Some Research Organizations and Editorial Activities

Workshop on Large Population Teams: Control, Equilibria, and Learning (Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2024)
Co-organizer, Invited Session on Advances in Stochastic Control, I, II, III at the Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2024.
Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting: Stochastic Control Theory and Applications (with Ali Kara and Somnath Pradhan)
Stochastic Control and Stability with Applications: Ari Arapostathis Memorial Issue
Co-organizer, Invited Session on Advances in Stochastic Control with Partial Information I, II, III at the Conference on Decision and Control, Dec. 2021
Online Seminar on Control and Information, 2021
Fields Day @ Queen's, 2019
Invited Session Co-Organizer: Advances in Nonlinear Filtering and Stochastic Control with Partial Information I and II, at CDC'19
TPC Co-Chair, Information Theory Workshop, 2019
Invited Session Organizer on 'Entropy in Information and Control' at CDC'16
CDC Workshop 2016: Half a Century of Progress in Teams, Games and Control, 2016
Seventh Biannual Meeting on Systems and Control Theory, 2016
Banff Workshop on Optimal Cooperation, Communication, and Learning in Decentralized Systems, 2014
IEEE North American School on Information Theory, 2014
Workshop on Sequential and Adaptive Communication, 2013
Fourth Biannual Meeting on Systems and Control Theory, 2010
Con-Com 2009


Senior Editor IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (August 2023-).

Associate Editor for Automatica (2017-2023), Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (2021-), Systems & Control Letters (2019-), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2014-2019).

Technical Program Committee Member / Associate Editor for several conferences and workshops (including Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2025 SIAM Conference on Control Theory and its Applications (CT25)/ Associate editor for SIAM Meeting on Control '15/'17/'19/'21; International Symposium on Information Theory'22/23/24, Canadian Workshop on Information Theory'11/13/15/17/19, IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys) '14/15/16/17/18/19), CDC'16/ACC'21/CDC'24 Paper Award Committees. IEEE CSS Chair of the Activity Group on Information Networks and Control.

Some Recent Lectures and Seminars
2024: Imperial College London (Mathematics Lecture April, 2024 / Electrical Engineering Lecture, May 2024) / University of Montreal (GERAD), May 2024 / Directed Reading Program (DRP) Turkiye, August 2024) / TOK'24 Plenary Lecture, September 2024 
2023: Ege University, International Symposium on Applications of Mathematical Models and Methods, March 2023
2021: University of Liverpool, Workshop on Modern trends in controlled stochastic processes, July 2021/ University of Illinois (CSL Visitors Scholar Lecture), Oct. 2021   
2020: Distributed Estimation and Optimization in Dynamical Systems Oct. 2020 / Queen's Math. Colloquium Sept. 2020
2019: Fields Institute short course on Robustness to and Approximations in Stochastic Control Models Feb. 2018 / Workshop on Information Design and Splitting Games June 2019 / Univ. of Michigan Oct. 2019
2018: Oberwolfach Workshop on Entropy, Information and Control / Biennial Meeting on Systems and Control Theory May 2018 / Workshop on Innovations in Predictive Control Mumbai, India, Nov 2018
2017: Chalmers  University Lecture 1 / Lecture 2 April 2017, Lund University April 2017, Stony Brook Univ. May 2017 /  Fields Institute Workshop on Stochastic Processes and Their Applications, Carleton University August 2017
2016: University of Passau Lecture 1 / Lecture 2; also intensive course on stochastic control May 2016 / University of California at Santa Barbara, April 2016 / University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2016 / University of Windsor, April 2016
2015: McMaster Univ., Nov. 2015 / KTH - ACCESS Linnaeus Centre Workshop, October 2015/ University of Liverpool, Workshop on Modern trends in controlled stochastic processes: theory and applications, June 29, 2015 / Carleton University, Mathematical Cybernetics, An international workshop in honour of the 70th birthday of Professor Peter E. Caines, May 2015 / University of Maryland, April 10, 2015 (UTRC CDS Lecture)
2014: USC Workshop on Networks, Optimization and Controls, December 18, 2014 / McGill University, November 21, 2014 / University of Ottawa, November 11, 2014 / Banff Research Station, Workshop on Optimal Cooperation, Communication, and Learning in Decentralized Systems, 2014 / Bilkent Univ. (Ankara Seminars on Communication), May 14,  2014 / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Workshop on Stochastic Control and Estimation for Networked Systems, Germany, May 8, 2014 / KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden, May 6, 2014 / Bilkent Univ., April 4, 2014.
2013: 2013 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics Lecture, Quebec City, Canada, June 18, 2013
2012: IEEE Conf. Decision and Control: Tutorial on Information Structures in Optimal Decentralized Control (presentation / tutorial) / Lund Univ. Workshop on Information and Control in Networks, Sweden, October 18, 2012 / KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden, May 29, 2012 / University of Toronto, May 7, 2012
2011: Banff International Research Station, Information Theory and Statistics for Large Alphabets, Alberta, October 24, 2011 / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA; April 21, 2011 / McGill University, Montreal, QC, April 12, 2011
2010: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, September 10, 2010 / Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey, May 3, 2010 / Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, April 2010 / McGill University, Montreal, QC, February 12, 2010