External Activities
Appointments / Memberships: External Bodies

• Member of Enterprise Ireland working group on "Meeting Skills Needs for Photonics in Ireland"
• Member, Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• Member, Institution of Engineers of Ireland (IEI)

• Member, Institution of Electrical Engineers MIEE
• Member, European Joint Committee on Plasma Surface Engineering

• Chartered Electrical Engineer (IEE)
• Member, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
• Member, IEEE - Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Member, Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE) steering committee.
• Member, Universities strategic plan implementation group for the Science, Discovery and Technological Innovation theme
• Member, Universities strategic plan working group on New University Structures
• Member, DCU Academic Council
• Member, DCU Academic Council Steering Committee

• Chartered Engineer
• Fellow, Institution of Engineers of Ireland (IEI
• Fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
• Member, Accreditation Board, IEI
• Member and Chair of Accreditation Panels (IEI)
• Member, Accreditation Panel (IEE)
• Member, Accreditation Panels (HETAC)
• External examiner, University of Ulster at Magee

• Member, ACM

• Head, Local Organising Committee
• Member, International Advisory Board
• Member, Programme Committee: 3rd International Conference on Materials for Microelectronic Materials (MFM 2000),
• Dublin Castle, Ireland, October, 2000
• Senior Member, I.E.E.E
• Chartered Engineer (CEng, MIEI
• Institutional Memberships: CEng, CPhys, MIEI, MInstP, SMIEEE

• External Examiner: UCD, UCG and DIT
• Member of Management Ctte of COST 211quat (Object-Based Audio-Video Analysis)
• Member of SC26 (Microprocessor Systems) of the National Standards Authority of Ireland
• Reviewer for Signal Processing: Image Communication, published by Elsevier

• Chair of HETAC evaluation panel for the new National Diploma in Digital Media Technology in Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
• Irish National Representative to EU COST211 project
• DCU representative to EU SCHEMA Network of Excellence
  
• Member, MIEI

• External examiner of a M.Sc thesis by research, for Trinity College, University of Dublin in July 2001

• Elected Senior Member, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Chair, Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society
• Chair (and organizer), Computer Vision Showcase Public Seminars, DCU
• Session Chair, Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference 2001, NUI, Maynooth
• Member of the governing board of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
• Member, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
• Member, IEE Irish Centre committee
• Chartered Electrical Engineer (IEE).
• Member, IEEE - Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Member, SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
• Member, Optical Engineering Society of Ireland
• Member, SPIE Machine Vision and Three-dimensional Imaging Systems for Inspection and Metrology (Photonics Boston) program committee (USA)
• Member, Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference program committee.
• Member of the European Commission's High Performance Computing and Networking (image processing) consultant's database
• Member of the School of Electronic Engineering's research committee.
• Member, Research Institute for Networks and Communications Engineering (RINCE) steering committee
• Member of the Universities strategic plan implementation group for the Life Sciences, Health and Society theme
• Member DCU Academic Council (ex officio)
• IEEE Student Branch Counsellor
• Elected by the School staff to serve on the School Promotions Review Panel (2000 and 2001)
• Pre-publications book reviewer: Springer-Verlag London.
• Reviewer: Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier Science.
• Reviewer: European Congress of Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, 2001 (EFOMP, IPEM, APSM).
• Reviewer: Irish Signals and Systems Conference, 2001 (ISSC).
• Reviewer: ESEM - European Society for Engineering and Medicine 2001, 6th Biennial Conference.
• Reviewer: Special issue of the Journal of Image and Vision Computing on the 11th British Machine Vision Conference.
• Reviewer: Computer Journal, Oxford University Press.
• Reviewer: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (UK) grant proposals.