• • Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE ComSoc (2024-2025)

  • Associate Editor-in-Chief (AEiC) for IEEE Communications Magazine (2024 ~)

  • Chair, IEEE ComSoc Sister & Related Societies Committee (2024 ~ )

  • Member, IEEE ComSoc GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content (GITC) Committee (2024 ~ )

  • Member, IEEE ComSoc Finance Committee (2024 ~ )

  • Member, IEEE WICE (Women In Communications Engineering), Communications Society (2024 ~ ), 

  • Former Chair, IEEE WICE (Women In Communications Engineering), Communications Society, (2022-2023)

  • General Chair/Technical Program Chair for Conferences and Workshop (see below)

• Associate Editor-in-Chief (AEiC) for IEEE Communications Magazine (2024 ~) (Flagship IEEE publication, IEEE magazine with most downloads in IEEE Xplore)

• Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters (2025 ~ )

• Associate Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2018 ~ 2020)

• Associate Editor of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (2020 ~ 2022)

• Associate Editor of KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (2021 ~ 2023)

• Associate Editor of Springer Journal of Telecommunication Systems (2011 ~ 2019)

• Associate Editor of Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks (2014)

• Guest Editor for IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Special Issue from Int'l Smart Cities Conference'18, Guest Editors: Drs. Baek-Young Choi, Andrea Molinari, Victor Larios, Xiaojun Wu, 2019

• Guest Editor for Sensors Journal, Special Issue from Int'l Smart Cities Conference'18, Guest Editors: Drs. Baek-Young Choi, Andrea Molinari, Victor Larios, Xiaojun Wu, 2019

• Guest Editor for Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management, Special Issue on Software Defined Networking, Guest Editors: Drs. Bhumip Khasnabish, Baek-Young Choi, Nick Feamster, 2013-2014

• Editor of International Journal on Computer Networks (2009~2011)

• Guest Editor for Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management, Special Issue on ’New Advances on Measurement Based Management,’ Guest Editors: Drs. Baek-Young Choi, Zhenhai Duan, Sue Moon, 2009-201

• National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal review panelist (many times; CISE/CNS/CCF Core, NeTS, CSR, SaTC, OAC, MRI, CC, S&CC, IMR, GRFP, SBIR/STTR, ad-hoc, ...)

• US Department of Energy (DOE) proposal review panelist, 2010, 2011

• External reviewer for the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada regarding the Strategic Projects Supplemental grant, 2007-2008

Refer this page

Conference/Workshop General Chair/Main Organizer

• Co-chair/organizer, Workshop on 'Intelligent Crowd Engineering' with IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 2024

• ComSoc WICE program/workshop organizer, Globecom'22 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Globecom'23 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), ICC'23 (Rome, Italy)

• Symposium Co-Chair, CIT Symposium at US-Korea Conference (UKC)'21, Los Angeles, USA, December 2021  

• General Co-Chair, IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Kansas City, MO, USA, 2018

• Organizer, National Science Foundation, Smart and Connected Communities Program Aspiring PI Workshop, Kansas City, MO, USA, 2018

• General Co-Chair, 7th N2Women-WICE Workshop (co-located with IEEE ICC’18), Kansas City, MO, USA, 2018

• General Co-Chair, IEEE SDN and IoT Workshop (co-located with NetSoft), Seoul, Korea, 2016

• General Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM Student Activity Workshop, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2016

• General Co-Chair, 7th Central Area Network and Security (CANSec) Workshop, Kansas City, MO (UMKC), Spring 2015

• General Co-Chair, 4th Greater Kansas Area Security Workshop, Kansas City, MO (UMKC), November 2013

Steering Committee 

• Steering Committee, Central Area Network and Security Workshop, Since 2014

• Steering Committee, Technical Program Committee Co-Chair, IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2019, 2020, 2021

Technical Program Chair

• Conference TPC Chair for IEEE/IFIP NOMS, Seoul Korea, May 2024

• Conference TPC Chair for the 6th IFIP Internet of Things (IoT) Conference'23, Denton TX, USA, November 2023

• Conference TPC Chair for 7th HotSoS (Hot topics in the Science of Security) conference (originated from NSA’s Science of Security initiative), Lawrence, KS, 2020 (Virtual)

• Conference TPC Chair for IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Casablanca, Morocco, 2019

• Conference TPC Chair for IEEE 12th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), 2016

• Track TPC Chair for IEEE 12th International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), Internet of Things Track, 2015

• Special Topic Program Chair for IEEE CloudNet Cloud Assisted IoT Session, 2015

• Track TPC Chair for IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) - Multimedia, Real-Time Networking (MRT) Track, 2015

• Track TPC Chair for IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) - Multimedia, Real-Time Networking (MRT) Track, 2014

• Track TPC Chair for IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) - Multimedia, Real-time Networking and Network Modeling (MRTM) Track, 2013

• Travel Grant Chair, IEEE WCNC, 2026

• Student Travel Grant Chair, IEEE SECON, 2024

• Tutorial Co-Chair, IEEE Future Network World Forum (FNWF), 2023, 2024

• Student Travel Co-Chair, IEEE ICC 2022, 2023

• Finance Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Chicago, USA, 2019

• Publications Chair, IEEE Globecom (GC) 2021

• Publicity Chair, SmartComp 2019

• Travel Grant Chair, IEEE ICC, 2018

• Tutorial Chair, IEEE NetSoft, 2018

• Publicity Chair, IEEE NetSoft, 2017

• Publications Chair, IEEE NetSoft, 2016, 2021

• Publications Chair, IEEE COMSNETS, 2016

• Organizing Committee, 3rd MINK WIC (Missouri Iowa Nebraska Kansas Women In Computing) Conference, Kansas City, October, 2015

• Organizing Committee/Poster Program Chair, 2nd MINK WIC (Missouri Iowa Ne- braska Kansas Women In Computing) Conference Organizing Committee, Kansas City, October, 2013

• Organizing Committee, 1st MINK WIC (Missouri Iowa Nebraska Kansas Women In Computing) Conference, Kansas City, October, 2011

• GENI Regional Workshop Organizing Committee, held in Kansas State University, November 2006

• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)’14, ’15, ’16, ’17, ’18, '21

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)’18, '19, '22, '23, '24, '25

• IEEE Globecom (GC)’08, ’10, ’11, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15, ’16, ’17, '19, '20, '21, '22

• IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS)’10, '20, '24

• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)'24

• ACM SIGCOMM'19 Posters, Demos and Student Research Competition

• IEEE NetSoft’16, ’17, ’18, '19

• IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)'19

• Wireless Days'19

• ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN)’17, ’18

• IEEE International Teletraffic Congress (ITC)’16, ’17

• IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COM- SNETS)’16

• International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA)’08, ’16

• IEEE NFV-SDN’15 Demo

• International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)’15

• IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN)’11, ’12, ’13, ’14, ’15

• IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)’13, '19

• IFIP Networking’11, ’12, ’13

• International Workshop on Cloud Enhanced Information Fusion (CloudFusion)’13

• IEEE Network Science Workshop (NSW)’13

• International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies (EI- DWT)’13, ”Data Centers and Cloud Computing” Track

• International Conference on Optical Networking Design and Modeling (ONDM)’10

• IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC)’09, ’10, ’11,

• IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS)’09

• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IC- CCN)’08, ’17, ’18

• IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR)’08

• IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS)’08

• IEEE Region 5 BASICS2’08

• ACM/IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Con- ference (IWCMC)’07, ’08, ’09

• The First International Workshop on Tracking Computing Technologies (TRACK) ’07

• Real Time Systems and Adaptive Applications (RTSAA) ’07

• International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP)’06, ’07, ’08, ’09

• IEEE INFOCOM’06 Poster

• IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management (IPOM)’06, ’07, ’08, ’09

• International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology (ICD- CIT)’06

• International Workshop on Advanced Multimedia Technology and Applications (AMTA)’06

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

• IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

• IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

• IEEE Communication Letters

• IEEE Network Magazine

• Elsevier Journal of Computer Networks

• Elsevier for Journal of Theoretical Biology

• Springer Journal of Telecommunication Systems

• Springer Journal of Real-Time Systems

• Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management

• Inderscience International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

• IEEE INFOCOM

• ACM SIGMETRICS

• ACM SIGCOMM

• ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference

• Judge, IEEE Smart Cities Contest, 2023

• Judge, IEEE WIE Big Idea Pitch Competition, 2023

• Advisory Board Member, Data Measure Group: ’National Science Foundation (NSF) INCLUDES Alliance: STEM Opportunities in Prison Settings’ led by Princeton University-Education Development Center (EDC) (2020 ~ 2021)

• IEEE Smart Cities Technical Activities Committee, 2019, 2020

• IEEE Smart Cities Core Smart Cities - Kansas City Co-Representative (with Aaron Deacon) (since 2017) There are five IEEE Core Smart Cities internationally: Guadalajara, Mexico; Trento, Italy; Wuxi, China; Kansas City, MO, USA; and Casablanca, Morocco. The initial KC Steering Committee for IEEE Core Smart Cities includes Dr. Deep Medhi (SCE/UMKC), Prof. Tony Luppino (Law School/UMKC), Rick Usher (KCMO City Manager), Kate Garman (KCMO Innovation Policy Advisor), and Kari Keefe (Think Big Partners)

• Judge, FIRST Robotics Competition, Kansas City Area

UM System Level:

• University Faculty Committee on Tenure, Serving for UM System President, 7.2024 ~

• Digital Accessibility Committee, Fall 2022 ~ 

University Level:

• • Research Advisory Council, Fall 2022 ~

  • University Assessment Committee, Fall 2018 ~

  • Faculty Advisor for a UMKC Roo Student Club - Korean Student Association (KSA), 2022 ~ 

  • Faculty Advisor for a UMKC Roo Student Club - University Bible Fellowship (UBF), 2024 ~ 

  • Faculty Advisor for a UMKC Roo Student Club - Remnant Club, 2024 ~ 

  • Graduate Council, Fall 2013 ~ Spring 2016

School Unit Level:

• • Promotion & Tenure Committee, School of Science and Engineering, Fall 2022 ~

  • Chair of Faculty, School of Computing and Engineering, Fall 2016 ~ Summer 2018

  • School of Computing and Engineering - Budget committee, Fall 2006 ~ Spring 2008

Department/Division Level:

• • Discipline Lead for Computer Science, 2022 ~ 

  • MS CS Degree Program Committee, Spring 2024 ~ 

  • Tenure Track/Tenured CS Faculty Search Committee, Fall 2022 ~ Spring 2023

  • BS CS Degree Program Committee, Fall 2020 ~  Fall 2023

  • MS CS Degree Program Committee, Fall 2014 ~ 2020

  • BS IT degree program committee, Fall 2007 ~ Spring 2014

  • Promotion Committee, Spring 2014

[In memory of Kaushik Ayinala] Ayinala Award for Excellence in Research 

• 2024 Recipient: Venkat Rao Manavarthi

• 2023 Recipient: Muhammad Mohzary