Professional Memberships
- Senior Member, IEEE
Awards
- Tennessee Tech Wings Up 100 Award, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Travel award to participate in NSF Early Career Workshop, Alexandria, VA, 2019
- Travel award to participate in NSF Data Science Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, 2016
- Travel award to participate in NSF Data Science Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, 2015
- NSF travel award for attending ICNP, 2013
Review Panels
- National Science Foundation Review Panels, 2021–2026
Editorial Boards, Chairs & Panels
- TPC Co-Chair, IEEE ANTS 2026
- Session Chair, IEEE ICCCN, 2025
- Session Chair, IFIP Networking, 2023
- Session Chair, IEEE VNC, 2023
- General Chair, IEEE CloudNet 2021 (Virtual Conference)
- TPC Chair, Next-Generation Networking Paradigms for Low Latency Applications, ACM CoNEXT 2021 (Virtual Conference)
- Session Chair (Scheduling), IEEE VNC, 2021
- Co-Chair, NDN Community Meeting, NIST, Washington DC, 2021
- Session Chair (NDN Trial Deployments), Named Data Networking Community Meeting (Virtual Conference), 2020
- Travel Chair, ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ACM-ICN), 2020
- Editorial Board, MDPI Electronics, 2021–present
- Editorial Board, MDPI Mathematics, 2021–present
- Reviewer Board, MDPI Electronics, 2020–present
- Reviewer, Computer Networks (Elsevier)
Technical Program Committees
- TPC member, IEEE INFOCOM 2027
- TPC member, IEEE INFOCOM 2026
- IEEE VNC, Montréal, Canada, 2026
- IEEE ISM ‘25, Naples, Italy, 2025
- IEEE INFOCOM, London, UK, 2025
- IEEE ISM ‘24, Tokyo, Japan, 2024
- TPC Co-Chair, INFOCOM CNERT ‘24 — 11th International Workshop on Computer and Networking Experimental Research using Testbeds, 2024
- 2nd Workshop on Metaverse-based Networking, Computing and Security (MetaNCS), IEEE ICC, Denver, 2024
- IEEE ISM, Laguna Hills, California, 2023
- ACM ICN, Reykjavik, 2023
- IEEE JCC, San Francisco, 2023
- IEEE ISM, Naples, Italy, 2023
- HotICN, 2022
- ACM ICN, 2022
- Demos and Posters track, ACM ICN, 2021
- Workshop on Information-Centric Networking Solutions for Real-World Applications (ICN-SRA), 2020
- Third International Conference on Smart Technologies in Data Science and Communication (SMART-DSC), 2019
- 1st ACM CoNEXT Workshop on Emerging in-Network Computing Paradigms (ENCP), 2019
- Demos and Posters track, ACM ICN, 2019
- “NOM: Named-Oriented Mobility” workshop, INFOCOM, 2017
- Demos and Posters track, ACM ICN, 2017
Workshop Facilitation
- Organizer, Distributed Interactive Systems for Collaboration Experiences (DISCE), IEEE VR 2021 (Virtual Conference)
- Judge, NDN Hackathon, 2017
- Tutorial: “Running IoT Applications over ICN,” ICN 2017, Berlin, Germany
- NDN Hackathon, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 2017
- NDN Retreat and Hackathon, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2016
- NDN Hackathon, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, 2016
Panels
- Panelist (with Doug Jennewein, Jeff Whitworth; moderated by Eli Dart), “Implementing Science DMZ as Intended,” National Science Foundation PI Workshop, September 15, 2021
- Moderator (with L. Zhang, A. Afanasyev, T. Hasegawa, A. Grieco, T. Leng), “Real-World ICN Deployments — Perspective and Challenges,” IEEE ICC, Kansas City, MO, 2018
Workshops Attended
- NSF-sponsored NeTS-ECI Workshop — “Address emerging challenges and pursue promising research opportunities in networking,” Alexandria, VA, 2019
- NSF-sponsored Graduate Data Science Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2016
- NSF-sponsored Graduate Data Science Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2015
- “Building the Next-Gen Campus Infrastructure for Supporting Data-Intensive Science — Operating Innovative Networks,” LBNL, Berkeley, CA, 2014
Journal & Conference Reviewer
Partial list: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking · ACM ICN · IFIP Networking · INFOCOM-NOM · ICNP · INFOCOM · Computer Communication Review · IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC) journals · Future Generation Computer Systems · IEEE Transactions on Services Computing · Caching for Communication Systems and Networks · IEEE Transactions on Education · MDPI journals · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · Vehicular Communications Journal · Computer Networks (Elsevier)
Internal Service — Tennessee Tech
- Graduate Coordinator, 2025-present
- College of Engineering Graduate Executive Committee, 2023–present
- CS Graduate Committee, 2022–present
- Tennessee Tech One-to-One Technology Committee, 2023–2024
- ITS Search Committee, 2023
- CS Faculty Search Committee, 2021, 2022, 2023
- Network Upgrade and Science DMZ Implementation Committee, 2020–2024
- Engineering Building Committees (HVAC, Power, Vibration), 2020–2022
- Cloud Infrastructure for Research Committee, 2020