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Chair, the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Silicon Valley, CA, 2017 Co-Chair, Wireless Communications Track, 2017 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'17), San Francisco, CA, March 2017 Chair, Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Kauai, HI, 2016 Chair, Wireless Networking and Multimedia Symposium, IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China, 2015 Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Anaheim, CA, 2015 Chair of the IEEE ITSS Fellow Evaluation Committee (2016 - present) Member of the IEEE ITSS Fellow Evaluation Committee (2015) Chair of the IEEE Smart Grid - Vehicles Vision Project (2011 - 2014) Co-Chair of the Mobile Communication Networks technical committee of the IEEE ITSS (2006 - present) Vice Chair of the IEEE Gainesville Section (Jan. 2008 - Aug. 2010) Secretary of the IEEE Gainesville Section (Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2007) Senior Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2016-present) CPSS Department Editor for IEEE Intelligent Systems (2013-present) Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2006-present) Associate Editor for PHYCOM: Physical Communication (2007-present) Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications (2007-2012) Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2007-2012) Guest Editor for PHYCOM Special Issue on Advances in Underwater Communications and Networks, 2013 Lead Guest Editor for PHYCOM Special Issue on UWB Communications, 2008 Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 2015, Anaheim, CA Chair, Special Sessions, IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, Guilin, China, August 5-8, 2014 Co-Chair, Wireless Communications Symposium, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'13), Atlanta, GA, December 9-13, 2013 Program Co-Chair, ACM International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems (WUWNet'12), Los Angeles, California, November 5-6, 2012 Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC'12), Beijing, China, April 11-14, 2012 Co-Chair, Wireless Communications Symposium, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'10), Miami, FL, December 6-10, 2010 Chair, Antennas and Propagation Track, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'10F), Ottawa, Canada, September 6-9, 2010 Chair, the MIMO, Signal Processing, and Smart Antennas Subcommittee, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS'10), New Orleans, LA, January 10-14, 2010 Chair, the MIMO, Signal Processing, and Smart Antennas Subcommittee, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS'09), San Diego, CA, January 18-22, 2009 Co-Chair, Workshops, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS'11), Phoenix, AZ, January 16-19, 2011 Co-Chair, the MIMO Systems Symposium, IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Chinia, Crete Island, Greece, August 6-8, 2008 Co-chair, the MIMO Systems Symposium, IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 12-16, 2007 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (ICC'12), Ottawa, Canada, June 10-15, 2012 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'11), Houston, TX, December 5-9, 2011 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (ICC'11), Kyoto, Japan, June 5-9, 2011 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'10), Capetown, South Africa, May 23-27, 2010 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'09), Honolulu, HI, November 30 - December 4, 2009 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB'09), Vancouver, Canada, September 9-11, 2009 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'09), Dresden, Germany, June 14-18, 2009 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS'09), San Diego, CA, January 18-22, 2009 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances for Wireless Communications (SPAWC'09), Perugia, Italy, January 7-10, 2009 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'08), New Orleans, LA, November 30 - December 4, 2008 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'08F), Calgary, Alberta, September 21-24, 2008 Member of Poster Session Committee, ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet'08), San Francisco, CA, September 15, 2008 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'08), Beijing, China, May 19-23, 2008 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC'08), Las Vegas, NV, March 31-April 3, 2008 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'07), Washington, DC, November 26-30, 2007 Member of International Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Communication, Internet and Information Technology, Banff, Canada, July 2-4, 2007 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'07), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 24-28, 2007 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC'07), Hong Kong, China, March 11-15, 2007 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Radio & Wireless Symposium (RWS'07), Long Beach, CA, January 7-12, 2007 Member of International Program Committee, IASTED International Conference on Communication, Internet and Information Technology, St. Thomas, VI, USA, November 29-December 1, 2006 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM'06), San Francisco, CA, November 27-December 1, 2006 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB'06), Waltham, MA, September 24-27, 2006 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'05F), Dallas, TX, September 25-28, 2005 Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'04F), Los Angeles, CA, September 26-29, 2004 Session chair and organizer, the 39th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, CA, October 30-November 2, 2005 Session chair, IEEE International Conference On Ultra-Wideband, Boston, MA, September 24-27, 2006 Session chair, IEEE International Conference On Networking, Sensing and Control, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 23-25, 2006 Regular reviewer for various journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, and EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Regular panelist for National Science Foundation, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, and Qatar's National Priorities Research Program