Acquisition International Conference on Machine Learning, Nashville, TN. July 1997.

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

• Preference Representation and Reasoning, AAAI 2014, Quebec City, Canada.
• Tutorial: Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition from Semantically Disparate, Distributed Data Sources, 2006 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, May 2006.
• Semantic Web Technologies for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition, International Conference on Digital Information Management, Bangalore, India, December 2006.
• Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Washington, DC. 1999.
• Intelligent Agents, Genetic Programming Conference, Madison, WI, 1998.
• Computational Learning Theory, Genetic Programming Conference, Stanford, 1997.

Conferences, Symposia, and Workshop Program Committee Memberships

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2014
• ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, 2014
• IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2014
• IEEE Big Data Congress, 2013
• ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, 2013
• Conference on Data Integration in Life Sciences (DILS 2013)
• IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2013
• IEEE Big Data Congress, 2013
• IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2013)
• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012)
• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012)
• Conference on Data Integration in Life Sciences (DILS 2012)
• IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2012)
• International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods, and Algorithms (Bioinformatics 2012)
• International Conference on Health Informatics (IHI 2012)
• IEEE Conference on Biomedical Computing 2012
• SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM 2012)
• SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM 2011)
• ACM Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB 2011)
• Intelligent Systems in Computational Biology (ISMB / ECCB 2011)
• Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2011)
• IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2011)
• ACM/WIC/IEEE Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2011)
• ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2011)
• National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2010)
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2010)
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2010)
• ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2010)
• ACM/WIC/IEEE Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2010)
• ACM Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB 2010)
• International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2010)
• Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WOMO 2010)
• SIAM Data Mining Conference (SDM 2010)
• Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2010)
• International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2010)
• Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB 2009)
• ACM/WIC/IEEE Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2009)
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2009)
• International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL 2009)
• International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2009)
• International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing (SEMAPRO 2009)
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008)
• ACM/WIC/IEEE Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2008)
• SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2008)
• International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2008)
• International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2008)
• ACM SIGKDD Conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (KDD 2007)
• Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB 2007)
• International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2007)
• ACM/WIC/IEEE Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2007)
• IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2007)
• AAAI Workshop on Semantic e-Science (SeS 2007)
• 2nd International Workshop on Modular Ontologies (WoMO 2007)
• ICWS Workshop on Service Composition and Adaptation (WSCA 2007)
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2007)
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2007)
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2006)
• International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2006)
• 8th International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 06)
• IASTED International Conference on Computational Intelligence (CI 2006)
• IEEE Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE-GrC 2006)
• IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2005)
• International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2005)
• IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2005)
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005)
• IEEE/ACM Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2005)
• ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD 2005)
• Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI 2005)
• IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2004)
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2004)
• IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2004)
• AAAI Workshop on Semantic Web Personalization
• IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2004)
• International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2004)
• SIAM Bioinformatics Workshop, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 04)
• IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2004)
• IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2004) International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2004)
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2004)
• International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2004)
• IEEE/WIC/ACM Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology,
• International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2003)
• IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2003)
• International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2003)
• Sixth International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI 2002)
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2001)
• International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN 2001)
• Fifth International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference
• Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 99), Orlando, Florida, July 1999.
• Program Committee Member, Genetic Programming Conference, 1998 (GP-98), Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998.
• Program Committee Member, Ninth Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference, Dayton, Ohio, March 1998.
• Member of International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Evolutioanary Computation in Engineering (ICECE 99), Madras, India, January 1999.
• Program Committee Member, Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, Nashville, TN. July 1997.
• Program Committee Member, Genetic Programming 1997 Stanford University, CA. July 1997.

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.