Professional Services

Editorial Activities 

1. Associate Editor, IEEE Access, 2018-Present. 

2. Editor, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 2015-Present. 

3. Guest Editor, China Communications, Special Issue on "Collaborative Intelligence for Vehicular Internet of Things", 2020.  

4. Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Special Issue on "Big Data and Computational Intelligence for Agile Wireless IoT", 2019.  

5. Guest Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Special Issue on "Computational Intelligence for Internet of Things in the Big Data Era", 2019.  

6. Guest Editor, Springer Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Special Issue on "Towards Enhancement of Communication Systems, Networks and Applications for Smart Environment", 2018.  

7. Guest Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Special Issue on "Computational Intelligence for Mobile Network Optimization", 2018. 

8. Guest Editor, IEEE Access, Special Issue on "Energy Harvesting and Scavenging: Technologies, Algorithms, and Communication Protocols", 2017.  

9. Guest Editor, IEEE Access, Special Issue on "Artificial Intelligence Enabled Networking", 2016.  

10. Guest Editor, IET Networks, Special Issue on "Creating a Smarter Environment through the Advancement of Communication Systems, Networks and Applications", 2015.  

Reviewer for Journals 

1. International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Inderscience   

2. IET Networks, IET   

3. Frontiers of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Springer  

4. Access, IEEE 

5. Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier 

6. Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier 

7. Computer Journal, Oxford University Press 

8. Computer Networks, Elsevier 

9. Computing, Springer 

10. Digital Communications and Networks, Elsevier 

11. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Springer 

12. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE 

13. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE 

14. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE 

15. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE 

16. IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE 

17. IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE 

18. IEEE Network, IEEE 

19. IET Communications, IET 

20. IETE Technical Review, Taylor & Francis 

21. International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley 

22. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Hindawi 

23. International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier 

24. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Wiley 

25. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, KSII 

26. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, University of Malaya 

27. Multimedia Systems, Springer  

28. National Academy Science Letters, Springer 

29. Security and Communication Networks, Wiley 

30. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Elsevier 

31. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley 

32. Wireless Networks, Springer 

Committee of Conferences 

1. Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, June 2025. 

2. Technical Program Committee Member, 17th Multi-disciplinary International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MIWAI), Pattaya, Thailand, November 2024. 

3. Technical Program Committee Member, 15th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN), Leuven, Belgium, October 2024. 

4. Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), Washington DC, October 2024. 

5. Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Green Energy, Computing and Intelligent Technology (GEn-CITy), Malaysia, December 2024. 

6. Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Spring), Singapore, June 2024. 

7. Technical Program Committee Member, International Conference on Green Energy, Computing and Sustainable Technology, Sarawak, Malaysia, Jan 2024. 

8. Technical Program Committee Member, International Conference on Communications (ICC): Green Communications Systems and Networks Symposium, Denvor, CO, USA, June 2024. 

9. Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Green Energy, Computing and Intelligent Technology (GEn-CITy), Malaysia, July 2023. 

10. Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Communications (ICC), Rome, Italy, June 2023. 

11. Lead Organizing Chair, 2022 International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, 2022.

12. Program Committee, 17th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC), 2Niagara Fall, Canada, 2022. 

13. Program Committee, Fourth International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40), Warsaw, Poland, March 2021.  

14. Program Committee, 16th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC), 2021.  

15. Program Committee, Workshop on 5G Security: Current Trends, Challenges and New Enablers – 2020, IEEE 5G World Forum, Virtual Event, September 2020. 

16. Program Committee, The 16th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN), Tokyo, Japan, December 2020. 

17. Program Committee, The First International Conference of Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (SMARTTECH), Ridyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 2020. 

18. Technical Program Committee, 15th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC), Leuven, Belgium, August 2020. 

19. Program Committee, Third International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry (EDI40), Warsaw, Poland, April 2020.  

20. Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (VTC2020-Spring), Antwerp, Belgium, May 2020.  

21. Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC'19), Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2019.  

22. Technical Program Committee, 7th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communications (ICSCC'19), Sarawak, Malaysia, June 2019. 

23. Technical Program Committee, 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'19), Valencia, Spain, July 2019. 

24. Technical Program Committee, 4th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech'19), Fukuoka, Japan, August 2019. 

25. Technical Program Committee, QoS and QoE in Wireless Communications/Networks Workshop (QoS-QoE'19), Tangier, Morocco, June 2019. 

26. Technical Program Committee, IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 2019. 

27. Technical Program Committee, 14th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC), Halifax, Canada, August 2019. 

28. Technical Program Committee, IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility & Security (NTMS'19), Canary Islands, Spain, 2019.  

29. Programme Committee, 2nd International Conference on Emerging Data and Industry 4.0 (EDI40), Leuven, Belgium, April 2019. 

30. Vice General Co-chair, 33rd International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 2019. 

31. Technical Program Committee, 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Telecommunications and Computing (SigTelCom), Hanoi, Vietnam, March 2019. 

32. Program Committee, 21st International Multi-topic Conference (INMIC), Karachi, Pakistan, November, 2018. 

33. Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Healthcare Science and Engineering (Healthcare), Guilin, China, June 2018. 

34. Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Communications (ATC), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, October 2018.

35. Technical Program Committee, 4th International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems (SIRS), Bangalore, India, September 2018.

36. Technical Program Committee, 13th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC), Gran Canaria, Spain, August 2018.

37. Technical Program Committee, Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW): Big Data with Computational Intelligence for Wireless Networking, Barcelona, Spain, April 2018. 

38. Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, USA, May 2018.

39. Technical Program Committee, 3rd IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, Wuxi, China, 2017.  

40. Technical Program Committee, IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility & Security (NTMS'18), Paris, France, 2018.  

41. Technical Program Committee, IEEE 28th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'17), Montreal, Canada, 2017.

42. Technical Program Committee, 3rd International Symposium on Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems (SIRS'17), Karnataka, India, September 2017.

43. Technical Program Committee, IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP'17), Kerala, India, July 2017.

44. Technical Program Committee, QoS and QoE in Wireless Communications/Networks Workshop (QoS-QoE'17), Valencia, Spain, June 2017.

45. Technical Program Committee, 12th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC'2017), Leuven, Belgium, 2017. 

46. Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISCNN'2017), Marrakech, Morocco, 2017.

47. Programme Chair, International Workshop on Sustainable Future Cities, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2016.

48. Technical Program Committee, Progress in Computer Sciences and Information Technology International Conference (PROCSIT), Kedah, Malaysia, 2016. 

49. Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Machine learning and Signal Processing (MALSIP'2016), Melaka, Malaysia, 2016. 

50. Technical Program Committee, 8th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility & Security (NTMS'16), Larnaca, Cyrus, 2016.  

51. Technical Program Committee, 22nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC'16), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2016.  

52. Technical Program Committee, IEEE 27th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'16), Valencia, Spain, 2016.  

53. Technical Program Committee, 22nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC'16), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, August 2016.

54. Technical Program Committee, QoS and QoE in Wireless Communications/Networks Workshop (QoS-QoE'16), Paphos, Cyprus, September 2016.

55. Technical Programme Committee, Applied Mathematics in Science and Engineering International Conference, Malacca, Malaysia, January 2016. 

56. Technical Program Committee, 2nd International Conference on Computer, Communication, and Control Technology, Kuching, Malaysia, April 2015.

57. Technical Program Committee, International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research, Langkawi, Malaysia, April 2015.

58. Technical Program Committee, 10th International Conference on Broadband & Wireless Computing, Communication & Applications, Poland, November 2015.

59. Technical Program Committee, International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), IEEE, Dubrovnik, Croatia, August 2015.

60. General Co-chair, IET International Conference on Frontiers of Communications, Networks and Applications (ICFCNA), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2014.

61. Session Moderator, International Conference on Innovation and Sustainability, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 2013.

62. Technical Program Committee, Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium, International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE, London, UK, June 2015.

63. Technical Program Committee, International Symposium on Research of Arts, Design and Humanities, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, September 2014. 

64. Technical Program Committee, IEEE/TRB Third International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, Vienna, Austria, November 2014.   

65. Technical Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, San Francisco, California, October 2014.   

66. Technical Program Committee, IEEE Symposium on Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium, Malaysia, September 2014.

67. Technical Program Committee, International Post Graduate Colloquium on Science and Technology, Malaysia, 2014.

68. Technical Program Committee, Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium, International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE, Australia, June 2014.

69. Technical Program Committee, Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium, International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE, Hungary, June 2013.

70. Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Connected Vehicles (ICCVE), IEEE, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2013.

71. Technical Program Committee, Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium, IEEE, Malaysia, 2013.

72. Technical Program Committee, IEEE Colloquium on Humanities, Science & Engineering Research IEEE, Malaysia, December 2014.

73. Co-chair (Organising Committee), IET International Conference on Wireless Communications and Applications, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2012.

74. Technical Program Committee, IEEE Colloquium on Humanities, Science & Engineering Research IEEE, Malaysia, December 2012.

75. Technical Program Committee, Business, Engineering & Industrial Applications Colloquium IEEE, Indonesia, September 2012.

76. Technical Program Committee, IEEE Colloquium on Humanities, Science & Engineering Research IEEE, Malaysia, December 2011.

77. Organising Committee, New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference (NZCSRSC'10), New Zealand, April 2010.

78. Volunteer, 32nd Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSW) ACM, New Zealand, January 2009.

Reviewer for Conferences

1. IEEE 13th Malaysian International Conference on Communications, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, 2017   

2. International Conference on Computer, Communication, and Control Technology, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, 2016    

3. 20th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Cyprus, 2015    

4. IEEE 2nd International Symposium on Telecommunication Technologies, Langkawi, Malaysia, 2014

5. IEEE Symposium on Business, Engineering and Industrial Applications, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, 2014

6. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) IEEE, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2014  

7. IEEE Region 10 Technical Symposium (TENSYMP), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2014

8. IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI) IEEE, Singapore, 2013

9. IEEE Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering, Penang, Malaysia, 2013

10. 76th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2012-Fall), Quebec City, Canada, 2012

11. 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) IEEE, Singapore, 2011

12. New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 2010

13. 36th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) IEEE, Zurich, Switzerland, 2009

14. Global Communications Conference (Globecom) IEEE, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2009

15. 4th International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks IEEE, India, 2008

Invited Speeches

1. "Reinforcement Learning: Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Applications", The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia, November, 2022.

2. "Publishing in Web of Science Journals", LKCFES Postgraduate Colloquium 2022, UTAR, Sungai Long, Malaysia, November 2022.

3. "Applied Reinforcement Learning", Symposium on Mathematics and its Applications in Artificial INtelligence, INTI International University, Nilai, Malaysia, November 2022.  

4. "Reinforcement Learning: Fundamentals and Applications", Invited speech, 2nd Postgraduate Colloquium on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), UTAR, Kampar, Malaysia, October 2022.

5. "Fundamental of Artificial Intelligence: Reinforcement Learning", Invited speech, IEEE ComSoc School Series Kuala Lumpur, June 2022.

6. "Artificial intelligence-based attacks and countermeasure agents: who wins?", Invited speech, 7th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communications (ICSCC) IEEE, Miri, Malaysia, June 2019.

7. "Reinforcement learning: current applications and the road ahead", Keynote, 21st IEEE International Multi Topic Conference (INMIC) IEEE, Karachi, Pakistan, Nov 2018.

8. "Publishing in high impact journals", Department of System and Networking, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Malaysia, 2017.

9. "Application of reinforcement learning models and algorithms for traffic signal control", Smart City Workshop, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2017.

10. "Greater Kuala Lumpur as a smart City: a case study on technology opportunities," 4th International Smart City Workshop, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2015.

Panelist/Examiner for Research Student

1. External Examiner for PhD in Informatics, Malaysia University of Science and Technology (MUST), Malaysia, 2018.

2. External Examiner for PhD, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, 2016.

3. External Examiner for Master of Science (by Research), Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus, Sarawak, Malaysia, 2016.

4. External Examiner for PhD, Faculty of Information and Communication Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India, 2015.

5. Adrian Samuel Limanto, Vision-based Interactive Public Display Announcement, Viva, Masters (Sunway-Lancaster), 2013.

6. Mansoor Ebrahim, Low Complexity Energy Efficient Multi-View Image Compression for Multi Camera Wireless Sensor Network by using Compressive Sensing, Research Proposal Defence, PhD (Sunway), 2013.

Panelist/Assessor for External Research Grants 

1. Malaysian Ministry of Education (MOE) Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), 2015, 2016, 2022. 

Panelist for External Review Panel for Academic Programmes

1. Bachelor degree, Department of Computer and Communication Technology, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia, 2018.  

Membership

1. Vice-Chair, IEEE SIG on Big Data with Computational Intelligence

2. Senior Member, IEEE 

3. Member, Asia Pacific Neural Network Society (APNNS)

4. Professional Technologist, Malaysia Board of Technologists (MBOT)

5. Certified Deep Learning Professional, International Council for Technology Certifications (ICTC), 2023.

Administrative Roles

1. Member, Departmental Curriculum Development Committee (DCDC), UTAR, 2022.

2. Programme Leader for PhD (Computing), Sunway University, 2013-2020.

3. Chair of Faculty Alumni Committee, Sunway University, 2012-2015.