Professional Activities

Editorship

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronics Systems, 2018-Present

• Associate Editor, IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Magazine, January 2012-Present

• Associate Editor, Wiley InterScience’s Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, 2006-2010

• Guest Editor, IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Magazine Special Issue on “Recent Trends in Interplanetary Communications Systems”, 2010.

• Associate Editor, Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications (JCSNC), July 2007-July 2011.

• Associate Editor, Wiley’s Journal of Security and Communication Networks, July 2007-July 2011.
• Guest Editor, Journal of Communications Software and Systems (JCOMSS) Special Issue on Cross-layer Design for QoS Support in Wireless and Hybrid Networks, 2007

TPC Chairs for Conferences/Workshops and Other Leadership

• The 6^th International Conference on Personal Satellite Services (PSATS) 2014, July28-29 2014, Genova, Italy, Publicity Chair.
• The International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications in 2008 (IWSSC 2008), Toulouse, France, TPC co-chair.
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2007 Wireless Communications Symposium, the flagship conference of IEEE Communications Society, TPC co-chair.
• President, IEEE Beaumont Section, 2008
• Vice President, IEEE Beaumont Section, 2009-2011
• Lamar Students Research Conference, 2004 (co-chair)

Membership of Professional Societies

• Senior member, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS), 2017-Present
• Senior member, IEEE Communications Society, 2017-Present

Technical Committee Member

• Technical Committee of Satellite and Space Communications (TCSSC)
• Technical Committee of Wireless Communications (TCWC)
• Technical Committee of Computer Communications (TCCC)
• IEEE GLOBECOM Satellite and Space Communication Symposium 2006-2010, 2012-2014
• IEEE GLOBECOM Wireless Communication Symposium 2007-2011, 2013-2014
• IEEE ICC Symposiums 2007-2012
• 3rd International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN) 2006
• 1st International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2006
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2004
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2007, 2009
• 1st First International Workshop on Wireless Soft Switch and mesh Networks 2006
• 1st International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2006
• International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications (IWSSC) 2005, 2007
• Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications 2017

Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
• IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• IEEE Communications Magazine
• IEEE Wireless Communications
• IEEE Communication Letters
• IEEE Proceedings
• Computer Networks Journal
• International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2005-2012
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2004-2011
• IEEE WCNC 2004, 2005
• The Fifth International IEEE Workshop on Local Networks (WLN) 2005
• Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks 2005 (MSN 2005)
• International Workshop on Satellite and Space Communications 2005 (IWSSC2005).
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2004

Awards, Honors and Others

• Appointed as a member of The Teaching Board of Ph.D. Program in Science and Technology for Electronic and Telecommunication (STIET), University of Genova, Italy, 2018-Present
• Named as "Best Associate Editor" of IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Magazine, 2015
• Lamar University Presidential Faculty Fellowships, 2015.
• Nominee for IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper, 2009.
• University merit Award, Lamar University, 2007.