I am very active in my professional community-organizing conferences, editorial board, technical program committee member for conferences, reviewer for journals, and other professional activities.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Adjunct Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.

Research Affiliate of the Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences

Adjunct Research Scientist at TRLabs

Showcase 2001 Poster Exhibition,Parimala Thulasiraman and R.K.Thulasiram, "Parallel Algorithm Research in Manitoba's Algorithm and Applications Labora tory".

Invited Talk

Institute for Industrial Mathematical Sciences, University of Manitoba, "HPC in Multidisciplinary Areas: Algorithm Design", November 30, 2004.
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, "Local Independence in Computed Tomography as a Basis for Parallel Computing", August 2005.
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, "Parallelizing Swarm Intelligence Algorithms on HPC", October 16-20, 2005.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Manitoba, "Bio-inspired Algorithms for Mobile Networks", November 14, 2008.
Laurier Centennial Conference: International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science (AMMCS), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, "Exploiting the GPU for Multiple Swarm Collaborative PSO for Task Scheduling Cloud Environment", July 25-29, 2011.
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, "Particle Swarm Optimization on GPU", Feb. 2011.
KLN College of Engineering, Madurai, India, "HOPNET: A Hybrid ant colony Optimization Routing algorithm for Mobile ad hoc NETwork", Jan. 23, 2011.
Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India, "Exploiting Parallelism on Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures", Jan. 28, 2011.
Anna University of Technology, Madurai, India, "Swarm Intelligence: A tutorial", July 5, 2011.
Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India, "HPC+Elearning on Cloud: What to Expect?", July 24, 2011.
6th International Conference on Contemporary Computing, Noida, Delhi, 2012, "High Performance Heterogeneous Multicore Computing", Aug. 8, 2012.
Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, "Bio-Inspired Adaptive Learning Path Recommendation System", July 11, 2015.
Thapur University, Punjab, India, "HPC Graph Analytics: Modelling Real World Applications", July 30, 2015.
University of Auburn, Alabama, "Nature Inspired Graph Clustering", October 10, 2016.
Manitoba's Future in High Performance Computing, HPC in Network Science, June 21, 2018
Keynote Summit Speech: IEEE Cybermatics 2018, Halifax, "Challenges in Temporal Network Applications: How to Design Intelligent Algorithms?"
University of Aizu, Japan, Traffic Aware Routing in Intelligent Transportation System, 2018
Muroran Institute of Technology, Hokkaido, Japan, Traffic Aware Routing in Intelligent Transportation System, 2018
Keynote Summit Speech: IEEE Cybermatics 2019, Atlanta "Role of Computational Intelligence in Cybermatics"

Journal Editoral Board

International Journal of Computer Science and System Analysis, Serial Publications, India.
International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, ACTA Press.
Co-Editor with Jongsung Kim (Kyungnam University, Republic of Korea) and Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University, Taiwan, Recent Advanced Computer and Mathematics based Cryptography and Security Technologies, in Advances in Applied Mathematics, FTRA.
Co-Editor with Sumeet Dua, Aryya Gangopadhyay, Umberto Straccia, Michael A. Shepherd, Benno Stein: Information, Systems, Technology and Management - 6th International Conference, ICISTM 2012, Grenoble, France, March 28-30, 2012. Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science 285, Springer 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-29165-4
Parimala Thulasiraman, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Qiwen Pan, Xingan Liu, Yaw-Chung Chen, Yo-Ping Huang, Lin-Huang Chang, Che-Lun Hung, Vhe-Rung Lee, Justin Y. She, Ying Zhang: 13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing & Communication, Banff, Alberta, Canada, September 2-4, 2011. , ISBN 978-1-4577-1564-8.
Co-Editor for Special Issue: "Optimization in Distributed Information Systems", in Journal of Scientific Programming, Hindawi Publishing Co., with Xiaomin Zh, NUDT, China, Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA, Beniamino Di Martino, The Second University of Naples, Italy.

Journal Reviewer:

Scientific Programming: Special Issue on Languages, Compilers and Run-Time Systems for Scalable Computers
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
IEEE Transactions on Computers: Special issue on multithreaded architecture
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Performance Evaluation
InfomationFusion
Elsevier Computer Communications
IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B
International Journal of Computers and Applications
Elsevier Journal, Information Fusion
The International Journal of Computers and Applications
International Journal of Computer Games Technology
Elsevier Computers in Biology and Medicine
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
Elsevier Adhoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
IEEE Transactions on Very large Scale Integration Systems
Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, InderScience
Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems
The Journal of Supercomputing
Computer Communications
Parallel Computing
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing IARIA Journal
Sensor Networks, MDPI
International Journal of BioMedical Imaging, Hindawi Publications Co.
Elsevier Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience Journa, Hindawi
Journal of Computational Science, Elsevier
Scientific Programming, Hindawi
Computational Intelligence, Wiley & Sons

Conferences:

Local Organizer for, 14th ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) 2002
Session Chair for the Load Balancing Session, ICPP-HPSECA02: The 4th International Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications
Session Chair for the Object Oriented SE Computing, IPDPS-PDSECA2003: The 4th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications
Session Chair for Performance Evaluation I, The 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Montreal, QC, 2004.
Tutorial chair for, The 17th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Conference, 2004.
General Co-Chair for, 6th International workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing (held in conjunction with ICPP-04)
Workshop Chair for, The Fifth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA07), Niagara Falls, ON, CANADA ,
Call for Proposals )
Workshop Chair for The 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, Niagara Falls, ON, August 2007.
Program Chair: The 16th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication (ADCOM) Conference, Chennai, India, December 2008.
Program Vice Chair: Intelligent and Bioinspired Computing track in The 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Science, Vancouver, BC, 2009.
General Chair: The 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Science, Vancouver, BC, 2009.
Program Chair: Second International Conference on Advanced Computing, Chennai, India, December 2010.
Program Chair: The 13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2011), Banff, Alberta, Canada, Septemeber 2-4, 2011 .
Program Chair: 7th FTRA International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech), Vancouver, BC, June 2012.
Program Vice Chair for the InformationSystems track: 6th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management (ICISTM-2012), Grenoble, France, March 28-30, 2012.
Program Vice Chair: The 7th International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2012), Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 26-28 2012.
Program Vice Chair for Algorithms and Applications track: The 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2012), Leganes, Madrid, 11-13 July 2012.
Workshop Chair: The 11th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, Melbourne, Australia, 2013
Program Chair: The 16th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Sydney, Australia, December 2013
Workshop Chair: The 2013 International Workshop on Big Data Computing (BDC-13) Sorrento Peninsula, Italy, 18-21 December, 2013.
Program Chair: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, Bali, Indonesia, Dec. 9-12, 2014 (ScalCom-2014)
Session Chair for Data Mining, NaBic, Porto, Portugal, 2014.
Session Chair for Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computing and Metaheuristics, Karkow, Poland, PPAM 2015.
Guest Editor: Special Issue on Optimization in Distributed Information Systems in J. of Computational Science, Elsevier.
Divisional Chair, Administrative Sciences of Canada, Management Sciences Division
Steering Committee, Dew Computing, 2017-
Session Chair: Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics IV, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2017.

Technical Program Committee Member

18th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC 2017), May 2017
The 12th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM), Lublin, Poland, 10 - 13 September 2017
24nd International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) in Jaipur, India, during December 18-21, 2017.
The 9th International Conference on Evolving Internet (INTERNET), July 2017.
The 11th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST-2017) will be held in an affluent cathedral city, Exeter, UK, 21-23 June 2017.
IEEE ScalCom 2017
Workshop on Language-Based Parallel Programming Models 2017 (WLPP17)
IEEE IUCC 2017 conference, Guangzhou, China, December 12-15, 2017.
The 12th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2015), Lublin, Poland, 10 - 13 September 2017
The 15th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT-2015), Liverpool, England, UK, 26-28 October 2015
IARIA The Sixth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization, CLOUD COMPUTING 2015 March 22 - 27, 2015 - Nice, France
IARIA ADVCOMP 2015 July 19 - 24, 2015 - Nice, France
IARIA EMERGING 2015 July 19 - 24, 2015 - Nice, France
The 16th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing, May 29, 2015, Hyderabad, India to be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2015
IARIA UBICOMM 2015, July 19 - 24, 2015 - Nice, France
International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2015), Cracow, Poland, 6 to 9 September 2015
6th International Conference (IEMCON 2015), October 15th - 17th, 2015, Vancouver, BC
Workshop on Language-Based Parallel Programming Models 2015 (WLPP15) to be held in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM'2015), September 6-9, 2015
Workshop on Numerical Algorithms on Hybrid Architectures 2015 (WNAHA15) to be held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM'2015), Krakow, Poland, September 6-9, 2015
The IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits, Singapore, Dec. 10-12, 2014
The 6th FTRA International Conference on Computer Science and Applications (CSA-14), Guam, USA, Dec. 17-19, 2014
IEEE Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Conference (WCSP 2014)
The 20th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dec. 16-19, 2014.
The 20th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dec. 16-19, 2014.
The 15th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC 2014), May 23, 2014, Arizona USA in conjunction with The 28th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2014
The IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Toronto, CA, May 5-8, 2014.
IARIA The Fifth International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization CLOUD COMPUTING 2014, May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy
The 10th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous in Computing and Communications (IUCC-2013)
The 13th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2013)
International Conference on Information Communication Technology (ICT-EurAsia 2013)
Workshop on Language-Based Parallel Programming Models 2013 (WLPP) to be held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2013)
International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP 2013)
6th International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2013), at Hangzhou, in Zhejiang, China, October 2013.
4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCOM 2012)
FCST 2011
INTERNET 2009-
INTENSIVE 2009-
IEEE ScalCom 2009-
PDCAT 2009-
ICCSA 2009-
IEEE Service Cup, 2009
International Conference on Information Science, Technology and Applications (2009-)
The 2nd Special Session on Security & Privacy in Pervasive Computing environments (SPPC-09)
The First International Conference on Intensive Applications and Services (2008-)
The 2008 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing
MobiWac 2008-
International Conference on Contemporary Computing, India, 2008
IEEE HPCC (2001-)
The 6th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICSA) 2008
First International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing in Finance (PDCoF) 2008
IASTED Communication systems and networking 2007
The International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in sciences (ADVCOMP) (2007-current)
International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP), Reims, France, June 2006
IEEE WCNC 2006
MobiWac 2006
The IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2006-08)
IEEE International Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems (TACS 2006)
The 7th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC) in Conjunction with IPDPS 2005.
IEEE 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006)
The First International Workshop on Reliability and Autonomic Management in Parallel and Distributed Systems
IASTED International Symposium of Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS 2005)
International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Montreal, QC, Canada, (ICPP 2004)
International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2004)
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004)
International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2004-
International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (HPC 2004).
IEEE International Symposium on Circuits And Systems (ISCS 2004)
International Workshop on Reliability and Autonomic Management in Parallel and Distributed Systems (RAMPD 2004).
ISCA Parallel and Distributed Computing Symposium (PDCS 2003)
International Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications (HPSECA 2001-current).
International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing, (PDSEC 2001-current)
Massively Parallel Programming Model (MPPP 1999)
International Conference on High Performance Computing (Reviewer-HPC 1999)
Parallel Architectures and Compiler Techniques (Reviewer- PACT 1999)
Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures (Reviewer - SPAA 1999)
International Symposium on Microarchitectures (Reviewer - 1998)
International Symposium on Computer Architectures (Reviewer ISCA - 1998)