In 2024 he was elected to the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He has been on the organizing and/or program committees of Robotics: Systems and Science, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS), the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Computer and Robot Vision, IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and International Conference on Hands-on Intelligent Mechatronics and Automation among other bodies. He was president of CIPPRS, the Canadian Information Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, an ICPR national affiliate.