Professional Services
Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine (2020 - )
Associate Editor, IEEE Access (2016 - 2022)
Associate Editor, Wiley’s Internet Technology Letters (2017 - present)
Guest Editor, Special Issue of Vehicular Communications on “Heterogeneous Vehicular Networking”, Elsevier, 2016
Chair of the IEEE Communication Society SIG on "IoT in Tactile Internet"
Lead Technical Editor of the IEEE P1918.1 Tactile Internet standard.
Secretary of the IEEE Communications Society IoT-AHSN Technical Committee (2020 - 2022)
Secretary of the IEEE Tactile Internet standards Working Group (IEEE P1918.1)
General Chair of the IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN), Florida, 2023.
Program Chair of the IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN), Edmonton, Alberta, 2022.
Co-Chair of:
Publications Chair:
Tutorials co-chair:
Workshops Chair:
Publicity co-chair:
Tutorials presented:
TPC member of (last updated in 2018):
Session Chair (last updated in 2017):
Moderator, NSERC Strategic Network panel on Convergent IoT directions, Toronto, Feb 2016.
Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD).
Lead founder of Graduate Computing Society — Queen’s University - and its President for two terms (2008/2009—2009/2010). I lead the team establishing the first society for Computing students at Queen’s, the third on campus after Law and Education societies.
Chair (and lead founder) of Queen’s Graduate Computing Society Conference (QGCSC 2010). The conference remains a running success.
Delivered a workshop on “Soliciting Feedback to Foster Positive Classrooms”, Queen’s University Teaching Development day, 2015.
Graduate Seminar Coordinator at School of Computing, Queen’s University (2008/2009)
Finalist in Queen’s 3 Minute Thesis competition, here are the finalist’s videos.
Proctor of School of Computing team in the 2015 and 2016 IEEEXtreme programming competitions.
Completed the following workshops:
Centre for Teaching and Learning workshops, at Queen’s University:
Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) intensive workshops on:
Mitacs intensive workshops on:
Associate Editor, IEEE Access (2016 - 2022)
Associate Editor, Wiley’s Internet Technology Letters (2017 - present)
Guest Editor, Special Issue of Vehicular Communications on “Heterogeneous Vehicular Networking”, Elsevier, 2016
Chair of the IEEE Communication Society SIG on "IoT in Tactile Internet"
Lead Technical Editor of the IEEE P1918.1 Tactile Internet standard.
Secretary of the IEEE Communications Society IoT-AHSN Technical Committee (2020 - 2022)
Secretary of the IEEE Tactile Internet standards Working Group (IEEE P1918.1)
General Chair of the IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN), Florida, 2023.
Program Chair of the IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN), Edmonton, Alberta, 2022.
Co-Chair of:
- Wireless Communications Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, 2023.
- Next Generation Networking and Internet Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Seoul, 2022.
- Track on Verticals, Services and Applications, IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking, virtual, 2021.
- IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN), Edmonton, Alberta, 2021
- Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, 2021.
- 5th IEEE Workshop on Convergent Internet of Things (C-IoT), held in conjunction with the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dublin, 2020
- 4th IEEE Workshop on Convergent Internet of Things (C-IoT), held in conjunction with the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, 2019
- Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium, IEEE Globecom, Abu Dhabi, 2018.
- 3rd IEEE Workshop on Convergent Internet of Things (C-IoT), held in conjunction with the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas, 2018
- 2nd IEEE Workshop on Convergent Internet of Things (C-IoT), held in conjunction with the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, 2017
- 1st IEEE Workshop on Convergent Internet of Things (C-IoT), held in conjunction with the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Malaysia, 2016 (Chair and founder)
- 15th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN '15), held in conjunction with the 40th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'15), Florida, USA.
- 14th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN '14), held in conjunction with the 39th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'14), Edmonton, Canada.
- Convergent paradigms in the Internet of Things workshop, IBM's CASCON, 2014.
- Engineering Systems and Applications Track, International Conference on Computing, Management and Telecommunications (ComManTel 2014) April 27-29, 2014, Da Nang, Vietnam.
Publications Chair:
- 45th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sydney, Australia, 2020
- 44th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Osnabrück, Germany, 2019
Tutorials co-chair:
- 24th IEEE Symposium on Computer & Communications (ISCC) 2019.
- 21st ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, 2018
Workshops Chair:
- 22nd ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWIM), Miami Beach, 2019
Publicity co-chair:
- IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, ISSPIT 2018
- IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications & Networking (IEEE CSCN), Paris, 29-31 Oct 2018
- 23rd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Brazil, 2018
- 22nd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) in Heraklion, Greece, 2017
Tutorials presented:
- "Building on Convergent IoT: Novel Directions in the Tactile Internet", International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing and their Applications (ICCSPA), 2021.
- "Towards Convergent IoT proliferation: Serving the Tactile Internet", IEEE International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), 2019
"Towards Convergent IoT proliferation: Standards and Leading Architectures", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2018 - "Big Sensed Data challenges in the IoT: Standards and Leading Architectures", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2017
- "Leveraging Big Sensed Data in Vehicular IoT systems", IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), 2017
- “Big Sensed Data: Evolution, challenges and practical directions”, IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), 2016
- "Leveraging Big Sensed Data in the IoT: Challenges and Future Outlook", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2016
- "Advancing into Big Sensed Data: Evolution and Challenges" , IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modelling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), October 2016
TPC member of (last updated in 2018):
- 43rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Senior TPC member, Chicago, USA, October 2018.
- IEEE Globecom 2018 (MWN)
- IEEE ICC 2018 (AHSN & MWN)
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) - Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium and Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium, Paris, 2017.
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) - Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium, Malaysia, 2016.
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) - Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium, Malaysia, 2016.
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Qatar, 2016.
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Ad hoc and Sensor networks symposium, USA, 2016.
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Mobile and Wireless Networks symposium, USA, 2016.
- 23rd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Greece, 2016
- International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Wireless Sensor Symposium, Cyprus, 2016
- International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Smart Cities & Platforms Symposium, Cyprus, 2016.
- 7th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, Big Data and Analytics, Spain, 2016.
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Ad hoc and Sensor networks symposium, USA, 2015.
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) - Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, UK, 2015.
- International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Wireless Sensor Symposium, Croatia, 2015.
- International Workshop on Distributed Mobile Systems & Services (DMSS) 2015.
- 10th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC- 15), 2015.
- 9th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC-14), Canada, 2014.
Session Chair (last updated in 2017):
- IEEE ICC AHSN 2017
- IEEE Globecom 2016, Washington: AHSN.1 (Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks I)
- ICC 2016, Malaysia: WCS
- ACM MSWiM 2014, Montreal, : Mobile and Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
Moderator, NSERC Strategic Network panel on Convergent IoT directions, Toronto, Feb 2016.
Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD).
Lead founder of Graduate Computing Society — Queen’s University - and its President for two terms (2008/2009—2009/2010). I lead the team establishing the first society for Computing students at Queen’s, the third on campus after Law and Education societies.
Chair (and lead founder) of Queen’s Graduate Computing Society Conference (QGCSC 2010). The conference remains a running success.
Delivered a workshop on “Soliciting Feedback to Foster Positive Classrooms”, Queen’s University Teaching Development day, 2015.
Graduate Seminar Coordinator at School of Computing, Queen’s University (2008/2009)
Finalist in Queen’s 3 Minute Thesis competition, here are the finalist’s videos.
Proctor of School of Computing team in the 2015 and 2016 IEEEXtreme programming competitions.
Completed the following workshops:
Centre for Teaching and Learning workshops, at Queen’s University:
- Focus on Graduate Supervision (Full day workshop)
- Developing Reliable and Valid Assessment through Effective Rubric Design
- How to Become More Successful in Your Teaching
- Memory, Cognitive Load and Learning
- Copyright in the Classroom
- Providing Effective Feedback
- Preparing a Teaching Dossier
- Inside the Minds of Learners: Evidence-Based Instruction, Assessment, and Study
Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) intensive workshops on:
- Team-based project management
- Business etiquette
- Strategic & Business Planning
Mitacs intensive workshops on:
- Team Building Excellence
- Proactive and Practical Communications
- Foundations of Project Management I
- Effective Networking