Service

Cross-disciplinary Activities

  1. Participated, in two successive years, in leading university-level efforts to form a multi-organization team to respond for NSF’s Platform for Advanced Wireless Research grant solicitation, for an estimated $20M+ grant. The grant was awarded on the second attempt – see AERPAW under research.
  2. Led a collaboration with faculty in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, to write a $1M grant proposal to NSF to enable the design and building of a versatile research enablement network for NC State’s Laker Wheeler Road Field Laboratories, including dynamic high-bandwidth circuit provisioning, and an innovative in-network on-the-fly analytics platform. The proposal is currently pending at NSF.
  3. Participated in a university-level effort to assist the City of Raleigh in responding to a SmartCity challenge from the US DoT. Although our team did not place within the 7 finalists, this forged an important working relationship with the city.
  4. Led a university-level effort to successfully respond to the NSF Campus Cyberinfrastructure – Network Infrastructure and Engineering (CC-NIE) solicitation to submit a large infrastructure grant proposal (pending), with PIs from NCSU Office of Information Technology, CommTech, and Computer Science, and involving interaction with more than 20 NCSU faculty from various departments, 12 building facilities, and proposing a novel flexible campus network infrastructure.
  5. Played a key role in establishing the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networking and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS). In 2007, I was one of the small team of people who were involved in creating this conference, centered on telecommunications issues in growing highly populous economies such as many of South-east Asia, and the first IEEE networking conference to be homed in India, one of the largest and fastest growing networking industry arenas in South-east Asia. The distinguishing characteristic of IEEE ANTS is the promotion of an intense dialogue between academia and industry to bridge the gap between academic research, industry initiatives and governmental policies. Starting its second year, ANTS was recognized by IEEE Communications Society not only as being a sponsored conference, but a “portfolio conference”, one of only a few region-centered conferences in the ComSoc portfolio. I have served the conference in various organizing roles, including as TPC Chair and General Chair, and on the steering committee. I am no longer directly involved in running the conference, but I am happy to report that it is going strong.
  6. Led a cross-disciplinary proposal team, consisting of faculty from Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, to submit a large grant proposal (pending) in response to the Cyber-Physical Systems solicitation from NSF.

Other past activities

  1. Served on Dean’s Task Force for inaugural Engineering Day constructed project, 2009
  2. Served as Associate Technical Director of Secure Open Systems Initiative
  3. Participation in Reinforced Building and Bridges with Composites Center (an NSF-sponsored I/UCRC) – currently listed as a PI (involvement was in obtaining supplement)
  4. Active in research collaboration with Civil Engineering faculty from NCSU and University of Delaware (see projects above)
  5. Participant in Institute for Technology of the Next Generation (ITng)
  6. Attended Automotive workshop at College of Textiles, prepared and presented four invited posters, three of own research and one on behalf of networking group

University Service

  1. Member, University Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee (URPTC), 2019-20.
  2. Associate Department Head, Computer Science, since Fall 2018.
  3. Member, University Standing Committee on Extension, Engagement, and Economic Development, 2017-18, 2016-17.
  4. Member, Inaugural University Mentor-Rings program, Spring 2016.
  5. Member, Strategic Planning Committee, CSC Dept, 2015-16, 2014-15.
  6. Member, Graduate Program Oversight Committee, CSC Dept, 2016-17, 2015-16, 2014-15, 2013-14, 2012-13, 2011-12, 2010-11.
  7. Chair of the Graduate Admissions Committee, Computer Science Department, 2009-10, 2008-09, 2007-08.
  8. Chair of the Committee on Committees, Computer Science Department, Fall, 2007 – Spring 2008.
  9. Member of the Committee on Committees, Computer Science Department, Fall, 2006 – Spring 2007.
  10. Member of the Committee on Minority Recuitment, Computer Science Department, Fall, 2006 – Spring 2007.
  11. Member of the IT Services Initiative Committee of the Computer Science Department since Spring, 2006.
  12. Member of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee of the Computer Science Department since Fall 2001 to Fall, 2005.
  13. Member of the working group to develop Program Objective, Outcome and Assessment for the Computer Science Department.
  14. CSC departmental representative at the College of Engineering Course and Curriculum Committee, Spring, 2003.
  15. Meeting visiting prospective graduate students, Spring, 2002, Spring, 2003, Spring, 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2010.
  16. CoE Open House participant every year since 2001-02

Professional Community

  1. Member of the IEEE Future Networks INGR Optics Working Group, 2019-2023
  2. Lead Co-Chair, Optical Networking Symposium, IEEE Globecom, 2021
  3. General Co-Chair, IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, 2019
  4. TPC Co-Chair, IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, 2017
  5. TPC Co-Chair, IEEE NFV/SDN 2017
  6. TPC Co-Chair, IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, 2016
  7. Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, Design of Reliable Communications Networks, 2015
  8. Steering committee member, IEEE Advanced Networking and Telecommunications Conference, 2012, 2011
  9. Guest Editor, Elsevier OSN, Special Issue on ANTS 2010
  10. Editor, Elsevier Journal of Optical Switching and Networking
  11. General Chair, IEEE Advanced Networking and Telecommunication System (ANTS) 2010
  12. Guest Editor, Elsevier OSN, Special Issue on Green Communication Networks
  13. Guest Editor, Elsevier OSN, Special Issue on ANTS 2009
  14. Program Chair, IEEE Advanced Networking and Telecommunication System (ANTS) 2009
  15. Program Chair, Optical Networking Symposium, IEEE Globecom, 2008
  16. Program Vice-Chair, Optical Symposium, IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC) 2008
  17. Review Panelist, US National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
  18. Organizing Committee member, BroadNets 2007 (IEEE sponsored conference) – Industrial Liaison and Sponsorship Chair
  19. Organizing Committee member (Panels Chair) and Technical Program Committee member, BroadNets 2006 (IEEE sponsored conference)
  20. Organizing Committee member (Panels Chair) and Technical Program Committee member, BroadNets 2005 (IEEE sponsored conference)
  21. Co-Chair, 2nd International Workshop on Traffic Grooming, 2005 (IEEE sponsored)
  22. Technical Program Committee member, 1st International Workshop on Traffic Grooming, 2004 (IEEE sponsored)
  23. Member, International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.10 (Photonic Networking)
  24. Member, IEEE, IEEE Communications Society
  25. Member, Association for Computing Machinery
  26. Technical Program Committee member of numerous high-quality conferences, including IEEE Infocom
  27. Reviewer for many premium journals, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Elsevier Journal of Optical Switching and Networking