Recent Selected Scholarly & Professional Activities

  • Senior Member of IEEE since 1994

  • Voting Member of ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) since 1994

  • IBM CAS Fellow 2003-2006

  • Board Director at University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering (UNENE), September 2018 – Present

  • Board Director at Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park, October 2018 - Present

  • Board Director at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR), July 2018 - 2019

  • Associate Vice-Provost (Acting) – Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies (2015-201)

  • Associate Dean (Acting) - Research and Graduate Faculty of Engineering (2010-2011)

  • Associate Chair - Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011 - 2013)

  • NSERC Leader, 2020 – Present

  • Review Panel Member, New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) – Transformation 2020

  • Editorial Board Member of Smart Cities Journal, April 2020 – Present

  • Keynote Speaker at DIONE 2020 - EAI International Conference on Data and Information in Online Environments, March 2020, Florianopolis, Brazil]

  • Program Committee Member of The 20th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2020), Melbourne, Australia, 8-10 December, 2020.

  • Program Committee Member of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Communications (IEEE HPCC-2020), Fiji, December 14-16, 2020.

  • Program Committee Member of the 12th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital Ecosystems (MEDES'20), Abu Dhabi, UAE, November 2-4, 2020.

  • Program Committee Member of the 15th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2020), Yonago, Japan, Oct. 28-30, 2020.

  • Program Committee Member of the 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2020), 7-9 May 2020

  • Program Committee Member of the 14th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2019), Antwerp, Belgium, Nov 7-9, 2019.

  • Program Committee Member of the 16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2019), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Nov. 3-7, 2019 - Track 4: IoT, IoV, IoEnergy, IoHealthcare.

  • Program Committee Member of the 5th International Conference on Connected Smart Cities 2019 (CSC 2019), Porto, Portugal, 17 - 19 July 2019.

  • Program Committee Member of the 17th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, Toulouse, France, October 28-31, 2019.)

  • Member of OGSST Selection Panel (ECE dept level) (2006)

  • Program Committee Member of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom-2019), Leicester, UK, 19-23 August 2019.

  • Program Committee Member of the 21st IEEE International Conference on High-Performance Computing and Communications (IEEE HPCC-2019), Zhangjiajie, China, August 10-12, 2019.

  • Program Committee Member of the 11th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital Ecosystems (MEDES'19), Limassol (Cyprus) November 12-14, 2019.

  • Program Committee Member of the 10th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital Ecosystems (MEDES'18), Tokyo, Japan, September 25-28, 2018.

  • Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Smart Service for the Web of Things, in conjunction with ICSOC 2018, Hangzhou, China, Nov 12, 2018.

  • Program Committee Member of the 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2019).

  • Program Committee Member of the 9th IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference, IEEE UEMCON 2018, Columbia University, New York City, USA, Nov. 8-10, 2018.

  • Program Committee Member of the 15th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA 2018, Track-5: Advances in Sensing, Aqaba, Jordan, Oct 28-Nov 01, 2018.

  • Program Committee Member of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity-2018), Exeter, England, UK, 28-30 June 2018.

  • Program Committee Member of WETICE 2018, Paris, June 27029, 2018.

  • Program Committee Member of 14th International Conference on Humans and Computer, Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan, March 8-13, 2012.

  • Program Committee Member of the 10th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2018) – special track on the Advanced Computing Systems and Solutions for Big Data and Big Compute, Tokyo – Japan, September 2018.

  • Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Management of Service-Oriented Cyber-Physical Systems, in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2017), Malaga, Spain, Nov 13, 2017.

  • Program Committee Member of the 9th International ACM Conference on Management of Digital Ecosystems (MEDES'17), Bangkok, Thailand, November 7-10, 2017.

  • Program Committee Member of the 8th IEEE Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference- at the University of Columbia, New York, USA during 19 - 21 October 2017.

  • Program Committee Member of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom-2017) Exeter, England, UK, 21-23 June 2017.

  • Program Committee Member of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2017), Exeter, England, UK, June 21-23 2017.

  • Program Committee Member of the 8th Annual Industrial Automation and Electromechanical Engineering Conference (IEMECON 2017), Bangkok, Thailand, August 16-18, 2017.

  • Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Smart Cities (Smart CT 2017), Malaga, Spain, Jun 14-16, 2017.

  • Program Committee Member of the Track AROSA of 26th IEEE Int. Conf. on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (IEEE WETICE 2017), Poznan, Poland, Jun. 21-23, 2017.

  • Program Committee Member of the 8th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, Track: Service Oriented Computing for Systems & Applications (ANT 2017), Madeira, Portugal, May 16-19, 2017.

  • Program Committee Member of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2017), Porto, Portugal, April 22-24, 2017.