I am serving and served as an EiC/area/associate editor or editorial board member for 20+ journals, a leading guest editor of 40+ 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, magazines, and letters). Selected forums are listed below:

Editor & Editorial Board Member

• Information Sciences (Elsevier, IF: 8.233), executive EiC (04.2024 – date);
• ACM Computing Surveys (IF: 16.6), associate editor (10.2023 – date)
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF: 10.238), area/associate editor (01.2016 – 12.2017, 01.2020 – 12.2021, 09.2022 – 08.2025);
• Information Fusion (Elsevier, IF: 18.6), editorial board member (01.2017 – date), area editor on IoT and Sensor, Security & Privacy (05.2019 – date);
• IEEE Network Magazine (IF: 10.294), technical editor (09.2020 – 09.2022);
• Digital Communications and Networks (IF: 8.6)，associate editor (12.2023 – date);
• Information Sciences (Elsevier, IF: 8.233), associate editor (09.2016 – 04.2024);
• Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier, IF: 7.574), editorial board member (2017 - date);
• IEEE-Spectrum Chinese Version《科技纵览》, editor (2023.12 – date);
• IEEE Access (IF: 3.476), associate editor (01.2016 – 01.2024), senior AE ((01.2024 – 04.2024);
• IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (CEM) (IF: 4.135), editorial board member, associate editor (07.2022 – 12.2023);
• ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT), associate editor (07.2021 – date);
• Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, editorial board member (01.2022 – date);
• Journal of Data Science and Intelligent Systems (JDSIS); editorial board member (04.2023 – date);
• Entropy (IF: 2.738), topic editor (10.2020 – 10.2022);
• Committee member of big data security and privacy computing, Chinese Information Society (01.2022 – 12.2026)
• Digital Communications Networks (IF: 6.348), associate editor (01.2020 – 12.2021);
• IEEE Blockchain Technical Briefs, editorial board member (2018 – 2020);
• Soft Computing (Springer, IF: 3.732), editorial board member (01.2017 – date);
• Security and Communication Networks (Wiley) (IF: 1.968), associate/area editor (10.2014 – date);
• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (IF: 0.972), 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);
• Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems, associate editor (10.2020 – date);
• Guest editor: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 11.648), IEEE Communications Magazine (IF: 11.05), IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (IF: 7.021), IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IF: 5.033), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (IF: 3.144); Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) (IF: 7.307); IEEE Systems Journal (IEEE) (IF: 4.802); Vehicular Communications (Elsevier) (IF: 8.373), Computers & Security (Elsevier) (IF: 5.105); Mobile Networks and Applications (Springer) (IF: 3.077); Computer Communications (IF: 6); IET Information Security (IF: 1.300); IJCS (IF: 1.882) etc.

Conference Organization Committee Member (selected)

• IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (founding steering committee co-chair) (2017 – present)
• The 2025 6th International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things (CNIOT 2025) (conference chair)
• CNSSE 2025 - 2025 5th International Conference on Computer Network Security and Software Engineering (conference chair)
• ICAHN 2025 – 2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (organization committee chair)
• 2025 IEEE PCDS (publication chair)
• 2024 IEEE AI+ Congress（general co-chair）
• IEEE TrustCom 2024 (general chair)
• 2024 International Conference on Engineering with AI (ICEAI) 2024 (general co-chair)
• 2024 International Conference on Digital Economy and Computer Science (DECS 2024) (conference chair)
• 2024 6th International Conference on Robotics, Intelligent Control and Artificial Intelligence (RICAI 2024) (TPC co-chair)
• 2024 4^th International Conference on Network Communication and Information Security (ICNCIS 2024) (general chair)
• UbiSec 2024 (program chair)
• 2024 the 2nd International Conference on Big Data and Privacy Computing (BDPC) (conference co-chair)
• The 2024 3rd International Symposium on Computer Applications and Information Systems (ISCAIS2024) (conference co-chair)
• The 2nd International Conference on Data Security and Privacy Protection 2024 (general chair)
• 2024 3^rd International Conference on Cyber Security (conference chair)
• 2024 IEEE Global Blockchain Conference (track chair)
• ISPEC 2023 (program co-chair)
• 2023 International Conference on Cyber Security (conference chair)
• The First Workshop on Backscatter Communication Security in Internet of Things Environment, held in conjunction with IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (program chair, steering chair)
• CoITrust 2023 (general co-chair)
• DSPP 2023 (organizing 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, 2021, 2024); 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, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025); IEEE ICDCS 2020; IEEE CNS2020/2021/2022/2023/2024, International Conference on Security and Privacy in Digital Economy (SPDE2020), ACM CSAC2019/2018, IEEE DSC2020; IEEE INFOCOM (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025); IEEE TrustCom (2020-2024), IEEE ISPA2023, IEEE HPCC2024, IEEE UIC2024, 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

• IEEE Fellow (01.01.2024); AAIA Fellow (05.12.2023); AIIA Fellow (08.05.2024); IET Fellow (18.12.2019)
• Expert Reviewer for National Major Science and Technology Projects at the Industrial Development Promotion Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology（09.2024）
• Chair of AiScholar Academic Committee（13.07.2024 – 12.07.2026）
• Reviewer: Key project application of Hunan Province, China (12.2023)
• Reviewer: Technology Advance Award of JiLin Province, China (2023)
• MOST National Key Project Panel Reviewer (09.2023)
• Steering Committee Member, acting manager (2018 – 2021): Xidian-Aalto University International joint laboratory on Next Generation Wireless Communications and Security
• Program Co-leader: International Talent Education Program of Cyber Security (sponsored by Chinese Scholarship Council)
• Referee: faculty recruitment qualification review, Beihang University (07.2020)
• Referee: faculty promotion qualification review, Beihang University (07.2020)
• Adjunct professor: Xi’an Jiaotong University, China (07.2019 – 07.2024)
• Referee: National Science Center, Poland, grant reviewer (03.2019)
• Referee: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada – discovery grants program (01.2019, 01.2020, 01.2021)
• Referee: MOST - National Key Research and Development Program of China, international cooperation program (2019)
• Referee: China National Technology Innovation Prize 2018 (the highest-level technical award in China)
• Founding steering committee co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (IEEE Blockchain) (2017 - date)
• Steering committee member of IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT) (2014 – date)
• Steering committee member of International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS) (2016 – date)
• NSFC grant referee (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
• Academic tenure track committee member of School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University (2013 – 2015)
• Academic tenure track committee member of School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University (2015 – date)
• Referee: National “863 projects” of Chinese Scientific and Technology Ministry (2014)
• Referee: PhD program grant of Chinese Education Ministry (2012)
• Referee: National Science and Technology Innovation Award of China (2014, 2018)
• Referee: National Award of Science and Technology of China
• Referee: Innovation Foundation of China (Scientific and Technical Ministry of China)
• Referee: Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation of Chinese Education Ministry (2013)
• Adjunct professor: Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (12.2012 – 12.2015)
• Member: IEEE Communications & Information Security Technical Committee (2013 – date)
• Publication Chair of Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) at IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS) (2021 – date)
• Subarea Chair of special interest group (SIG) on Metaverse (META), IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC) (2022 – present)
• Chair of Task Force: Intelligent Blockchain, Smart World TC, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
• Member: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
• Member: IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Community on Blockchain

Dissertation opponent and pre-examiner (selected)

• Master thesis pre-examiner (2023): 2 master theses from BUPT;
• PhD thesis pre-examiner (2023): 3 PhD theses from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; 1 PhD thesis from BeiHang University,1 from Southeast University;
• 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).

1. Keynote: UbiSec 2024, Changsha, China, December 29-31, 2024.
2. Keynote: AI-empowered Trust and Trustworthy AI, 2024 4th International Conference on Computational Modeling, Simulation and Data Analysis (CMSDA 2024), Hangzhou, China, December 6-8, 2024, China.
3. Invited Talk: Digital Twin Positioning, the 2024 IEEE SmartWorld Congress, December 2 to 7, 2024, Denarau Island, Fiji.
4. Invited Talk: AI-empowered Trust and Trustworthy AI, AI+X Leadership Summit 2024 (https://nsclab.org/ai2024/), November 29, 2024, Melbourne, Australia.
5. Keynote: AI-empowered Trust and Trustworthy AI, The 3rd International Conference on Computing, Communication, Perception and Quantum Technology, CCPQT 2024, Zhuhai, October 25-27, 2024.
6. Invited Talk: AI-empowered Trust and Trust-controlled AI, AI Challenges for European Research and Academia, Academia Europaea, 4th and 5th September 2024.
7. Keynote: Backscatter Communication Security, 2024 China Institute of Electronics Cyberspace Security Academic Conference中国电子学会网络空间安全学术大会, Xi’an, China, July 12-14, 2024.
8. Keynote: Backscatter Communication Security, the 9th International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP 2024), Nanjing, China, July 12-14, 2024.
9. Keynote: AI-empowered Trust and Trustworthy AI, 2024 9^th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing (ICSP2024), Xi’an, China, April 19-21, 2024.
10. AI-enabled Trust and Trustworthy AI, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, April 16, 2024.
11. Panelist: Trust of Digital Twins, Cybermatics-ICPADS-CBD-ICESS-2023, Haihua Island, Hainan, December 19, 2023.
12. Keynote: AI-enabled Trust and Trustworthy AI, CryptoAI 2023 (China Cryptographic Society Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Security Conference), Xi’an, China, December 16, 2023.
13. Decentralized Trust Management for Integrated Heterogeneous Networks, Zhejiang Lab, HangZhou, China, June 29, 2023.
14. Decentralized Trust Management for Integrated Heterogeneous Networks, HuBei University of Finance, China, June 23, 2023.
15. Keynote: Decentralized Trust Management for Integrated Heterogeneous Networks, the 2^nd Huawei Paris Workshop on Building Open Trust Systems, May 10, 2023.
16. SofitMix: A Secure Offchain-Supported Bitcoin-Compatible Mixing Protocol, invited talk at the North Industry University, Beijing, China, November 25, 2022.
17. Trust, Security and Privacy of 5G Positioning and its Services, invited talk at the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, November 05, 2022.
18. Keynote: Trust, Security and Privacy of 5G Positioning and its Services, ICA3PP’2022, Oct. 10-12, 2022.
19. Keynote: Trust, Security and Privacy of 5G Positioning and its Services, the 1st Huawei Paris Workshop on Building Open Trust Systems, 18 May 2022.
20. Panelist: Building Open Trust System, the 1st Huawei Paris Workshop on Building Open Trust Systems, 19 May 2022.
21. Keynote: Highly Efficient Network Security Analysis Based on Sketches, the 13th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS 2021) and the Second International Symposium on Emerging Information Security and Applications (EISA), Copenhagen, Denmark (Online), 9-11 November 2021.
22. Panelist: Digital Trust, Huawei Strategy and Technology Workshop (STW), Shen Zhen, China, October 15, 2021.
23. Invited Expert Talk: TrustNet: A Trust Management Framework for Integrated Heterogeneous Networks Based on Blockchain, Huawei Strategy and Technology Workshop (STW), Shen Zhen, China, October 14-16, 2021.
24. Invited Talk: Highly Efficient Network Security Analysis Based on Sketches. The 5th International Workshop on Cyberspace Security (IWCSS 2021), Guangzhou, China, June 18-21, 2021.
25. Panelist: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, Virtual Conference, Sydney, Australia, May 6, 2021.
26. Data Collection, Fusion and Analytics towards Network Trust Measurement, Huawei workshop: Trust on Future Networks, Helsinki, January 8, 2021.
27. Invited Talk: Decentralized and Trustworthy Mobile Crowdsourcing Based on Blockchain, IEEE TrustCom/IEEE BigDataSE/IEEE CSE/IEEE EUC/IEEE iSCI 2020, GuangZhou, China, Dec. 29 – Jan. 2, 2020.
28. Trustworthy Mobile Crowdsourcing Based on Blockchain, talk for Huawei, Helsinki, June 10, 2020.
29. Trust Management and its Enhanced Security with Privacy, Seminar of Security, Trust and Privacy, Aalto University, Finland, February 13, 2020.
30. Invited Talk: Network Data Collection, Composition and Analytics for Cyber Security, IWCSS 2019, in conjunction with the iSCI 2019 and DependSys 2019 International Joint Conferences, GuangZhou, China, November 12-15, 2019.
31. Digitalizing Trust for Securing Pervasive Social Networking with Privacy Preservation, invited talk at GuangZhou University, GuangZhou, China, November 11, 2019.
32. Keynote: Network Data Collection, Fusion, Mining and Analytics for Cyber Security, the Second International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security (ML4CS), Xi’an, China, September 19, 2019.
33. Summit Keynote: Blockchain: Advances, Challenges & Applications, IEEE World Congress on Cybermatics, Atlanta, USA, July 16, 2019.
34. Panelist: AutoSource: Autonomous Mobile Crowdsourcing with Decentralized Trust Management, IEEE World Congress on Services, Milan, Italy, July 9, 2019.
35. Digitalizing Trust for Securing Pervasive Social Networking with Privacy Preservation, invited talk at Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA, September 14, 2018.
36. Summit Keynote: Privacy-Preserving Data Processing with Flexible Access Control, the 2018 IEEE International Congress on Cybermatics, Halifax, Canada, August 1, 2018.
37. Panelist: Trust Management Enhanced Security with Privacy, IEEE ISPA/IEEE IUCC/SpaCCS2017, Guang Zhou, China, December 14, 2017.
38. Trust Management Enhanced Security with Privacy in Cloud Computing, invited talk at JiNan University, China, December 16, 2017.
39. Trust Management Enhanced Security with Privacy in Pervasive Social Networking, invited talk. at GuangZhou University, China, December 14, 2017.
40. Invited Talk: Secure Computations and Deduplication Management over Encrypted Data in Cloud Computing, Aalto-Shanghai Workshop, Finland, November 30, 2017.
41. Digitalizing Trust for Securing Pervasive Social Networking with Privacy Preservation, talk at Aalto University, Finland, October 6, 2017.
42. Keynote: Unwanted Traffic Control Based on Trust Management, EAI MobiMedia2017, Chong Qing, China, July 13, 2017.
43. Controlling Unwanted Traffic with Trust Management, invited talk at Sydney University Technology, Sydney, Australia, July 2017.
44. Trust and Trust Management, invited Talk at Fujian Normal University, China, June 2016.
45. Cloud Data Security and Privacy Protection Based on Trust Management, invited Talk at Fujian Normal University, China, June 2016.
46. Invited Talk: Trust Management in Pervasive Social Networking, International Symposium on Companion Technology 2015 (ISCT 2015), Ulm, Germany, September 24, 2015.
47. Panelist, Emotion and Trust, International Symposium on Companion Technology 2015 (ISCT 2015), Ulm, Germany, September 24, 2015.
48. Keynote: Trust Management for Mobile Applications, IEEE TrustSoft, Helsinki, August 20, 2015.
49. Applications of Usable and Autonomic Trust Management, Invited Talk at Beijing International Study University, China, April 10, 2014.
50. Usable Trust Management and Applications, invited talk at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VirginiaTech), USA, October 18, 2013.
51. The Basic of Cloud Computing, invited lecture, invited lecture at NTNU, Norway, October 2012.
52. Usable and Autonomic Trust Management, invited talk at Xi’an Jiaotong University and Xidian University, Xi’an, China, December 2012.
53. Trust Management in Mobile Environments – Usable and Autonomic Models, invited talk at Xi’an University of Post and Telecommunications, Xi’an, China, December 2012.
54. Invited Talk: A Trust Behavior based Recommender System for Software Usage, IEEE PhoneCom 2011, Dalian, China, October 19, 2011.
55. Invited Talk: Usable Trust Management for Mobile Applications, Future Internet SHOK Results Seminar, February 15, 2011. http://www.futureinternet.fi/seminar_2011.htm
56. Building Trust in Mobile Environments, invited talk at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, October, 2010.
57. Human-Machine Trust Interaction: Towards User Driven Trust Modeling and Management, invited talk at Renmin University of China, China, May 2008.
58. Keynote: Autonomic Trust Management for a Component Software Platform, AIC\\\\\'07, Greece, August 24, 2007.