Dr. Prashan Premaratne is a Senior Member of IEEE and has been a Guest Editor of Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications 7th ICIC, Guest Editor of International Journal of Information Technology 11(12); Guest Editor - International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing (IJWMIP); and Guest Editor on a special issue in Neurocomputing Journal (Elsevier, 2006). He is also an ARC OzReader in Mathematics, Information and Communication. He was the Tutorial Chair of ICIC2008 conference in Shanghai, China and was the Program Committee Chair of ICIC2006 conference held in Kunming, China. He has also published over 80 IEE/IEEE refereed publications in signal and image processing and has been invited to chair sessions in major IEEE conferences such as ISIMP2004, in Hong Kong and ICIC2005 in China, ICIAFS 2008, ICIAFS 2010 and IASTED-EAS 2012.