Service and Leadership

• Member of UTS Academic Board

• Member of UTS Courses Accreditation Committee

• Counselor of UTS IEEE Student Branch

• Member of UTS FEIT Professional Experience Programs (PEP) Committee

• Member of UTS SEDE's Research Management Committee 

• Co-founder of UTS Joint Technology and Innovation Research Center

• Founder and Chair of UTS Research School (2017-present)

• Member of Graduate Council (The University of Arizona)

• Representative of College of Engineering at Graduate and Professional Student Council (The University of Arizona)

• Mentor for Arizona Assurance Scholars Program (The University of Arizona) 

Editorial Board 

• Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials  (COMST), 2022-present

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2018-2023

• Associate Editor, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS), 2020-present

• Editor, Nature's Scientific Reports, 2021-present

• Guest Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications, Special Issue on "Mobile AI-Generated Content (AIGC) in 6G Era", 2023

• International Advisory Board member, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) DARE (Data Analytics Raising Employment, United States, Department of Labor)

• Guest Editor, IEEE Access (Special Issue), 2019

• Guest Editor, Sensor Networks, (Special Issue on Wireless Body Area Networks for Health Applications), 2019

 Assessor and Panelist for Research Funding Agencies 

• US National Science Foundation

• Australian Research Council (Discovery Projects, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Linkage Program)

• Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED)  

Conference's Organization as TPC/Technical Program Track/Session Chair

• Track Chair: IEEE VTC Hong Kong 2023 (IoV, IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking)

• TPC Co-chair: 16th IEEE International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, (ISMICT) 2022

• TPC Co-chair: 13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BODYNETS 2019)

• TPC Co-chair: 19th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT2019)

• Tutorial Chair: 17th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT2017)

• Publication Chair: 12th International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology, (ISMICT) 2018

• Track Chair: IEEE VTC Sydney 2017 (Wireless Networks and Security)

• Session Chair: Next Generation Cellular Networks, IEEE INFOCOM Conference 2015 (Hong Kong)

Technical Program Committee Member

• IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025)

• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM, since 2015)

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC, since 2015)

• IEEE Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC, 2021, 2022)

• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2018, 2019, 2020 (WCNC)

• IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2018, Hawaii)

• IEEE Global Communications Conference 2017 (GLOBECOM 2017)

• Member of Advisory Board for APEC Project DARE (Data Analytics Raising Employment, proposing economy: United States, Department of Labor)

• IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-17)

• IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm 2017, Germany)

• IEEE Global Communications Conference 2016 (GLOBECOM 2016, Washington DC, US)

• IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm 2016, Australia)

• International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC–2016, Valencia, Spain)

• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC-2016, Doha, Qatar)

• International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC-2015, Hong Kong)

• International Conference on Computer Networks (CN-2015, Poland)

• International Conference on Communications, ICC-2015, London, UK)

• International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC-2014, Washington DC, US

• International Symposium on Advances in Data Management, ADM-2014, India

• International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI-2014, Delhi, India

Technical Referee/Reviewer

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

• IEEE Transactions on Networking

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Communications

• IEEE Transactions on Communications

• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

• IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

• IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

• IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking

• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

• Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal

• EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

• Book, Book Chapters, Book Proposals

• European Wireless Conference, ISIT, ICC, INFOCOM, MobiHoc Conferences

PhD thesis examiner

• University of New South Wales  (Australia)

• The University of Sydney (Australia)

• University of South Australia (Australia)

• University of Quebec (Canada)

• KIIT University (India)

• Anna University (India)

• Mälardalens University (Sweden)

• “Unleashing Generative AI: Addressing Scalability, Security, and Cyberinfrastructure Challenges”, Tutorial at IEEE Globecom Conference, December 2025

• “Unleashing Generative AI Potential: Tackling Scalability, Security, and Communications/Networking Challenges”, Tutorial at IEEE PIMRC Conference, September 2025

• “Enabling Generative AI as a Service with Democratized Cyberinfrastructure”, Tutorial at IEEE Globecom Conference, Dec 2024

• “Enabling Generative AI as a Service with Democratized Cyberinfrastructure”, Keynote, IEEE ISCIT Conference, Thailand, Sept 2024

• “Advanced Generative AI for Sustainable Cities and Communities”, Keynote at AI Summer School, Binus University, Indonesia, 2024

• "Communications and Networking in Generative AI Era", Hon Hai Research Institute (HHRI), Foxconn, 2024

• "Enabling Generative AI as a Service with Democratized Cyberinfrastructure", National Taiwan University, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 2024

• "Generative AI Models for Wireless, IoT, and Cloud Security", National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, 2024

• "Security Threats in 5G and Beyond: Challenges and Countermeasures Towards Agile and Resilient Cyber Physical Systems", New South Wales Investment in Indonesia, Jakarta, 2023

• AI-empowered Communications: Evolution from Optimization Tools to "AI as a Service" and "Native AI", 2023, Intel Munich, Germany

• Enabling Metaverse with Secure and Smart Network Resource Slicing, 2022 NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science (NICS), Ho Chi Minh city

•  “Secure and Efficient Distributed Learning for Wireless Edge Networks”, 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN)

• "AI-empowered Edge Computing with Efficient and Secure Distributed Learning", SCSE Symposium on Computer Science & Engineering, 2021

• “Coping with Cyber Security Threats using Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence: Recent Advances and Challenges” 2018 International Winter Symposium on Big-Data, Cybersecurity and IoT (Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education, Hokkaido University) 

• "In-band Full-duplex Radios: Networking and Security Issues", International Conference on Recent Advances on Signal Processing, Telecommunications & Computing (SigTelCom), Danang, Jan 2017

• “In-band Full-duplex Radios: Networking and Security Issues”, Faculty of Engineering & Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2017 

• Invited speaker at 2016 Australian Communications Theory Workshop, Melbourne, 2016

• “Network Economics in  Resource Allocation Strategies for Cognitive MIMO Networks”, Faculty of  Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Oct,  2013

• “Prolonging Lifetime of  Wireless Sensor Networks with Cooperative Communications”, (with Marwan Krunz) Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, 2011

• “System Level Verification of ASICs for 3G Devices”, Broadcom Corporations, California, 2008

• “Threshold Behavior of MIMO Broadcast Channel’s Capacity”, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, UCSD, San Diego, California, 2007