Scientific Community Service

Current Appointments

• • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2020 – Present; Associate Editor).

  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (2018 – Present; Associate Editor).

Past Appointments

• • ACM Computing Surveys (2018 – 2021; Associate Editor).

  • IEEE IT Pro (2015 – 2018; Associate Editor; 2018 – 2021; Associate Editor-in-Chief).

  • IEEE Access (2014 – 2019; Associate Editor).

  • IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2013 – 2019; Associate Editor).

  • IET Wireless Sensor Systems (2016 – 2019; Associate Editor).

  • IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory and Applications (2016 – 2019).

  • Scalable Computing and Communications, Springer (2012 – 2013; and 2016 – 2017; Associate Editor).

  • IEEE Cloud Computing (2014 – 2016; Associate Editor).

  • IEEE Transactions on Computers (2014 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  • Informatica, Slovene Informatika Society (2009 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  • Interdisciplinary Sciences, Springer (2009 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  • Cluster Computing, Springer (2010 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  • International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley (2009 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  • Security and Communication Networks, Wiley (2009 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  • Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, Inderscience (2009 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  • International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, IGI Global (2009 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  • International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Inderscience (2011 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  • Journal of Cloud Computing, Springer (2014 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  • Journal of Information Technology Research, IGI Global (2009 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  • Multiagent and Grid Systems, IOS press (2009 – 2015; Associate Editor).

  •  International Journal of Green Computing, IGI Global (2009 – 2013; Associate Editor).

  • Information Systems, Elsevier (2009 – 2011; Associate Editor).

Member of the IEEE Computer Society Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Standards Committee (2021 – Present).

Member of the Committee of Visitors (COV) for the National Science Foundation, Computer and Information Science, and Engineering, Division of Computer and Network Systems (2023).

Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Technical Area in Green Computing (2011 – Present).

Vice Communication Chair of the IEEE Special Technical Community on Sustainable Computing (2015 – Present).

Member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (2011 – Present).

Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Cloud Systems (2010 – Present).

Member of the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Cybernetics (2017 – Present).

Member of the Advisory Committee on the IET Big Data book series (2015 – Present).

Proposal review panelist for the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA.

Proposal review panelist for the Department of Defense (DoD), USA.

Proposal review panelist for the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), USA.

Proposal review panelist for the European Research Council (ERC), European Union.

Proposal review panelist for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France.

Proposal review panelist for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canada.

Proposal review panelist for the Research Council (TRC), Sultanate of Oman.

Proposal review panelist for the National Science Centre (NSC), Poland.

Proposal review panelist for the Netherlands Science Foundations (NWO and STW), Netherlands.

Proposal review panelist for the National Center of Science and Technology (NCST), Kazakistan.

Member of the panel on “cloud computing” as part of the International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2012.

Member of the panel on “green computing” as part of ACM/IEEE/IFIP International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS), 2010.

General Chair of IEEE Cloud Summit, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

General Chair of the International Conference on Emerging Trends and Applications in Artificial Intelligence (ICETAI), 2023.

General Chair of the International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT), 2019.

General Chair of the Services Conference Federation (SCF), 2020.

 General Co-Chair of Scalable Solutions for GreenIT (SCALSOL) as part of the IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (SCALCOM), 2011.

General Co-Chair of the Workshop on Scalable Optimization in Intelligent Networking (SCOPIN) as part of the IEEE International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2011.

General Co-Chair of the Workshop on Optimization Issues in Energy Efficient Distributed Systems (OPTIM) as part of the ACM/IEEE/IFIP International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS), 2010.

General Co-Chair of the Workshop on GreenIT Evolutionary Computation as part of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2011, 2012.

Co-Chair of the Track on Metaheuristics and Green Computing as part of the International Conference on Metaheuristics and Naturally Inspired Computing (META), 2010, 2011, 2012.

Co-Chair of the Track on High-Performance Green Computing as part of the International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering (PARANG), 2011.

Chair of the Advisory Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), 2018.

Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Computing (ICSEC), 2024.

Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom), 2014, 2015.

Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), 2011, 2012, 2013.

Member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Eco-Friendly Computing and Communication Systems (ICECCS), 2014, 2015.

Member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

Member of the Organizing Committee of the National Science Foundation, Computer Systems Principal Investigators Meeting, 2023.

Member of the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology (ICCSB), 2010.

Member of the Advisory Board of the European Conference on Modeling and Simulation (ECMS), 2011, 2012.

Member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems (ICACCS), 2013.

Member of the International Advisory Committee of the International IT Summit Confluence, 2012.

Technical Program Committee Chair of the IEEE Cloud Summit (CloudSummit), 2020.

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Data Intensive Systems (DSDIS), 2015.

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2014.

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.

Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), 2010.

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC), 2011.

Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid and Home (SGH), 2011.

Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud), 2014.

Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), 2016.

Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), 2012.

Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DASS), 2016.

Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainComm), 2015.

Track Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2011.

Track Co-Chair of the International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaboration Systems (INCoS), 2017.

Workshop Chair of the 19th IEEE Conference on High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2017.

Workshop Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (SCALCOM), 2011.

Proceedings Chair of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2016.

Industrial Co-Chair of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2010.

Co-Chair of Local Arrangements of the IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2019.

ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference (CAC), 2013.

ACM/IEEE Intl. Conference on Big Data Science, Engineering and Applications (BDSEA), 2016.

ACM Workshop on Energy Efficient High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (EEHPDC), 2013.

ACS/IEEE Intl. Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA), 2010.

Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS), 2014.

IEEE/ACM Intl. Conference on Cloud and Utility Computing (UCC), 2015, 2016.

IEEE/ACM Intl. Conference on High-Performance Computing (HiPC), 2011.

IEEE/ACM Intl. Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2012, 2020.

IEEE Cloud Summit, 2020.

IEEE Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2009–2014.

IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2009–2016.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (ICCD), 2013, 2014.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Advances in Cloud Computing (ACC), 2012.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications, and Informatics (ICACCI), 2014.

IEEE Intl. Symposium on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity), 2015, 2016.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Cloud and Service Computing (CSC), 2011–2013.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT), 2014.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011–2017, 2021.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2015.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), 2019.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2012, 2018–2020.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2014.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CIIA), 2013.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC), 2016, 2018.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), 2012–2015.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Cyber-enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC), 2015.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Edge Computing and Scalable Cloud (EdgeCom), 2019.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech), 2011.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Intelligent Data and Security (IDS), 2016.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2015.

IEEE Intl. Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC), 2012.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), 2016.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), 2015.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2018.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Smart Cloud (SmartCloud), 2018.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013–2015, 2020.

IEEE Intl. Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Information Security (WCNIS), 2010.

IEEE Intl. Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), 2016.

IEEE Intl. Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2011–2016, 2020, 2021.

IEEE Intl. Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2012, 2013, 2014.

IEEE Intl. Symposium on Computer Architecture and High-Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), 2012.

IEEE Intl. Symposium on High Performance and Smart Computing (HPSC), 2015, 2016.

IEEE Intl. Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), 2007.

IEEE Intl. Symposium on Network Computing and Application (NCA), 2018, 2020, 2022.

IEEE Intl. Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC), 2014–2016.

IEEE Intl. Symposium on Programming and Systems (ISPS), 2011, 2013.

IEEE Intl. Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), 2014.

IEEE Intl. Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf), 2012–2017.

IEEE Intl. Workshop on Digital Computing Infrastructure and Applications (DCIA), 2010–2012.

IEEE Intl. Workshop on Internet of Things and Internet of Services: Cyber-Physical Systems (IoT-IoS), 2010.

IEEE Intl. Workshop on IT Converged Services and Applications (ITCSA), 2011.

IEEE Intl. Workshop on Security in e-Science and e-Research (ISSR), 2011–2014.

IEEE Intl. Workshop on Wireless and Internet Services (WISe), 2010, 2012.

IEEE Intl. Workshop Towards Smart Communications and Network Technologies Applied on Autonomous Systems (SaCoNAS), 2010.

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2013.

IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC), 2015.

IFIP Intl. Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC), 2013.

IFIP Intl. Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 2011.

Intl. Conference on Advances in Information Technology (IAIT), 2015.

Intl. Conference on Applied Informatics (ICAI), 2018.

Intl. Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CLOUDTECH), 2015, 2020.

Intl. Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), 2013.

Intl. Conference on Communication Technology (ICCT), 2006.

Intl. Conference on Complex Distributed Systems (CODS), 2010, 2011.

Intl. Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCI), 2005.

Intl. Conference on Computing, Networking, and Communications (ICNC), 2012, 2013.

Intl. Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN), 2013, 2014.

Intl. Conference on ICTs for Disaster Management (ICT-DM), 2014.

Intl. Conference on ICT as Key Technology for the Fight against Global Warming (ICT-GLOW), 2011, 2012.

Intl. Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS), 2013.

Intl. Conference on Internet Engineering (ICIE), 2006.

Intl. Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI), 2014.

Intl. Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE), 2008, 2009.

Intl. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), 2006–2010.

Intl. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDS), 2005.

Intl. Computer Science and Engineering Conference (ICSEC), 2024.

Intl. Symposium on Security and Multimodality in Pervasive Environments (SMPE), 2010.

Intl. Symposium on u- and e-Service, Science, and Technology (UNESST), 2008.

Intl. Workshop on Trust, Security, and Privacy for Big Data (TrustData), 2013.

Workshop on Collaboration in Virtual Environments (CoVE), 2012.

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems.

ACM Transactions on Storage.

ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation.

Advances in Information Sciences and Service Sciences.

AIP/IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering.

Computer Networks.

Computers and Mathematics.

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

CRC Press Book Series.

Elsevier Book Series.

Future Generation Computer Systems.

IEEE Computer.

IEEE Communications Letters.

IEEE Distributed Systems Online.

IEEE Systems Journal.

IEEE Sensors Journal.

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.

IEEE Transactions on Communications.

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

IET Book Series.

International Journal of Computers and their Applications.

International Journal of Grid and High-Performance Computing

International Journal of Parallel Programming.

Journal of Heuristics.

Journal of Internet Services and Applications.

Journal of Network and Computer Applications.

Journal of Signal Processing Systems.

Journal of Supercomputing.

Nature.

Pervasive and Mobile Computing.

Optical Engineering.

Recent Patents in Computer Science.

Sensors.

Software: Practice and Experience.

Sustainable Computing.

Telematics and Informatics.

Wiley Book Series.

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.

Mississippi State University

• • ASE Department Head Search Committee, Chair, 2021 – 2022.

  • Quantum Computing Task Force (QuTF), Co-chair, 2021.

  • BCOE Research Engagement Task Force, Member, 2021.

North Dakota State University

• • North Dakota University System Task Force on Cybersecurity, Member, 2015 – 2016.

  • NDSU Advisor Board for Student Affairs, Member, 2015 – 2016.

  • NDSU Organization of Pakistani Students, Faculty Advisor, 2014 – 2016.

    • • • Recipient of the 2014/2015 Student Organization of the Year Award

        • Recipient of the 2014/2015 Best Cultural/Diversity Program of the Year Award

        • The Organization President, S. O. Ahmed, was the 2014/2015 Student Leader of the Year awardee

  • NDSU Graduate Affiliated Status Committee, Member, 2015 – 2016.

  • NDSU Graduate Council, Member, 2014 – 2016.

  • NDSU Graduate School Appeal Committee, Member, 2015.

  • NDSU Director of the Office of Institutional Research Search Committee, Member, 2015.

  • Program Review Committee, Member, 2014 – 2015.

  • CoE Grant Coordinator Search Committee, Member, 2014.

  • NDSU Provost Search Committee, Member, 2013 – 2014.

  • ECE Computer Engineering Curriculum Committee, Chair, 2013 – 2014.

  • ECE Research Web Portal, Maintainer, 2009 – 2013.

  • ECE Chair Search Committee, Member, 2010 – 2013.

  • ECE Faculty Search Committee, Member, 2011 – 2012.

International Advisory Board, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Member, 2022 – Present.

Rotary, Starkville MS, Member, 2021 – Present.

AccessEngineering Leadership Team, Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT), University of Washington, Member, 2015 – 2016.

Community Advisory Board of Prairie Public, (Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)), Member, 2013 – 2016.