My Professional Activities

Editorial Board

  1. Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, 2018 – Present.

  2. Senior Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2017-2021.

  3. Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2013 – 2017.

  4. Associate Editor, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, 2008 – 2013.

  5. Associate Editor, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, 2007 – Present.

  6. International Editorial Review Board member, International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management, 2010 – Present.

  7. Associate Editor, IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) E-Letter, 2012 – 2014.

  8. Director of MMTC Membership board, 2014 – Present.

Guest Editor of Special Issues

  1. Special issue of IEEE Trans. On Multimedia, “Multimedia Computing With Interpretable Machine Learning,” July 2020.

  2. Special issue of IEEE MMTC E-Letter, “Big Data Analytics for Multimedia Systems”, May 2014.

  3. Special issue of International Journal of Semantic Computing on “ISM 2013”, April 2014.

  4. Special issue of IEEE Trans. On Multimedia, “Social, Connected, and Smart TV,” 2012.

  5. Special issue of IEEE MMTC E-Letter, “Large-scale Multimedia Copy Detection Algorithms and Systems”, 2012.

  6. Special issue of the Journal of Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology, “Advances in Peer-to-peer Content Search”, Vol. 59, No. 3, June 2010.

  7. Special issue of Multimedia Tools and Applications, “New Achievements in Pervasive and Interactive Multimedia Systems and Applications,” Vol. 37, No. 3, May 2008.

  8. Special issue of the International Journal of Semantic Computing, “Best Papers from First IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing,” Vol. 1, No. 4, Dec. 2007.

Organizing Committee Member

  1. Area chair, IEEE ICME 2021 and 2022.

  2. Tutorial co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data 2015.

  3. Industrial Program co-chair, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2014.

  4. Program co-chair, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2013.

  5. Special session Co-chair, Multimedia Content Delivery Networks, IEEE CCNC 2012.

  6. Symposium Co-Chair, Consumer Communications and Home Networks, ICNC 2012.

  7. Workshop Co-chair, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2011.

  8. Special session Co-chair, Multimedia Content Delivery Networks, IEEE CCNC 2011.

  9. Technical program Co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo 2010.

  10. Symposium Co-chair, Signal Processing for Communications, IEEE GlobeCom 2010.

  11. Industrial Program Co-chair, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2009.

  12. Program Co-Chair, Multimedia, WOCC 2009 and 2007.

  13. Special session Co-chair, IPTV Towards Seamless Infotainment, IEEE CCNC 2009.

  14. Best Paper Award Co-chair, IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2008.

  15. Technical Area Co-chair, IEEE ICSC 2008.

  16. Special session Co-chair, Three screen services and technologies, ACM CIVR 2008.

  17. Technical Program Vice Chair, IEEE CCNC 2008.

  18. Best Paper Award Co-chair, IEEE ICSC 2007.

  19. Special session Co-chair, P2P Multimedia Content Access and Distribution, IEEE ICME 2007.

  20. Career Forum Chair, IEEE CCNC 2007.

  21. Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE ISM 2006.

  22. Special session Co-chair, P2P Multimedia, IEEE ICME 2006.

Journal Reviews

  1. IEEE Trans. on Multimedia

  2. IEEE Trans. on Speech and Audio Processing

  3. IEEE Trans. on Image Processing

  4. IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

  5. IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks

  6. IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

  7. IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security

  8. IEEE Trans. on Networking

  9. IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology

  10. IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications

  11. IEEE Network Magazine

  12. IEEE Communication Letters

  13. IEEE Signal Processing Letters

  14. Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

  15. Entropy

  16. Annals of Telecommunications

  17. ETRI Journal – Information, Telecommunications and Electronics

  18. IET Image Processing

  19. Computer Communication

  20. Multimedia Tools and Applications

  21. Speech Communication

Conference Reviews

ICASSP, ICIP, ICME, CCNC, MMM, MMSP, ACMMM, SIGMAP, GlobeCom, ICC, MDMKDD, InfoComm, ISCC, VTC, WCSP, WiMob, 3DTV-Conference, ARSU, ConTel, DAC, ICSC, PCM, AXMEDIS, ISM, EUSIPCO, MobEA, ICIMCS, MMM, IWITMA, ISM.

Research Funding Reviews

  1. Panelist in the information & intelligent systems division of NSF, 2012.

  2. National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2011, 2005.

  3. CUNY Collaborative Incentive Research Grants Program, 2009.

  4. Missouri University of Science and Technology Research Grant Program, 2002.