PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Co-Editor, IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking, 2009

 

Editor, Journal of Information Science and Engineering, 2002 -present

 

Editor, IEEE Trans. on Computers, 1992 to 1997

 

Editor, Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, 1997-present

 

Editor, International Journal on Cluster Computing, 1998 –present

 

Editor, International Journal of Computer Science and Applications, 2004-present

 

Guest Editor, Special Issue of IEEE Computer on “Continuous Media on Demand”, September 2001

 

Guest Editor, Special Issue of Communications of ACM on

"Experiments and Experiences with ATM Networks" published in Feb. 1995.

 

Workshop Co-Chair, ICDCS, 2010

 

General Co-Chair, ICDCS, 2011

 

Program Committee Chair, International Conference on Parallel Processing, 2009

 

General Chair, IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium, 2009, Oakland, California 

General co-chair, 4th International Conference on Next Generation of Web Services, Seoul, Korea, October 2008

 

Program Committee Vice-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2008

 

Treasurer, IEEE Privacy and Security Symposium, 2008

 

Member of Steering Committee, ACM Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet), 2007-2009

 

General Co-Chair, ACM Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet), 2008

 

Member of International Program Committee, SIGMAP (International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications), 2007

 

Member of Program Committee, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2007

 

Conference Co-General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Next Generation Web Services, August 2005, Seoul, Korea

 

Program Committee Vice Chair, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2005

 

Conference Co-Organizer: Intelligent Storage Workshop, 2003 to 2006

 

Program Committee Co-Chair: Intelligent Storage Workshop 2004

 

Invited Panelist, Storage Workshop, Supercomputing 2004

 

International Program Committee Member of IASTED (International Association of Science and Technology Development), 2004 and 2005

 

Program Committee Member, IEEE ICME 2001-2006

 

Program Area Committee Chair, IEEE ICME 2002

 

Program Committee Member, SPIE Conference on Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), 2004-2008

 

Program Committee Member, Distributed Multimedia Systems, 1996-2005

 

Workshop Co-Organizer : NSF IMA Workshop on “Digital Library: Asset Management”  Feb. 2001

 

Program Committee Vice Chair, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing, 2000

 

Invited Panelist, "Storage Architecture and Multimedia", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing Systems, 1999

 

Principal Organizer, Internet2 Day at University of Minnesota, 1999

 

General Chair, International Conference on Parallel Processing, Minneapolis, 1998

 

Program Committee Member of IEEE Workshop on Communication and Architectural Support for Network-Based Parallel Computing 1997

 

Program Committee Member of 1997 and 1998 Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems

 

Program Committee Member of IEEE Local Computer Conference, 1997 and  1998

 

Program Committee Co-Chair of 1996 Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems

 

Steering Committee Member of High Performance Computing- Asia 1995 and 96 (HPC-ASIA'95 and '96)

 

Steering Committee Member of International Computer Symposium 1996

 

Program Committee member of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 1995

 

Program Committee member of 1995 Pacific Workshop on Distributed Multimedia Systems

 

Program Committee member of Workshop on High-Speed Network Computing (HiNet'95 and HiNet'96)

 

Program Committee member of Third IEEE Workshop on the Architecture and Implementation of High Performance Communication Subsystems (HPCS'95)

 

General Chairman, International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 1994

 

Invited Visiting Professor, University of Essen, Germany for 2 months 1994

 

Program Committee member of International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems 1994

 

Program committee member of the International Conference on Computer Designs, 1992-1993,

 

Program committee member of GLOBECOM, 1993

 

Invited Visiting Professor at National Singapore University for 3 months 1991

 

Program committee member of the International Conference on Data Engineering 1986-1989

 

Award committee chairman of the International Conference on Data Engineering 1989

 

Program committee member of the International Conference on Local Area Network, 1989-2000

 

Program committee member of the International Conference on Very Large Databases, 1989

 

Session chairs of various conferences

 

Invited Speaks at many companies including IBM, Intel, Cisco, Dell Computer, etc.

 

Reviewer and panelist for NSF, various journals and conferences

 

Major University Committees and Contributions:

 

Founder of National Science Foundation I/UCRC Center on Intelligent Storage, 2008- present

 

Chair, Institute of Technology Honors and Awards Committee, 2005

 

Assisted in establishing a joint computer engineering degree in ECE and CSE Departments

 

Assisted in establishing a joint Bachelor Degree in Information Technology in Networking between North Hennepin Community College and the University

 

Founder of Intelligent Storage Consortium in Digital Technology Center

 

Served on Internet2 Ad Hoc Committee to assist CIO from 1996 to 1999

 

University Distance Learning Committee, 1997

 

Institute of Technology Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1996-1998

 

Institute of Technology Honors and Awards Committee, 2003 – 2005

 

Elected to University of Senate, 3-year term, 2003-2005

 

Participated and Chaired several search committees; served on ADC Chair Search Committee and was the Chair of the ADC Chair Search Committee from 2002 to 2005