Professional Activities
• Editorship
- Area Editor of Green, Cognitive, and Intelligent Communications and Networks, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (July 2022 – present)
- Associate Technical Editor IEEE Communications Magazine (January 2022 – present)
- Editor IEEE Communications Society On-Line Content (October 2020 – present)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (July 2019 - June 2022)
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Physical layer security for wireless communications, MDPI Sensors Journal, 2021 - 2022.
- Managing Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine (April 2020 – September 2021)
- Managing Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (September 2018 – March 2020)
- Editor, IEEE Communications Letters (2015 – 2019)
• Conference Chairing
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Fall) Track Chair.
- North America Publicity Co-Chairs IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom) 2022.
- Steering Committee and TPC-Co-chairs PA-AI&SS 2022 Conference.
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Spring) Track Chair.
- Executive Organizing Committee and TPC-Co-chairs PAN-AFRICAN AIS 2021 Conference.
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Spring) Track Chair.
- Publication chair of the Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) 2015, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada.
• Reviewer for Funding Agencies
- Chair of the NSERC-RTI Program Selection Committee for Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023
- Member of the NSERC-RTI Program Selection Committee for Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2022.
- Reviewer: NSERC (Discovery Grant, Collaborative Research and Development Grant) since 2014
- Reviewer: Mitacs Accelerate program
- Reviewer: Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), John R. Evans Leaders Fund
- Panelist: Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Department of Energy Office of Science, U.S.A (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
- Reviewer: National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa
• Technical Program Committee Member
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2023
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2023
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2022
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2022
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022.
- IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE) 2021.
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2021
- 2021 30th Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC 2021)
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2021
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2021
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2020
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2020-Fall)
- Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC 2020)
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2020-Spring)
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2020
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2020
- IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2019
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2019-Fall)
- IEEE MENACOMM’19 (2nd IEEE Middle East and North Africa Communications Conference
- IEEE European Wireless (EW) 2019
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2019
- IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE) 2019
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2019
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2019
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2018
- IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2018
- IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) 2018
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2018-Fall)
- IEEE International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE) 2018.
- IEEE European Wireless (EW) 2018.
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2018
- IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2018)
- IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) 2017
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2017
- IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2017
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2016
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2016-Spring)
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2016
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2015
- International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (Crowncom) 2015
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2015
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2015
- IEEE International Black Sea Conference on Communications and Networking (BlackSeaCom) 2015
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2014-Fall)
• Session Chair
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2018
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2017-Fall)
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2017
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2016
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2015
- IEEE Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT) 2015
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2015
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2013
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011, 2015
• Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Communications.
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
- IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology
- IEEE Systems Journal
- IEEE Communications Letters.
- IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
- IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
- IET Communications
- EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
- Elsevier Microelectronics Journal.
- China Communications
• Conference Reviewer
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.
- IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016. 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.
- IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020.
- The Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Symposium (PIMRC) 2009.
- IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) 2006, 2007, 2010.
- IEEE International Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2006, 2007,2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016.
- IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2009.
- International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference 2009.
- IEEE Africon 2007, 2009.
- IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT) 2005.
- IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2010.
- International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (BROADNETS) 2009.