University of Waterloo

Professional Activities

Memberships in Societies and Offices Held ↑

  • Chair, Awards Standing Committee, IEEE Communications Society. 2026-2027.
  • Member, IEEE Canada Awards Committee, IEEE Canada / Region 7. 2024.
  • Member, Awards Committee, IEEE Communications Society. 2020-2022.
  • Founding member, Executive Committee, and Chair of the Publication Committee, IEEE Blockchain Initiative. 2018-2020.
  • Lead, IEEE Communications Society Software-Defined Networks Initiative. 2018-2020.
  • Member, IEEE Communications Society Emerging Technology Committee. 2018-2021.
  • Member, IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors, Publications Council, Online Content Board, and Technical Services Board. 2016-2017.
  • Director, IEEE Communications Society Magazines. 2016-2017.
  • Co-chair of Publications Committee, and Member of the Steering and Conference Committees, IEEE SDN Initiative. 2014-2017.
  • Canadian National Delegate to the IFIP Technical Committee on Communications Systems (TC6). 2012-present.
  • Director, Conference Publications Board of the IEEE Communications Society. 2008-2010.
  • Director, Society Relations Board of the IEEE Communications Society. 2006-2008.
  • Founding Director, IEEE Communications Society Standards Board. 2005-2006.
  • Chair, IEEE Communications Society Ad-hoc Committee on Standards. 2004-2005.
  • Member, IEEE Communications Society Standards Board. 2006-2008.
  • Member, IEEE Communications Society Online Content Board. 2004-2005.
  • Member, IEEE Communications Society Board of Journals. 2004-2010.
  • Member, IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors. 2005-2010.
  • Voting member, IEEE Communications Society Board of Meetings and Conferences (representing the "Networks and Systems Management" technology sector). 2004-present.
  • Founding Chair, Autonomic Communications Technical Committee, under emerging technologies of the IEEE Communications Society. 2006-present.
  • Chair, Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure (TCII), IEEE Communications Society. 2006-2010 (Vice Chair 2003-2005; Program Chair 2001-2003).
  • Founding Secretary, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee (AHSNTC) of the IEEE Communications Society. 2005.
  • Director, Autonomic Communication Forum. 2004-present.
  • Chair, IFIP Technical Committee on Communications (TC6) - Working Group 6.6 on Network and Distributed Systems Management. 2001-2007.
  • Fellow of the IEEE; member of ACM; member of IFIP WG6.2, WG6.9 and WG6.10; member of IEEE ComSoc, CNOM (Committee on Network Operation and Management) and AHSN (Committee on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks).
  • Chair, IEEE Communications Chapter, Kitchener-Waterloo. Since 2005.
  • Chair, IEEE joint Communications and Vehicular Technology Chapter, Kitchener-Waterloo. 2002-2005.
  • Chair, IEEE joint Computer, Communications and Vehicular Technology Chapter, Kitchener-Waterloo. 2000-2002.

Scientific Councils and Advisory Boards ↑

  • Advisory Board Member, EU Horizon 2020 AI@EDGE Project. 2021-2024.
  • Advisory Board Member, Research Center in Communications and Processing of Big Data in Clouds and Fogs, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil.
  • Advisory Board Member, Portuguese Programas de Actividades Conjuntas MobiWise Project. 2016-2020.
  • Advisory Board Member, EU Horizon 2020 reTHINK Project. 2015-2017.
  • Scientific and Industry Council Member, EU FP7 Flamingo Network of Excellence. 2013-2015.

Editorial Positions ↑

Journals

  • Editor-in-Chief. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 2018-2021.
  • Member of the Steering Committee. IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine. IEEE. 2016-2017.
  • Member of the Editorial Council. IEEE China Communications Magazine. IEEE. 2016-2017.
  • Co-Editor. Journal of Internet Services and Applications - thematic series on Computational Intelligence for Internet Services and Applications. Springer. 2016-present.
  • Advisory Board. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 2011-present.
  • Founding Editor-in-Chief. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 2007-2010.
  • Associate Editor. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 2011-2016.
  • Associate Editor. Vehicular Communications. Elsevier. 2013-2019.
  • Associate Editor. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. 2011-2012.
  • Editorial Board Member. International Journal of Network Management. ACM/Wiley. 2011-2016.
  • Editorial Board Member. Journal of Internet Services and Applications. Springer. 2010-present.
  • Editorial Board Member. Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. Wiley. 2010-2016.
  • Editor. KICS/IEEE International Journal on Communications and Networks (JCN). 2002-2016.
  • Advisory Editorial Board Member. International Journal of Network and Systems Management. Springer. 2001-present.
  • Editorial Board Member. Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing. American Scientific Publishers. 2005-present.
  • Editorial Board Member. Computer Networks Journal. Elsevier Science. 2006-2008.
  • Founding Editor-in-Chief. Electronic Transactions on Network and Service Management, sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. 2004-2006.
  • Editorial Board Member. International Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM). Springer. 1999-2001.

Book Series

  • Co-Editor, IEEE Press Book Series on Network and Service Management. 2026-present.
  • Member of the International Advisory Board, IEEE Book Series on Network and Service Management. 2019-2026.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee, ISTE Science Publishing - London (UK) Networks and Telecommunications Book Series (published by ISTE Ltd and Wiley, or ISTE Press and Elsevier). 2025-present.

Guest Editorships

  • Guest Co-editor. Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, special issue on Artificial Intelligence for Future 6G Systems. 2025-2026.
  • Guest Co-editor. ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, special issue on Network Orchestration and Management for 6G and Beyond. 2025-2026.
  • Guest Co-editor. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, special issue on Open Radio Access Networks: Architecture, Challenges, Opportunities, and Use Cases. 2023-2024.
  • Guest Co-editor. Springer Annals of Telecommunications, special issue on 6G Networks. 2024.
  • Guest Co-editor. Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management, special issue on High-Precision, Predictable and Low-Latency Networking. Vol. 30-31, 2023.
  • Guest Co-editor. IEEE Networking Letters, special issue on Networking Enablers for 6G Use Cases. 2022-2023.
  • Guest Co-editor. ACM/Wiley International Journal of Network Management, special issue on Challenges and Opportunities of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Vol. 30(5), 2020.
  • Guest Co-editor. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, special issue on Novel Techniques for Managing Softwarized Networks. Vol. 15(4), December 2018.
  • Guest Co-editor. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, special issue on Advances in Management of Softwarized Networks. Vol. 14(4), December 2017.
  • Guest Co-editor. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, special issue on Management of Softwarized Networks. Vol. 13(3), September 2016.
  • Guest Co-editor. Vehicular Communications, special issue on Vehicular Cloud Communications. Elsevier. Vol. 4, April 2016.
  • Guest Co-editor. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, special issue on Efficient Management of SDN and NFV-based Systems - Part I. Vol. 12(2), June 2015.
  • Guest Co-editor. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, special issue on Efficient Management of SDN and NFV-based Systems - Part II. Vol. 12(1), March 2015.
  • Guest Co-editor. Computer Networks Journal, special issue on Cloud Communications and Networks II. Elsevier. Vol. 93, October 2015.
  • Guest Co-editor. Computer Networks Journal, special issue on Cloud Communications and Networks. Elsevier. Vol. 68, August 2014.
  • Guest Co-editor. International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, special issue on Experiences in Planning and Deployment of Sensor Networks. Hindawi, 2014.
  • Guest Co-editor. China Communications, issue on Service Computing. IEEE Press, Vol. 10(9), September 2013.
  • Guest Co-editor. Journal of Internet Services and Applications, special issue on Network Virtualization. Springer, Vol. 4, Issue 11, November 2012.
  • Guest Co-editor. Computer Networks Journal, issue on Network Convergence. Elsevier, Vol. 55(7), May 2011.
  • Guest Co-editor. Computer Networks Journal, special issue on Wireless Multi-Hop Networking for Infrastructure Access. Elsevier, Vol. 54, Issue 2, February 2010.
  • Guest Co-editor. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, issue on Autonomic Communications. IEEE Press, Vol. 28, Issue 1, January 2010.
  • Guest Co-editor. Computer Communications Journal, special issue on Monitoring and Measurements of IP Networks. Elsevier Science, Vol. 29, Issue 10, June 2006.
  • Guest Co-editor. Computer Networks Journal, special issue on Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Trust, Reputation and Security. Elsevier Science, Vol. 50, Issue 4, March 2006.
  • Guest Co-editor. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, issue on Autonomic Communication Systems. IEEE Press, Vol. 23, Issue 12, December 2005.
  • Guest Co-editor. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Recent Advances in Managing Enterprise Network Services. IEEE Press, Vol. 23, Issue 10, October 2005.
  • Guest Co-editor. International Journal of Network and Systems Management, special issue on Active Management of Multimedia Networks and Services. Springer, Vol. 8, Issue 1, March 2000.
  • Guest Editor. International Journal on Interoperable Communication Networks, special issue on QoS Management in Multimedia Networks. Vol. 2, Issue 4, January 2000.
  • Guest Editor. ACM/Baltzer International Journal on Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), special issue on Resource Management in Wireless Networks. Vol. 4, Issue 2, June 1999.

Rogers Technical Executive Program (TEP) ↑

An executive workshop series on network automation, organized as part of the Rogers Chair in Network Automation at the University of Waterloo. Each workshop pairs technical talks with hands-on labs on a focused topic.

  • Workshop 3 — Transport Network Programmability. University of Waterloo. April 2026. [website]
  • Workshop 2 — Radio Access Networks. University of Waterloo. April 8-9, 2025. [website]
  • Workshop 1 — 5G Core Networks. University of Waterloo. November 2024 (with a follow-up session on February 25-26, 2025). [website]

Conference Organization ↑

Conference Steering Committees

  • Member. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks. 2022-present.
  • Founding Member. IEEE Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies (ICBC). 2018-present.
  • Member. IFIP/IEEE Smart Cloud Networks & Systems Conference (SCNS). 2018.
  • Chair. IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). 2010-present.
  • Chair. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet). 2012-2020.
  • Chair. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management (IM). 2001-present.
  • Chair. IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Network Operations and Management (NOMS). 2001-present.
  • Member. IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). 2015-2021.
  • Member. IEEE Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet). 2017-present.
  • Member. IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems (DAMNS). 2009-2013.
  • Member. IFIP Wireless Days Conference. 2008-2013.
  • Member. International Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures. 2014-2019.
  • Member. International Conference on Networking Systems and Security (NSysS). 2015-present.
  • Member. IEEE MASS Workshop on Cloud of Things (CoT). 2016.
  • Member. IEEE ICC Workshop on Application of Green Techniques to Emerging Communication and Computing Paradigms (GCC). 2012-2017.
  • Member. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on the Cloudification of the Internet of Things (CIoT). 2016-2018.
  • Member. IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT). 2012.
  • Founding Chair. IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS). 2007-2016.
  • Chair. IEEE/IFIP Management Week (MANWEEK). 2005-2009.
  • Chair. IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems Operation and Management (DSOM). 2001-2009.
  • Chair. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS). 1997-2009.
  • Member. IFIP International Conference on Autonomic Networking. 2006.
  • Member. IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Communications (WAC). 2005.

Conference Organizing Committees

  • Technical Program Chair. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. December 2028.
  • General Co-chair. ACM/IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Niagara Falls, Canada. October 30 - November 2, 2023.
  • General Co-chair. IEEE International Conference on 6G Networking. Paris, France. October 18-20, 2023.
  • General Co-chair. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Performance Evaluation and Modeling in Wired and Wireless Networks. Waterloo, Canada. November 23-25, 2021.
  • Workshops Co-Chair. 3rd International Workshop on High-Precision, Predictable, and Low-Latency Networking (HiPNet). October 29, 2021.
  • Publication Co-chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'21). Montreal, Canada. June 2021.
  • General Co-chair. IFIP Networking Conference. Paris, France. June 22-26, 2020.
  • Finance Chair. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'19). Hawaii, USA. December 2019.
  • Finance Chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'18). Kansas City, USA. June 2018.
  • Program Co-Chair. 3rd International Conference on Internet of Vehicles (IOV). Yanuca Island, Fiji. December 2016.
  • International Liaison. 18th Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS'16). Kanazawa, Japan. October 5-7, 2016.
  • Special Sessions Co-Chair. 5th IEEE Cloud Networking Conference (CLOUDNET). Pisa, Italy. October 3-5, 2016.
  • Finance Chair. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'15). San Diego, USA. December 2015.
  • General Chair. IEEE Cloud Networking Conference (CloudNet'15). Niagara Falls, Canada. October 2015.
  • General Co-chair. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM'15). Ottawa, Canada. May 2015.
  • Founding Technical Program Co-Chair. First IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NETSOFT). London, UK. April 2015.
  • General Chair. 5th IEEE Workshop on Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks (E2Nets'14), in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2014. Sydney, Australia. June 10-14, 2014.
  • Keynotes and Panels Co-Chair. IEEE Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaComm'14). Odessa, Ukraine. May 27-30, 2014.
  • Finance Chair. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS). Krakow, Poland. May 5-9, 2014.
  • General Co-Chair. Workshop on Cross-Cloud Systems (CrossCloud'14), in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2014. Toronto, Canada. April 27 - May 2, 2014.
  • Workshops Co-Chair. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). Istanbul, Turkey. April 6-9, 2014.
  • General Co-Chair. 3rd International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF'13). Pohang, Korea. October 23-25, 2013.
  • Publicity Co-Chair. 1st International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaComm'13). Batumi, Georgia. July 3-5, 2013.
  • Founding Co-Chair. 1st IEEE Workshop on Management and Security Technologies for Cloud Computing (MANSEC-CC'12). Anaheim, CA, USA. December 2012.
  • Founding General Co-Chair. 1st IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet'12). Paris, France. November 28-30, 2012.
  • Symposium Co-chair. 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm'12) - Symposium on Smart Grid Services and Management Models. Taipei, Taiwan. November 5-8, 2012.
  • Finance Chair. IFIP/IEEE/ACM Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Las Vegas, USA. October 2012.
  • Track Co-Chair. IEEE 76th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall'12) - Track on Wireless Networks. Quebec City, Canada. September 3-6, 2012.
  • Program Co-Chair. 8th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC'12). Limassol, Cyprus. August 2012.
  • Technical Program Co-Chair. 52nd IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'12). Ottawa, Canada. June 10-15, 2012.
  • Track Chair. 5th International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI'12) - Track on Telemedicine and eHealth. Perth, Australia. June 6-8, 2012.
  • General Co-Chair. 3rd IEEE Workshop on Energy Efficiency in Wireless Networks (E2Nets'12). Ottawa, Canada. June 10, 2012.
  • Finance Chair. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'12). Maui, Hawaii, USA. April 16-20, 2012.
  • Patrons Chair. IFIP/IEEE/ACM Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Paris, France. October 2011.
  • General Chair. 4th IFIP Wireless Days (WD'11). Niagara Falls, Canada. October 10-12, 2011.
  • Program Co-chair. 7th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC'11). Istanbul, Turkey. July 5-8, 2011.
  • General Co-chair. 7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC'10). Xi'an, China. October 2010.
  • Founding General Chair. IEEE/ACM/IFIP Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM'10). Niagara Falls, Canada. October 2010.
  • Founder and General Co-Chair. IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of Smart Grids, co-located with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2010. Osaka, Japan. April 23, 2010.
  • Publication Co-Chair. IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'10). San Diego, USA. April 2010.
  • Finance Chair. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'09). Hawaii, USA. November 2009.
  • International Liaison. 12th IEEE Asia Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS'09). Jeju, Korea. September 2009.
  • General Co-Chair. IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communications and Network Management (ACNM'09), co-located with IM 2009. Long Island, USA. June 2009.
  • General Chair. IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS'09). Hammamet, Tunisia. June 23-25, 2009.
  • Symposium Co-Chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'09) - Symposium on Communications and Information Security. Dresden, Germany. June 2009.
  • Technical Program Co-Chair. 11th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2009) - Track on System Safety and Security. Lyon, France. November 3-6, 2009.
  • Track Co-Chair. 24th IEEE Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Application (AINA) - Track on Autonomic Computing and Communication. Perth, Australia. April 20-23, 2010.
  • General Co-Chair. IEEE Distributed and Autonomous Management of Networks and Services Workshop (DAMNS), co-located with GLOBECOM 2008. New Orleans, LA, USA. November 2008.
  • Symposium Co-Chair. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'08) - Symposium on Wireless Sensors and Adhoc Networks. New Orleans, LA, USA. November 2008.
  • Co-founder and General Co-chair. IFIP/IEEE Autonomic Communications and Network Management Workshop (ACNM'08), co-located with NOMS 2008. Salvador, Brazil. April 2008.
  • Finance Chair. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'08). Salvador, Brazil. April 2008.
  • Program Co-chair. Dagstuhl Seminar on Self-Managing Networks. 2007.
  • Symposium Co-Chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'07) - Symposium on Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. Glasgow, Scotland. June 2007.
  • Founding General Co-chair. IFIP/IEEE Autonomic Communications and Network Management Workshop (ACNM), co-located with IM 2007. Munich, Germany. May 2007.
  • IEEE Society Liaison. IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'07). Las Vegas, USA. January 2007.
  • Symposium Co-Chair. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'06) - Symposium on Wireless Sensors and Adhoc Networks. San Francisco, CA, USA. November 2006.
  • International Liaison. IEEE Asia Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS). Busan, Korea. September 2006.
  • Technical Program Co-Chair. Workshop on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ACC 2006). Niagara Falls, USA. June 2006.
  • Symposium Co-Chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'06) - General Symposium. Istanbul, Turkey. June 2006.
  • General Chair. IEEE/IFIP Symposium on Network Operations and Management (NOMS'06). Vancouver, Canada. April 2006.
  • Technical Track Chair. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC). Montreal, Canada. September 2006.
  • Founder and General Chair. First IEEE/IFIP Management Week (MANWEEK'05) - co-location of fall network management events: 8th MMNS, 16th DSOM, 5th IPOM and SSS. Barcelona, Spain. October 2005.
  • Program Co-chair. IFIP/UNESCO Commission on Building the Infrastructure (WITFOR 2005). Gaborone, Botswana. August 2005.
  • Technical Program Co-Chair. 3rd International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems (SAACS 05). Copenhagen, Denmark. August 2005.
  • Technical Program Co-Chair. Workshop on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ACC'05). Taormina, Italy. June 2005.
  • Technical Program Co-Chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'05) - Symposium on Next Generation Universal Services. Seoul, Korea. May 2005.
  • Patrons Chair. IFIP/IEEE Integrated Network Management Symposium (IM'05). Nice, France. May 2005.
  • Technical Program Chair. IFIP Networking Conference (Networking'05). Waterloo, Canada. May 2005.
  • Technical Program Chair. IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC'05). Las Vegas, USA. January 2005.
  • Technical Program Co-Chair. IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Network Operations and Management (NOMS'04). Seoul, Korea. April 2004.
  • Tutorials Chair. IEEE International Symposium on Computer Communications (ISCC'04). Alexandria, Egypt. July 2004.
  • Panel Chair. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'03).
  • Finance Chair. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated Network Management (IM'03). Colorado Springs, USA. March 2003.
  • Keynotes / Distinguished Expert Panel / Birds-of-a-Feather Chair. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Integrated Network Management (IM'01). Seattle, USA. May 2001.
  • Panel Chair. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'01).
  • Program Co-Chair. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'00).
  • Program Co-Chair. IFIP Mini-conference on Active & Programmable Networks 2000.
  • Publicity Chair. IFIP Networking Conference 2000.
  • Co-Chair. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'98).
  • Founder and Program Chair. IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'97).
  • Program Co-Chair. IEEE Workshop on Feature Interactions in Telecommunication Networks (FIW'97).

Conference Technical Program Committees

  • IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management (IM). 2001-present.
  • IEEE/IFIP Asia Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS). 2006-present.
  • IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). 2010-present.
  • IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). 2007-2014.
  • IFIP Networking Conference. 2005-present.
  • ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) - Track on Networking. 2007-present.
  • IEEE Global Information Infrastructure Symposium (GIIS). 2007-2017.
  • International Teletraffic Congress (ITC). 2007, 2009, 2013, 2015.
  • IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC). 2011-2015.
  • International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF). 2011-2015.
  • IEEE International Workshop on Data Mining in Networks (DaMNet). 2011-2015.
  • IEEE Symposium on Smart Grid Management and Service Design (SmartGridComm). 2011-2015.
  • IFIP International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS). 2011-2016.
  • IEEE Latin American Conference on Cloud Computing and Communications (LatinCloud). 2012-2016.
  • IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on QoE Centric Management (QCMan). 2012-2015.
  • IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Smart Grids and Green Networks (CCSES). 2012-2014.
  • IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Name Oriented Mobility (NOM). 2014.
  • ACM/IEEE 14th Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid). 2014.
  • Intelligent Cloud Computing Conference. 2014.
  • IEEE/ACM Distributed Cloud Computing Workshop, co-located with Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC). 2013.
  • IEEE Software Defined Networks for Future Networks and Service (SDN4FNS). 2013.
  • IEEE Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications: Green ICT (TIWDC). 2013.
  • IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC). 2013.
  • ACM Cloud and Autonomic Computing Conference (CAC). 2013.
  • IEEE International Workshop on Management of Cloud Systems (MoCS). 2013.
  • IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for the Internet of Things (CIfIoT). 2012.
  • IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Communications over Emerging Networks (MCEN). 2012.
  • IEEE International Workshop on Social Networks and TV (SNTV). 2012.
  • International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI). 2012.
  • IEEE Conference on Advanced Infocomm Technologies (ICAIT). 2012.
  • IEEE Workshop on Rural Communications (RuralComm). 2011-2013.
  • IEEE International Workshop on Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2M). 2011-2013.
  • USENIX Hot Topics in Management of Internet, Cloud, Enterprise Networks and Services (Hot-ICE). 2011-2012.
  • IEEE Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC). 2011.
  • IEEE ICC Workshop on Networking Technologies and Strategies for Emerging Markets (NTSEM). 2011.
  • IFIP Workshop on Provisioning and Management of Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Computing. 2011.
  • IEEE Federation of Telecommunications Engineers of the European Community International Congress. 2011.
  • IEEE International Workshop on Smart Grid Communications and Networks (SG-ComNeTs). 2011.
  • ICCCN 2011 Workshop on Social Interactive Media Networking and Applications (SIMNA). 2011.
  • IEEE International Symposium on Programming and Systems (ISPS). 2011-2013.
  • IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC). 2011.
  • IEEE International Conference on Smart Measurements for Future Grids (SMFG). 2011.
  • IEEE International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Internet of Things (SPIoT). 2011.
  • IEEE Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC). 2011.
  • IEEE/IFIP Cloud Management Workshop (CloudMan). 2010-2012.
  • IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY). 2010-2012.
  • IEEE INFOCOM Work in Progress Track (WiP). 2010.
  • International Conference on Wireless and Ubiquitous Systems (ICWUS). 2010.
  • IEEE/IFIP Workshop on Embedded Network Management (NEMA). 2010.
  • IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Management of the Future Internet (ManFI). 2009-2012.
  • IFIP Wireless Days. 2008-present.
  • IEEE International Workshop on Personalized Networks (PerNet). 2008, 2012.
  • IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO). 2007-2009.
  • EUROPEAN Conference on Universal Multiservice Networks (ECUMN). 2007.
  • IEEE Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems (DANMS). 2006-2012.
  • IFIP/IEEE Broadband Convergence Networks (BcN). 2006-2011.
  • IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob). 2005-2008.
  • IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC). 2005-2006.
  • IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Communication (WAC). 2004-2005.
  • IEEE Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks (SBRC). 2004-2007.
  • IFIP International Workshop on Active Networks (IWAN). 2005.
  • IEEE Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks (SECON). 2005-2006.
  • IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). 2005-2006, 2011.
  • IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). 2005-2006.
  • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). 2001-present.
  • IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM). 2001-present.
  • IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS). 1997-present.
  • IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems Operation and Management (DSOM). 1999-2009.
  • IEEE Workshop on Feature Interactions in Telecommunication Networks (FIW). 1997.

Refereeing and Reviewing ↑

Funding Agencies and Research Bodies

  • Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Science Academies of the G7 (S7) Task Force, in the context of Canada's presidency of the G7 in 2025.
  • Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm - International panel for KTH research assessment.
  • ETH Zurich Research Commission for scientific evaluation.
  • Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong.
  • National Institutes of Science and Technology (INCT), Brazil.
  • Ontario Research Fund (ORF).
  • NSERC Appeal Advisor, Discovery Grants program.
  • Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Austria.
  • European Research Council (ERC), European Union.
  • MITACS.
  • Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) and its Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO) Division.
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC): Discovery Grants, Collaborative Research Grants, Strategic Research Grants, NSERC Industry Research Chairs, Steacy Fellowships, NSERC CREATE Grants.
  • Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
  • Quebec Fonds de recherche sur la nature et les technologies (FQRNT).
  • Science Foundation Ireland (SFI).
  • French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR).
  • Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).
  • Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT).
  • Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Brazil.
  • Ministry of Higher Education of Saudi Arabia.
  • Competitive Internal Research Award (CIRA), Khalifa University of Science and Technology, UAE.
  • Research funding program of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia.
  • National Commission for Scientific and Technological Development (CONICYT) and Superior Council of the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development (FONDECYT), Chile.
  • Telecom Paris-Sud (INT) "Future et Rupture" scholarship program.
  • German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), Israel.
  • Narodowe Centrum Nauki (NCN), Poland.
  • National Center of Science and Technology, Republic of Kazakhstan.
  • Reviewer of a book for IEEE and a number of book proposals for various publishers.
  • Frequent reviewer for international journals (IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Network Management, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Letters, Journal of Network and Systems Management, Computer Networks, IEEE Transactions on Wireless, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Computer Communications) and numerous international conferences and workshops.

Research Review Panels

  • Research Assessment of KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden.
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Research Tools and Instruments Grants.
  • International Review Panel of INRIA "Networks and Telecommunications" theme evaluation (15 research groups).
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarships (OGS).
  • Fonds Quebecois de Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT).
  • Science Foundation Ireland.
  • Portuguese Research Foundation (FCT).
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Discovery Grants Program.
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France.
  • Review Panel for the Accreditation of the College of IT, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU).
  • iGrants, Office of Research Support at Qatar University (QU).

Academic Programs and Hiring Review Panels

  • Computer Networks graduate programs, Toronto Metropolitan University. 2025.
  • Ecole de Technologies Superieure (ETS), Montreal - Bachelor's Degree in Distributed Computing. 2023.
  • University of Vienna, professorial appointments. 2022.
  • Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Research Chair applications. 2021.
  • School of Computing and Engineering (SCE), University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). 2021.
  • University of Zurich, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultaet (Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics) - committee for professorial hiring. 2020.
  • Telecom ParisTech, committee for professorial hiring. 2020.
  • Undergraduate major in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), American University of Beirut (AUB). 2018.
  • Member of the Review Panel for the Accreditation of the College of IT (BSc in IT, Computer Engineering, CS, Computer Security; MSc in IT Management, Information Security, Network Engineering, and Software Engineering), United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). 2017.