Professional & Organizational Activities
Professional Activities
Journal Editorial Board
2023 – Present: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
2023 – Present: Associate Editor, IEEE IoT Journal
2020 – Present: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Communications
2017 – 2022: Associate Editor, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
2015 – 2020: Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
2009 – 2022: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
2012 – 2016: Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
2010 – 2014: Associate Editor, IET Wireless Sensor Systems
2009 – 2013: Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Letters
2006 – 2012: Associate Editor, Int.l Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley
2005 – 2008: Chair, IEEE Montreal chapter, Comm. & Inform. Theory Societies
Executive Technical Committees
• Awards Chair, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2025
• Chair, Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks, IEEE Globecom, 2024
• TPC Chair, IEEE Canadian Conference in Electrical and Computer Eng. (CCECE), 2024
• TPC Chair, The International Telecommunications Conference, 2023
• Co-Chair, IoT and Sensor Networks, IEEE Globecom, 2022
• TPC Chair, The International Telecommunications Conference, 2022
• Technical Track Chair, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2020
• Tutorial Chair, IEEE Canadian Conference in Elec. and Computer Eng. (CCECE), 2020
• General Chair, IEEE SmartNets Conference, 2019
• Co-Chair, MAC and Cross Layer Design Track, IEEE WCNC, 2019
• Co-Chair, Wireless Communications, IEEE (ICC), 2018
• Co-Chair, Ad-hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networking, IEEE Globecom, 2017
• Track Co-Chair, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), 2016
• TPC Co-Chair, Int. Conference on Selected Topics in Mobile and Wireless Net., 2016
• TPC Co-Chair, ACM-PE-WASUN Conference, 2014
• TPC Co-Chair, Wireless Networks Symposium, IEEE Globecom, 2012
• Track Co-Chair, Transmission Techniques, IEEE Veh. Tech. Conference (VTC- Fall), 2012
• TPC Co-Chair, Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking, IEEE ICC, 2010
• TPC Co-Chair, 25th Queen’s Biennial Symposium on Comm., 2010
• Co-Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN), 200
• Poster Chair, IEEE Int. Conference on Computer Systems and App. (AICCSA), 2008
• Member, Advisory Committee, Int. Conf. on Information and Comm. Tech. , 2008
• Track Chair, Radio Access, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), 2006
• TPC Chair, 4th ACS/IEEE AICCSA-06, Ad hoc and sensor networks workshop, 2004
• Co-Chair, Wireless Networks, IEEE Globecom, 2006
Technical Society Memberships
• IEEE Senior Member
• Member, IEEE Communications Society
• Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society
• Member, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
Organizational Activities
2022 – present Member, Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee, Concordia University
2022 – present Undergraduate Program Director (UGPD), ECE, Concordia University
2020 – 2022 Member, Dept. Personal Committee (DPC), Concordia University
2017 – 2019 Member, Concordia University Research Committee
2015 – 2017 Member, NSERC Faculty Committee for Graduate Students
2012 – 2017 Member, Graduate Award Committee
2013 – 2014 Member, Faculty Personnel Committee
2008 – 2010 Member, Department personal Committee
2007 – 2010 Chair, Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam
2008 – 2009 Member, Partial Tuition Fee Remission Award for Doctoral Students
2008 – 2009 Member, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus Committee
2006 – 2008 Member, Faculty Research Committee
2006 – 2007 Member, Scholarships and Awards Committee, Concordia University.
University Research Centre of Execellence
• Member, Faculty Research Center of Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things
• Member, Faculty Research Center for Secure Wireless Health Monitoring Systems
• Member, Faculty Research Center for Urban and Renewable Energy
Selected Keynote and Invited Talks
• Machine-to-Machine Communications: Application in 5G and beyond. 25th International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Montreal, 2022
• The Interplay Between Intelligent Networks and Enabling Technologies for Future Wireless Networks. International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and their Applications, Egypt, 2022
• Machine-to-Machine and Internet-of-Things: in the 5G and beyond. Communications workshop, University Lille North, France, 2019
• Enabling Technologies for the Internet-of-Things: Licensed and Unlicensed Techniques. 13th Int. Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES), 2018
• 5G Wireless Systems: Challenges and Enabling Technologies. Invited talk at Valenciennes University, France, 2017
• Future Generations of Wireless Systems: Challenges and Enabling Technologies. Annual MSA workshop on advances in communication and electronic, Egypt, 2016
• Machine-to-Machine and Internet-of-Things. Zewail University, Egypt, 2015
• Space-Time Communications Through MIMO and Cooperative Systems. Institut national de recherche sur les transports et leur sécurité (INRETS), Lille, France, 2010
• On the Performance of MIMO Systems: Trends and Challenges. Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology of the National Center for Scientific Research (IEMN- CNRS), France, 2008
• Performance of Space-Time Multiuser Detection with FEC Coding in DS-CDMA Systems. Wireless Industry Congress (WIC02), Ottawa, 200