1.   President/Vice President/Secretary (elected), Southeastern ECE Department Heads Association (SECEDHA), 2003 - present.

2.   Member, Fellows Selection Committee, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2006 - present.

3.   Member, Richardson Medal Committee, Optical Society of America, 1997 - 2001.

4.   Chairman/Vice Chairman/Secretary (elected) - Fort Wayne Section of IEEE, 1994 - 1996.

5.   Member ‑ Region IV Executive Committee of IEEE, 1995-1996.

6.   Member ‑ National Engineers Week Planning Committee, Fort Wane, Indiana, 1995-1996.

7.   Faculty Advisor, IEEE Student Branch, Purdue University - Fort Wayne, 1994 - 1999.

8.   Faculty Advisor, IEEE Student Branch, University of Alabama, 1999 - 2000.

9.   Guest Editor, Journal of Optical Engineering, September 1996 - present

§   Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Trends in Pattern Recognition Algorithms, Architectures, and Devices, August 2004.

§   Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Optical Pattern Recognition, January 2002.

§   Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Target Recognition Techniques, May 2000.

§   Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Advances in Recognition Techniques II, March 1998

§   Co-Guest Editor, Special Issue on Advances in Recognition Techniques I, January 1998.

9.Guest Editor, Journal of Applied Optics, 2003 - present

§   Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Biometric Recognition Systems, February 2005.

10.Associate Editor, International Journal of Science and Technology, 1999 - present