Professional Activities

Western

University and Department Services

    1. Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Information Technology (SUIT) at the Western Senate, 2022 – June 2024
    2. Member of the Senate (representing the Faculty of Science) at the Western Senate, July 2021 – June 2023
    3. Member, Inaugural Advisory Committee for the Bell – Western 5G Research Centre 2021 –2024
    4. Member, Industry track graduate program planning committee, Western University, Aug 2021 - present
    5. Member, Faculty of Science Research Council, Western University, 2024 - present
    6. Member, Faculty of Science Nominating Committee, Western University, 2020 - 2023
    7. Reviewer, Innovation Centre for Information Engineering (ICIE), Western University, June 8, 2023
    8. Chair, UG Award Committee, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2024-2025
    9. Member, Academic Appeal Committee, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2024-2025
    10. Member, Appointment Committee, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2018-2019, 2021-2022
    11. Member, Annual Performance Evaluation, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2019, 2021
    12. Chair, Colloquium Committee, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2021-2022
    13. Member, AI Advisory Board, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2021-2022
    14. Member, Dept Meet & Greet Committee, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2019 - present
    15. Coordinator, Industry Speaker Series, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2019 - 2021
    16. Member, Colloquium Committee, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2019 - 2020
    17. Member, Workload Committee, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2018 – 2019
    18. Judge, UWORCS (Computer Science’s Annual Student Conference), 2018, 2022
    19. Member, Internship Reports, Dept. of Computer Science, Western University, 2017 – 2021, 2024

External

Editorials Boards

Conference / Workshop Organizing Committee Chair

  • Conference Patron Co-Chair: IEEE CNSM 2023, Niagara Fallas, Canada, Oct 30 – Nov 2, 2023
  • Conference Industry Chair: IEEE 34th CCECE 2021 (virtual), Sept 21 - 27, 2021
  • Workshop Session Chair: IEEE Infocom 2021 (workshop: BigSecurity), May 10th 2021
  • Conference Industry Chair: IEEE 33rd CCECE 2020, London, ON, Canada
  • Conference Patron Co-Chair: IEEE 15th CNSM 2019, Halifax, Canada
  • Workshop Chair, Smart Infrastructure and Services (SIS), Western University, London, ON Nov 14 - 15 2018
  • Conference Session Chair: IEEE 62nd Globecom 2019 (Track: Virtual Reality and Machine Learning), Hawaii, USA
  • Conference Session Chair: IEEE 89th VTC 2019 (Track: Security I), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Conference Session Chair (Track: Fault & Performance Management), IFIP/IEEE 16th IM 2015, Ottawa, Canada

Industry Chair

  • Smart Infrastructure and Services (SIS) Consortium Chair (2018 - present)
  • Industry Relations Chair - IEEE ComSoc IoT, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee (2021 – 2024)
  • IEEE London (ON, Canada) Section Industry Chair (2018 - 2020)

Research Grants Committee Member

  • Member, Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence (ORF-RE) Program, Round 11, 2022
  • Member, Tri-agency NFRF-T (New Frontiers in Research Fund) Committee, 2022
  • Member, Tri-agency NFRF (New Frontiers in Research Fund) Committee, 2021

Research Grants Reviewer

  • NSERC Discovery Grant (2019 - present)
  • National Cybersecurity Consortium NCC (2024)
  • NSERC Idea to Innovation (I2I) grant proposal (2022, 2023)
  • NSERC CRD (2019)
  • MITACS Accelerate (2017 - 2021)
  • MITACS Elevate (2019)

Advisory Board Member / Mentor

  • OCE/RTDS Advisory board member for provincial initiative in autonomous vehicle for southwestern Ontario (2017-2018)
  • School of Computing, Queen’s University, ON (2013 - 2015)

Technical Program Committee Member

  • IEEE PMIRC 2024
  • IEEE ISCC 2024
  • IEEE ICC 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2020-2024
  • IEEE Globecom 2015-2016, 2019-2024
  • IEEE WiMob 2020-2024
  • IEEE CNSM 2019-2023
  • IEEE NOMS 2016, 2018, 2020-2021
  • IEEE VTC 2018
  • IEEE IM 2015, 2017
  • IEEE RNDM 2010-2012, 2015-2017
  • IEEE DRCN 2011, 2013
  • IEEE ICCVE 2014, 2019
  • IEEE QRS 2019
  • IEEE COMNATSAT 2019
  • IEEE APCC 2016, 2019
  • IEEE STPSA 2018
  • IEEE COMPSAC 2017
  • IEEE Networks 2016
  • IEEE HASE 2014-2016
  • IBM CASCON 2015
  • IEEE ICCVE 2013
  • IEEE ISSRE 2012
  • IEEE ITNG 2007
  • IEEE SPTPA 2006
  • IEEE PerCSA 2006
  • IEEE ICESS 2005

International Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, 2018, 2024
  • IEEE CJECE 2023-2024
  • Elsevier Computer Networks, 2021-2024
  • IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023
  • MDPI Drones, 2023
  • Elsevier Computer Communications, 2022
  • IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal 2021
  • IEEE Trans. on Reliability, 2021
  • IEEE Trans. on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM), 2020, 2022-2024
  • Book Proposal Review, Taylor & Francis, 2019
  • IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, 2018
  • IEEE Communications Letters, 2018
  • Wiley Security and Privacy, 2017
  • IEEE JSAC - 2017
  • OSA JOCN - 2017
  • Telecommunication Systems Journal Springer - special issue, Dec 2013;
  • International Journal of Systems Science, Dec 2013;
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, July, 2012
  • Telecommunication Systems Journal (Springer) – Feb 2011
  • International Journal of Systems Science – June 2010
  • International Journal of Systems Science – 2009
  • IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Feb 2006 issue
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC) Optical Networking and Communications Series, 2005
  • JNSM , Vol. 10, No 4, Dec 2002