Committees

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Committees

Ewert Bengtsson
International:

Editorial board member of the journal Machine Graphics & Vision, 1994-
Comment: Published by Polish Academy of Sciences.
Editorial board member of the journal Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 1995-
Comment: Published by Elsevier.
Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2004-
Comment: Member since 1974.
Member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
Member of Eurographics, the European Association for Computer Graphics, 1998-
Member of the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC), 2000-
Member of the European Research Council Advanced Grants Panel (ERC) 2008-
Comment: During 2010 this appointment involved extensive review work and five days of panel meeting in Brussels.
Member of the Labex-jury for the French research council, Comment: Taking part in the evaluation of a large number of large research proposals, Nov 2010- Feb 2011.
Scientific committee for International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG 2010), 100920-100922
PhD dissertation committee for Frank Faas, 100517
Comment: Served on the dissertation committee at Delft University, where the format is that the committee members also do the opposition.

National:

Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Section VII: Basic and Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences. 2006-
Comment: (4 meetings)
Vice Chair of Section VII of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, 091119 -
Comment: (3 meetings)
Member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskapssocieteten), 1998-
Comment: Elected member of the oldest scientific society in Sweden. (5 meetings)
Chair of Uppsala University IT Council, 2008-
Comment: The IT Council is responsible for coordinating all aspects of IT usage and development at UU. The board has about 15 members. 6 meetings and additionally 6 preparatory and follow up meetings.
Advisor to the Rector on Information Technology at UU, 1998-
Comment: One of five advisor appointed to lead the strategic planning of UU and give advice to the Rector, taking part in the Deans-conference (2 meetings each 2 days).
Member of the Board of UpGIS, the net for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 1999-
Comment: (5 meetings.) Member of the reference group for UU IT-organisation review Comment: (4 meetings)
Member of the UU student cooperation group, 2000-
Comment: A group where the leadership of the university and the student unions meets to discuss matters of common interest. (3 meetings)
Member of the scientific board of Hillevi Fries Research Scholarship Foundation.
Comment: A Swedish foundation that accepts applications and gives out research grants for urology research. The board has three members. (1 meeting)
On the reference group for Open Access Publications at UU 2008-
Comment: (2 meetings)
Non-voting member of the UU Library Board 2007-
Comment: (4 meetings)
On the Department Head Council of Polacksbacken, ``Prefektrådet''
Comment: (2 meetings)
On the Department Head Meetings ``Prefektmöten'' SLU
Comment: (3 meetings)
On a reference group for Uppsala Learning Lab and an advisory group for the editor of the book summarizing 10 years of work promoting IT in learning Comment: (13 meetings)
Auditor for Swedish Society for Image Analysis (SSBA), 2004-
Chair of the Evaluation Panel for grant applications to the Swedish Research Council (VR): Natural and Engineering Sciences-Biomedical Engineering, 2009-
Comment: Four full day meetings, about two weeks of full time work reading applications, more than 200 emails.
Planning group for SSBA senior strategy day
Comment: Meeting in Linköping 101102 to plan the new senior strategy day at SSBA conference March 16, 2011
PhD committee of Shafiq ur Réhman, 100428
Comment: Dissertation at UmeåUniversity Digital Media Lab, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics. Thesis title: Expressing Emotions Through Vibration.

Gunilla Borgefors
International:

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), 2007-
Comment: Senior member since 1998.
IEEE Computer Society Fellows Evaluation Committee, 2008-2010
Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 1998-
Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2008-2010
Member of Nominating Committee of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, 2010-2012
Area editor of the journal Pattern Recognition Letters, 2004-2010
Comment: Editor-in-Chief from 110101. Published by Elsevier.
Editorial Board member of the journal Image Processing and Communications, 1994-
Comment: Published by the Institute of Telecommunications, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Editorial Board member of the journal Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Advances in Mathematical Theory and Applications, 1993-
Comment: Published by Interperiodica Publishing in cooperation with the ``Cybernetics'' Scientific Council, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Editorial Board of the book series Computational Imaging and Vision, published by Springer, 2003-
Programme committee for the Workshop on Application of on Digital Geometry and Mathematical Morphology (WADGMM 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, Aug. 2010
Programme committee for International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics (ICCVG2010), Warsaw, Poland, Sep. 2010
Programme committee for the 15th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP 2010), Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nov. 2010

National:

Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskapssocieteten), Member No. 19, 2000-
Comment: Elected member of the oldest scientific society in Sweden (founded 1710), (5 meetings).
Swedish Parliamentarians and Scientists, 1987-
Comment: Members are elected. Only one scientist per field admitted.
Nomination Committee, Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA) -2010
Vice chair of Appointments board, Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, 1999-
Comment: (9 meetings)
The Prize and Reward committee of the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, 2006-
Comment: (2 meetings)
Celsius-Linné committee, TN-faculty, UU, 2007-
Comment: The committee selects the speakers for the annual Celsius and Linné lectures, (4 meetings).
Member of the Board of UpGIS, the net for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 1999-
Comment: Representing TN-faculty, UU.
Expert committee for Swedish National Agency for Higher Education to evaluate if University Colleages should get Ph.D. examination rights., 2010
Comment: The committee evaluated information technology at Halmstad and Skövde University Colleages. We had four days of physical meetings in Stockholm and a number of telephone meetings.
Expert evaluator for the position of Assistant Professor in Imaging at MedTech West, Chalmers, Göteborg, 100401-100630
Comment: 13 applicants.
Expert for the promotion to Senior lector in Image Analysis and Processing at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 100501-101031
Comment: The applicant was not successful, therefore the name is withheld.

Ingrid Carlbom
National:

Chair of Board, Forskarskolan i Matematik och Beräkningsvetenskap (Graduate School in Mathematics and Computing), UU, 2004-2010
Member, KK Stiftelsen's workshops on Future of Perceptualization, 2010-2011.

Joakim Lindblad
International:

Technical Program Committee of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2010, Istanbul, Turkey
Program Committee of the International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet Based Systems (SITIS) 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Cris Luengo
International:

Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2010
Comment: Member since 2001.
Member of the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC), 2006-

National:

Program Chair of the Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis (SSBA 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, March 10-12, 2010

Ingela Nyström
International:

Member of the Executive Committee, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
- 2nd Vice President 2008-2010
- Secretary 2010-
Governing Board Member, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2002-2010
Local Arrangements Chair for 5th EGEE User Forum 2010, Uppsala, Sweden, April 12-15, 2010
Program Committee for Eurographics 2010, Norrköping, May 2010
Program Committee for ICPR Workshop on Applications of Digital Geometry and Mathematical Morphology 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010
Program Committee for 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010
Program Committee for 3rd Workshop on UnConventional High Performance Computing (UCHPC'10), Ischia, Italy, August 2010
Programme Committee for 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: New Information Technologies (PRIA-10-2010), St Petersburg, Russian Federation, December 2010

National:

Board Member of Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA), 2000-
Comment: President 2002-2006
Board Member of the Swedish University computer NETwork (SUNET), 2008-
Board Member of the Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics (LCB), 2009-2010
General Chair of the Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis (SSBA 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, March 10-12, 2010
Member of the Evaluation Panel for grant applications for Future Research Leaders at the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF), 100125-100324
Dissertation committee of Petter Bivall, Dept. of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Campus Norrköping, 101001
Comment: Title: Touching the Essence of Life-Haptic Virtual Proteins for Learning.
Dissertation committee of Magnus Gedda, CBA, UU, 100520
Comment: Title: Contributions to 3D Image Analysis using Discrete Methods and Fuzzy Techniques: With Focus on Images from Cryo-Electron Tomography.
Dissertation committee of Erik Gudmundson, Dept. of Information Technology, Div. of Systems and Control, UU, 100423
Comment: Title: Signal Processing in Spectroscopic Applications.

Stefan Seipel
International:

Program Co-Chair of Eurographics 2010, Shortpapers
Program Committee Member for the 14th International Information Visualization conference, London, UK, 2010

National:

Program Committee Member for the Annual Computer Graphics Conference SIGRAD 2010
Board Member of the SIGRAD organisation, Svenska föreningen för grafisk databehandling, 2004-
Faculty opponent for the licentiate thesis on "Computer Vision: From Motion Capture to Tabletop Interaction" by Tommaso Piazza, Chalmers University of Technology, June 2010.

Ida-Maria Sintorn
National:

Board member of Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA), 2008-
Comment: Treasurer from 2009.
Member of the Evaluation Panel for grant applications to the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems and the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency programme ``Security solutions with ICT''

Robin Strand
International:

Program committee member, Workshop on Applications of Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology, 100822-100825
Comment: WADGMM was an ICPR 2010 pre-conference workshop.

National:

Half-time review grading committee of Johan Berglund, Dept. of Radiology, UU, 101119
Comment: Title: Magnetic resonance imaging of water and fat - advances in chemical shift based separation.
Local Chair of the Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis (SSBA 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, March 10-12, 2010

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