Professional Activities
Panel and Board
Advisory Board of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors
Fellow Evaluation Committee Vice Chair of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2022)
Fellow Evaluation Committee of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2021)
Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia(2009-2021)
Steering Committee of IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2020 - )
Steering Committee Vice Chair of IEEE Healthcom Conference
Chair of IEEE Comsoc MMTC (Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications)(2018-2020)
Steering Committee of IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) Conference
Steering Committee of IEEE eHealth Technical Committee
Award Committee Member of IEEE Transactions on Big Data (2020)
Vice Chair of IEEE IEEE Comsoc e-Health Committee (2018-2019)
Steering Committee Co-Chair of IEEE/CHASE (Connected Health) Conference
Award Committee Member of IEEE Globecom 2013 Best Paper
Canada NSERC Grant Panel 2017
External grant reviewer for Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2019
Steering Committee of IEEE ICME Conference (2017-2020)
NIH panel 2018, 2019
National Science Foundation (NSF) 2012-current Panelist (CPS, CyberSees, SCH, EECS, MRI, PPoSS-L, SaTC-Career)
National Science Foundation (NSF) 2012 Ad Hoc reviewer
Steering Committee (lead) of ICST/ACM Mobimedia
IEEE standard LIAISON of e-Health Committee (2016)
Editor Board
Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (2023 - Present)
Associate Editor of ACM Computing Surveys (2022 - Present)
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Internet of Things (2020 ~ 2022)
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Big Data (2015 ~ 2020 )
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2019 – 2023)
Area Editor of Computer Networks (2019 – present)
Technical Editor of IEEE Network Magazine (2018 – present)
Guest Editor of IEEE IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC) series on network softwarization and enablers
Associate Editor of IEEE System Journal (2019 – 2021)
Associate Editor of Elsevier Smart health Journal (2017 ~ present)
Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Internet of Things (2016 ~ 2019)
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2015 ~ present)
Area Editor of IEEE IoT Journal in the area of Services and Applications for IoT(2015-2016)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), (2015 ~ 2019)
Guest Editor of Special Issue on Big Data Infrastructure, IEEE Transactions on Big Data
Lead Guest Editor of IEEE Transaction on Multimedia SI on Cloud-based Video Processing and Content Sharing
Associate Editor of IEEE Communication Magazine (2014 ~ 2017)
Lead Guest Editor of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI) (Previous IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (TITB)) special issue on “Emerging Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) for Ubiquitous Healthcare “ 2013
Lead Guest Editor of IEEE IoT Journal special issue on“ IoT for Smart and Connected Health“
Guest Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal SI on Internet of Things (IoT), 2013
Conference/Workshop Chair/Co-Chair
TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ICCCN 2024
Honorary General Chair of IEEE WiMob 2022 Conference
TPC Co-Chair of IEEE International Conference on Blockchain 2021
General Chair of IEEE iThings 2022
Workshop Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2021
Vice Chair of The 2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2021-Fall
TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ICCC 2020
Executive Committee Chair of IEEE HEALTHCOM 2020
TPC Chair of e-Health Track, IEEE ICC 2020
General Chair of IEEE ICII 2019
Workshop Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2020
TPC Chair of IEEE ICME 2019
General Chair of IEEE ICNC 2019
Publicity Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2019
TPC Chair of Big Data Track, IEEE Globecom 2018
Tutorial Co-Chair, IEEE BigData 2018
TPC Chair of IEEE ICNC 2018
General Chair of IEEE/ACM CHASE 2017
TPC Co-chair of IEEE ICNC 2017
TPC Track Chair of IEEE ICCCN 2017, Cognitive, Cellular, and Mobile Networks (CCM)
TPC Track Chair of IEEE ICCCN 2016, Green Networks and Sustainable Computing (GREEN)
Publicity Chair of IEEE VTC2015-Fall in Boston
TPC Co-Chair of IEEE CHASE 2016
Steering Committee Co-Chair of IEEE CHASE
TPC Co-Chair of Wireless Networking and Mobility Track, the 13th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC’16)
General Chair of Symposium on Signal Processing in Mobile Multimedia Communication Systems, The IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) 2015
TPC track co-chair for the “Cognitive, Cellular and Mobile Networks (CCM)” track of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks ((ICCCN 2015).
TPC Co-Chair of the 20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (IEEE ISCC 2015)
TPC Chair of the 17th IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE HEALTHCOM 2015)
TPC Co-chair of 10th International Conference on Body Area Networks (ICST/ACM BODYNETS 2015), Australia.
TPC symposium Co-Chair of IEEE conference on communications 2015 (ICC 2015), Mobile and Wireless Networking symposium
TPC chair of 8th International Conference on Body Area Networks (ICST/ACM BODYNETS 2013).
TPC track co-chair for the “Cognitive, Cellular and Mobile Networks (CCM)” track of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2014).
Technical Committee Member (TPC)
TPC member of IEEE ICDM 2019, 2020
TPC member of IEEE SECON 2019, IEEE CNS 2019.
TPC member of WWW 2019 : International World Wide Web Conferences (WWW), The Web Conference 2019
TPC member of IEEE ICDM 2018, ACM/IEEE CHASE 2018, ACM Multimedia 2018, ACM NanoCOM 2018, IEEE CNS 2018
TPC member of ACM Multimedia 2017, IEEE CNS2017, IEEE PerCom Work in Progress, IEEE ICC 2017, IEEE CHASE 2017
TPC member of IEEE CNS 2016, IEEE IPCCC 2015, WoWMoM 2016
TPC member of IEEE The 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2015)
TPC member of the 34th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2015)
TPC member of BSN 2015 : The 12th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, MIT media Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA
TPC member of the International conference on Internet of Things, MIT media Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA
TPC member of IEEE WoWMoM 2015
TPC member of IEEE VTC 2014, IEEE iThings 2014
TPC member of BSN 2014 : The 11th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks
TPC member of the 33nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2014)
TPC member of INFOCOM 2014 workshop on Security and Privacy in Big Data and Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing
TPC member of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2014
TPC member of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) 2013
TPC member of 2013 IEEE HealthCom 2013
TPC member of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2013
TPC member of ACM/ICST BodyNets 2013, 2014.
TPC member of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013)
TPC member of IEEE Global Communications (Globecom 2013) for 5 symposiums
TPC member of the 32nd Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2013)
TPC member of IEEE Global Communications (Globecom 2012) for 5 symposiums
IEEE International Conference on communciation (ICC 2011)
IEEE Global Communications (Globecom 2011) Communication & System Security Symposium, Wireless Networks Symposium and Communication Software, Services, and Multimedia Applications Symposium
IEEE Global Communications (Globecom 2010)
IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications(WiMob 2008-2009)
Other Committees (selected)
Chair of College Academic Council (2022 – 2023), College of Engineering, UMass Dartmouth
Academic Council Member, College of Engineering, UMass Dartmouth
Chair of of Scholar of The Year Committee, UMass Dartmouth
Ph.D. dissertation committee for Hongyang Zhou, The College of William & Mary
External Examiner for a Doctoral Defence at University of Calgary
External Examiner for a Doctoral student at University of Technology Sydney