Services and Outreach

Departmental Services

  • Member of the Graduate Education Committee: 2022-2023
  • Member of the Ten-year Program Review Committee: 2022-2023
  • Member of the Undergraduate Education Committee: 2019-2022
  • Member of the Diversity Committee: 2017-2020
  • Member of the Computing Resource Committee: 2016-2019
  • Chair of the Colloquium Committee: 2016-2017
  • Member of Dissertation Committee(s), Master Thesis Committee(s), etc.: 2017-present

Grant Review Panels

  • Panelist: National Science Foundation (NSF), 2023

Editorial Boards

  • Guest Editor: IEEE JSAC Series on Network Softwarization and Enablers, 2018-2020
  • Associate Editor: IEEE Access, 2018-2021

Technical Program Committees (TPCs)

  • TPC Chair
    • IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS): 2024 (Track of Cloud Computing and Data Centers)
    • International Workshop on Social and Metaverse Computing and Networking (SocialMeta): 2022 (with ICDCS)
    • IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI): 2021 (with INFOCOM)
    • International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations (NMIC): 2020 (with ICDCS)
    • International Workshop on Hot Topics in Pervasive Mobile and Online Social Networking (HotPOST): 2017 (with ICDCS), 2018 (with INFOCOM)
  • TPC Member
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM): 2019 (Distinguished Member), 2020, 2022 (Distinguished Member), 2023, 2024, 2025
    • ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC): 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
    • IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS): 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
    • IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS): 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
    • ACM Web Conference (TheWebConf, formerly WWW): 2022
    • ACM Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM) Poster/Demo: 2019
    • IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN): 2024, 2025
    • ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC): 2024
    • IFIP Networking Conference: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
    • International Teletraffic Congress (ITC): 2022, 2023
    • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
    • IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS): 2021, 2022
    • IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN): 2020, 2023
    • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN): 2018, 2019
    • IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS): 2018, 2019, 2021
    • IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM): 2019
    • IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS): 2018, 2020
    • IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC): 2017, 2018
    • IEEE/GI/ITG International Conference on Networked Systems (NetSys): 2017
    • IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom) PhD Consortium: 2016
    • International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys): 2024 (with EuroSys)
    • International Workshop on Trustable, Verifiable and Auditable Federated Learning in Conjunction with AAAI 2022 (FL-AAAI-22)
    • International Workshop on Federated Learning for User Privacy and Data Confidentiality in Conjunction with ICML 2021 (FL-ICML-21)

Organization Committees

  • Steering Committee Member
    • International Workshop on Hot Topics in Pervasive Mobile and Online Social Networking (HotPOST): 2020 (with INFOCOM)
    • International Workshop on Hot Topics in Social and Mobile Connected Smart Objects (HotSALSA): 2019 (with INFOCOM)
    • International Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Computing and Networking (ICCN): 2019 (with INFOCOM)
  • General Chair
    • International Workshop on Social and Metaverse Computing, Sensing and Networking (SocialMeta): 2024 (with SenSys)
    • International Workshop on Social and Metaverse Computing and Networking (SocialMeta): 2023 (with ICDCS)
  • Session Chair
    • IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI): 2021
    • ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC): 2020
    • IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS): 2020
  • Publicity Chair
    • International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys): 2018 (with MobiSys)

Journal Reviewers

  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
  • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN)
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
  • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
  • IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN)
  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
  • ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
  • ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
  • Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET)
  • Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM)
  • Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
  • Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing
  • Elsevier Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
  • Elsevier Information Sciences
  • Springer World Wide Web Journal
  • Springer EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
  • IEEE Network Magazine
  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • IEEE Access

Conference/Workshop Reviewers

  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM): 2012, 2013, 2015-2018
  • IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS): 2012-2015
  • ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN): 2014
  • IEEE International Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN): 2014
  • IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM): 2014
  • IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet): 2012, 2013
  • IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM): 2011

Selected Talks

  • On-Demand or On-Premises: Online Mitigation of DDoS Attacks via Cloud-Edge Coordination, IEEE SECON, Online, September 2022
  • Learning for Learning: Predictive Online Control of Federated Learning with Edge Provisioning, KICS ICTC, Online/Jeju Island, South Korea, October 2021
  • Scheduling Traffic Diversion and Cloud Scrubbing via a Novel Competitive Online Learning Framework, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA, November 2019
  • Online Control of Cloud and Edge Resources Using Inaccurate Predictions, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 2018
  • Online Control of Cloud/Cloudlet Networks in Adversarial Environments, Oregon Cyber Security Day, Eugene, OR, USA, April 2018
  • Smart Resource Orchestration against Economic DDoS Attacks toward Cloud, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, February 2018
  • Competitive Online Resource Allocation in Edge Computing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, September 2017
  • DDoS for Cloud Auto-Scaling: Attack and Defense, Oregon Cyber Security Day, Eugene, OR, USA, April 2017
  • Predictive Resource Control across Edge and Core Clouds, Nokia Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland, August 2016
  • Optimizing Cloud Resource Allocation and Reconfiguration, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA, June 2016
  • Smoothed Online Resource Allocation in Multi-Tier Distributed Cloud Networks, IEEE IPDPS, Chicago, IL, USA, May 2016
  • Online Social Network Data Placement over Geo-Distributed Clouds, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, September 2015
  • Placing Data of Socially Aware Services over Geo-Distributed Clouds, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA, September 2014
  • Placing Data of Socially Aware Services over Geo-Distributed Clouds, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland, July 2014
  • Multi-Objective Data Placement for Multi-Cloud Socially Aware Services, Huawei European Research Center, Munich, Germany, July 2014
  • Multi-Objective Data Placement for Multi-Cloud Socially Aware Services, IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 2014
  • Optimizing Data Center Traffic of Online Social Networks, IEEE LANMAN, Brussels, Belgium, April 2013
  • Cost Optimization for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, March 2013
  • Cost Optimization for Online Social Networks on Geo-Distributed Clouds, IEEE ICNP, Austin, TX, USA, October 2012
  • Latency-Aware Data Partitioning for Geo-Replicated Online Social Networks, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, September 2011