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2019

  • Treasurer Co-Chair, The 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019), Chicago, IL, USA, November 5-8, 2019.

  • Keynote Sessions Chair, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, The 90thInternational IEEE Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC2019-Fall), Hawaii, USA, September 25, 2019.

  • Industry Sessions Co-Chair, The 90th International IEEE Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC2019-Fall), Hawaii, USA, September 22-25, 2019.

  • Program Committee Member, The 25thACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2019), Anchorage, Alaska, August 4-8, 2019.

  • Member of Editorial Board, IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology (new journal in Fall 2019), August 2019 – present.

  • Chair, IEEE Computer Society Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, August 2019 - present

  • Workshop Co-chair, 10th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Mining, Modeling and Learning from Social Media, Co-located with TheWebConf 2019, San Francisco, USA, May 13, 2019. 

  • Program Committee Member, Track 10: Vehicular Communications, Networks and Telematics, The 89thInternational IEEE Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC 2019-Spring), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, April 28 – May 1, 2019.

  • Promotions Chair, IEEE Chicago Section Fair: A Celebration of 125 Years, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, April 27, 2019. 

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2018

  • Chair, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Chicago Chapter, Chicago, IL, USA, January 2018 – present.

  • Vice-Chair, ACM Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, September 2018 – present. 

  • Vice-Chair, IEEE Computer Society Chicago Chapter, Chicago, IL, USA, January 2018 – July 2019.

  • Guest Co-editor, Special Issue on Connected and Autonomous Driving, IEEE IT Professional, November/December 2018 issue.

  • Industry Track Co-Chair, The 5thInternational Conference on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-Cultural Computing, Taiwan, November 12-14, 2018.

  • Student Project Competition Judge, Product Development Management Association Conference, Chicago, IL, Sept. 25, 2018. 

  • Program Committee Member, IEEE Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Symposium (CAVS 2018), The 88thInternational IEEE Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC-2018-Fall), Chicago, IL, USA, August 27-30, 2018.

  • Industry Track Co-Chair, The 88thInternational IEEE Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC-2018-Fall), Chicago, IL, USA, August 27-30, 2018.

  • Panel Organizer, Autonomous, Connected and Electric Vehicles industry panel, The 88thInternational IEEE Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC-2018-Fall), Chicago, IL, USA, August 27-30, 2018.

  • Workshop Co-chair, International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Applying Machine Learning and AI for Modeling Social Media, Co-located with TheWebConf 2018, Lyon, France, April 24, 2018.

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2017

  • Director of Media Communications, ACM Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, September 2017 – August 2018.

  • Panelist, Panel on Smart Cities, The 86thInternational IEEE Conference on Vehicular Technology (VTC-2017-Fall), Toronto, ON, Canada, Sept. 24 to 27, 2017.

  • Program Committee Member, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Internet of People (IoP), San Francisco Bay Area, August 4-8, 2017. 

  • Technical Program Committee Member, 10th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom-2017),Exeter, UK, June 21-23, 2017.

  • Track Co-chair, Track #7: Mobile Network Applications and Services, 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference, Sydney, Australia, June 4-7, 2017.

  • Workshop Co-chair, International Workshop on Modeling Social Media: Machine Learning and AI for Modeling and Analyzing Social Media, Co-located with WWW 2017, Perth, Australia, April 4, 2017.

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2016

  • Program Committee Member, The 9th International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, (CPSCom 2016), Chengdu, China, December 15-18, 2016.

  • Industry Track Co-Chair, The 3rd International Conference on Behavioral, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing (BESC 2016), Durham, NC, USA, Nov. 11-13, 2016. 

  • Program Committee Member (Research Track), The 22ndACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge, Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2016), San Francisco, USA, Aug. 13-17, 2016.  

  • Workshop Program Committee Member, The First International Workshop on Crowd Intelligence for Smart Cities: Technology and Applications (CISC 2016), IEEE Ubiquitous and Intelligent Computing (UIC 2016), Toulouse, France, Jul. 18, 2016. 

  • General Co-Chair, The 2ndInternational Conference on Internet of People (IoP 2016), Toulouse, France, Jul. 18-21, 2016.

  • Program Committee Member, The 27thACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext 2016), Halifax, Canada, Jul. 10-13, 2016.

  • Technical Program Co-Chair, The 9thEAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications (MobiMedia 2016), Xi’an, China, June 18-19, 2016.

  • Guest Co-Editor, IEEE IT Professional, May 2016.

  • Workshop Co-Chair, 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media - Behavioural Analytics on the Web (MSM 2016, co-located with WWW 2016), Montreal, Canada, April 11-13, 2016.

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2015

2014

2013

• Book Editor, Mobile Social Networking: An Innovative Approach, Springer, 2013.

• Program Co-Chair, The 2013 ASE International Conference on Social Informatics, Orlando, USA, Dec. 10-15, 2013.
• General Co-Chair, The 6th International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom 2013), Beijing, China, Aug. 20-23, 2013.
• Workshop Co-Chair, The 3rd International Workshop on Sensing, Networking, and Computing with Smartphones (PhoneCom 2013), co-located with IEEE CPSCom 2013, Beijing, China, Aug. 20, 2013.
• Program Committee Member, The 3rd International Symposium on Trust and Identity in Mobile Internet, Computing and Communications (TrustID 2013), co-located with the 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-13), Melbourne, Australia, July 16-18, 2013.  
• Workshop Co-Chair, The 4th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2013), co-located with ACM Hypertext 2013, Paris, France, May 1, 2013.
• Program Committee Member, Track on Linking People, The 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, Paris, France, May 1-3, 2013.

• Program Committee Member, The 2nd International Workshop on Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams (RAMSS), co-located with ACM WWW 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 14, 2013.

2012

• Program Co-Chair, The 5th International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom 2012), Besancon, France, Nov. 20-23, 2012.​

• Program Committee Member, #Influence12 – Symposium & Workshop on Measuring Influence on Social Media, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Sept. 28-29, 2012.
• Research Seminar Organizer, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, China, January 2009 to July 2012.

• Paper Reviewer, The 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2012), Fukuoka, Japan, Sept. 4-7, 2012.
• Workshop Co-Chair, The 1st International Workshop on Context Knowledge and Data Discovery (ContextDD 2012), co-located with ACM KDD, Beijing, China, Aug. 12, 2012.
• Industry Track Chair, The 13th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2012), Bengaluru, India, July 23-26, 2012.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, 2012-2013.

• Program Committee Member, International Workshop on Social Computing, Networking and Services (SocialComNet 2012), Vancouver, Canada, June 26-28, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Trust and Identity in Mobile Internet, Computing and Communications (TrustID 2012), Liverpool, UK, June 25-27, 2012.
• Workshop Co-Chair, The 3rd International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2012), co-located with ACM Hypertext, Milwaukee, USA, June 25, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, Mobile Data Challenge, The 10th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2012), Newcastle University, UK, June 18-22, 2012.
• Workshop Co-Chair, The 2nd International Workshop on Sensing, Networking, and Computing with Smartphones (PhoneCom 2012), co-located with IEEE ICDCS 2012, Macao, China, June 18, 2012.
• Program Committee Member, The 1st International Workshop on Internet of Things (IoT-App 2012), Beijing, China, April 16, 2012.
• Paper Reviewer, International Conference on Social Computing, Behaviour-Cultural Modeling and Prediction (SBP 2012), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, April 3-5, 2012.
• Guest Editor, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) journal, Springer, Feb. 2012 - present​
 

2011

• Workshop Co-Chair, The 1st International Workshop on Sensing, Networking, and Computing with Smartphones (PhoneCom 2011), co-located with IEEE CPSCom 2011, Dalian, China, Oct. 19, 2011.
• Program Vice Chair and Workshop Co-Chair, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom 2011), Dalian, China, Oct. 19-22, 2011.
• Workshop Co-Chair, The 2nd International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2011), co-located with IEEE SocialCom, Boston, USA, Oct. 9, 2011.
• Program Committee Member, The 8th International Conference on Mobile Web and Information Systems (MobiWIS 2011), Niagara Falls, Canada, Sept. 19-21, 2011.
• Industrial Liaison Chair, The 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2011), Banff, Canada, Sept. 2-4, 2011.
• Paper Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), August 2011 to present.
• Program Committee Member, Track 3 Social Media (Linking People and Things), ACM Hypertext 2011 Conference, Eindhoven, June 6-9, 2011.
• Paper Reviewer, Social Behaviour and Prediction Modeling Conference, Maryland, USA,  March 29-31, 2011.
• Paper Reviewer, ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2011), Hangzhou, China, March 18-23, 2011.

2010

2004 - 2009

  • Paper Reviewer, IEEE Transactions in Mobile Computing, May 2009 - present.

• Paper Reviewer, Behaviour and Information Technology, January 2009 - present.
• Social Tools Committee Member, ACM Hypertext 2009, Nov. 2009.
• Conference Blog Creator, ACM Hypertext 2008, 2009. 
• Paper Reviewer, CHI 2009, 2012 (Oct 2008 – present), New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (Sep 2008 – present), CHI 2008 and ACM Computing Review (Jan 2007 – present), UbiComp 2008 (May 2008).
• Workshop Organizer and Co-chair, Tagging as a Social Contract Workshop, 2nd Working Conference on Social Computing and Business, CASCON 2007, Toronto, Canada, Oct 2007.
• Workshop Chair, Social Computing Best Practices Workshop, 1st Working Conference on Social Computing and Business, CASCON 2006, Toronto, Canada, Oct 2006.
• Workshop Organizer, Business of Blogging Workshop, CASCON 2005, Toronto, Canada, Oct 2005.
• Workshop Organizer, Content and Application Customization for Pervasive Computing Workshop, CASCON 2004, Toronto, Canada, Oct 2004.

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