Services

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Professional Service: 

-  Founding Member of IEEE SIG on Artificial Intelligence Empowered Internet of Vehicles (AIIOV)

-  Member of Reviewer Board, MDPI Vehicles Journal

-  Served as Judge, FIRST Lego League and Tech Challenge: Robotics, Texas (2022, 2021, 2020)

-  National Science Foundation (NSF) Mini Ideas Lab, Part of Cybersecurity Research Cluster, CAHSI

Organizing Committee Member:

- Local Chair for Mobiquitous 2019 conference

Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member:

- International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime 2022

- International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS) 2021

- International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime 2021

- IEEE SmartGridComm 2020

- International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime 2020 

- Mobiquitous 2020

- IEEE SmartGridComm 2019

- Mobiquitous 2019

Reviewer for journals: 

- IEEE Internet of Things Journal

- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems

- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 

- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

- IEEE Access

- Elsevier Computers and Security

- IEEE Networking letters

- IEEE Communication letters

- IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

- Peer to Peer Networking and Applications

- Vehicles Journal

- Sensors Journal

- Applied Sciences: Computing and Artificial Intelligence

- Applied Sciences: Sensors

- Journal of Communication and Networks

Reviewer for conferences:

-  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

-  IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)

-  World Forum Internet of Things (WFIoT)

-  IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)

-  IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications : Cybersecurity and Privacy (SGC)

-  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)

-  IEEE SmartGridComm

-  IEEE Sarnoff Symposium

-  Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)

Professional Memberships:

- IEEE Member, Member of IEEE Communications Society and Computer Society 

- Women in Engineering

- Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys)

- Networking Networking (N2) Women

University Service: 

• Serving as alternate to senate

• Member of Cybersecurity Community of Practice and UTEP’s Security Assessment and Data Working Group

• ECE BS and Minor in Computer Engineering Committee

• ECE Computer Engineering Curriculum Development Committee

• ECE Graduate Committee

• ECE Department Tenure Track Faculty Search Committee (for 2021, 2022 and 2024 hiring)

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Community Service: 

• Active volunteer in Metropolitan Volunteer Program, University of Houston.

• Event coordinator and career counselor (2009-2013) for 'Yuva varadhi' to spread the need of education in rural India.

• Member of NSS, India

• Volunteered at the Free Software Movement of India – National Convention for Academics and Research.

• Co-founded an initiative under street-cause 'Sahaay' (Help) that serves, educates and cares for orphans and homeless children in need. Also organized blood donation campaigns. (2011-present)

• Volunteer for Devnar School for Blind, Hyderabad (2005-present).