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).