| 1 | Invited, among 50 leading networking researchers in USA, to discuss the directions of future Internet at FutureHetNets2011, organized by NSF, NASA, and MIT (http://www.rle.mit.edu/futurehetnets/default.htm) Quote: This workshop will bring together leading researchers to discuss the research and development activities needed to enable the end-to-end, scalable, highly controllable, secure heterogeneous networks of the future |
| 2 | Nominated the Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM’98 for his paper on IP switching among six papers nominated |
| 3 | Recommended by IEEE INFOCOM’98 for fast-track review of his IP switching paper for publication in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking |
| 4 | Winner of IEEE Student Travel Fund to IEEE INFOCOM98 |
| 5 | Invited talk at the CSIIR and IOC 1st Annual Workshop at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 14-15, March, 2005 (http://www.ioc.ornl.gov/events.shtml |
| 6 | Invited, among 20 leading networking researchers from USA, to talk at the 1st COST-NSF Workshop (NeXtworking’03) on research directions for the Internet, Greece, June 2003 (http://www.di.uoa.gr/~istavrak/costnsf/Welcome.html) Quote: This workshop was the first attempt to bring together the Networking research communities from the USA and Europe in a common forum, to exchange research ideas and trends in Networking. Unique features of this meeting were the joint and balanced participation of researchers from the European and USA research communities and the high concentration of top, mature and highly respected researchers from both communities. |
| 7 | Invited Seminars: Sichuan University 2006, Tsinghua University 2004/2006, Chinese Academy of Science 2006, Beijing Telecommunications University 2004, Yunnan University 2002/3. |
| 8 | Invited talk at the 34th Allerton conference, 1996, for his paper on Internet Traffic Modeling. An extended version of this paper was also invited for publication in Journal of Selected Areas in Communications. |
| 9 | Invited talk at the American Physics Society Annual Conference, 1996, for his paper on magnetic phase transition |
| 1 | Technical program committee members for several conferences since 2011 (didn’t keep track; to be updated) |
| 2 | Editor of ISRN Communications journal 2010-2011 |
| 3 | Technical program committee members, IPCCC2011, IEEE IPCCC2010, HPSR2010, IEEE CCNC2009, ISSPIT2008, IEEE INFOCOM2007/2004, IEEE ICCCN2003/2006, PDCS2006/2007, Broadnets 2006 and IEEE UIC 2007. |
| 4 | Organizer and chair of an invited session on the Future Internet Architectures, Broadnets 2006 general Symposium |
| 5 | Co-chair of track three: Computer Communication and Networks track, the 4th International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems (ICCCAS 2006). |
| 6 | One session co-chair, PDCS2006 |
| 7 | Two session chairs, IEEE ICCCN2003 |
| 8 | Department Chair Search Committee at UTA |
| 9 | Department Faculty Recruiting Committee at UTA |
| 10 | Department Faculty Award Committee Chair at UTA |
| 11 | Consulting services for law firms and computer/telecommunication/Internet industry |
| 12 | Reviewer of books and papers for Prentice Hall, McGraw-Hill, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Distributed and Parallel Systems, IEEE JSAC, INFOCOM, ICCCN, Automata, Proceedings of IEE, Physics Review, and Physics Review Letters |
| 13 | Senior Member of IEEE |
| Sept. 2008 - Present | Associate Professor with tenure, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, TX |
| Sept. 2002 - 2008 | Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, TX |
| July 2001- Aug. 2002 | System Architect/Embedded System Engineer, Santera Systems, Inc.,Dallas, TX. Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University |
| Aug.2000 - July 2001 | System Architect/Embedded System Design Engineer, Santera Systems,Inc., Dallas, TX, and Assistant Professor (tenure track), on leave of absence from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University |
| Aug.1998 - July.2000 | Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University, University Park, PA |
| Aug.1989 - Aug.1991 | Research Scientist, Southwestern Institute of Physics, Chengdu, China |
| Aug.1984 - July 1989 | Lecturer, Department of Physics, Yunnan University, Kunming, China |