Professional Services and Activities

- Proposal Reviewer

1. Panel Reviewer, National Science Foundation (NSF), January and June 2023
2. The Research Council, Oman, 2017
3. The Research Council, Oman, 2015

- Journal Editorship

1. Associate Editor, IEEE Access, 2018-2024
2. Guest Editor, MDPI Sensors, Special Issue on Blockchain and Smart Contract Technology for Advancement in IoT: Exploring the Synergies, 2023
3. Guest Editor, Frontiers, Special Issue on Compute Continuum and Edge Intelligence for next-generation Smart Systems, 2022
4. Guest Editor, Applied Sciences, Special Issue on Applications of AI in Robotic Control Systems, 2022
5. Guest Editor, MDPI Sensors, Special Issue on Virtual Network Embedding for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks, 2022
6. Topic Editor, MDPI Applied Science, Applied Sciences (mdpi.com), 2021
7. Topic Editor, MDPI Electronics, Electronics (mdpi.com), 2019-2021
8. Guest Editor, Security and Communication Networks, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Cyberspace Security, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/scn/si/872036/, 2021
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. Associate Editor, Mathematical Foundations of Computing (MFC), American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2018
13. 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. Program Co-Chair, 2024 IEEE CCNC Workshop-STP-CPS: Security Trust Privacy for Emerging Cyber-Physical Systems, January 6-9, 2024, Las Vegas, USA, WS-5: Security Trust Privacy for Cyber-Physical Systems (STP-CPS) | IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference - 2024 IEEE CCNC (ieee-ccnc.org)
2. Program Chair, The 23rd KOCSEA Technical Symposium, November 4-5, 2023, Dearborn, MI, USA, https://kocseaa.org/symposia/2023/organizers/
3. Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications - Workshop on AI-Driven Trustworthy, Secure, and Privacy-Preserving Computing (AidTSP 2023), IEEE INFOCOM 2023
4. Communication Chair, The 22nd KOCSEA Technical Symposium, November 12-13, 2022, Seattle, WA, USA, https://kocseaa.org/symposia/2022/
5. 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/
6. 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
7. Registration Chair, The 21st KOCSEA Technical Symposium, November 6-7, 2021, Las Vegas, NV, USA, https://kocseaa.org/symposia/2021/
8. Special Session Chair, The 13th International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCOM 2020), http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2020/cpscom/index.php
9. Poster Chair, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2020), http://cyber-science.org/2020/dasc/
10. Local Co-Chair, The 20th KOCSEA Technical Symposium, November 16-17, 2019, Atlanta, GA, USA, https://kocseaa.org/symposia/2019/
11. TPC co-chair, The 2018 International Workshop on Security and Privacy Algorithms for Emerging Networks (SPATEN 2018), June 22, 2018, Tianjin, China
12. 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. The IEEE Global Communications Conference: Selected Areas in Communications: Machine Learning for Communications (GlobeCom - SAC MLC 2024)
2. IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom 2024)
3. The 5th Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC 2024)
4. The IEEE International Conference on Communications: Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (ICC - CISS 2024)
5. The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (IEEE ISPA 2023)
6. The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2023)
7. The IEEE International Conference on Communications: Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (ICC - CISS 2023)
8. The 20th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS 2023)
9. The IEEE Global Communications Conference: Selected Areas in Communications: Machine Learning for Communications (GlobeCom - SAC MLC 2023)
10. IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom 2023)
11. The fourth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2022)
12. The IEEE International Conference on Communications: Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (ICC - CISS 2022)
13. The IEEE Global Communications Conference: Selected Areas in Communications: Machine Learning for Communications (GlobeCom - SAC MLC 2022)
14. The Third International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2021)
15. The IEEE Global Communications Conference: Selected Areas in Communications: Machine Learning for Communications (GlobeCom - SAC MLC 2021)
16. The 16th international conference on algorithms, systems, and applications of wireless networks (WASA 2021)
17. The 19th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2021)
18. The 17th International Conference on Networking and Services (IARIA ICNS 2021)
19. The 13th Annual National Cyber Summit (NCS 2021)
20. The 3rd ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure (ACM BSCI 2021)
21. The 18th International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2021)
22. The 13th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (IEEE CPSCom-2020)
23. The Second International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020)
24. The 11th International Workshop on Collaborative Computing with Cloud and Client (C4W 2020)
25. The 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2020)
26. IEEE International Conference on Communications: Communication and Information System Security Symposium (IEEE ICC'21 - CISS Symposium)
27. The 12th Annual National Cyber Summit (NCS 2020)
28. The 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2020) - Track 4: Green Networking and Sustainable Computing (GREEN)
29. The 13th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2020)
30. The 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2020)
31. The 18th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2020)
32. The 15th international conference on algorithms, systems, and applications of wireless networks (WASA 2020)
33. The 16th International Conference on Networking and Services (IARIA ICNS 2020)
34. The 38th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2019)
35. The 14th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2019)
36. The 17th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2019)
37. The 11th Annual National Cyber Summit (NCS 2019)
38. The 4th International Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys 2018)
39. The 14th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2018)
40. The 11th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2018)
41. The 37th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2018)
42. The 16th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2018)
43. The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Cyberspace Security (IWCSS 2018)
44. The 12th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA 2018)
45. The 4th International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications (BIGCOM 2018)
46. The 13th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2018)
47. The 10th Annual National Cyber Summit (NCS 18)
48. The 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security and Privacy In Computing And Communications (IEEE TrustCom-18)
49. The 3rd International Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys 2017)
50. The 14th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN 2017)
51. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2017)
52. The 1st International Workshop on Artificially Intelligent Smart SocieTies (AITS 2017)
53. The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC 2017)
54. The 35th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2016)
55. The 12th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2016)
56. The 2nd International Symposium on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (DependSys 2016)
57. The 7th International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF 2016)
58. The 9th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2016)
59. The 9th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SOCIALCOM 2016)
60. The 25th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN 2016)
61. The 2nd International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communication (BIGCOM 2016)
62. The 6th International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF 2015)

- Journal Referee Service

1. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
2. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing
3. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
4. IEEE Network Magazine
5. IEEE Communications Magazine
6. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
7. IEEE Internet of Things Journal
8. International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (INDERSCIENCE)
9. Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier)
10. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
11. Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)
12. Security and Communication Networks (Hindawi)
13. Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier)
14. IEEE Transactions on Big Data
15. IEEE Access
16. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
17. Sensors (MDPI)
18. Journal of Network and Systems Management (Springer)
19. Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms, and Applications (World Scientific)
20. Journal of Supercomputing (Springer)
21. Computers (MDPI)
22. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing
23. International Journal of Sensor Networks (INDERSCIENCE)
24. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (Springer)
25. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley)
26. Information Sciences (Elsevier)

- Conference/Symposium/Workshop Referee Service

The 35th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017)
The IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2016): SAC-SN, CSSMA, and MWN
The 11th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2016)
The 22nd International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2016)
The 21tst IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication (ISCC 2016)
The 25th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN 2016)
The 34th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2015)
The 5th International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing (SC2 2015)
The 34th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2016)
The 11th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2015)
The IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015): Security, SAC-BigData Networking, Wireless Networks, and Adhoc&Sensor Networks
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