Activities
- Editor, Short Communications in the International Journal of Performability Engineering
- Program vice chair for the 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2008)
- Program vice chair, The 2007 International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS 2007)
- Program co-chair, The 2nd IEEE Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing (2006)
- Associate guest editor for Journal of Computer Science (2006)
- Program committee member
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) – Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium (2009)
- The IEEE 21st and 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (2007, 2008)
- The 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (2008)
- The 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (2008)
- The Seventh International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety (2007)
- The International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (2007, 2008)
- The International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (2006, 2007, 2008)
- The International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (2006, 2007)
- The International Workshop on Protocols and Algorithms for Reliable and Data Intensive Sensor Networks (2007)
- The International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (2007)
- The International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (2007, 2008)
- The International Conference on Global Defense and Business Continuity (2007)
- The International Symposium on Information Security (2007, 2008)
- The International Symposium on Security in Ubiquitous Computing (2007)
- The IEEE Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing (2007)
- The International Workshop on eSafety and Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (2006, 2007)
- The International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (2007, 2008)
- The IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Resource Management and QoS (2007)
- The International Symposium on Smart Home (2007, 2008)
- The IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (2007)
- The International Workshop on Service, Security and its Data management technologies in Ubi-Com (2007)
- The International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia & Intelligent Services in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (2007)
- The International Workshop on Security Modeling in Per-com (2007)
- The IEEE International Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems (2006)
- The IEEE Workshop on Reliability and Autonomic Management in Parallel and Distributed Systems (2005)
- The IFIP Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Ubiquitous and Embedded Systems (2005)
- Session chair
- The IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (2007)
- The 2007 International Symposium on Frontiers in Networking with Applications (2007)
- The 52nd International Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (2006)
- The 12th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design (2006, invited session)
- The 2nd IEEE Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing (2006)
- The 51st International Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (2005)
- The 4th International Conference on Quality and Reliability (2005)
- Senior Member of
- Member of the ReGrid alliance
- Advisor for the IEEE Student Branch at the UMass Dartmouth (since September 2005)
- Reviewer for
- IEEE Transactions on Reliability
- IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part A)
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
- Reliability Engineering and System Safety
- International Journal of Reliability, Quality, and Safety Engineering
- International Journal of Performability Engineering
- IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers ) Transactions
- Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal
- International Journal of Computers and Applications
- Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing
- International Journal of Smart Home
- IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Generation, Transmission & Distribution
- Computing and Informatics
- The Computer Journal
- Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
- Journal of Risk and Reliability
- Gave a one-day IEEE short course on “Fault-Tolerant Computing & Reliability Engineering” (April 2006)
- Supervised a computer engineering project “Robot Search and Rescue” in College of Engineering Freshman Summer Institute (August 2006)
- Referee for the 20th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS'01)
- Former member of Galileo group
- Member of CPE Curriculum Committee, ECE department, UMASSD
- Member of Graduate Program Committee, ECE department, UMASSD
- Member of Graduate Committee for many students