Major Professional and Scholarly Activities

Major position held in professional societies

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society
    • President 1974, and 1975
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    • Director, Division V (Computer Society) 1976-1977
  • American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS)
    • President 1984-1986
  • Computing Research Association
    • Member of Board of Directors 1996-2000

Leadership positions of major conferences

Recent:

  • Honorary General Chair of IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE Services 2019), Milan, Italy, July 8-13, 2019
  • General Chair of 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services, July 2 – 7, 2018, including the following seven conferences:
    • IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)
    • IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)
    • IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC)
    • IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress)
    • IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE)
    • IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC)
    • IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (ICIOT)
  • Honorary Co-chair, 2018 IEEE Smart World Congress, October 8 – 12. 2018. Guangzhou, China, including the following five conferences:
    • The 15th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC)
    • The 15th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2018)
    • The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2018)
    • The 4th IEEE International Conference on Internet of People (IoP 2018)
    • The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart City Innovations (IEEE SCI 2018)
  • Honarary Chair of 2017 IEEE World Congress on Services and its co-located conferences, Hawaii, June 24 – 30, 2017
  • Honorary Chair of the 12th IEEE World Congress on Services and its co-located conferences, San Francisco, June 27 – July 2, 2016
  • Honorary Chair of the 11th IEEE World Congress on Services and its co-located conferences, New York City, June 27 – July 2, 2015
  • Chairman, Steering Committer, COMPSAC (International Computer Software and Applications Conference) 1977-2005
  • Chair, Steering Committee of International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS) 1995-2001
  • General Chairman, the Second International Symoposium on Autonmous Decentralized Systems (ISADS), sponsored by IEEE Computer Society,
    Information Processing Society of Japan, and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan, Los Angeles, California, April 15-17, 1995
  • General Co-Chair, the First International, Symposium on 1991-1993 Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS), sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Information Processing Society of Japan,
    and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers of Japan, Kawasaki, Japan, March 30 - April 1, 1993.
  • General Chair of Second IEEE Workshop on Future Trends in Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS), Cairo, Egypt, 1990
  • IFIP Congress '89, 11th World Computer Congress, sponsored by International Federation for Information ProcessingSan Francisco, August 28 - September 1, 1989,
    • Chairman of the Organizing Committee
  • 1974 National Computer Conference, sponsored by American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer society,
    Society of Computer Simulation, Chicago, May 6 - 10, 1974,
    • General Chair

Editorial and Journal Activities

  • Editor-in-Chief , Computer Magazine 1981-1984
  • Member of Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 1988-1991
  • Guest Editor of the special issue in IEEE Transactions on Computers 1988-1991 on Distributed Computer Systems, Vol. e-38, No. 8, August 1989
  • Guest Editor of the IEEE Centennial Issue, “The State of 1983-1984 Computing,” Computer Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 10, October, 1984
  • Guest Editor of the special issue, “50 Years of Computing,” Computer 1995-1996 Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 10, October, 1996
  • Member of Editorial Board, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 2008-2012
  • Journal of Computer Communications 1992-2001
    • Member, Editorial Advisory Board
    • Guest Editor of the special issue on Software Aspects of the Future
    • Trends in Distributed Systems, May, 1992 1991-1992
  • Journal of Information Sciences
    • Member, Editorial Board 1982-1997
  • Journal of Supercomputing:
    • Member, Review Board 1986-2000

Keynote Addresses and Invited Talks at Major Conferences (since 2000)

  • Chinese Institute of Engineers Greater New York Chapter Annual Convention, "Challenges to Meet the Expectations of Demands for Services Applications with Dynamic Technologies", New York, October, 2019.
  • 2019 International Academician Summit on Smart-X & APEC Innovation Technology Dialogue, "Enabling Information Technologies for Smart City", Chengdu, China, October, 2019
  • The 2018 Asia-Pacific Services, Computing Conference, “Challenges and Research for Expanding Services Computing Applications,” Zhuhai, China, December 21, 2018
  • The First IEEE Smart World Congress, the 14th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), the 14th IEEE Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC), 2017 IEEE Conference on Smart City Innovations (IEEE SCI 2017). the 3rd IEEE Conference on Internet of People (IoP 2017), the 3rd IEEE Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBD0om 2017), and the 17th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom), “Towards A Human-Centric SmartWorld”, San Francisco Bay area, August 7, 2017
  • The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF-2017), “Challenges and Future Research of Information Assurance in Smart Cities” June 21, 2017, Exeter, UK
  • 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2017), 2017 IEEE IUCC/SpaCCS Joint Plenary Panel Session Guangzhou, China, December 2017 IEEE ISPA/IEEE UICC/SpaCCS Joint Plenary Panel Session:Title: Achieving Trustworthy Cyber Systems: Challenges and Strategies 2016 World Cybermatics Congress (Cybermatics 2017), 9th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2016), 12th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2016), 9th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing (CPSCom 2016), 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (Smart Data 2016), “Challenges and Future Research for Providing Cyber Security Protection in Smart Cities”, Chengdu, China, December 18, 2016
  • 3rd International Conference on Trustworthy Systems and Their Applications, “Human Factors in Developing Trustworthy IT Systems and Applications”, Wuhan, China, September 18, 2016.
  • 4th International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, “Human Factors for Improving Trustworthiness of Cloud Systems”, Chengdu, China, August 14, 2016
  • 2016 Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2016), 14th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing(DASC 2016), 14 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PIC 2016), and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (IEEE DataCom-16), “Securing Critical Cyber Infrastructures with Predictive Capability”, Auckland, New Zealand, August 10, 2016
  • 2016 International Conference on Smart X, “Intelligent Human Activity Detection in Smart Living”, Dalian, China, July 30, 2016
  • 10th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC-2013) and 10th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-2013), “Human Factors in Trustworthy Intelligent Service-based System,” Vietri sul Mare, Italy, December 19, 2013
  • The International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Information Security (CCIS 2013), “Challenges and Research on Security of Mobile Cloud Computing,” Shanghai, China, November 10, 2013.
  • 7th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2013) and International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS 2013), “Situation Awareness in Applications of Services and Cloud Computing,” Taichung, Taiwan, July 5, 2013.
  • 23rd IEEE Int’l Symposium On Software Reliability Engineering, “Development of High-Quality Secure Service-based Software Systems,” Dallas, Texas, November 28, 2012
  • 4th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Internetware, “Situation-Awareness in Applications of Services and Cloud Computing Environments,” Qingdao, China, October 30, 2012
  • 2nd Cross-Strait Conference on Software Technology, “Challenges and Future Research on Developing Trustworthy Services and Cloud Computing Systems, Nanjing, China, October 22, 2012
  • 6th IEEE Int’l Conference on Software Security and Reliability, “Human Factors in Developing of Trustworthy Service-based Systems,” Washington, DC, June 21, 2012

Plenary Panal Presentations (since 2010)

  • 2018 IEEE Smart World Congress, including the five conferences, “Future Computing in Smart World” October 10, 2018. Guangzhou, China.
  • 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2017), and 2017 IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (ISPA/IUCC 2017), joint plenary panel, “Achieving Trustworthy Cyber Systems: Challenges and Strategies”, December 14, 2017, Guangzhou, China.
  • COMPSAC 2018, the 42nd IEEE Computer Society’s signature Computers, Software and Applications Conference, “Future of Computing”. October 26, 2018. Tokyo, Japan.
  • COMPSAC 2017, the 41st IEEE Computer Society’s signature Computer, Software andApplications Conference, “Future of Computing”, July 7, 2017, Torino, Italy
  • 2017 IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech), 15th IEEEInternational Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), 15th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (DataCom). “Prospect Cybermatics in 2025: From Cyber-X to Cyber Sciences”, November 8, 2017, Orlando, Florida
  • 2017 IEEE World Congress on Services, “Non-Functional Challenges for Innovative Services Computing”, June 28, 2017, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • The 12th IEEE World Congress on Services, “Disruptive Technologies for Cyber Physical Mobile Services, June 29. 2016, San Francisco
  • 2016 International Conference on Smart X, “Intelligent Human Activity Detection in Smart Living”, Dalian, China, July 30, 2016
  • 2016 Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2016), 14th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2016),14 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PIC 2016),and 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (IEEE DataCom-16), “Securing Critical Cyber Infrastructures with Predictive Capability”,Auckland, New Zealand, August 10, 2016
  • 4th International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data, “Human Factors for Improving Trustworthiness of Cloud Systems”, Chengdu, China, August 14, 2016
  • 3rd International Conference on Trustworthy Systems and Their Applications, “Human Factors in Developing Trustworthy IT Systems and Applications”, Wuhan, China, September 18, 2016.
  • 2016 World Cybermatics Congress (Cybermatics 2017), 9th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2016), 12th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2016), 9th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical, and Social Computing (CPSCom 2016), 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (Smart Data 2016), “Challenges and Future Research for Providing Cyber Security Protection in Smart Cities”, Chengdu, China, December 18, 2016
  • Panelist of the plenary panel session, “Who Trumps Who: Security (SE) or Reliability (RE)?” at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2013), Washington DC, June 19, 2013
  • Panelist of the plenary panel session, “Challenges Towards the Global Adoption of Cloud Computing,” at the following two co-located conferences, Izmir, Turkey, July 19, 2012
    • The 35th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2012)
    • The 11th IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2012)
    • Panelist of the plenary panel session, “Future and Challenges of Parallel and Distributed Computing,” at the following collocated conferences, Fukuoka, Japan, September 5, 2012
    • The 9th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (IEEE UIC 2012)
    • The 9th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (IEEE ATC 2012)
    • The 12the International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP 2012)
    • Panelist of the keynote panel session, “Cloud Computing: Challenges and Opportunities” at the 2010 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2011), Hangzhou, China, December 8, 2010.
    • Panelist of the keynote panel session, “Towards Omnificent Multimodal Situation-Aware Services” at the following four co-located conferences, Washington, DC, July 8, 2011:
      • The IEEE 7th World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2011)
      • The IEEE 4rd International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2011)
      • The IEEE 8th International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2011)
      • The IEEE 9th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2011)

    Last updated on 12/12/2019