Professional Services and Activities

Editorial Board Member (Associate Editor)

• IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 

• IEEE Access Journal

• IEEE Internet Initiative

• Cluster Computing, Springer

• IEEE Internet Policy Letters

• Internet Technology Letters (ITL), Wiley 

• Ad Hoc & Sensors Wireless Networks (AHSWN)

• International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security (IJMIS), Inderscience

Guest Editorial Service

Current On-going Special Issues

1. Guest Editor, SI: Communication and Computing Technologies for Emerging Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 

2. Guest Editor, SI: Recent Advances in Connected and Autonomous Internet of Vehicles in Sensors, MDPI 

Past Issues

1. Guest Editor, SI: Recent Advances in Software-Defined Internet of Vehicles (SDIoV) in Sensors, MDPI (Published)

2. Guest Editor, SI: Vehicular Sensor Networks: Applications, Advances, and Challenges in Sensors, MDPI (Published)

3. Guest Editor, SI: Recent Advancements in Flying Ad hoc Networks (FANET) in Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier (Published)

ACM Distinguished Speaker (2018-2021)

Invited Talks Conference/Seminars

1. "Contextual Responsible AI", Workshop on Software-isation: Software Quality Challenges for ICT Intense Industries, March 22, 2022, BCS, The Chartered Institute of IT, London, UK

2. "On the Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Cybersecurity", ACM Distinguished Speaker Seminar, UFMG, Brazil, Sep 19, 2021.

3. "Friend of Foe: On the Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Cybersecurity", ACM Distinguished Speaker Seminar, GCU-ACM Student Chapter, Lahore, Pakistan, June 19, 2021.

4. "Future Internet Architecture: Content vs. Source of the Content", ACM Distinguished Speaker Seminar, June 18, 2021, IEEE Karachi Section and IEEE Malaysia

5. Invited lecture at the University of Windsor, Canada, 2020

6. "Role of ML/DL in Cybersecurity", ACM Distinguished Speaker Seminar, November 2019, at FAST-NUCES, Peshawar, Pakistan

7. "From Vehicular Networks to Vehicular Clouds and Vehicular Social Networks", ACM Distinguished Speaker Seminar, November 2019, at COMSATS Wah Cantt, Pakistan

8. "Future Internet Architecture and Named Data Networking", ACM Distinguished Speaker Seminar, November 2019, at COMSATS Islamabad, Pakistan

9. "360 degree of Innovative Mission Critical Mobile Applications and APIs", Panel Discussion in IEEE PIMRC, September 10, 2019, Istanbul, Turkey

10. Future of Cybersecurity: The Role of AI/ML, November 30, Skolkovo Cyber Day 2018, Moscow, Russia

11. Blockchain Technology Symposium - From Hype to Reality, September 17-21, 2018, Toronto, Canada 

12. SEDA conference, Italy, June, 2018

13. Invited seminar talk in Hanyang University, South Korea, July 2018.

14. 15th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2017), Dec 17-19, Islamabad, Pakistan

15. 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2016), Dec 19-21, Islamabad, Pakistan

16. RAFNET workshop (co-located with 85th IEEE VTC-Spring 2017) June 4, 2017, Sydney, Australia

17. International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2019), Dec. 16-18, Islamabad, Pakistan

Selected Conference/Seminars Presentations

1. International Workshop on Information Security Applications (WISA 2009, 2012), Jeju Island, South Korea.

2. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2012), Taipei, Taiwan.

3. IEEE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE 2012), Beijing, China.

4. IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2013), Las Vegas, NV, USA.

5. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2013), Delft, Netherlands.

6. IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2013), Lyon, France. 

7. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2013), Bristol, United Kingdom.

8. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2013), Dresden, Germany.

9. IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2014), Las Vegas, NV, USA.

10. IEEE International Conference on Military Communications (MilCom 2014), Baltimore, MD, USA. [IEEE Student Travel Grant]

11. IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring), June 2017, Sydney, Australia 

12. SEDA, June 6-8, 2018, Rome, Italy

13. IEEE SNPD, Busan, South Korea, June 2018

14. IEEE PIMRC 2019, September 8-11, Istanbul, Turkey

15. IEEE AICCSA 2019, November 3-7, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Journal Referee Service

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine 

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-TIS)

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)

• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)

• IEEE Communications Magazine

• IEEE Sensors Journal

• IEEE Access Journal

• IEEE Communication Letters

• IETE Technical Review, Taylor & Francis 

• Computer Communications, Elsevier

• Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier

• Computers and Electrical Engineering, Elsevier

• Information Sciences (INS), Elsevier

• Information Fusion (INFFUS), Elsevier

• Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Elsevier

• International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), Wiley

• Wireless Networks, Springer

• Telecommunication Systems (TELS), Springer

• Computer Networks (COMNET), Elsevier

• Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOC), Elsevier

• Vehicular Communications (Vehcom), Elsevier

• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier

• IET Security

• Journal of Information Processing Systems

• Wireless Personal Communications (WIRE), Springer

• Journal of Network and System Management (JONS), Springer

• International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN)

Conference committee membership

• IEEE AICCSA 2024, (Track co-chair)

• IEEE WINCOM 2024, (Track co-chair)

• IEEE AICCSA 2023, (Track co-chair)

• IEEE ESSCA 2021 Workshop, co-located with IEEE CNS 2021 (Workshop Co-Chair)

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2021) (Symposium on CISS Co-Chair)

• IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA 2020) (Program Co-Chair)  

• IEEE International Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2020) (Publicity Co-Chair)

• IEEE ESSCA 2020 Workshop, co-located with IEEE CNS 2020 (Workshop Co-Chair)

• DependSys 2019 (Track Chair)

• IEEE WiMob 2019 (TPC)

• IEEE Intelligent Transportation System (ITSC 2018) (Associate Editor)

• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall 2018) (TPC)

• IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM) 2018

• IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM) 2017

• 85th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Spring 2017), Sydney, Australia (TPC)

• 2nd International Workshop on Recent Advancements in Future Networking Technologies (RAFNET), Sydney, Australia (TPC)

• 6th International Conference on Computational Social Networks (CSoNet 2017), August 2017, Hong Kong, China (TPC)

• IEEE Connected Vehicles (ICCVE) 2016, Seattle, USA (TPC)

• IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2016, Columbus Ohio, USA (TPC)

• IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM) 2016

• IEEE Network of the Future (NoF) 2016, Brazil (TPC)

• IEEE Connected Vehicles (CCVE) 2015, Shenzhen, China (TPC)

• Special Track on Bio-Inspired Wireless Network Security (BWNS) - BICT 2015 (TPC)

• Track on Selected Area of Wireless Communications and Networking(WCN) (TPC)

  • The 31st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing SAC 2016

• Global Summit on Computer and Information Technology (GSCIT) 2015, Sousse, Tunisia (TPC)

  • International Conference on Cloud Computing and Cryptography (ICCC) 2015

  • International Conference on Computer Technologies Innovations and Applications (ICCTIA) 2015

• IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) 2015, Kyoto, Japan (TPC)

• International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF) 2015, Montreal, Canada (TPC)

• IEEE Connected Vehicles (CCVE) 2012 (TPC)

• IEEE Connected Vehicles (CCVE) 2013 (TPC)

• IEEE Connected Vehicles (CCVE) 2014, Vienna, Austria (TPC)

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2015

• IEEE International Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM) 2015

• IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (PPPC) 2014

• International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC) 2013

• International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (ICISC) 2014