What I did

Visiting (associate) professor Fulbright grant Yale University 1987
City University Hong Kong 1996
ETL Tsukuba Japan 1998
Honorary member NVPHBV, the Dutch branch of the IAPR 2002
Fellow Fellow of International Association of Pattern Recognition 2000
Chair of program (five selected) IEEE Conf on Multimedia systems, Florence 1999
Area chair for content based retrieval CVPR, Hawaii 2001
Challenge of image and video retrieval, CIVR, Dublin 2004
Congres Van Kijken naar Zien, IOP Beeldverwerking, Bussum, 2007
International Conference Multimedia ICME, Hanover 2008
University of Amsterdam Faculty board WINS for finance 1995-1996
Director of Informatics Institute 1996-2001
Director of the Computer Science curriculum 2002-2003
Director of various education programs 2003-2006
Director of ISLA 2004-2009
A founder of the Centre for Creative Content and Technology 2007
Invited Speaker (selection) Challlenge of Image and Video Retrieval, London 2002
Waarom weten computers altijd alles, NEMO kinderlezing, 2004
Paradiso lezing, Amsterdam, 2005
PICNIC '07, Amsterdam, 2007 (watch presentation here)
ACM-MIR, Augsburg, 2007
CAIP, Vienna, 2007
ICIAP 2007, Modena, 2007
Tingshua University, Beijing, 2007
Amsterdamlezing, Amsterdam, 2007
ESRIN, Frascati, 2008
Deloitte, Utrecht 2008
Panel Contributions ICME, Beijing, 2007
ACM-MIR, Augsburg, 2007
Associated editor Cytometry 1985 - 2002
IEEE transactions PAMI 1997 - 2001
Transactions Multimedia 2002 - 2008
Special issue editor Pattern Recognition Letters, special issue for E.S. Gelsema, 2001
Computer Vision Image Understanding, on similarity, 2002
International Journal on Computer Vision, on content based image retrieval, 2002
Chair organizing committee 1st International Workshop on Image Databases, Amsterdam, 1996
3rd International Conference on Visual Information Systems, Amsterdam, 1999
ICME-2005, International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Amsterdam, 2005
Chair governing committee NVPHBV the Dutch chapter of the IAPR 1993 - 1998
TC-12 of the IAPR 1995 - 2000
Tutorials (some recent) ICCV 2007, Rio de Janeiro, 2007
CVPR Miami 2009
ICCV Kyoto 2009
Opening Academic year 2008 - 2009 Verlichte geesten: informatie, cognitie en het brein. View (start at 21:39)