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IEEE

  •  Chair, IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer Selection Committee, 2016-2017 (committee)
  •  Chair, IEEE Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC), 2016-2017 (committee) (plaque)
  •  Vice Chair, IEEE Communications Society Technical and Educational Activities Council, 2016-2017 (committee)
  •  Vice Chair, IEEE Communications Society TCs Recertification Standing Committee, 2016-2017 (committee)
  •  Vice Chair, IEEE Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC), 2014-2015
  •  Secretary, IEEE Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC), 2012-2013
  •  Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society, 2010-2011

Editor-in-Chief

  •  Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Networking Letters (L-NET), 2018-present
  •  Founding co-Editor-in-Chief, Elsevier Optical Switching (OSN) Journal, 2004-2017 (OSN website)

Editorial Boards

  •  Associate Editor, IEEE/OSA Journal of Communications and Networking, 2010-2012
  •  Guest Editor, JCM Journal of Communications, Special Issue on the “Advances in Communications and Networking,” vol. 6, no. 9, December 2011
  •  Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2000-2004
  •  Associate Editor, Optical Networks, 2000-2004
  •  Guest Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on “Protocols for Next Generation Optical WDM Networks,” vol. 18, no. 10, October 2000

Conference Steering Committees

  •  IEEE ComSoc Representative, OFC Steering Committee, 2017-present
  •  Chair, IEEE LANMAN Steering Committee, 2015-present

Conference Organization

  •  Executive Chair, ICCCN 2022, Honolulul, Hawaii, July 2022
  •  TPC Co-Chair, DRCN 2022, Vilanova, Spain, March 2022
  •  TPC Co-Chair, IEEE MeditCom 2021, Athens, Greece, September 2021
  •  General Chair, ICCCN 2021, Athens, Greece, July 2021
  •  General Co-Chair, Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2018, China, October 2018
  •  Technical Program Co-Chair, Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) Symposium, IEEE ICC 2017, Paris, France, May 21-25, 2017
  •  General Co-Chair, IEEE ICNP 2014, Raleigh, NC, October 21-24, 2014
  •  General Chair, ICCCN 2013, Nassau, Bahamas, July 30-August 2, 2013
  •  Technical Program Co-Chair, ICCCN 2011, Maui, Hawaii, August 1-4, 2011
  •  Technical Program Co-Chair, Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) Symposium, IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Miami, Florida, November 28-December 3, 2010
  •  Techical Program Co-Chair, Internet Services, Systems, and Applications (ISSA) Track, ICCCN 2009, San Francisco, CA, August 2-6, 2009
  •  General Co-Chair, BROADNETS 2007, Raleigh, NC, September 10-13, 2007
  •  General Co-Chair, IEEE LANMAN 2005, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 18-21, 2005
  •  Technical Program Co-Chair, First Workshop on Traffic Grooming (WTG-2004), October 29, 2004, San Jose, CA
  •  Technical Program Chair, IEEE LANMAN 2004, April 25-28, 2004, San Francisco, CA
  •  Technical Program Co-Chair, IFIP Networking 2004, May 9-14, 2004, Athens, Greece

Conference Technical Program Committees

2021

  •  IEEE ICC 2022, Seoul, South Korea
  •  Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2022, Warsaw, Poland
  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2022, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2021

  •  IEEE ICC 2021, Montreal, Canada
  •  IEEE LANMAN 2021, Boston, MA
  •  Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2021, Gothenburg, Sweden
  •  Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) Conference 2021, Milan, Italy
  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2021, Madrid, Spain

2020

  •  IEEE ICC 2020, Dublin, Ireland
  •  IEEE LANMAN 2020, Orlando, Florida
  •  ICNC 2020, Hawaii
  •  Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2020, Barcelona, Spain
  •  Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) Conference 2020, Milan, Italy
  •  3ICT 2020, Bahrain
  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2020, Taipei, Taiwan

2019

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2019, Hawaii
  •  OSA NETWORKS 2019, San Francisco, California
  •  IFIP NETWORKING 2019, Warsaw, Poland
  •  IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR) 2019, Xian, China
  •  IEEE LANMAN 2019, Paris, France
  •  IEEE ICC 2019, Shanghai, China
  •  Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) Conference 2019, Coimbra, Portugal

2018

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, Abu Dhabi
  •  OSA NETWORKS 2018, Zurich, Switzerland
  •  IEEE LANMAN 2018, Washington, DC
  •  IEEE ICC 2018, Kansas City, MO
  •  22nd Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2018, Dublin, Ireland

2017

  •  CoNext Cloud-Assisted Networking (CAN) 2017, Seoul, South Korea
  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2017, Singapore
  •  OSA NETWORKS 2017, New Orleans, LA
  •  IEEE ICC 2017, Paris, France
  •  IEEE LANMAN 2017, Osaka, Japan
  •  21st Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2017, Budapest, Hungary
  •  European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2017, Oulu, Finland

2016

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, Washington, DC
  •  ACM CoNEXT Cloud-Assisted Networking (CAN) Workshop 2016, Irvine, CA
  •  Networks 2016, Montreal, Canada
  •  International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU) 2016, Heraklion, Crete
  •  IEEE LANMAN 2016, Rome, Italy
  •  European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2016, Athens, Greece
  •  IEEE ICC 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  •  20th Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2016, Cartagena, Spain

2015

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, San Diego, California
  •  Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) Conference 2015, Kansas City, Missouri
  •  IEEE LANMAN 2015, Beijing, China
  •  European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC) 2015, London, UK
  •  European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2015, Paris, France
  •  IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN) 2015, San Francisco
  •  IEEE ICC 2015, London, UK
  •  19th Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2015, Pisa, Italy
  •  International Broadband and Photonics Conference (IBP) 2015, Bali, Indonesia

2014

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, Austin, Texas
  •  European Conference on Networks and Optical Communications (NOC) 2014, Milan, Italy
  •  International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU) 2014, Heraklion, Crete
  •  IEEE LANMAN 2014, Reno, Nevada
  •  18th Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2014, Stockholm, Sweden
  •  IEEE ICC 2014, Sydney, Australia

2013

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, Atlanta, Georgia
  •  International Workshop on “Optical Networking” (iWON 2013), co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2013
  •  Workshop on “Software-Defined Networking on Optics,” co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2013
  •  International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 2013, Shanghai, China
  •  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2013, Goettingen, Germany
  •  IEEE LANMAN 2013, Brussels, Belgium
  •  IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Torino, Italy
  •  IEEE ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary

2012

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, Anaheim, CA
  •  International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2012, Munich
  •  International Conference on Telecommunications and Multimedia (TEMU) 2012, Heraklion, Crete
  •  Networks 2012, Rome, Italy
  •  IEEE ICC 2012, Ottawa, Canada
  •  IFIP NETWORKING 2012, Prague, Czech Republic
  •  IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, Florida
  •  IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on High Speed Networks 2012, Orlando, Florida
  •  International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 2012, Maui, Hawaii

2011

  •  Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) 2011, Bangalore, India
  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, Houston, Texas
  •  Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM) 2011, Budapest, Hungary
  •  IEEE LANMAN Workshop 2011, Chapel Hill, USA
  •  Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN) Conference 2011, Krakow, Poland
  •  Euro NGI 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany
  •  International Conference on Communications (ICT) 2011, Ayia Napa, Cyprus
  •  IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China
  •  IEEE ICC 2011, Kyoto, Japan

2010

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Miami, Florida
  •  Asia Communications and Photonics (ACP) 2010, Shanghai, China
  •  Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling (RNDM) 2010, Moscow, Russia
  •  Workshop on Re-Architecting the Internet (ReArch) 2010, Philadelphia, PA
  •  Networks 2010, Warsaw, Poland
  •  INFORMS Telecom 2010, Montreal, Canada
  •  IEEE LANMAN Workshop 2010, New Jersey, USA
  •  Euro NGI 2010, Paris, France
  •  IFIP NETWORKING 2010, Chennai, India
  •  IEEE ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
  •  IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA
  •  OFC/NFOEC 2010, San Diego

2009

  •  Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) 2009, New Delhi, India
  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2009, Honolulu, HI
  •  Euro NGI 2009, Aveiro, Portugal
  •  Workshop on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS) 2009, Madrid, Spain
  •  Workshop on Re-Architecting the Internet (ReArch) 2009, Rome, Italy
  •  Euro NGI 2009, Aveiro, Portugal
  •  IEEE ICC 2009, Dresden, Germany
  •  IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  •  13th Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2009, Braunschweig, Germany
  •  OFC/NFOEC 2009, San Diego

2008

  •  Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) 2008, Mumbai, India
  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, New Orleans, LA
  •  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2008, Orlando, Florida
  •  Euro NGI 2008, Krakow, Poland
  •  Networks 2008, Budapest, Hungary
  •  IEEE LANMAN Workshop 2008, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  •  IEEE ICC 2008, Beijing, China
  •  IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on High Speed Networks 2008, Phoenix, Arizona
  •  IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, Arizona
  •  OFC/NFOEC 2008, San Diego

2007

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, Washington, DC
  •  International Workshop on GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks (GOBS) 2007, Athens, Greece
  •  IFIP NETWORKING 2007, Atlanta, Georgia
  •  IEEE LANMAN Workshop 2007, New York, USA
  •  IEEE ICC 2007, Glasgow, UK
  •  IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska

2006

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, San Francisco, CA
  •  BROADNETS 2006, San Jose, CA
  •  International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2006, Arlington, Virgina
  •  IFIP NETWORKING 2006, Coimbra, Portugal
  •  IEEE ICC 2006, Istanbul, Turkey

2005

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2005, St. Louis, Missouri
  •  BROADNETS 2005, Boston, MA
  •  IEEE Workshop on Community Networks and First Mile Solutions (COMNETS) 2005, Boston
  •  Workshop on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS) 2005, Boston, MA
  •  International Workshop on Optical Networks Control and Management (ONCM) 2005, Oslo, Norway
  •  IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR) 2005, Hong Kong
  •  IFIP NETWORKING 2005, Waterloo, Canada
  •  IFIP Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM) 2005, Milan, Italy

2004

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2004, Dallas, Texas
  •  BROADNETS 2004, San Jose, CA
  •  Workshop on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS) 2004, San Jose, CA
  •  IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR) 2004, Phoenix, Arizona
  •  International Workshop on Optical Networks Control and Management (ONCM) 2004, Montreal, Canada
  •  IEEE INFOCOM 2004, Hong Kong

2003

  •  IEEE GLOBECOM 2003, San Francisco, CA
  •  OPTICOMM 2003, Dallas, Texas
  •  Workshop on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS) 2003, Dallas, Texas
  •  IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR) 2003, Torino, Italy
  •  IEEE ICC 2003, Anchorage, USA
  •  International Workshop on Optical Networks Control and Management (ONCM) 2003, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2002

  •  OPTICOMM 2002, Boston, MA

2001

  •  OPTICOMM 2001, Denver, Colorado

2000

  •  OPTICOMM 2000, Dallas, Texas

1999

  •  SPIE Conference on All-Optical Networking 1999, Boston, MA

1998

  •  SPIE Conference on All-Optical Networking 1998, Boston, MA
  •  IEEE INFOCOM 1998, San Francisco, CA

1997

  •  IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 1997, Atlanta, Georgia
  •  IEEE INFOCOM 1997, Kobe, Japan

1996

  •  IEEE INFOCOM 1996, San Francisco, CA

Best Paper Award Committees

  •  IEEE Communications Society Charles Kao Award for Best Optical Communications and Networking Paper, 2015-18
  •  IEEE ICC 2016
  •  ICNC 2015
  •  ACP 2012
  •  IEEE INFOCOM 2011
  •  IEEE ANTS 2010
  •  ACP 2009

Other Service

  •  Committee of Visitors (CoV), DoE Networking Research Program, October 2011
  •  NSF Panelist, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 (2), 2012, 2009 (2), 2008 (2), 2005, 2003 (2), 2002, 2001, 1997
  •  Reference for 13 IEEE Fellow Nominees
  •  Reference for 20 Full Professor Candidates
  •  Reference for 24 Full Professor Candidates

North Carolina State University

University Committees

  •  CoE representative to the Administrative Board of the Graduate School (ABGS), 2016-2018
  •  Judge, NC State Graduate Student Research Symposium, 2018, 2014
  •  NC State review panel for Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship program, 2012-2013
  •  DELTA IDEA grant review committee, 2004-2005
  •  DELTA Advisory Committee, 2003-2005
  •  Chair, DELTA Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, 2003-2005
  •  Alumni Outstanding Research Awards Selection Committee, 2004

College of Engineering Committees

  •  University Faculty Scholar Committee, 2012-2014
  •  ALCOA Awards Committee, 2012-2013
  •  Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Committee, 2008-2011
  •  Research Committee, 2007-2008
  •  Computer Science Head Search Committee, 2004-2006
  •  Engineering Online Advisory Committee, 2003-2005
  •  Computer Science Review Survey Committee, 1998-1999
  •  Admissions Standards Committee, MS in Computer Networking, 1998-1999

Department of Computer Science Committees

  •  Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Committee, 2017-present
  •  Strategic Planning Committee, 2009-2012 (Chair, 2010-2012)
  •  Graduate Student Admissions Committee, 2011-2012
  •  Awards Committee, 2009-2012
  •  Faculty Recruiting Committee, 2008-2009
  •  Course Coordinator for CSC 316 (Data Structures), 2005-present
  •  Computing Infrastructure Committee, 2006-2010
  •  Chair, Minority Recruiting Committee, 2006-2007
  •  Committee for External Evaluation Visit, Fall 2004
  •  Strategic Planning Committee, 2002-2004
  •  Research Productivity Committee, 2003-2004
  •  Chair, Faculty Recruiting Committee, 2000-2002
  •  Peer Evaluation Committees, 1999-2014
  •  Graduate Student Admissions Committee, 1996-1998
  •  PhD Qualifying Exam Committee, 1994-1996

Other Departmental Committees

  •  Operations Research Graduate student Admissions Committee, 2012-2013 and 2005-2007
  •  ECE Faculty Recruiting Committee, 1999-2000