Professional Service and Leadership

Key Conference Leadership and Governance

  • Steering Committee Member, ACM/IEEE SenSys, 2024–2028
  • Steering Committee Member, ACM/IEEE IPSN, 2023–2024
  • General Chair, ACM HotMobile, 2027 – Submit your best, most interesting work!
  • Technical Program Committee Chair, ACM SenSys, 2025
  • Technical Program Committee Chair, ACM/IEEE IPSN, 2023
  • Technical Program Committee Chair, IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, 2019
  • Technical Program Track Chair, Edge Computing Track, IEEE ICDCS, 2021
  • Workshop Chair, ACM MobiCom, 2024
  • Demo and Poster Chair, ACM SenSys, 2022
  • Best Paper Award Committee Member, ACM MobiCom 2024, ACM MobiHoc 2023, ACM Symposium on Edge Computing 2023

Research Community Leadership in XR Systems and Immersive Computing

  • Co-Founder and General Chair, ACM Workshop on Enhancing Security, Privacy, and Trust in Extended Reality (XR) Systems, 2025, 2026  – Join us in Austin, TX, on October 30th, 2026!
  • General Chair, NSF Workshop on Networking and Systems Challenges in Immersive Computing, 2025
  • General Chair, ACM Workshop on Emerging Multimedia Systems, 2023
  • Guest Editor, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks special issue on Computing, Sensing, and Networking for Immersive Systems, 2024
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Network special issue on Networking Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-user XR and the Metaverse, 2023
  • Panel Moderator, “From Risk to Resilience: Securing the Everyday XR Experience,” XR Security Workshop, 2025
  • Panel Moderator, “Thriving Together: Tackling the Core Networking and Systems Challenges and Growing the XR Community,” NSF Workshop on Networking and Systems Challenges in Immersive Computing, 2025
  • Panelist, “Looking Back and Moving Forward: 10 Years of Edge Computing,” ACM Symposium on Edge Computing, 2025.
  • Invited Participant, UIUC Center for Immersive Computing (IMMERSE) Summit, 2024, 2026
  • Invited Participant, DISCOVER-US Vision Workshop on Distributed Computing and Swarm Intelligence, 2024

Industry, Government, and Translational Leadership

  • Associate Director for XR, Duke Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation, 2025–present
  • Invited Speaker, Augmented World Expo USA, 2021, 2025, 2026
  • Invited Speaker, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health, 2024, 2026
  • Panelist, “Deploying the Future Aviation Ecosystem”, National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Regional Meeting, 2026
  • Distinguished Speaker, Accenture Labs, 2023
  • Invited Participant, Google Networking Research Summit 2023
  • Invited Participant, Facebook Connectivity Lab Research Workshop 2018
  • Invited Participant, Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2018
  • Invited Participant, University of Washington Industry-Academia Summit on Mixed Reality Security, Privacy, and Safety, 2019
  • Innovation Awards Judge, International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016 – 2019; CES Asia 2017
  • Co-Chair, Communications Working Group, OpenFog Consortium (elected position)  2016 – 2017
  • Advisory Board Member, All Inspire Health, 2016–2017; Fit A.I., 2016–2017

Selected Funding Agency Service and Government Research Leadership

  • US National Science Foundation (NSF), Computer Systems Research PI Meeting: breakout session co-leader, 2025
  • US National Science Foundation (NSF), Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Facing Computing: panelist for Human-Computer Interaction, 2021, 2022, 2024; Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier, 2023.
  • US National Science Foundation (NSF), Networking and Systems: panelist for Computer Systems Research 2025, 2026; Communications and Networking, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2024, 2026; Algorithms and Systems, 2016, 2017.
  • DARPA ISAT Workshop: invited participant, Wearable Supportive Personalized Self-Regulation (WSPR), 2022.
  • International funding agency review: reviewer for Canada NSERC Discovery Grants, 2021, 2022, 2024; Dutch Research Council NWA-ORC, 2021; UK National Institute for Health Research, 2019; Israel Science Foundation, 2016, 2017, 2019.

Selected Technical Program Committee Service

  • TPC Member, Recent: ACM MobiCom, ACM SenSys, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM HotMobile, IEEE ISMAR, ACM VRST, ACM ImmerCom, IEEE TRUST-XR, IEEE SafeThings, ACM MobiSys. Distinction: ACM MobiCom Distinguished TPC Member, 2024; 4 recognized out of 114.
  • TPC Member, Prior:  IEEE INFOCOM, ACM/IEEE IPSN, ACM Symposium on Edge Computing, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE ICNP, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE SECON