Professional Service and Leadership
Selected Conference Leadership
- General Chair, ACM HotMobile 2027 – Submit your best, most interesting work!
- Technical Program Committee Chair, ACM Symposium on Edge Computing 2027
- Technical Program Committee Chair, ACM SenSys 2025
- Technical Program Committee Chair, ACM/IEEE IPSN 2023
- 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
- Steering Committee Member, ACM/IEEE SenSys 2024–2028
- Steering Committee Member, ACM/IEEE IPSN 2023–2024
Selected Research Community Leadership in XR and Immersive AI Systems
- Co-Founder and General Chair, ACM Workshop on Enhancing Security, Privacy, and Trust in Extended Reality 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
- Panel Moderator: “From Risk to Resilience: Securing the Everyday XR Experience,” XR Security Workshop 2025, “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
- Guest Editor: ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks special issue on Computing, Sensing, and Networking for Immersive Systems 2024, IEEE Network special issue on Networking Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-user XR and the Metaverse 2023
Selected Industry, Government, and Translational Activities
- Associate Director for XR, Duke Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation 2025–present
- Invited Speaker, US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health 2024, 2026
- Invited Speaker, Augmented World Expo USA 2021, 2025, 2026
- Distinguished Speaker, Accenture Labs 2023
- Invited Participant: Google Networking Research Summit 2023, Facebook Connectivity Lab Research Workshop 2018, 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 and Government Research Service
- US National Science Foundation (NSF), Computer Systems Research PI Meeting: breakout session co-leader 2025
- DARPA ISAT Workshop: invited participant, Wearable Supportive Personalized Self-Regulation (WSPR) 2022.
- 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.
- 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 VR, 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