Impact: The service has aided me in my professional growth as it enabled me to understand the different aspects of organizational operations and structure better. Participation in different committees has prepared me to address various challenges, concerns, and needs. I’ve learned various group dynamics and learned how to implement them towards the advancement of the University's vision and mission. Working with people with various backgrounds has helped me improve on interpersonal skills, and it has also taught me collegiality and equity.

Departmental Committees

• Graduate Program Co-ordinator

• IEEE Region 3 Senior Member Nominator

• C-ID Course Reviewer

• Software Engineering Club Judge

• Serving on Center for Environment

• Served on CE ACM/IEEE Curriculum Committee

• Serving on Freshman Mentoring Program. It is an opportunity for me to mentor freshman first-year students.

• Serving on the Graduate Program Committee  

• Search committee  member for Assistant Professor position 

• Attended Faculty Orientation

• Writing recommendation letters for colleagues  

• Writing recommendation letters for students and answering questions from the companies about the students

• Offered STEM Internship

• Informational interview for multiple students for their technical writing course.

• CTF challenge: selected a team of 10 students to participate in the CTF challenge organized by the Cyber security conference in Tampa. It helped them learn about how to work with security. 

Institutional Committees 

• Invited to participate in UN International Day for Women and Girls in Science 

• Panelist for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Event

External Professional Service 

1.                  Regional and National Committees 

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) member

• IEEE member

• Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Life member

• Program chair –SSIC-2018 conference

•  TPC –MobiSecServ-2018, MobiSecServ-2019

• Session chair ICNC2018

2.                  Reviews 

• Reviewed over 600 journal and conference papers

• NSF Panelist for various programs

• Reviewed 5 book proposals

• External examiner for 6 Ph.D. theses 

3.                  Other External Professional Service

• Cyber Florida SUS Cybersecurity Advisory Council member 

• Interviewing and writing reference letters for the IEEE West Chapter members

4.             Community Outreach 

• Participated in Industry Advisory Board meeting. 

• Served as a member of DoT Florida Safety/Security Subcommittee organized by Central Florida Automated Vehicle Partnership (CFAVP)

• ACE Women's Network of Florida, Poly Campus member 2018-2019

• Panelist in WICT-Women in Cable Telecommunications 2016

• Invited Verizon Director Chitra Prakash for a talk

• For Health Informatics met with Bill Hart, Biomedical Supervisor, Lakeland Regional Health

• For Health Informatics met with Russ Miller, Vice President of Technology Services, IMPULSE, Lakeland. 

• Trace Hollifield, Cyber and Network Security Executive, Bright House Networks

• Cogswell, Brian; Smith, Christine, undercover digital investigators, Polk County.