Service


Conference Organization

  1. 1st Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Computer Science (FAT*), 2018. (Publications Chair and Organizing Committee)
  2. Symposium on Algorithms Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX), 2018 (Program Chair)
  3. 3rd Workshop on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, 2016. (Program Chair)
  4. SIAM Conference in Data Mining, 2015 (Program Chair)
  5. 2nd Workshop on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, 2015. (Program Chair)
  6. SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2014 (Panels Chair)
  7. SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2014 (Tutorials Chair)
  8. 8F-CG: Geometry In the Field (co-located with the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry) 2012 (Program Chair with Jeff Phillips)
  9. 3rd MultiClust Workshop: Discovering, Summarizing and Using Multiple Clusterings (Organizing Committee).
  10. SIAM minisymposium on Computational Geometry, Joint Mathematics Meetings, 2012 (General and Program Chair)
  11. 26th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2010 (General Chair) (with Valerio Pascucci)
  12. 15th Annual Workshop on Computational Geometry, 2005 (General Chair).

Program Committees

  1. 17th Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (2018).
  2. 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018 (Senior PC).
  3. 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2017 (Senior PC).
  4. Third annual International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), 2017.
  5. 44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), 2017.
  6. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2016.
  7. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2016
  8. 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2016 (Senior PC).
  9. 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2016.
  10. 23rd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2016.
  11. 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2016.
  12. Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithms And Theory (SWAT), 2016
  13. SIAM Conference in Data Mining, 2016 (Senior PC)
  14. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2015
  15. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2015
  16. 33rd Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS), 2016.
  17. 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2015.
  18. 35th Annual Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science conference (FSTTCS), 2015.
  19. 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2015.
  20. Topics in Theoretical Computer Science (TTCS), 2015
  21. 23rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2014
  22. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2014
  23. 34th Annual Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science conference (FSTTCS), 2014.
  24. IEEE International Conference in Data Mining, 2014 (area chair)
  25. 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2013
  26. International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2014.
  27. First International Workshop on Big Dynamic Distributed Data (BD3), 2013.
  28. MASSIVE Workshop on Massive Data Algorithmics, 2013.
  29. 1st IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData), 2013
  30. 22nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2013
  31. 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2013
  32. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2013 (Contests co-chair)
  33. 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2013.
  34. SIAM Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2013
  35. 24th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2013.
  36. 3rd MultiClust Workshop: Discovering, Summarizing and Using Multiple Clusterings (co-located with Siam Conference on Data Mining), 2012. Organizing Committee.
  37. 1st workshop on Computational Geometry: Applications, Practice, and Theory (CG:APT) (co-located with Symposium on Computational Geometry), 2012.
  38. 18th ACM-SIGKDD conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (Vice Chair), 2012
  39. 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AISTATS), 2012.
  40. 39th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) 2012
  41. Posters Chair, 44th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC) 2012
  42. 44th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), 2012.
  43. 1st International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM), 2012.
  44. Workshop on Massive Data Algorithmics (MASSIVE), 2011.
  45. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (Vice Chair), 2011
  46. 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2011.
  47. 21st ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA), 2010.
  48. Workshop on Massive Data Algorithmics, 2009.
  49. The 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009).
  50. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2009.
  51. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2008.
  52. 23rd ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 2007.
  53. 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2007.
  54. 33rd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2007.
  55. 9th Workshop on Algorithms, Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX), 2007.
  56. 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2006.
  57. 14th European Symposium on Algorithms, Sep 2006.
  58. 16th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Jan 2005.
  59. 12th Annual Workshop on Computational Geometry, Nov 14-15, 2002 (co-sponsored by DIMACS).

Internal Service

  1. Internal Review Committee for Department of Philosophy (2017)
  2. School of Computing Awards Committee (chair) (2017--)
  3. University of Utah Funding Incentive Seed Grant Committee (2017-2020)
  4. School of Computing Hiring Committee (2016-2017)
  5. Joint Math-SoC-BioEngineering Stats Cluster Search Committee (2014-15)
  6. School of Computing Executive Committee (2014--)
  7. Distinguished Lecture Series Chair (2014--)
  8. Data Management and Analysis Track Committee (2007-)
  9. Admissions Committee (2007-2015)
  10. Director of Graduate Studies (2009--2012)
  11. Curriculum Committee (2007-2013)
  12. Outreach Committee (Spring 2007, 2007-2008)
  13. College of Engineering Math Committee (2010-2013)