IEEE and Other Activities

IEEE ACTIVITIES
Key Leadership Roles

  • IEEE Board of Directors, 20017-2018.
  • Audit Committee Chair (2018)
  • Industry Engagement (Ad-hoc) Committee Chair (2015-2017), elevating it to standing committee (2018)
  • Computer Society President (2014)
Major Committees
  • Fellows Committee, 2016
  • New Initiatives Committee (2017-2018)
  • Audit Committee (2017-2019)
  • Industry Engagement Committee (2018-2020)
  • Awards Board, 2018
Regions and Sections
  • Corporate Liaison Program
  • IEEE presentations at Regions 6, 10
  • Technical presentations in all 10 regions
Societies
  • Computer Society
  • Communication Society
  • Power and Energy Society
  • Systems Council
Journals
  • Editor in Chief: IEEE Computing Now ‘08-’12; IEEE Distributed Systems Online ‘08-’09
  • IEEE Editorial Board Member: Internet Computing, Concurrency, Distributed Systems Online, Transaction on Cloud Computing
Conference
  • General chair: IEEE COMPSAC ‘16; ICAC ‘12
  • Program chair: IEEE IC2E, ‘19; IEEE Infrastructure, ‘18; ACM Middleware, ‘16; IEEE Congress on Services, 11; IEEE SmartGridComm, ‘11; Industry track ACM Middleware, ‘09, ‘19; 1st USENIX/ACM WIESS ‘00; 1st IEEE ASA/MA Symposium, ‘99; etc.
  • Pogram committees: ICRC, ICAC, ICDCS, ICWS, AAMAS, EDOC, Middleware, HotCloud, COMSWARE, etc.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
I bring to the position of IEEE President a demonstrated record of diverse leadership experiences and accomplishments in the IEEE and elsewhere.
Honors and Awards 
  • 2016 appointed HPE Distinguished Technologist
  • 2009, appointed an IEEE Fellow
  • 2008, appointed an ACM Distinguished Engineer
  • 2016, HiPEAC ASPLOS best paper award
  • Best student paper awards: IEEE CloudCom ‘13; 6th and 7th Open Cirrus Summits ‘11, ‘11
Membership
  • Working on Distinguished technologist membership grade proposal
Technical Committees
  • Chair of Technical Committee: IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems (2000)
Keynotes
  • IEEE: COMPSAC ‘18; DDECS ‘15; ISSRE ‘15; COMPSAC ‘14; Cloud ‘12;
  • Industry: ANSYS Conference, ‘12; Microsoft’s “24 Hours in Private Cloud;” 5th Open Cirrus Summit, ‘11
  • International: 5G Summit, Dresden ‘15; Chinese National Conference on Computers and Networks (CNCC) ‘12 and ‘08 ;
Teaching Experience
  • Taught graduate course on Cloud management at SJSU for three years
  • On 8 PhD thesis committees (GaTech, UIUC, Monash, PUCRS))
  • Guided >50 summer interns