Steering Committee Member: IEEE/ACM Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing(CCGRID), ACM Mobile Video Workshop Series (MoVid), ACM Distributed Event Based Systems (2017- 2020), ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware (2007-2010), ACM Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM) Workshop Series.
Area Track co-Chair, Web of Things, Ubiquitous, and Mobile Computing, The WebConf 2019.
Invited talk and panelist, Workshop on Data-Driven Decision Making – Managing Stormwater in the Data Digital Age, Annual Meeting of the California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA) 2018, Talk Title: – “ Exploring Resilience of Community Water Systems – A Data Driven Approach”, 2018.
Invited Panelist, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, 2018 – “Intelligent Infrastructure for Disaster Management and Public Safety”, Feb 2018.
General co-chair, IEEE SMARTCOMP 2018, Taormina, Italy, June 2018.
Plenary Panel Co-chair and Moderator, “Challenges in Enabling Effective Smart Cities nd Communities: Global Perspectives”, IEEE Smart Computing Conference, 2018.
Track Organizer and Co-Chair, Special Session on IoT Connectivity and Infrastructure (IoTCon), ACM Intl. Conference on Multimedia Systems (MMSys) 2018
Keynote Talk, ACM Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware, ACM Middleware 2017.
Invited introductory talk, Smart and Connected Communities Researchers’ Summit, US IGNITE Smart Cities Meeting, Austin, June 2017.
Invited talk and participant, US-INRIA Joint Workshop , UC Berkeley, June 2017
Invited talk and participant, US-Japan Joint Workshop, Atlanta, June 2017
Track co-Chair, Multimedia and Real-time Networking Track, IEEE ICCCN 2017
Track Organizer and Co-Chair, Special Session on IoT Connectivity and Infrastructure (IoTCon), ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) 2017
Invited Speaker, CalState Los Angeles NASA Direct-STEM Multidisciplinary Seminar Speaker, 2017
Invited Speaker, Women in Data Science and Engineering, IEEE Intl. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2017
Program Co-chair, ACM Symposium on Distributed Event Based Systems (DEBS) 2016
Invited Participant and Speaker, JST-NSF International Joint Symposium on Big Data, AI, IoT, Cyber Security for a New Society, Tokyo, Nov 2016 Talk Title: “Enabling Resilient Smart Community Infrastructure – A Middleware Approach”.
Invited Participant and Speaker, Japan/US Trustworthy Networking Workshop, San Francisco, Mar 2016, Talk Title: Multinetworking for IoT Based Resilient Communities,
Invited Participant and Speaker, NII Shonan Meeting on “Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Disaster Recovery”, Shonan Village Center, Japan, March 2016, Talk Title: “Resilience and Dependability in Challenged Environments”
Invited Panel Speaker, US-Europe Joint Workshop on Next Generation Internet-of-Things, USC, March 2016, Panel on Middleware and Software Engineering, Talk Title:
Invited Participant and Speaker: 2016 NSF Visioning Workshop on Smart and Connected Communities Research and Education, January 2016, Seattle, USA. Talk Title:
Invited Participant, US-German Joint Workshop on the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), January 2016.
Invited Speaker, NSF Cyber-Physical Systems PI Meeting, October 2016
Featured Speaker, ICS Leadership Council, UC Irvine, Nov 2016
Invited Speaker, IEEE SmartCOMP 2016, Jun 2016
Invited Speaker, NSF/Morocco Workshop on Smart Cities, 2016
Invited Panelist, ACM Adaptive and Reflective Middleware Workshop Series, 2015.
Invited Speaker, NSF Cyber-Physical Systems PI Meeting, November 2015
Invited Participant and Member of NIST Community Resilience Panel, November 2015
Invited Panelist, NIST/NFPA Smart Home Workshop, October 2015
Program co-chair, IEEE Symposium in Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 2015, Oct 2015.
Invited Panelist, Doctoral Symposium, IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 2015
Editorial Board – INFORMS Service Science Journal, 2015-present
Invited Speaker, US IGNITE Application Summit, 2015
Invited Participant, NIST Disaster Resilience Workshop Series, April 2014 – March 2015
Invited Speaker, NIST/US IGNITE Global Cities Challenge, Washington D.C. June 2015 Talk title: Project SCALE: Smart Community Awareness and Alerting
Invited Panelist, Technology Innovators Forum, May 2015
Area Chair, Distributed OS and Middleware Track – ICDCS 2015
Featured Speaker: Bay Area Alumni Event for UCI , March 2015
Tutorials Co-Chair, ACM DEBS 2015
Invited Graduate Program Reviewer, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Canada, March 2015
Invited Speaker, Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware, December 2014
Coordinator, Roundtable discussion on Smart Communities, Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware Workshop, December 2014
Invited Panelist, Panel on “Transdisciplinary Fundamental Research Problems: examples of Rigor in Service Science Research and Convergence of Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Computer Science with Engineering, MIT-NSF Workshop: Smarter Service Systems through Innovation Partnerships and Transdisciplinary Research, Boston, November 2014
Invited Working Group Member, Special Group on Directions for EFRI, NSF Smart Service Systems, Jan 2015.
Invited to participate as a thought-leader in Smart Cities at a closed event at MIT on Future Interdisciplinary Research towards setting a Smart Service Systems Fundamental Research agenda, November 2014
Invited Participant, NIST Global Smart Cities Challenge Kickoff event, September 2014.
Invited Panelist, Panel on Global SmartCities, NSF CyberPhysical Systems PS PI Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 2014
Invited Participant, NSF Workshop on Extensible Distributed Systems, Washington D.C. 2014
Invited speaker, US IGNITE Application Summit 2014, Silicon Valley, June 2014. US Ignite was established by the WhiteHouse Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation to foster the creation of next generation Internet applications that provide transformative public benefit.
Invited Panel Organizer and Panel Speaker, Panel Title: “Internet of Broken Things”, USENIX Workshop on Hot Areas in Dependability (HotDep 2014), held in conjunction with USENIX OSDI (Operating Systems Design and Implementation), October 2014
Invited Panelist and Speaker, NIST Workshop on Smart Firefighting, March 2014 and Oct 2014. This is an event involving members of the fire practice and invited experts in cyberphysical systems to develop and agenda for next generation firefighting systems. Also invited to co-author a book chapter on “Use of Data for the Fire Practice” in a NIST book with Fire Chief Paul Siebert, City of Frisco, Texas.
Invited participant, White House/NIST SmartAmerica Tech Jam, February 2014
Invited participant, White House/NIST Workshop on SmartAmerica, December 2013
Invited moderator, NSF Workshop on CyberPhysical Transportation Systems, January 2014
Invited Session coordinator and Speaker – Special Session on Mobile Crowdsensing, ACM Design Automation Conference, 2014
Workshops Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking 2013
Work-in-Progress Chair, IEEE International Conference on CyberPhysical Systems (ICCPS) 2013
Keynote Speaker, IEEE Globecom Workshop on Rural Communications, 2013.Talk Title:Resilient Multinetwork Communications in Challenged Environments: A Middleware Approach
Invited Speaker. IEEE Advanced Networking Technologies and Systems (ANTS 2012)
Program Co-Chair, 1st IEEE Workshop on Reliable CyberPhysical Systems held in conjunction with 31st IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2012)
Area Chair, ACM Multimedia 2012
Program Co-Chair, 13th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2012)
Publications Chair, IEEE Intl. Conference on CyberPhysical Systems (ICCPS), 2012
Invited Speaker, ACM Multimedia Women, 2011
Invited Speaker, Future of Middleware Event, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2011, “Talk Title: Resilience in CyberPhysical Systems”, Lisbon, Portugal, December 2011
Invited Panelist, National Academy of Sciences Workshop on National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters, May 2011
Program Co-Chair, NSF Indo-US Workshops on Pervasive Communications and Computing (PC3) – March 2011, New Delhi; July 2011, Washington D.C.
Invited Speaker, Schools on Formal Methods (SFM) Series, Interoperability in Complex Distributed Systems, “Talk Title: Interoperability in CyberPhysical Spaces”, Bertinoro (Italy), June 2011
Keynote Speaker, ACM Middleware Doctoral Dissertation Symposium, December 2010
Invited Speaker, Networking Networking women held in conjunction with ACM MobiCOM/MobiHOC 2010
Editorial Board – Elsevier Journal on Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2011-present
General Co-Chair, 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2011).
Program Co-Chair, Third International ICST Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications (MobilWare 2011).
Co-editor, Special Issue of Springer Journal on Internet Systems and Applications (JISA) on Networking and Distributed Computing Challenges in CyberPhysical Systems, 2011.
Co-editor, Special Issue of IEEE Communications on Middleware for Communication Networks, to appear 2011.
Invited Panelist, National Academy of Sciences Workshop on Mobile Alerting, April 2010.
Program Co-chair, 9th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware to be held with ACM Middleware 2010 (ARM 2010).
Program Co-chair, ACM MOVID 2010, 2nd Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery to be held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2010.
Program Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing and Applications 2010 (SOCA 2010).
Panel Co-chair, 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010).
Area Co-Chair, Networks and Protocols track, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2010).
Panel Chair, Adaptive Middleware for Cyberphysical Systems, Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware at ARM 2009 held with ACM Middleware 2009.
Program Co-Chair, IEEE Symposium on World of Wireless and Mobile Multimedia 2008 (WoWMoM 2008).
General Chair, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2007.
Workshop Co-Organizer, Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware held with ACM Middleware – 2007, 2008, 2009
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2008-2011.
Commercial Tracks Co-chair, IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2007.
Calit2 Igniting Technology Series Talk, “Customized Dissemination in the Large”, March 2007.
Program Co-Chair, Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware, ACM Middleware 2006.
Workshop Co-Organizer, Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware, ACM Middleware 2005.
Workshop Co-Organizer, Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware, ACM Middleware 2004.
Short Papers Chair, ACM Multimedia 2006.
Invited Talk, Mobiquitous 2005. “Role of Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing in Emergency Response”
Program Co-Chair, ACM/SPIE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking, 2005 (MMCN 2005).
UCI TechTalk Series, “Multimedia Support for the Homeland Security Domain”, 2004.
Program Chair, ACM/SPIE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking, 2004 (MMCN 2004).
Invited Talk, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, “Composability Issues for Mobile Middleware”, 2003.
Invited Talk, UC Mexus Program, “MIRO: Adaptive Middleware for Mobile Internet Robots”, 2003.
Workshop Co-Organizer, Workshop on Reflective and Adaptive Middleware, ACM Middleware 2003.
Plenary Panel Chair, Panel on Middleware for Sensor Applications, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2003).
Tutorial Speaker, Systems Support for Sensor Applications, IEEE High Performance Computing 2003.
Tutorial Speaker, Platforms and Tools for Multimedia Applications, IEEE DATE 2004.
Workshop Co-Organizer, Cal-(IT)2 Workshop on Crisis Response, 2002.
Program Vice-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing 2001.
Publications Chair, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing 2001 (HiPC 2001).
Associate Chair, Systems Track of the ACM Multimedia Conference, 2000.
Invited Talk, OPENSIG 2000 “CompOSE|Q – A Safe Middleware Framework for Large Scale Distributed Systems”, October 2000.
Conference Co-organizer and Program Committee Member IFIP Conference on Formal Methods in Object Based Open Distributed Systems 2000 (FMOODS’2000).
Publications Chair, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing 2000 (HiPC 2000).
Invited Talk, Digital Media Innovations, UC Santa Barbara, “A Virtual Reality Enhanced Digital Surveillance System”, 1999.
Invited Talk, Novell Chairman Meeting, “Flexible Middleware for Large Scale Distributed Computing”, April 1999.
Publications Chair, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing 1999 (HiPC 1999).
Invited Talk, HRL Colloquium Series, “Multimedia in Global Distributed Systems”, February 1999.
Panelist, “Java and Middleware for High Performance Computing”, IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 99), “Middleware Support for High Performance Computing”, April 1999.
Invited Talk, Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, “QoS-enabled Customizable Middleware for Global Distributed Computing”, December 1998.
Program Co-chair, Mini-track on Distributed Multimedia and Web Collaborations at HICSS ’97 with Klara Nahrstedt, UIUC and Atul Prakash, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Executive Committee Member, University of California Digital Media Innovations (DiMI) program.
Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Database Management (JDM).
NSF Panels and Workshops on Networking Research, Operating Systems and Compilers, CISE Infrastructure, Residential Broadband.
Member of International Taskforce on “Local Distributed Computing: Technology Assessment, and a Look at What Lies Ahead”, combining academic and industry perspectives on the future of local distributed computing – January 1996.
Hewlett-Packard representative on technical visits, university research reviews and trade shows.
Reviewer (journals and conferences): IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Concurrency, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Multimedia Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Technology, Journal of Theory and Practice of Object Systems, ACM Multimedia, EUROPAR, PODC, ICMCS, ICDCS, FMOODS, Parallel Architectures and Languages – Europe.
NSF/DARPA Next Generation Internet Meeting, “QoS-enabled Customizable Middleware for Global Distributed Computing”, October 1999.
Outreach Talks and Activities
NASA DIRECT STEM
Project with CalState Los Angeles, Summer School Speaker, Workshop Participant
INSPIRES/ASPIRES
invited talk to underrepresented minorities on Research Challenges in IoT and
Resilient Communities , UCI
Roundtable
session on graduate school/admissions – GO-UCI event for under-represented minority students.
Graduate Women
Coffee Roundtable Events – networking graduate students with distinguished
faculty speakers.
Co-organizer, Women
Researchers in Technology (WRIT) events –
May 2016, Nov 2016
Invited Speaker, Calit2 Summer
Undergraduate Research Fellows Program,
UC Irvine.
Program Committee Member
IEEE Intl. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
IEEE IoT Design and Implementation 2016, 2017, 2018
IEEE SmartComp 2016, 2017, 2018
IEEE ICDE 2018
IEEE PerSysT, First International Workshop on Pervasive Systems Integration, to be held in conjunction with The 16th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2018)
IEEE ISORC 2018
IEEE MDM 2017
ACM EuroSys 2017, 2019
IEEE WoWMoM 2015
IEEE IQ2S 2014, 2016
10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS) 2019
IEEE Intl Conf on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM) 2012, 2013,2014, 2015, 2016
ACM PECS
IEEE WoWMoM 2014
IEEE IQ2S 2014.
IEEE Intl. Conference on Distributed Computing Systems and Networks (ICDCN) 2014.
ACM Multimedia 2011, 2013, 2017
IEEE Intl. Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 2013
ACM Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM) 2013
IEEE Intl. Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems 2012
IEEE SESA 2012
IEEE CPSCom 2012
IEEE ANTS 2012
ACM COMSNETS 2012
ACM Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM) 2011, held in conjunction with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware
IEEE 2nd International Green Computing Conference (IGCC 2011)
12th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2011
International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, BSN 2011
Workshop on Sensor Enabled Situational Awareness (SESA) to be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 2011.
Ninth Annual IEEE Intl. Conf on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM 2011)
Third International Workshop on “Emergency Management: Communication and Computing Platforms” will be held in conjunction with IWCMC 2011.
Eighth Annual IEEE Intl Conf on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM 2010)
2010 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2010)
IEEE 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010)
The 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference(IWCMC 2010)
The Second International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2010), in Conjunction with IEEE PERCOM 2010
ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI-KDD 2010) held in conjunction with ACM KDD 2010
IEEE 1st International Green Computing Conference (IGCC 2010)
ACM Multimedia 2009
2nd Workshop on Mobile Video Delivery, MoVID 2009 (held in conjunction with InfoCOM 2009)
ACM/SPIE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2009)
ACM SIGKDD Workshop on CyberSecurity and Intelligence Informatics (CSI-KDD 2009) held in conjunction with ACM KDD 2009
Workshop on Context-aware Adaptation Mechanisms for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Services” (CAMPUS’08), DisCoTec Federated Series, 2008.
IEEE Estimedia 2008
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2008
ACM/SPIE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking MMCN 2008
Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSenS 2008), held in conjunction with IEEE Percom 2008
IFIP 2008 International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing 2008 (EUC-08)
IEEE Information Security Informatics (ISI) 2007
ACM/SPIE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking MMCN 2007
IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing HiPC 2007
Sixth IEEE Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware 2007 in conjunction with ACM Middleware 2007
IEEE Estimedia 2007 Workshop in conjunction with the IEEE/ACM/IFIP CODES+ISSS 2007 Conference
IEEE Information Security Informatics (ISI) 2006
ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking 2006 (MMCN’06), San Jose, California
First IEEE International Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet (SIUMI 2006) in conjunction with IEEE Intl. Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS 2006)
ACM SAC 2006, Track on Programming for Separation of Concerns
IEEE International Conference on eScience and Grid Technologies 2005
IEEE International Conference on Real Time Applications and Systems, Work in Progress Session, RTAS 2005
ACM Workshop on End-to-End, Sense-and-Respond Systems, Applications, and Services in conjunction with MobiSys ’05
IEEE International Workshop on Next Generation Wireless Networks 2005 (WonGEN) in conjunction with International Conference on High Performance Computing (HIPC 2005)
Fourth Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware 2005 in conjunction with ACM Middleware 2005.
First International Workshop on Services and Infrastructure for the Ubiquitous and Mobile Internet (SIUMI 2005) in conjunction with IEEE Intl. Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS 2005)
IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems (WPDRTS 2005) in conjunction with IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2004 (IPDPS 2005)
First International Workshop on Multimedia Service Composition in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2005 (ACM MM 2005)
ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware) 2004
IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems (WPDRTS 2004) to be held as a part of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2003 (IPDPS 2004)
IEEE International Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2003)
IFIP International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS 2003)
IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems (WPDRTS 2003) to be held as a part of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2003 (IPDPS 2003)
International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 2003
ACM Multimedia Conference, 2003
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2003
ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware) 2003 International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 2002
IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems (WPDRTS 2002) to be held as a part of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2002(IPDPS 2002).
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2002.
ACM/SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002 (MMCN’02), January18-25, 2002, San Jose, California.
IFIP International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems (FMOODS 2002), March 20-22, 2002, University of Twente.
9th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2001), Mission Inn, November 11 – 14, 2001, Riverside, California.
Workshop on Optimizing Middleware, ACM Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2001).
International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 2001.
IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems (WPDRTS 2001) to be held as a part of the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2001 (IPDPS 2001).
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2001.
IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2001.
ACM Multimedia Conference, 2000.
Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-time Systems, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium 2000 (IPDPS 2000).