Program Committees and Service

• Member of the Biomedical Library and Informatics Reivew Committee (BLIRC) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). 2008-2012.
• Area chair for Text Mining at ISMB'10: The 18th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2010.
• Co-chair of the Tenth BioLINK SIG Workshop (BioLINK'10) on biomedical text mining. In association with ISMB'10.
• General Co-Chair of the Fourth ACM International Workshop on Data and Text Mining in Bioinformatics (DTMBIO 2010).
• Scientific Co-Chair of the Fourth International Workshop on Practical Applications of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics , (IWPACBB 2010).
• Co-chair of the BioLINK SIG Workshop (BioLINK'09) on biomedical text mining. In association with ISMB'09.
• Program committee for ISMB'09: The 17th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2009.
• Program committee for BioNLP'09: The BioNLP Workshop of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2009.
• Program committee for ACL'09: The 47th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2009.
• Program committee for BSB'09: The Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, 2009.
• Program committee for BIBM'09: The IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2009.
• Area chair for Text Mining at ISMB'08: The 16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2008.
• Co-chair of the BioLINK SIG Workshop (BioLINK'08) on biomedical text mining. In association with ISMB'08.
• Program committee for ECCB'08: The European Conference on Computational Biology, 2008.
• Program committee for BioNLP'08: The BioNLP Workshop of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2008.
• Program committee for BIBM'08: The IEEE Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, 2008.
• Organizing committee for the C-SHALS
• Program committee for SMBM'08: The Third International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine, 2008.
• Organizing committee for the C-SHALS Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences, 2008.
• Program committee for ISBRA'08: The International Symposium on Bioimformatics Research and Applications, 2008.
• Co-chair of the BioLINK SIG Workshop (BioLINK'07) on biomedical text mining. In association with ISMB'07.
• Program committee for ISMB'07: The 15th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2007.
• Conference Scientific Committee for the BioCreative 2 Workshop. Madrid, 2007.
• Program committee for PSB'07: The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2007.
• Program committee for LBM'07: The International Symposium on Lanugages in Biology and Medicine.
• Program committee for ISBRA'07: The International Symposium on Bioimformatics Research and Applications, 2007.
• Program committee for BioDM'07: The PAKDD 2007 Workshop on Data Mining for Biomedical Applications May 2007, Nanjing, China.
• Co-chair of the Joint BioLINK and Bio-Ontologies Workshop (JBB'06) on biomedical text mining and ontologies. In association with ISMB'06.
• Program committee for ISMB'06: The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, 2006.
• Program committee for AAAI'06: The 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2006.
• Tutorials and Workshops committee for ECCB'06: The 5th European Conference on Computational Biology, 2006.
• Editorial board of The International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics.
• Program committee for BioNLP'06: The HLT-NAACL Workshop on Linking Natuaral Language Processing and Biology, 2006.
• Program committee for TMBIO'06: The 1st ACM International Workshop on Text Mining in Bioinformatics, 2006.
• Co-chair of the joint BioLINK/ACL'05 workshop on biomedical text mining. In association with ISMB'05.
• Program committee for The First International Symposium on Semantic Mining in Biomedicine.
• Program committee for The International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, ISMB'05.
• Steering committee for the TREC Genomics Track since its beginning in 2003.
• Founder of BLIMP: Biomedical Literature (and text) Mining Publications resource.
• Reviewer for a variety of journals and conferences in bioinformatics, computational biology, artificial intelligence and information retrieval.