Professional Activities

Conference Organization
Publicity co-chair, Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA 2018), Vienna, Austria, 2018
Program co-chair, 8th International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2013)
Session chair, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012)
Program co-vice-chair, 7th International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2012)
Program co-chair, 3rd International Conference on Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Intelligent Computing, 2012
Associate Editor, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2012)
Program co-vice-chair, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2011)
Session chair, Networks session, Fifth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, 2007.
Editorial Activities
Associate Editor, Journal of Multimedia Theory and Applications, 2015 - present
Guest Editor, Advances in Multimedia, special issue on "Detection, Tracking, and Trend Analysis for Social Multimedia", August 2015
Guest Editor, The Computer Journal, special issue on "Mining Social Media for Knowledge Discovery," June 2015
Guest Editor, Information Fusion, special issue on "Intelligent Video Surveillance in Crowded Scenes," June 2015
Guest Editor, Electronic Commerce Research (Springer), special issue on "Recent Advanced Applications and Services for Intelligent Ubiquitous Environments," September 2014
Guest Editor, Multimedia Systems (Springer), special issue on "New Technologies and Research Trends for Smartphone Sensing in Intelligent Multimedia Systems," January 2015
Guest Editor, Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), special issue on "Knowledge Management Technologies for Semantic Multimedia Services in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Environment," July 2014
Editorial board member, Journal of Communications (ACTA Press), 2011-2013
External Examiner of Ph.D. Theses
Tarfa Hamed, University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada), 2017
Sri Debasis Giri, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (India), 2008
Reviewer
NSERC Discovery Grants (2008, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
MITACS Accelerate (2016)
NSERC Strategic Grant (2012)
US National Science Foundation (NFS) Grants (2011, 2012)
NSERC Idea to Innovation Grant (2011)
Other Activities
Reviewer: IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Transaction on Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Communications, Wireless Networks (WINE), Computer Networks (COMNET), etc.
Technical Program Committees: IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE VTC, IEEE ISCC, IEEE CCECE, IEEE ICCE, QShine, ICACC, ICDT, ICoAC,WWASN, BroadNets, ADCOM, etc.
External assessor of the Computer and Network Support Technician program, Humber College, 2009.