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  • Received "Innovation Award" from UL Lafayette (Nov. '17)

  • Received "Certificate of Achievement in Sponsored Research" from UL Lafayette (Nov. '17)

  • Attracted $25,000 Endowment fund (in form of undergraduate student scholarship) to School of Computing and Informatics from Hub Enterprise Inc., 2017

  • Member of Faculty-Search Committee at School of Computing and Informatics, UL Lafayette, 2016-2017

  • Awarded "Certificate of Achievement in Innovation" from UL Lafayette, 2016

  • Selected as the "Rising Star in Research" from School of Computing and Informatics, UL Lafayette, 2016

  • Member of Science Day committee at the College of Sciences, UL Lafayette, 2016

  • Adviser of the student ACM chapter at the Computer Science Department, UL Lafayette, since 2015

  • Director of the undergraduate Computer Network laboratory, Computer Engineering, Department, IAUM, 2006-2008

  • Director of the undergraduate Operating System laboratory, Computer Engineering, Department, IAUM, 2006-2008

  • Representative of the department in IT Students' Associations, IT Department, IAUM, 2007-2008

  • Computer Engineering department coordinator with the university library, IAUM, 2007-2008

Program Committees


  • 2nd Workshop on Edge Computing and Networking (ECN '19), co-located with 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN '19), Valencia, Spain

  • 4th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing (HPSC '19), Omaha, NE, USA

  • 5th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing (HPSC '19), Washington DC, USA

  • IEEE International Congress on Big Data 2019, Milan, Italy

  • 3rd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC '19), Larnaca, Cyprus

  • 37th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC '18). Orlando, FL, USA

  • 9th EAI International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications (BDTA '18), Exeter, UK

  • 16th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS '18), Orleans, France

  • Publicity Chair of 9th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGCC '18), Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  • IEEE International Congress on BigData 2018, San Francisco, USA

  • TPC member and Publicity chair for 27th and 28th Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW) collocated with 32th and 33th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Syposium (IPDPS '18 and '19), in Vancouver Canada and Rio de Jeneiro Brazil

  • 27th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN '18), Hangzhou,China

  • 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC '18), Washington D.C, USA

  • 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data Analysis (ICCCBDA '17 and '18 and '19), Chengdu, China

  • 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing, GRIDs, and Virtualization (Cloud Computing '18), Barcelona, Spain

  • Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics, Communications, and Computers (JAC-ECC '17 and '18), Alexandria, Egypt

  • 19 th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC '17), Bangkok, Thailand

  • 2nd International conference on Intelligent Information Technologies (ICIIT '17), Chennai, India

  • 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud '16), Atlanya, GA, USA

  • 4th International Japan-Egypt Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers (JEC-ECC '16), Cairo, Egypt

  • International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN '16), Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA

  • ACM/IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC '15) poster session, Limassol, Cyprus

  • 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud '15), Dalian, China

  • IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC '14), Chengdu, China

  • IEEE International Conference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE '14 - '16), Mashhad, Iran

Reviewer


  • Ph.D Thesis Examiner for a Ph.D candidate in Computer Science from University of Western Sydney, Australia, Dec. '18

  • Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer Network Systems (CNS) Computer Systems Research (CSR), Feb '18

  • Future Internet

  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)

  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)

  • IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)

  • ACM Transaction on Internet Technology (TOIT)

  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)

  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems (JPDC)

  • Future Generation Computing System Journal (FGCS)

  • The Computer Journal

  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE)

  • Journal of Computer Networks (COMNET)

  • Cluster Cloud and Grid (CCGrid) Conference

  • Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW) (in conjunction with IPDPS conference)

  • International Conference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE)

Invited Talks


  • Secure Semantic Search over Encrypted Big Data in the Cloud, Sciences Interdisciplinary Monthly Meeting (SIMM), College of Sciences, UL Lafayette (Slides), Oct. 2017

  • Tutorial: Interactive Video Streaming Using Heterogeneous Cloud Services, in 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC '17), Austin, Texas, Dec. 2017.

  • Keynote Talk: "High Performance Cloud Computing for On-Demand Video Stream Processing", at the 3rd International Congress on Technology, Communication, and Knowledge (ICTCK '16), Mashhad, Iran, Nov. 2016

  • Keynote Talk: "Optimal Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems", in IEEE International Conference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE '15), Mashhad, Iran, Oct. 2015

  • "Research Trends in Cloud Computing and Big-data", Computer Engineering Department, Ferdowsi University, Iran, July 2015

  • "Stochastic-Based Robust Dynamic Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems", Colloquium seminars, CACS, University of Louisiana, USA, Apr. 2015

  • "Constructing Community Clouds for Natural Disaster Management", in NSF Early Career Workshop, Seattle, Apr. 2015

  • "Big Data Security for Unstructured Data on Cloud", Sensor Cloud lab., Computer Science Department, RMIT University, Australia, Jan. 2015

  • "Advanced Processing of Encrypted Data on Cloud", Colloquium seminars, CACS, University of Louisiana, USA, Oct. 2014

  • "Stochastic Task Scheduling in Heterogeneous Distributed Systems", Data Engineering lab., University of Miami, USA, Mar. 2014

  • "Contention-aware Resource Allocation in Virtualized Distributed Systems", Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Colorado State University, USA, Oct. 2012

  • "Energy-aware Resource Allocation in Cloud Data Centers", Infosys Banglore, India, Jan. 2012

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