Your instructor has been on the Technical Committee on Data Mining, of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society since January, 2013 - to date.

Your instructor was an invited speaker at the Accelerating the Search for Dark Matter with Machine Learning, Leiden, Netherlands, Jan 15 - 19, 2018

Your instructor was an invited speaker at the Astroinformatics 2016 conference, Sorrento, Italy, October 20 - 24, 2016.

Your instructor was the general chair of the international conference 11th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM2016), Rice U, Houston, TX. Rice University, January 6-8, 2016.

Your instructor was an invited speaker at the Tools for Astronomical Big Data conference, Tucson, AZ March 9-11, 2015.

Your instructor founded and chairs the Astrominers Task Force of the IEEE CIS DMTC.

Your instructor was an invited speaker at the Astroinformatics 2014 conference, Vina del Mar, Chile, August 25-29, 2014.

Your instructor was one of three invited plenary speakers at the 2014 (international) 10th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (WSOM2014). WSOM conferences are organized every two years.