Awards
- Eric Laithwaite Research Poster Award, EEE Department, Imperial College, 2012
- Best student paper award for L. Li et al., “Modelling of Brain Consciousness Based on Collaborative Adaptive Filters”, at the 7th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN'10, Shanghai, China, International Neural Networks Society, 2010
- Best Paper Award, for T. Rutkowski, T. Tanaka, A. Cichocki, D. Erickson, and D. P. Mandic, “Interactive Component Extraction for Affective Brain Machine Interfaces", International Conference on Intelligent Computing, 16-19 September 2009, Ulsan, Korea, 2009
- Letter of Appreciation Award, for “Special recognition of outstanding research achievements and contribution to increased public recognition of RIKEN”,, RIKEN, Saitama, Japan, 2009
- Best Poster Award, MSSP Conference, 2006
- Best Student paper award for L. Goh, D. Popovic and D. P. Mandic, 12th IEEE MELECON 2004, 2004
- Student paper award for K. Pauwels, T. Gautama, D. P. Mandic, and M. M. Van Hulle, The 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing, RASC2002, Nottingham, UK, 2003
- Special Award for a Braille organizer "HANDY-BRAILLE", International Fair of Technic, Beograd, Yugoslavia (industrial patent with CAJAVEC), 1996
- Gold Medal for a computer system for the blind "PC BRAILLER", International Fair of Electronics and Informatics, Yugoslavia (industrial patent with CAJAVEC), 1995
- innovations in teaching, the Council of Education, 1988
External Positions
- Publicity Co-Chair, Publicity Co-Chair, World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Beijing, China, 2014 - 2014
- Plenary talks chair, Plenary talks chair, EUSIPCO 2013, European Signal Processing Society, 2013 - 2013
- Special Session Organizer, Special Session "Complex Valued Neural Networks", at the IEEE IJCNN, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Dallas, TX, USA, 2013 - 2013
- Member, Board of Governors INNS, International Neural Networks Society, 2013 - 2015
- Special Session Organizer, Special Session Organizer, "Cooperative Adaptive Estimation", at Asilomar 2012, The IEEE Asilomar Conference onSignals and Systems, Asilomar’12, 2012 - 2012
- General Co-Chair, General Co-Chair, 4th Workshop on Activity monitoring by multi-camera surveillance systems (AMMCSS) at IEEE SMC 2012, IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Seoul, Korea, 2012 - 2012
- Consultant, Consultancy for DSTL, DSTL, Thales, 2012 - 2012
- Honorary Chair, Honorary Chair, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing Systems (ICSPS 2011), Yantai, China, The IEEE, 2011 - 2011
- Special Session Organizer, Special Session Organizer "Complex Valued Neural Networks", at IEEE IJCNN 2011, IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, San Jose, CA, USA, 2011 - 2011
- Special Session Organizer, Special Session Organizer Special Session Organiser, "Machine Learning and Signal Processing for Smart Grid Applications", IEEE IJCNN 2011, The IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, San Jose, CA, USA, 2011 - 2011
- European Liaison, European Liaison, International Symposium on Neural Networks, (ISNN’11), International Neural Networks Society, 2011 - 2011
- Member, Permanent Panel Member, FWO, FWO (Flemish funding agency), 2011 - 2014
- Track Chair, Track chair for the "Digital Signal Processing" stream, at IEEE APCCAS 2010, The IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems, 2010 - 2010
- Programme Co-Chair, Progamme Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing Systems (ICSPS’10), The IEEE, 2010 - 2010
- Special Session Organizer, Special Session Organizer Special Session Organiser, “Computational Intelligence for Safe and Secure Environments andTransport”, at the IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE’10), the IEEE, 2010 - 2010
- Member, EPSRC College, EPSRC, 2010 - 2014
- Theme Leader, University Defence Research Centre in Signal Processing (UDRC), MoD, Defence Science and Technology Labs (DSTL), Imperial College, 2009 - 2013
- Track Chair, Track Chair for the “Detection and Estimation” stream in the 15th Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, Cardiff, UK, The IEEE, 2009 - 2009
- Special Session Organizer, Special Session Organizer, Special Session Organiser, “Collaborative Signal Processing for Distributed Systems” in thethird ACM/IEEE Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC’09), The IEEE and the ACM, 2009 - 2009
- Area Chair, Area Chair for the “Nonlinear Signal Processing” area at EUSIPCO, Glasgow, Scotland, European Signal Processing Association, 2009 - 2009
- Special Session Organizer, Special Session Organizer, “Multichannel Exploratory Data Analysis” in the International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC’08), the IEEE, 2008 - 2008
- Track Co-Chair, Track Co-Chair for the “Networked Industrial Automation” stream in the 4th IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2008), Washington DC, USA, The IEEE, 2008 - 2008
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Member, Board of Governors, International Neural Networks Society, 2013
- Fellow of the IEEE, The IEEEfor contributions to multivariate and nonlinear learning systems, 2013
- Advisory Panel Member, Panstanford Publishing, 2012
- Member, IEEE SPS Technical Committee on Signal Processing Theory and Methods, 2011
- Task Force on Smart Grid, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
- Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee for Machine Learning for Signal Processing
Industrial Connections
- The Defence Science and Technology Labs (DSTL), University Research Centre in Signal Processing
- Widex A/S, Tension measures in hearing aids
Editorial Boards
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning SystemsSpecial Issue on Complex Neural Networks, Guest Editor, 2013 - 2013
- IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Associate Editor, 2011
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems