I am serving and served as an area/associate editor or editorial board member for 20+ journals, a leading guest editor of over 30 reputable international journals, a founding steering committee chair of IEEE Blockchain, a steering committee member of IEEE CIT, SpaCCS, UbiSec, etc. international conferences, a general chair or technical program committee (TPC) chair of 30+ international conferences and workshops, a TPC member of 50+ international conferences, and a reviewer of numerous top journals (e.g., many IEEE/ACM Transactions, journals and letters). Selected forums below:
Editor & Editorial Board Member
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 10.238), area editor of Security and Privacy for IoT (09.2022 – 08.2025);
- Information Fusion (Elsevier, IF: 10.716), editorial board member (01.2017 - date), area editor on IoT and Sensor, Security & Privacy (05.2019 – date)
- IEEE Network Magazine (IF: 8.808), Technical editor (09.2020 – 09.2022)
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 9.515), associate editor (01.2016 – 12.2017, 01-2020 – 12.2021);
- Information Sciences (Elsevier, IF: 5.524), associate editor (09.2016 - date);
- Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier, IF: 5.273), editorial board member (2017 - date)
- IEEE Access (IF: 4.098), associate editor (01.2016 - date);
- ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT), associate editor (07.2021 - date)
- Entropy (IF: 2.494), topic editor (10.2020 – 10.2022)
- Digital Communications Networks, associate editor (01.2020 - date)
- IEEE Blockchain Technical Briefs, editorial board member (2018 - date)
- Soft Computing (Springer, IF: 2.784), editorial board member (01.2017 - date)
- Security and Communication Networks (Wiley) (IF: 1.376), associate editor (10.2014 - date)
- KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (IF: 0.711), editor (01.2014 – 12.2016) area editor (01.2017 - date)
- Chinese Journal of Network and Information Security, editor (01.2016 - date)
- Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (Elsevier), associate editor (01.2016 – 12.2018)
- Information and Network Security (Chinese), editor (2015 - 2021)
- International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing, associate editor (at present)
- International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI), International Advisory Board member (01.2018 – date)
- Guest editor: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 7.377), IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (4.217), IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (IF: 2.25); Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) (IF: 5.768); IEEE Systems Journal (IEEE) (IF: 4.463); Vehicular Communications (Elsevier) (IF: 3.530), Computers & Security (Elsevier) (IF: 3.062); Mobile Networks and Applications (Springer) (MONET) (IF: 2.390); IET Information Security (IF: 0.949); IJCS: IJISP; etc.
Conference Organization Committee Member (selected)
- IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (founding steering committee co-chair) (2018 – present)
- ISPEC 2023 (general co-chair)
- IEEE International Congress on Cybermatics 2022 (organization chair)
- IEEE International Conference on Blockchain 2022 (TPC co-chair)
- IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (founding steering committee co-chair) (2018 – present)
- IFIP Networking 2021 (Leading TPC chair)
- The 13th International Workshop on Cyberspace Security and Artificial Intelligence (CAI-2021), in conjunction with the IEEE ISPA 2021 conference (http://www.cloud-conf.net/ispa2021/) (steering committee member)
- IEEE Congress on Cybermatics 2020 (opening session chair)
- IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/CSE/EUC/iSCI 2020 (vice-program co-chair, special issue co-chair)
- IEEE CyberC 2020 (publicity chair)
- IEEE ICC (Session chair – Blockchain)
- IEEE ATC2019 (leading general chair)
- IEEE INFOCOM 2019 (session chair - 4F Security in Wireless Networks)
- IEEE Blockchain 2018 (leading general chair, steering committee co-chair)
- IEEE BigDataSE 2018 (TPC chair)
- MobiSec2018 (publication chair)
- NSS 2017 (leading TPC chair)
- IEEE CIT 2017 (general co-chair)
- IEEE ICA3PP 2017 (general co-chair)
- SpaCCS 2017 (TPC co-chair)
- IEEE RACIT2017 (general co-chair)
- EAI MobiMedia 2016 (leading general chair)
- IEEE TrustCom 2015 (leading TPC chair, panel co-chair)
- IEEE BigDataSE 2015 (general co-chair)
- IEEE RATSP 2015 (general co-chair)
- IEEE CIT 2014 (leading general chair)
- CSS 2014 (TPC chair)
- IEEE DTWSM 2014/2015/2016/2017 (program co-chair)
- IEEE RACIT 2014 (program chair)
- IEEE GBM 2014 (program co-chair)
- Cute-2013 (vice program co-chair)
- IEEE/IFIP EUC 2013 (workshop co-chair, vice program co-chair)
- IEEE/IFIP DMIoT 2013 (program co-chair)
- IEEE DASC 2012 (program co-chair)
- IEEE iThings 2012 (vice program co-chair)
- IEEE iThings/CPSCom/GreenCom 2012 (panel chair)
- IEEE TrustCom 2011/2012 (workshop co-chair)
- IEEE TrustID 2011/2012/2013 (leading program chair)
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
- IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Community on Blockchain
Conference Technical Program Committee Member (selected)
- IEEE GlobeCom (2012, 2015); MobiSec (2009, 2010); ICSOC (2009 - 2019); ACM MobileHCI (2009, 2010); ACM SAC TRECK (2008 - 2011); IEEE VTC (2011); IEEE WiMob (2010 - 2012); ICA3PP (2010); IEEE CPSCom (2011); ISPEC (2013, 2016); NordSec2017; IEEE DSC2017, IEEE ICCCN (2018); CoCoNet (2018); IFIPTM (2019), SECRYPT (2019, 2020); IEEE Blockchain (2019); IEEE ATC (2019); IEEE ICC (2020 - 2022); IEEE ICDCS 2020; IEEE CNS2020, International Conference on Security and Privacy in Digital Economy (SPDE2020), ACM CSAC2019/2018, IEEE DSC2020; IEEE INFOCOM 2021-2023; IEEE TrustCom2020-2022, etc.
Book Review
- Springer, 05.2017, book title: CABology: Value of Cloud, Analytic and Big Data Trio Wave
Positions of Trust: Technical committee membership and referee of grants and awards
- Academic tenure track committee of School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University (2013-date)
- Academic tenure track committee of School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University (2015-date)
- PhD program grant of Chinese Education Ministry (2012)
- National Science and Technology Innovation Award of China
- National Award of Science and Technology of China
- Innovation Foundation of China (Scientific and Technical Ministry of China)
- Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation of Chinese Education Ministry
- IEEE Communications & Information Security Technical Committee
- National “863 projects” of Chinese Scientific and Technology Ministry (2014)
- Steering committee of IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology
- Steering committee of International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS)
- Steering committee of EAI Mobile Multimedia Communications (EAI MobiMedia)
- NSFC project reviewer (2016 - present)
- Publication Chair of Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) at IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS)
Dissertation opponent and pre-examiner (selected)
- PhD thesis pre-examiner (10.2022) Research on Key Technologies of Adaptive Defense for Network Multi-step Attacks Based on Data Fusion, University of Information Engineering, China
- Master thesis pre-examiner (06.2022) University of Information Engineering, China
- PhD thesis pre-examiner (04.2022) 4 PhD theses from University of Information Engineering, China; 1 PhD thesis from Sun Yat-Sen University, China; 1 PhD thesis from BUPT, China
- Master thesis pre-examiner (10.2021) (2 master theses: Tianjing University, Ministry Science College);
- 4 PhD dissertations pre-examiner (10.2021) (ZhengZhou University 1 PhD thesis, Sichuan University 1 PhD thesis, University of Information Engineering 2 PhD theses);
- 8 PhD dissertation pre-examiner and master thesis (07.2021) (Beijing Jiaotong University 2 PhD theses, University of Information Engineering 4 PhD theses, University of Defense and Technology 1 PhD thesis, South-East University 1 PhD thesis), and 3 master theses;
- PhD dissertation pre-examiner, “Network Demand Aware Task Offloading in Fog Computing”, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India (2020);
- PhD dissertation pre-examiner and defense committee member, Yan Jia, “Empirical Study on the Security of Key Components in Internet of Things Platforms”, Xidian University, China (2020);
- PhD dissertation opponent, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (12.2016), Wujing Tech Univ., China (12.2018);
- PhD dissertation pre-examiner, University of South Australia, Australia (11.2016 – 01.2017);
- PhD dissertation pre-examiner, University of Tampere, Finland (08.2016);
- PhD dissertation pre-examiner, University of Oulu, Finland (12.2013 – 02.2014);
- PhD dissertation opponent, University of Turku, Finland (08.2013);
- PhD jury member: Telecom Sud_Paris, UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS6, France (03.2010);
- Committee members of many master and PhD thesis defenses in China (2011 – date).
Journal referee
· IEEE Communications Magazine (2016)
· ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) (2011) (A class)
· IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS) (2016)
· IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2013, 2014, 2015) (A class)
· IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2012, 2015, 2016) (A class)
· IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2014)
· IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (2014, 2015)
· IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2015)
· IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2015)
· IEEE Transactions on Computers (2015)
· IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2015)
· IEEE Communications Magazine (2015)
· IEEE Journal of Cloud Computing (2015)
· IEEE Security & Privacy (2012) (A class)
· IEEE Networking (2013)
· IEEE Systems Journal (2014, 2015)
· IEEE Sensors Journal (2016)
· Information Fusion (2014)
· Future Generation Computer Systems (2015)
· Journal of Network and Computer Applications (2010, 2015) (A class)
· Information Sciences (2011, 2014) (A class)
· Journal of Computer System Science (2013)
· IEEE Computer (2012)
· Technological and Economic Development of Economy (TTED) (2013)
· Computer Communications (2010) (B class)
· Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2008) (B class)
· Computing (Springer) (2013)
· Wireless Networks (2007, 2013) (B class)
· IET Communications (2010, 2011) (B class)
· IET Information Security (2012) (B class)
· Journal of Communications (2010)
· Journal of Information Science and Engineering (2010)
· Journal of Multimedia (2011)
· Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Intelligence (2011)
· Journal of Service Oriented Computing and Applications SOCA (2012, 2014)
· Journal of Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (2012)
· Journal of Applied Science and Engineering (JASE) (2013)
· China Communications (2013)
· 计算机学报 Chinese Journal of Computer (2013, 2014)
· Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (2014)
· Expert Systems With Applications (2014)
· International Journal of Communication Systems (2015)