Professional Societies

• Member, International Water Association (IWA) (member ID: 00799264)
• Member, American Water Work Association (AWWA) (member ID: 630219)
• Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (member ID: 2396745)
• Member of International Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA) (member ID: 172914)
• Member of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) (member ID:?)
• Member of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) (member ID: 27072)
• Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (member ID: 285056)
• Member of Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI) in American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (member ID: 285056)
• Member of International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) (member ID: 882117)
• Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU) (member ID: 10685397)
• Member, New York Academy of Science
• Member of Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP)
• Member of Chinese Society of Civil & Hydraulic Engineering
• Member of Chinese Society of Environmental Engineering
• Member of the Chinese Fuzzy Systems Association
• Member of the Chinese Grey Systems Association
• Member of Chinese Water Supply Association
• Member of Chinese Institute of Engineers

Professional Affairs

(A) Committee Members and Service Positions

• Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UCF)
• ABET Review Committee (UCF)
• Department Chair Search Committee (UCF)
• Environmental Management Council (UCF)
• Faculty Recruitment Committee (UCF and TAMUK)
• Promotion and Tenure Committee (UCF and TAMUK)
• Member, Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (FCSHWM) advisory board since Oct. 2005.
• Advisory Board member and teaching fellow, Florida Green Engineering Education Program, State Government of Florida since June 2006.
• Member of EWRI Environmental and Water Resources Systems Committee in American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) since August 2002.
• University Library Liaison (TAMUK, 2002-2004)
• Member of Texas Commission for Environmental Quality (TCEQ)’s Arroyo Colroado TMDL Steering committee since Dec. 2004.
• Founder, Lower Rio Grande Valley Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES): Task Force Committee, Texas in Aug. 2003.
• Founder, International Society of Environmental Information Management in 2002 (http://www.iseis.org).
• Deputy Director, Environmental Planning and Management Division, Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering, Taiwan, 2001-2002.
• Committee Member, International Affairs Division, Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering, Taiwan, 2001-2002.
• Member of Panel Review Committee, National Science Council, Taiwan 1998-2001.
• Chairman, Academic Committee, Taiwan Section, International Air and Waste Management Association, Taiwan, 1999-2001.
• Committee Member, Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 1999-2001.
• Founding Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2001.
• Deputy Director, Solid Waste Management Division, Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering, Taiwan, 1996-1998.
• Committee Member, Environmental Planning and Management Division, Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering, Taiwan, 1994-2001.

(B) Journal Editorship

• Guest Editor, Journal of Environmental Informatics, Feb. 2007, special issue: Remote Sensing for the Environment.
• Guest Editor, Journal of Environmental Modeling & Assessment, 2000, special issue: Systems Analysis for Solid Waste Management.
• Guest Editor, Practice Periodicals of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management, ASCE, 2002, special issue: Planning, Design, and Management of Hazardous Waste Disposal by Environmental Systems Engineering Approach.
• Guest Editor, Journal of Environmental Management -- special issue: Sustainable Planning in a Semi-Arid Fast Growing Region - South Texas (Vol. 75, No. 4, June, 2005).
• Guest Editor, Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment -- special issue: Sustainable Water Resources Management under Uncertainty (Vol. 19, No. 2, May, 2005).
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Environmental Informatics, Sept., 2002-Sept., 2006.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental Informatics, Sept., 2006-today.
• Editor, International Journal of Ecology & Development, April, 2006-today
• Associate Editor, Practice Periodicals of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management, ASCE, Sep., 2002- May, 2006.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental Modeling & Assessment, Nov., 2002-today
• Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Official Journal of International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE), Oct., 2006-today
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Environmental Management, Jan., 2007-today.
• Editorial Board Member, Stochastic Environmental Research & Risk Assessment, Jan., 2004-today.
• Editorial Board Member, Environmental Management, Dec., 2004-today.
• Editorial Board Member, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, July, 2006-today.
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, Nov., 2002-today.
• Editorial Board Member, The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management, 1996-today
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of the Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering, 1999-today.

(C) Ad Hoc Reviewer for Academic Journals (51 journals in total)

• Journal of Environmental Engineering, ASCE
• Journal of Infrastructure Systems, ASCE
• Environmental Science and Technology
• Science of the Total Environment
• Journal of Air & Waste Management Association
• Journal of the American Water Resources Association
• Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, ASCE
• Practice Periodicals of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Management, ASCE
• Environmental Management
• Journal of Environmental Management
• Water Research
• Hydrological Processes
• Ecological Modeling
• Chemosphere
• Resources Conservation & Recycling
• Advances in Environmental Research
• Waste Management & Research
• International Journal of Environment and Waste Management
• Journal of Hydrology
• Ecological Economics
• Waste Management
• Environmental Technology
• Environmental Engineering Science
• The Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management
• Remote Sensing of Environment
• International Journal of Computer Mathematics
• Applied Mathematical Modeling
• Computers and Chemical Engineering
• Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence
• Environmental Modeling & Assessment
• Environmental Modeling & Software
• International Transactions in Operational Research
• International Journal of Production Research
• Computers & Industrial Engineering
• Information Sciences
• Waste and Resources Management
• Atmospheric Environment
• Energy-The International Journal
• European Journal of Operational Research
• America Journal of Soil Science Society
• Building & Environment
• Regional Sciences
• Engineering Optimization
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letter
• Journal of Production Economics
• Environmental Impact Assessment Review
• The International Journal of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Management
• Journal of Fuel
• Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science
• Journal of Chinese Institute of Environmental Engineering
• Journal of Chinese Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering

(D) Conference Leadership

• Local Coordination Committee, the International Symposium on Nanotechnology in Environmental Protection and Pollution, Dec. 10-13, 2008. Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
• International Committee Chair and Science Committee Chair, and Co-organizer of the 6th International Conference on Environmental Informatics, Nov. 21-23, 2007, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Scientific Committee Chair and Session Chairman, the 5th International Conference on Environmental Informatics, August 1-3, 2006, Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA.
• Scientific Committee Chair and Session Chairman, the 5th International Conference on Environmental Informatics, August 1-3, 2006, Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA.
• Chair and Keynote Speaker in Workshop on Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Energy Production and Environmental Systems Engineering in The Eighteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’06), San Francisco Bay, USA, July 5-7, 2006.
• Member, Science Advisory Committee, 2006 International Conference of Environmental Informatics, Bowling Green, Kentucky, August, 2006.
• Session Chairman and Member of Advisory Committee, The First International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology,
• American Academy of Sciences, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2005.
• Member, Science Advisory Committee, 2005 International Conference of Environmental Information Management, Xiamen, China, July 2005.
• Chair, Science Advisory Committee, 2004 International Conference of Environmental Information Management, Regina, Canada, August 2004.
• Session Chairman, Twentieth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia, March 2004.
• International Scientific Committee Member, Energy & Environment, Changsha, China, October 2003.
• Chair, 2002 the Urban Environmental Protection Conference, Taiwan, October 2002
• Organizing Committee Member, International Solid Waste Management Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2002.
• Organizing Committee Member, Session Chair, and Keynote Speaker, First International Conference of Environmental Information Management, Beijing, China, September 2002
• Session Chairman, 2002 Coastal Bend Environmental Conference, Kingsville, Texas, October 2002.
• Session Chairman, 2001 the Rio Bravo/Rio Grande Environmental Conference, Weslaco, Texas, April 2001.
• Co-Chair, Organizing Committee Member, 2000 Taipei Conference on Policies for Greenhouse Gases Reduction and Pollution Control in Asian-Pacific. Taipei, Taiwan, May 2000.
• Session Chairman, 2000 World Energy Forum, Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 2000.
• Chairman, the Second Annual Conference of Environmental Systems Analysis, Taiwan, December 1999
• Chairman, Organizing Committee, The Thirteen National Conference of Environmental Planning and Management, Taiwan, 1999.
• Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, The Eleven National Conference of Solid Waste Management, Taiwan, 1999.
• Session Chairman, 7th IAWQ Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 1999.
• Session Chairman, Fourteenth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia , USA, 1998.
• Co-Chair, Organizing Committee, The Third Annual Conference of Environmental Protection between Taiwan and China, Taiwan, 1998.
• Chairman, the First Annual Conference of Environmental Systems Analysis, Taiwan, 1998.
• Session Chairman, First International Conference on Operations and Quantitative Management, Jaipur, India , 1997.
• Session Chairman, Thirteenth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia , USA, 1997.
• Chairman, 1997 Workshop of Environmental Systems Analysis, Taiwan, 1997.
• Session Chairman, Twelfth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia , USA ,1996.
• Session Chairman, Asian Fuzzy Systems Symposium, Pentung, Taiwan , 1996.
• Keynote speaker, 1995 Chinese-German Environmental Protection Technology Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan,1995.
• Session Chairman, Eleventh International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia, USA , 1995

(E) Others

• Ad hoc proposal reviewer for NSF, DOD, USGS, National Science Council (Taiwan), National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC, Canada), Research Grant Council (Hong Kong, China).
• Short visits of Oxford University, Cambridge University, University of Reading, University of Portsmouth, and The Council of Environment in England in 2000 for collaboration.
• Short visits of Karlsruhe University, Heidelburg University, Stuttgart University, Technical University of Darmstadt, and Technical University of Aachen in Germany in 2001 for collaboration.