Ethics and Compliance Officer, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Singapore (2014 – 2017).
Neuroengineering Program (NSF-IGERT), Member, Executive committee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2013 – 2015).
Neuroscience Program. Member, Doctoral studies committee, University of Texas at San Antonio (2006 – 2008).
Search Committee for Integrative Biologist at University of Texas at San Antonio. Member (2009).
Search Committee for Computational Biologist, University of Texas at San Antonio. Member (2006)
Specialized Neuroscience Research Program (SNRP). Member, Scientific Advisory Council, University of Texas at San Antonio (2008 - 2013).
Neurosciences Institute. Member, Steering committee, University of Texas at San Antonio (2009 - 2013).
San Antonio Neuroscience Alliance. Member of steering committee (2006 – 2008).
MS Biotechnology Program, University of Texas at San Antonio. Voluntary service (2005 – 2007).
Workshop on Brain-Computer Interfaces and Neuroengineering, Organizer and Session Chair, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore (April 18, 2017).
Healthy Aging Community, Member, Coordination Committee, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (August 2015 – to date).
Workshop on EEG. Organizer, Coordinated Science Laboratory. This is a widely-known workshop, entitled "Mini ERP Bootcamp", conducted by Dr. Steven J. Luck. Professor of Psychology, Center for Mind & Brain, University of California at Davis. Held in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (November 4-6, 2014).
Feasibility of a Multi-disciplinary Services Organization. Member, College of Science, University of Texas at San Antonio (November 2010 – 2011).
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). Member, University of Texas at San Antonio (August 2008 – 2013)
San Antonio Comparative Biology of Aging Center. Member from University of Texas at San Antonio (2008 – 2013).
UTSA - University of Illinois NSF (IGERT) Program in Neuroengineering. Establish a bridge between UTSA and the University of Illinois program. Through this bridge UTSA students receive training in the IGERT program at Illinois (2009 – 2013).
Computational Neuroscience Meeting, 2016 (CNS* 2016), Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience. Session Chair for session on “Testing Coding Hypothesis” (2016).
National Science Foundation. Ad hoc proposal reviewer for Integrative Organismal Biology.
National Science Foundation. Member, review panels (Neural Systems Cluster) (March 2013, October 2013, March 2014).
Acoustical Society of America. Member, Technical Program Organizing Committee (2009).
Acoustical Society of America. Organizer and Session Chair for “Animal bioacoustics: natural Soundscapes (Session I)” and “Animal bioacoustics: Auditory Scene Analysis by Animals (Session II)” (2009).
Ad hoc reviewer for: 1) Journal of Neuroscience, 2) Journal of Theoretical Biology, 3) Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 4) Scientific Reports, 5) European Journal of Neuroscience, 6) Neurocomputing, 7) Journal of Comparative Psychology, 8) Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 9) Naturwissenschaften, 10) Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 11) Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 12) Bioacoustics, 13) IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 14) Lab Animal, 15) Computational Neuroscience Meeting. 16) BioMed Research International.
1) External reviewer for National Science Foundation, USA, 2) San Antonio Life Sciences Institute, Research Enhancement Fund, Member, study section (2010), 3) Ralph E. Power Junior Faculty Award, Reviewer (U. Maryland, College Park) (2009), 4) Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science: Clinical and Translational Science Award (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio), Reviewer (2009). 5) Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) (2009).