Service

University and Departmental Service:

• Member of ECE Department Review Committee (2024-2025, 2025-2026)

• Member of CCI Faculty Search Committee (2022-2023)

• Chair of ECE Communication Network Faculty Search Committee (2021-2023)

• Member of ECE Department Review Committee (2022-2023)

• Member of ECE Computer Engineering Faculty Search Committee (2021-2022)

• Faculty Fellow of Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate North Carolina (AGEP-NC) (2021-2023)

• Member of ECE Faculty Search Committee (2014-2015)

• Member of ECE Graduate Committee (2010-2013)

• Member of UNCC Faculty Council (2010-2011)

• Member of ECE Faculty Search Committee (2009-2010)

• Chair of ECE Strategic Planning Committee (2009)

• Member of ECE Department Chair Search Committee (2008-2009)

• Chair of CoE Teaching Award Selection Committee (2008)

• Member of ECE Awards Committee (2007-2008)

• Member of ECE Faculty Associate Search Committee (2006-2008)

• Member of ECE Department Review Committee (2005-2006)

• Member of UNCC Teaching Week Planning Committee (2005)

• Member of ECE Advisory Committee (2004 - 2007)

Professional Service and Activities:

• Senior Editor: Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier)

• Associate Editor: ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (02/2025 - present)

• Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (08/2021 - present)

• Editor: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (12/2021 - 12/2023)

• Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Networking (05/2016 - 01/2021)

• Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (05/2013 - 02/2019)

• Editor: Computer Networks (Elsevier) (12/2006 - 12/2017)

• Editor: Journal of Communications (ETPub) (11/2008 - 06/2016)

• Editor: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorial (08/2010 - 02/2015)

• Appointed Officers: IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors, 2024-2025

• Voting Member: IEEE Communications Society Conferences Council, 2022-2025

• Director: IEEE Communications Society Conference Development Board, 2024-2025

• Chair: IEEE Communications Society GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content (GITC) Standing Committee, 2022-2023

• Voting Member: IEEE Communications Society GLOBECOM/ICC Management and Strategy (GIMS) Standing Committee, 2022-2023

• Vice-Chair: IEEE Communications Society GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content (GITC) Standing Committee, 2020-2021

• Voting Member: IEEE Communications Society GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content (GITC) Standing Committee, 2018-2023

• Area TPC Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2026), May 18-21, 2026, Tokyo, JAPAN

• Area TPC Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025), May 19-22, 2025, London, UNITED KINGDOM

• Area TPC Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2024), May 20-23, 2024, Vancouver, CANADA

• Technical Program Co-Chair: IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2023), December 4-8, 2023, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA

• Area TPC Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2023), May 17-20, 2023, New York Area, USA

• Track Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2022), Protocols and Cross-Layer Technologies Track, October 20-22, 2022, Denver, Colorado, USA

• Area TPC Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2022), May 2-5, 2022, Virtual Conference

• Area TPC Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2021), May 10-13, 2021, Virtual Conference

• Workshop Co-Chair: IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2020), December 10-13, 2020, Virtual Conference

• Area TPC Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2020), July 6-9, 2020, Virtual Conference

• Area TPC Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019), April 29 - May 2, 2019, Paris, France

• Area TPC Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2018), April 15-19, 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

• Workshop Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017), May 1-4, 2017, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

• Area TPC Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017), May 1-4, 2017, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

• Workshop Co-Chair: ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2016), July 4-8, 2016, Paderborn, GERMANY

• Technical Program Vice Chair: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016), May 23-27, 2016, Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA

• Area TPC Chair: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2016), April 10-15, 2016, San Francisco, California, USA

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• Member of Technical Program Committee (TPC):

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2021), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, June 14-18, 2021, Montreal, CANADA

• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2019), Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, December 9-13, 2019, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA

• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015), Wireless Networks Symposium, December 6-10, 2015, San Diego, California, USA

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015), Mobile and Wireless Networking Symposium, June 8-12, 2015, London, UK

• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2015), April 26-May 1, 2015, Kowloon, Hong Kong

• More... (Full list of TPCs served)

• Journal Special Issue Guest Editor:

  • Special Issue on 6G Network AI Architecture for Customized Services and Applications, IEEE Network, vol. 37, no. 2, March/April 2023.

  • Special Issue on Seamless Mobility in Wireless Networks, Journal of Communications (Academy Publisher), vol. 6, no. 1, February 2011.

  • Special Issue on Recent Advances in Mobile Middleware for Wireless Systems and Services, Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), vol. 14, no. 1, February 2009.

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Panelist: 2009-2022, 2024-2025

• External Funding Proposal Reviewer:

  • Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025

  • Nebraska-EPSCoR Research Program 2021 Project

  • Louisiana Board of Regents, 2012

  • Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), 2011

• Doctoral Thesis External Committee Member / Examiner:

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Michigan Institute, 2022, 2024

  • Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - Barcelona Tech, Spain, 2023

  • Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, 2015

  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), China, 2012

  • Anna University, India, 2012

  • University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2012, 2016, 2017

  • University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2011

• Journal Reviewer: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Access, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC²R), Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal, Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal, Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier), Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier), Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley), Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC), and more

• Conference Reviewer: IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE WCNC, IEEE CCNC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE ICCCN, IEEE IPCCC, ACM MOBICOM, ACM MOBIHOC, IFIP Networking, and more

• Book Reviewer: McGraw-Hill, CRC Press Taylor & Francis, Springer, John Wiley & Sons, Wiley-IEEE Press, and more

• Fellow: IEEE

• Senior Member: ACM