Advisory Boards, Activities

Judge for the $5M XPrize in Artificial Intelligence. Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). Member of Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). 2014-present.

Evolv. Advisor. 2019-present.

Startup World Cup. Advisory Committee. 2020-present.

Founders Network. Membership Committee. 2019-present.

Member of the 2017 CHURCHILLS Academy, The Churchill Club.

Oakland Food Pantry. Board Member. 2014-2018.

Transcel. Advisor. 2011-2017.

Ditto Greetings. Advisor. 2012-2016.

Pinyata. Advisor. 2012-2015.

Change.org. Founding Member and Advisor. 2006-present.

Genetic Finance/Sentient Technologies. Co-Founder and Advisor. 2006-present. Board member, 2006-2010.

Mixtent (Sold to Facebook). Advisor. 2009-2011.

Radar Networks. Member of Advisory Board. 2007-2009.

Silicon Valley World Internet Center. Member of the Technology Council. 2001-2005.

Dejima, Inc. Member of Advisory Board. 1999-2001.

Oakland Food Pantry. Board Member. 2014-2018.

Transcel. Advisor. 2011-present.

Ditto Greetings. Advisor. 2012-2016.

Pinyata. Advisor. 2012-2015.

Change.org. Founding Member and Advisor. 2006-present.

Genetic Finance/Sentient Technologies. Co-Founder and Advisor. 2006-present. Board member, 2006-2010.

Mixtent (Sold to Facebook). Advisor. 2009-2011.

Radar Networks. Member of Advisory Board. 2007-2009.

Silicon Valley World Internet Center. Member of the Technology Council. 2001-2005.

Dejima, Inc. Member of Advisory Board. 1999-2001.

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Virtual and Active Interfaces Group. Visiting professor. Summer 2004. PhD Advisor, 2004-2007.

United Nations University's Millenium Project. Advisor and member of the technology team for the State of the Future Index (SOFI). 2003. 2007.

Program Committees

11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2019),
19-21 February 2019, Prague, Czech Republic.

9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2017),
24-26 February 2017, Porto, Portugal.

8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2016),
24-26 February 2016, Rome, Italy.

7th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2015),
10-12 January 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.

IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2010,
28 - 30 July 2010, Frieburg, Germany.

Linked AI: AAAI Spring Symposium "Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence",
March 22-24 2010, Stanford, CA.

The Second International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART-2010),
22 - 24 January 2010, Valencia, Spain.

The Eleventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and Workshop on Machine Learning for Multi-modal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI),
2 - 6 November 2009, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA.

International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART),
19 - 21 January 2009, Porto, Portugal.

IADIS International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2008 (IHCI),
25 - 27 July 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008),
May 12--16, 2008, Estoril, Portugal.

The Third International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe'07)
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 26 - 27, 2007.

The 6th International Semantic Web Conference and 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007),
Nov 11--15, 2007, Bexco, Busan, Korea.

IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2007,
Jul 6--8, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.

Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007),
May 14--18, 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

The Second International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe'06)
29 Oct - 3 Nov 2006, Montpellier, France.

Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006),
May 8-12, 2006. Japan.

18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2006), Cognitive Approaches and Soft Computing
August 20-24, 2006. Hong Kong.

The First International Workshop on Agents, Web Services and Ontologies Merging (AWeSOMe'05)
31 Oct - 4 Nov 2005, Agia Napa, Cyprus.

ICMI: Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces
October 14th-15th, 2004. Penn State University - State College, PA.

WSABE: Workshop on Web Services and Agent-based Engineering
The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
July 2004, New York, NY.

The Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC2003)
Sep 30 - Oct 3, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA.

The AAAI-2000 Workshop on Knowledge-based Electronic Markets
The Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
July 31st, 2000, Austin, Texas.

Workshop on Speech and Natural Language Processing in Virtual Reality
International Society on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM)
19-20 November, 1998, Gifu, Japan.

Exhibition Chair
First International Symposium on Agent Systems and Applications (ASA'99)
October 3-6, 1999, Palm Springs, California.

Thesis Advisor for Students

Yifen Huang. "Mixed-Initiative Clustering", PhD School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2010.

Didier Guzzoni. "Active: A unified platform for building intelligent assistant applications", PhD Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Nov 2007.