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)

• Chair of IEEE Comsoc e-Health Committee (2020-2021)

• 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

• Editors-at-Large of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)

• Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (2023 - Present)

• Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IET Communications journal (IF: 1.5)

• 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

• General Co-Chair of ACM/IEEE CHASE (Connected Health) 2025 in New York City

• TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ICCCN 2024

• General Chair of IEEE Fourth International Conference on Digital Data Processing (DDP 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