Professional Societies, Awards, Standards, and Executive Committees

• IEEE 802.11 TGbk (320MHz Positioning) Technical Editor 2023-2025

• IEEE 802.11 TGaz (Next Generation Positioning (NGP) Standard), Secretary 2017-19, Technical Editor 2019-23

• ACM SIGMOBILE Chair 2009-2013, Executive Committee member 2013-17

• Chair ACM TechPack on Mobile Computing 2012  

• Editorial Boards: IEEE Computer 2015-Present, IEEE Pervasive Computing 2001-Present

• Steering Committees (current): ACM HotMobile, ACM MobiSys, IEEE Pervasive Computing

• IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers) member since 1991, Fellow 2005

• ACM (Association of Computer Machinery) member since 1996, Fellow 2005

Conference Program Chairs

• General co-chair ACM PerDis 2013, Mountain View, CA, June 4th 2013.

• Technical Program co-chair  NSF Pervasive Computing at Scale (PeCS), January 2011

• Technical Program chair ACM Hotmobile 2010, Annapolis, Maryland, USA

• Technical Program co-chair IEEE ISWC 2008, USA

• Technical Program co-chair Pervasive 2005, Munich, Germany

• Technical Program co-chair, ACM Mobisys 2004 Conference, Boston, USA

• Panel Chair, Mobicom 1999, Seattle, USA

Conference Technical Program Committee Service  

• Technical Program Committee ACM MobiSys Conference

  • 2017 Niagra Falls, New York, USA

  • 2011 Washington, USA

  • 2009 Krakow, Poland

  • 2008 Breckenridge, Colorado, USA

  • 2007 Puerto Rico

  • 2006 Uppsala Sweden

  • 2005 Seattle, USA

  • 2004 Boston, USA

• Technical Program Committee ACM HotMobile Conference

  • 2016 St. Augustine, Florida

  • 2015 Santa Fe, New Mexico

  • 2013 Jekyll Island, Georgia

  • 2012 San Diego, California

  • 2010 Annapolis, Maryland

  • 2008 Napa California

• Technical Program Committee IEEE/ACM SEC (Symposium on Edge Computing)

  • 2016 Washington, DC

• Technical Program Committee ACM Pervasive Displays (PerDis)

  • 2016 Oulu, Finland

  • 2015 Saarbrucken, Germany

  • 2014 Copenhagen, Denmark

• Technical Program Committee for IEEE ISWC Conference

  • 2008 Pittsburgh, USA

  • 2001 Zurich, Germany

• Technical Program Committee Pervasive Conference

  • 2005 Conference, Munich Germany

  • 2002 Zurich Switzerland

• Technical Program Committee IEEE PerCom 2004, Orlando, Florida

• Technical Program Committee Ubicomp 

  • 2003 Seattle , USA

  • 2002 Gotenburg, Sweden

• Technical Program Committee for ACM MobiCom 

  • 2001 Rome, Italy

  • 2000 Boston, USA

Editorial Posts

• Dept. Editor: ‘The IoT Connection’ Dept. IEEE Computer, Jan 2016-Present

• Dept. Editor:  ‘Smart Phone’ Dept.  IEEE Pervasive Computing, April 2010-2014

• Editor-in-Chief. IEEE Pervasive Computing. Jan 2006-2009

• Associate Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Fall 2001-2005

PhD Thesis Committees

• Robert K. Harle, “Maintaining World Models in Context-Aware Environments” , Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge UK, October 2004.

• Bill N. Schilit, “A Context-Aware System Architecture for Mobile Distributed Computing Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, NY, May 1995  

Government Grants, Industry Committees

• NAS Advisory Workshop on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Seattle, Apr 2004: Invited expert & panelist

• DARPA contract N66001-99-2-8924, 1999. "Expeditions into the Future", Portolano - Workscapes Project (sub. 993572).  Principal Investigator (PI),

• Infrared Data Association (IrDA) standards meetings 1995-1997: Representative for Xerox/PARC.

• DARPA contract DABT63-91-C-0027, 1991, “Ubiquitous Computing Program”, Affiliated Researcher.