University  of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)

Department of Information Systems (IS)

Professional Services

Program Chair


Special Session on NSF Funding Opportunities in Smart Service Systems and other Innovation Programs in conjunction with First IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys 2016), May 2016
Special Session on Green Building Energy Analytics 2014 in conjunction with International Green Computing Conference (IGCC), November 2014

 

Program Co-Chair


First IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys) in conjunction with International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp), May 2016

 

Program Vice-Chair

Green Communications and Computations track in 11th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), Jan. 2014

Publicity Chair


ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN): 2017
IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC): 2016
IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP): 2016
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom): 2016
ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN): 2016
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom): 2015
IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC): 2015
IEEE International Green Computing Conference (IGCC): 2014
IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM): 2013
ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN): 2013
IEEE International Workshop on Cyber Physical Systems: Integration of Cloud, Mobility and Sensing (CaPSICuMS): 2011

 

Program Committees (Main Conference, Workshop, Poster and Demo session)

2017: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)

2016: ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys)
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS)
IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP)
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM)
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)
IEEE International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS)
IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Energy Services (PerEnergy)
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Demonstrations (PerCom Demos)

2015: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)
International Conference on Digital Health co-located with World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
International Conference on Orange Technologies (ICOT)
24th International World Wide Web Conference Poster Session (WWW)
IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC)
IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Things: Smart Objects and Services (IoT-SoS)
IEEE PerCom 2015 Publicity Co-Chair, St. Louis, USA

Elsevier’s PMC Journal Special Issue Editor: Big Data Analytics for Smarter Health Care

ICDCN Publicity Chair: 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, Goa, India, 2015

SmartMedDev 2015: 1st International Workshop on Smart Medical Devices - from Lab to Clinical Practice, Lisbon, Portugal

MUCS 2015: The 12th IEEE Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services, St. Louis, USA

SmartE 2015: The 2nd International Workshop on Smart Environments: Closing the Loop, St. Louis, USA

2014: CCNC--Green Computing and Communications Track (TPC Chair)

SmartHealthSys 2014: The ACM UbiComp International Workshop on Smart Health Systems and Applications, Seattle, WA

AwareCast 2014: The ACM UbiComp International 3rd Workshop on recent advances in behavior prediction and pro-active pervasive computing, Seattle, WA

PerCom: International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Budapest, Hungary, 2014

MUCS: 11th IEEE Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services co-located with PerCom 2014, Budapest, Hungary

MobiSPC: The 11th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing, 2014, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

AITAmI: Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Ambient Intelligence

ICOST: 12th International Conference on Smart Homes, Assistive Technology and Health Telematics: Advances in Cognitive Technologies, Denver, Colorado

MobiMMWare: IEEE International Workshop on Mobility Management and Mobile Middleware, 2014, Rome, Italy

IoT-SoS: The 3rd IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Things: Smart Objects and Services, co-located with IEEE WoWMoM 2014, Sydney, Australia

IGCC: The 5th International Green Computing Conference, Special Session Chair on Green Building Energy Analytics, 2014, Dallas, Texas, USA

Elsevier’s PMC Journal Special Issue Editor: Data Mining in Pervasive Environments, Oct 2014

SmartComp: International Conference on Smart Computing, Hong Kong, China, 2014

2013: ICDCN (Publicity Co-Chair), ICDCS, MUCS, CoMNet-IoT, EUC,  GreenCom,  AwareCast

2012: ICDCN, CCNC, SESA, WoWMoM (Publicity Co-Chair), CoMNet-IoT (Publicity Chair), ICDCS, IE, MUE, ICACCI, APC, ICON

2011: CCNC, WoWMoM (Publicity Co-Chair), ICON, CaPSiCuMS, ICCP, COMSNETS, SENSORCOMM, PECCS

Session Chair

IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM): 2015
IEEE International Green Computing Conference (IGCC): 2014
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC): 2011
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC): 2010
IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC): 2009
ACM Workshop on Medical-grade Wireless Networks (WiMD) co-located with ACM MobiHoc: 2009

Editorial Boards and Guest Editor

Area Editor: Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, Elsevier: 2013 to present
Guest Editor: Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal Special Issue on Data Mining in Pervasive Environments, Elsevier: 2014
Guest Editor: Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal Special Issue on Big Data Analytics for Smarter Health Care, Elsevier: 2015

External PhD Thesis Reviewer

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur: Department of Electrical Engineering

Additional Reviewing

NSF Panels: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Panel: 2015
Conference Reviewer: ACM Mobicom, IEEE VTC, ICDCS, ICON, ICPP, GlobeCom, HiPC, MSWiM, SECON, WoWMoM etc.
Journal Reviewer: IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Networking, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier’s Pervasive and Mobile Computing, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communication (JSAC), Elsevier’s Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), WiNET etc.

TPC Member of Past Conferences

o IEEE HiPC 2010
o IEEE PerCom 2010
o IEEE IQ2S 2010
o IEEE SmartE 2010
o IEEE CCNC 2009, CCNC 2010 (Session Chair)
o IEEE ICPADS 2009
o ACM WiMD 2009 with MobiHoc 2009 (Session Chair)
o IEEE SENSORCOMM 2009, 2010
o IEEE ICFIN 2009
o IEEE ICLAN 2009
o IEEE UBICOMM 2008

Professional Presentations

 

Conference/Workshop/Poster Presentations

“Wearable & IoT for Cognitive Health Assessment”, Invited Speaker & Panelist, Technology and Dementia Pre-Conference Event, Alzheimer’s Association International Conference (AAIC), Toronto, July 2016
“CACE: Exploiting Behavioral Interactions for Improved Activity Recognition in Multi-Inhabitant Smart Homes”, IEEE ICDCS, Nara, Japan, June 2016
IEEE SmartSys 2016 workshop Co-Chair & Keynote Session Chair, St. Louis, USA, May 2016
IEEE PerCom 2016 PhD Forum Panelist, Sydney, Australia, March 2016
“AARPA: Combining Mobile and Power-line Sensing for Fine-grained Appliance Usage and Energy Monitoring”, IEEE MDM, Pittsburgh, May 2015
“Monitoring Patient Recovery using Wireless Physiotherapy Devices”, ICOST 2014, Denver, CO, June 2014
“Immersive Physiotherapy: Challenges for Smart Living Environments and Inclusive Communities” ICOST 2014, Denver, CO, June 2014
“An Energy-Efficient Quality Adaptive Framework for Multi-Modal Sensor Context Recognition”, PerCom 2011, Seattle, USA
“Quality-of-Inference Aware Context Determination”, IEEE PerCom 2009, PhD forum, Galveston, USA
“A Context-Aware Learning, Prediction and Mediation Framework for Resource Management in Smart Pervasive Environments”, ACM MobiSys 2008, Colorado, USA
“Context-Aware Learning, Prediction and Resource Management in Smart Pervasive Environments”, IEEE PerCom 2008, Hong Kong, China
“A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Location-Aware Resource Management in Multi-Inhabitant Smart Homes”, ICOST 2005, Quebec, Canada
“A Cooperative Learning Framework for Mobility-Aware Resource Management in Multi-Inhabitant Smart Homes”, Mobiquitous 2005, San Diego, CA
“Enhancing Availability of Grid Computational Services to Ubiquitous Computing Applications”, IPDPS 2005, Denver, CO

Other Professional Presentations

 

Lectures

“Deep Data Analytics for Detecting Abnormal Human Behavior in Public Spaces” DARPA Proposer Day, Arlington, Virginia, July 2015
“Scalable Smart Home Activity Recognition Technologies”, bwtech@UMBC, Technology Catalyst Fund, May 2015
“Job Search Resources and Tips”, Information Systems Department, UMBC, April 2015
“AI/KM PhD Student Research Seminar”, Information Systems Department, UMBC, October 2014
“Energy Education through Green Buildings”, Constellation Visit, UMBC, January 2014
“Usability of Semantic Web for Enhancing Digital Living Experience”, Motorola Labs (Lowell, MA), Aug 2007
“PhD Research Goals and Challenges” Sun Microsystem (Santa Clara, CA), September 2006

Keynotes

Keynote Talk: “May I live Independently with IoT and Machine learning?”, IEEE ICCTIDE 2016, National Engineering College, Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu, India, January 2016
Keynote Talk: “Green Building Energy Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges”, IEEE PerEnergy 2015 workshop in conjunction with IEEE PerCom 2015, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, March 2015
Keynote Talk: “Green Building Energy Analytics”, ICECCS 2014, NITK Surathkal, Mangalore, India December 2014

Colloquia

“May I live Independently with IoT and Machine learning?”, TCS Innovation Research Lab, Kolkata, India, January 2016
“May I live Independently with IoT and Machine learning?”, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India, January 2016
“Quality- and Energy-Sensitive Determination of Multiple Contexts in Pervasive Computing Environments”, IIT Kharagpur, India, May 2013
“Quality Adaptive Models and Middleware for Situation Recognition in Pervasive Healthcare: Data Analytics Tools and Techniques”, Rochester Institute of Technology, March 2013
“Quality Adaptive Models and Middleware for Situation Recognition in Pervasive Healthcare: Data Analytics Tools and Techniques”, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, March 2013
“Quality- and Energy-Sensitive Determination of Multiple Contexts in Pervasive Computing Environments”, Colorado School of Mines, Feb 2013
“Quality Adaptive Models and Middleware for Situation Recognition in Pervasive Healthcare: Data Analytics Tools and Techniques”, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Feb 2013
“An Energy Efficient Quality Adaptive Multi-Modal Sensor Framework for Context Recognition”, IEEE Calcutta Section, India October 2011
“Resolving and Mediating Ambiguous Contexts in Pervasive Health Care Environments: Computational Tools and Techniques”, University of Texas El Paso, ECE Department, March 2011
“Resolving and Mediating Ambiguous Contexts in Pervasive Health Care Environments: Computational Tools and Techniques”, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore April 2010
“Resolving and Mediating Ambiguous Contexts in Pervasive Health Care Environments: Computational Tools and Techniques”, Michigan Technological University, May 2009
“Resolving and Mediating Ambiguous Contexts for Pervasive Health Care Environments”, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), April 2009
“Resolving and Mediating Ambiguous Contexts for Pervasive Health Care Environments”, University of Southern Mississippi, April 2009
“Resolving and Mediating Ambiguous Contexts for Pervasive Health Care Environments”, University of Alberta, Feb 2009
“A Mathematical Framework for Managing Context Uncertainty in Smart Pervasive Environments”, ExxonMobil Research & Engineering, New Jersey, Aug 2008
“A Middleware Framework for Ambiguous Context Determination and Mediation in Pervasive Care Environments”, University of Texas at Austin, ECE Department, June 2008
“A Framework for Ambiguous Context Determination and Mediation in Pervasive Health Care Environments”, Kansas State University (KSU), May 2008

Media Activities

“Mobile, Pervasive and Sensor Computing (MPSC) Lab Research Overview”, Deloitte Delegates, UMBC, October 2013 [Interview excerpts were published in the Wall Street Journal, July 2014]

Media Coverage

UMBC Formalizes Research Partnership with U.S. Naval Academy, Research at UMBC News, May 2015
Constellation Awards E2 Energy to Educate Grant to UMBC’s Information Systems Department, UMBC’s Giving Blog, April 21, 2015
UMBC-UMB Partnership Awards a Catalyst for Collaboration, Research at UMBC News, Feb 17, 2015
UMBC and UMB celebrate research partnerships with symposium and innovation grants, UMBC News, Feb 12, 2015
Using Sensor Technology to Lower Elder Care Costs, The Wall Street Journal, July 28, 2014
COEIT Uses Constellation Energy’s Education Award For Undergraduate Research, UMBC Insights, March 27, 2014
CNBC News on Constellation Energy Education project, Exploring new ways of reducing power demand in household appliances. Several other press releases available at Campus Technology News; Yahoo Finance; Electric Energy Online; Broadwayworld; Business Wire; Market Watch News etc. Nov. 2013
Movement sensor’s feedback acts as physical therapist, WSU News, July 30, 2013
WSU Smart Environments Summer REU Explores Green Living and Healthcare Applications, WSU News, July 11, 2013
Undergrad researchers succeed with the smart plug work, WSU News, August 12, 2013
WSU Smart Environments Summer REU Explores Green Living and Healthcare Applications, WSU News, July 11, 2013

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