George Ghinea's Home Page
Consulting and Invited Talks
- Invited talk: "Challenges of augmented multimedia communications", Computer Science Department, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009
- Invited talk: "Multimedia quality lies in the eye of the beholder", Informatics Research Centre, University of Reading, 2009
- Invited talk: "Integrating eye-tracking in multimedia streaming", National Center for Research and Development of Greece, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2008
- Invited talk: "Eye Tracking and the Perception of Multimedia", South - East European Research Centre, Thessaloniki Greece, 2008
- Invited talk: "Eyetracking and Multimedia Perceptual Quality", Q2S - Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Trondheim, 2007.
- Invited talk: "Taking care to the patient: challenges of telemedicine", Ningbo, China, 2006
- Invited talk: "Research into the effective use of IT in the NHS", CIPHA Health Advisory Network, 2003
Additionally I consult on a regular basis to both private and public sector clients.
Editorships
- Journal Special Issue on “Ubiquitous e-Learning Solutions over Heterogeneous Networks”, ACM/Springer Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal,
2009
- Journal Special Issue on "Systems Development and Usability in Scandinavia", International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction,
2009
- Journal Special Issue on “Quality Issues in Multimedia Broadcasting”, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 2008
- Journal Special Issue on “Integration of Human Factors in Networked Computing”, Journal of Computers in Human Behavior, 2008
- Journal Special Issue on “Eye-tracking Applications in Multimedia Systems”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and
Applications, 2007
- Journal Special Issue on “Intelligence-based Adaptation for Ubiquitous Multimedia Communications”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications,
2007
- Editorial Advisory Board, Recent Patents on Engineering
- Editorial Board member, Advances in Multimedia
- Editorial Board member, International Journal of Web-based Learning and Teaching Technologies
- Editorial Advisory Review Board member(IGI Global)
Reviewing
I am a regular reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (parts A and B), the IEEE Transactions on
Broadcasting, Computer Communications, and Computers & Security.
In addition, I am an occasional reviewer for the following journals:
- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- IEEE Multimedia
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
- ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
- ACM/Springer Personal and Ubiquitous Journal
- Springer Multimedia Systems Journal
- International Journal of Information Management
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
- Applied Cognitive Psychology
- Expert Systems
- Learning and Individual Differences
- Environmental Modelling & Software
- Information Sciences
- International Journal of Computer Mathematics
- Journal of Enterprise Information Management
- South African Computer Journal
- Journal of Intelligent Systems
- Benchmarking: An International Journal
- Journal of Management in Medicine
- International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering
Conference Activities
- TPC member, 4th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security, Xian, China, 2009.
- TPC member, 1st International Conference on Information Security and Privacy, Orlando, Florida, 2009
- TPC member, 17th International Conference on Computers in Education, Hong Kong, China, 2009
- Chair, "Perceptual Quality and Human Factors" track, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Hannover, Germany, 2008
- Chair, "Pervasive Services" track, 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Pervasive Wireless Computing, Santorini, Greece, 2008
- Workshop organiser, "Usability and Software Development Methodologies in Scandinavia", NORDICHI, 2008
- TPC member First International Workshop on Security of Computer Communications and Networks, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2008.
- TPC member, 16th International Conference on Computers in Education, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008.
- TPC member, 4th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security, Naples, Italy, 2008.
- Publicity Chair and TPC member, IEEE conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, Newport Beach, California, 2007.
- TPC member IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia over Wireless, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007
- PC Member, 2nd International Workshop on Innovations In Web Infrastructure, 15th World-Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 2006
- Chair, "Workflow and Business Process Management" session, IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, Shanghai, China, 2006
- TPC Member, 9th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology, Bhubaneswar, India, 2006
- Chair, "Multimedia Enabled E-learning" session, IEEE 6th International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering, Miami, Florida, 2005
- TPC Member of the IEEE Information Assurance and Security (IAS '04) Conference, Las Vegas, USA, 2004
- PC Member of the 17th Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference, Florida, USA, 2003-2004
- PC Member of the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) 2004 Conference, New Orleans, USA, 2004
- Chair, "Machine Learning and Man-Machine Interface" session, IASTED Applied Informatics Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 2001
- Panel member, "Human-Machine Interfaces: Bridging the Gap" session, IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Copenhagen, 1999
