Professional Services and Activities

- Proposal Reviewer 

• 1. Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF), June-July 2026

  2. Panel Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF), January and June 2023

  3. The Research Council, Oman, 2017

  4. The Research Council, Oman, 2015

- Journal Editorship 

• 1. Associate Editor, AIMS Applied Computing and Intelligence, 2024 - Present

  2. Associate Editor, IEEE Access, 2018-2024

  3. Guest Editor, MDPI Sensors, Special Issue on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technology for Advancement in IoT: Exploring the Synergies, 2023

  4. Guest Editor, Frontiers, Special Issue on Compute Continuum and Edge Intelligence for next-generation Smart Systems, 2022

  5. Guest Editor, Applied Sciences, Special Issue on Applications of AI in Robotic Control Systems, 2022

  6. Guest Editor, MDPI Sensors, Special Issue on Virtual Network Embedding for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks, 2022

  7. Topic Editor, MDPI Applied Science, Applied Sciences (mdpi.com), 2021

  8. Topic Editor, MDPI Electronics, Electronics (mdpi.com), 2019-2021

  9. Guest Editor, Security and Communication Networks, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Cyberspace Security, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/872036/, 2021

  10. Special Issue Editor, MDPI Applied Sciences, Special Issue on Trustworthiness in Mobile Cyber Physical Systems, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Trustworthiness_Mobile_CPS, 2020

  11. Guest Editor, MDPI Electronics, Special Issue on Security and Privacy in Cyber Physical Systems, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/security_cps, 2019

  12. Guest Editor, MDPI Electronics, Special Issue on Data-driven Network Security and Privacy, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/Data-driven_Privacy, 2019

  13. Associate Editor, Mathematical Foundations of Computing (MFC), American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2018

  14. Guest Editor, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Special Collection on Privacy Preservation for Large-scale Internet of Things (IoT), 2018

- Conference/Symposium/Workshop Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair  

• 1. Track Chair, ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC): AI-enabled Cybersecurity and Privacy for Emerging Systems Track, 2027, https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2027/ 

  2. Minitrack Chair, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS): AI-Powered Cyber Attacks and Countermeasures Minitrack, 2026, 2027, https://hicss.hawaii.edu/ 

  3. Local Arrangement Chair, 2027 IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2027), January 9-12, 2027, https://ccnc2027.ieee-ccnc.org/committees  

  4. Program Chair, The 7th Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC 2026), June 10-12, 2026, San Jose, CA, USA, SVCC 2026

  5. General Chair, The 25th KOCSEA Technical Symposium, November 8-9, 2025, Las Vegas, USA, https://kocseaa.org/symposia/2025/ 

  6. Poster Chair, The 6th Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC 2025), June 23-25, 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA, SVCC 2025

  7. Program Co-Chair, 2024 IEEE CCNC Workshop-STP-CPS: Security Trust Privacy for Emerging Cyber-Physical Systems, January 6-9, 2024, Las Vegas, NV, USA, WS-5: Security Trust Privacy for Cyber-Physical Systems (STP-CPS) | IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference - 2024 IEEE CCNC (ieee-ccnc.org) 

  8. Program Chair, The 23rd KOCSEA Technical Symposium, November 4-5, 2023, Dearborn, MI, USA, https://kocseaa.org/symposia/2023/organizers/ 

  9. Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications - Workshop on AI-Driven Trustworthy, Secure, and Privacy-Preserving Computing (AidTSP 2023), IEEE INFOCOM 2023 

  10. Communication Chair, The 22nd KOCSEA Technical Symposium, November 12-13, 2022, Seattle, WA, USA, https://kocseaa.org/symposia/2022/ 

  11. Workshop/Special Session Chair, The 20th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), September 5-8, 2022, Calabria, Italy, http://cyber-science.org/2022/dasc/organization/

  12. Program Vice-Chair, The 15th IEEE Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom-2022), August 22-25, 2022, Espoo, Finland, http://ieee-cybermatics.org/2022/cpscom/oc.php 

  13. Registration Chair, The 21st KOCSEA Technical Symposium, November 6-7, 2021, Las Vegas, NV, USA, https://kocseaa.org/symposia/2021/ 

  14. Special Session Chair, The 13th International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCOM 2020), http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2020/cpscom/index.php 

  15. Poster Chair, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2020), http://cyber-science.org/2020/dasc/

  16. Local Co-Chair, The 20th KOCSEA Technical Symposium, November 16-17, 2019, Atlanta, GA, USA, https://kocseaa.org/symposia/2019/ 

  17. TPC co-chair, The 2018 International Workshop on Security and Privacy Algorithms for Emerging Networks (SPATEN 2018), June 22, 2018, Tianjin, China

  18. Publication Chair, The 9th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking, October 8-10, 2016, Atlanta, GA, USA  

- Conference/Symposium/Workshop Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member 

• 1. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) — 2026, 2027

  2. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) — 2026

  3. ACM Web Conference (WWW), Security and Privacy Track — 2026

  4. IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) — 2025, 2026

  5. IEEE Global Communications Conference – Selected Areas in Communications: Machine Learning for Communications (GlobeCom-SAC MLC) — 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

  6. IEEE Global Communications Conference –  Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks (GlobeCom-CRAEN) — 2026

  7. IEEE Global Communications Conference –  Next-Generation Networking and Internet (GlobeCom-NGNI) — 2026

  8. IEEE International Conference on Communications – Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (ICC-CISS) — 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

  9. IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) — 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025

  10. IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC) — 2024

  11. IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom) — 2023, 2024

  12. Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC) — 2024

  13. IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA) — 2023

  14. IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) — 2023

  15. International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA) — 2020, 2021, 2022

  16. International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA) — 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

  17. IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC) — 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

  18. International Conference on Networking and Services (IARIA ICNS) — 2020, 2021

  19. Annual National Cyber Summit (NCS) — 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

  20. ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (BSCI) — 2021

  21. International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC) — 2021

  22. IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) — 2020

  23. International Workshop on Collaborative Computing with Cloud and Client (C4W) — 2020

  24. International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) — 2016; 2020 (Track 4: Green Networking and Sustainable Computing)

  25. International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS) — 2016, 2018, 2020

  26. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) — 2020

  27. IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) — 2016, 2018, 2019

  28. International Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys) — 2016, 2017, 2018

  29. International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN) — 2016, 2018

  30. IEEE International Workshop on Cyberspace Security (IWCSS) — 2018

  31. International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA) — 2018

  32. International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications (BIGCOM) — 2016, 2018

  33. International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN) — 2017

  34. IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP) — 2017

  35. International Workshop on Artificially Intelligent Smart SocieTies (AITS) — 2017

  36. International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC) — 2017

  37. International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF) — 2015, 2016

  38. IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom) — 2016

 - Journal Referee Service 

• 1. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

  2. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

  3. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing

  4. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

  5. IEEE Network Magazine

  6. IEEE Communications Magazine

  7. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

  8. IEEE Internet of Things Journal

  9. International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (INDERSCIENCE)

  10. Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier)

  11. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems

  12. Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)

  13. Security and Communication Networks (Hindawi)

  14. Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier)

  15. IEEE Transactions on Big Data

  16. IEEE Access

  17. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

  18. Sensors (MDPI)

  19. Journal of Network and Systems Management (Springer)

  20. Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms, and Applications (World Scientific)

  21. Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)

  22. Computers (MDPI)

  23. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing

  24. International Journal of Sensor Networks (INDERSCIENCE)

  25. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (Springer)

  26. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley)

  27. Information Sciences (Elsevier)

- Conference/Symposium/Workshop Referee Service 

1. The 35th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017)

2. The IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2016): SAC-SN, CSSMA, and MWN

3. The 11th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2016)

4. The 22nd International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2016) 

5. The 21tst IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2016)

6. The 25th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN 2016)

7. The 34th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2015)

8. The 5th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2 2015)

9. The 34th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2016)

10. The 11th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2015)

11. The IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015): Security, SAC-BigData Networking, Wireless Networks, and Adhoc&Sensor Networks

12. The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015)

 -Invited Talk 

• 1. Leveraging Smart Contracts for Secure and Asynchronous Group Key Exchange Without Trusted Third Party, US-Korea Conference (UKC), August 03, 2023, UKC 2023 Program book – UKC 2023 (ksea.org) 

  2. Cybersecurity and Privacy Research in the Era of AI, Sunchon National University, July 15, 2023

  3. Protecting Privacy in the Era of AI, Gyeongsang National University, June 22, 2023

  4. Research Portfolio- IIS Lab., KEIT, May 30, 2023

  5. Leveraging Smart Contracts for Secure and Asynchronous Group Key Exchange Without Trusted Third Party, Hoseo University, May 25, 2023

  6. Protecting Privacy in the Era of AI, Hanyang University ERICA, May 24, 2023

  7. Rethinking the Weakness of Stream Ciphers and Its Application to Encrypted Malware Detection, US-Korea Conference (UKC), December 17, 2020, Program Book – Sustainable Development & the Future (ksea.org)

  8. Recent Trends in Blockchain Research, The 3rd Blockchain Grand Week, November 18-20, 2020. 

  9. Toward VANET Utopia: A New Privacy-Preserving Trustworthiness Management Scheme for VANET, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, Georgia, USA, November 10, 2016

  10. Functional Pseudonyms: How can privacy coexist with utilities?, Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea, August 3, 2015

  11. Functional Pseudonyms: How can privacy coexist with utilities?, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, August 4, 2015

  12. Functional Pseudonyms: How can privacy coexist with utilities?, National Security Research Institute (NSRI), Daejeon, South Korea, August 7, 2015

  13. Functional Pseudonyms: How can privacy coexist with utilities?, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, South Korea,  August 13, 2015

  14. Functional Pseudonyms: How can privacy coexist with utilities?, Hanyang University ERICA, Ansan, South Korea, August 17, 2015