General co-chair of the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto,ON, June 29 to July 4, 2008.
Technical program vice-chair of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Toronto, ON, July 9-12, 2006.
Team leader of the Program Committee of the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, USA, July 9|July 14, 2006.
Member of the International Program Committee of the 2006 IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (EuroIMSA 2006), Innsbruck, Austria, February 13-15, 2006.
Consultant for the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, 2004.
Chair of the award committee for the 2004 Canadian Award in Telecommunications.
Co-Editor of the 2004 Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory concerning the interface between information theory and computer science.
Member of the Program Committee of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Chicago, USA, June 27-July 2, 2004.
Member of research review panels advising CITO (Communications and Information Technology Ontario) about research support and directions.
Co-chair of the 2003 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 18-21, 2003.
Co-chair of 2003 US National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop on the interface of Information Theory and Computer Science, the purpose of which is to advise NSF about research directions and support in the interface area.
Co-founder and Executive Vice President Research, SlipStream Data Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2002|. See www.slipstreamdata.com for details.
Co-founder, President, and CEO, 3C Infotech Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2000-2002.