Associate Editor for the journal Physical Communications-Elsevier, (Oct.
2012-Present).
Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (March 2009-Dec. 2012).
Member of Editorial Board for the journal Signal Processing, Elsevier- Academic Press, (Febr. 2009-Present).
Associate Editor for the journal EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, (May 2007-Present).
Associate Editor for the journal EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (Jan. 2007 - Present).
Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Transactions on Communications (June 2005-March 2013).
Associate Editor for the journal EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2006).
Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (April 2005-June 2008).
Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Dec. 2004 - July 2008).
Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Communications Letters (October 2001-April 2008).
Associate Editor for the journal IEEE Signal Processing Letters (December 2002-Aug. 2005).
Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Cognitive Radio: The Road for its Second Decade of ELSEVIER Physical Communication Journal (October 2011-September 2012).
Lead Editor for the Special Issue on “Sequence and Genome Analysis” of Eurasip Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (September 2011-
September 2012).
Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Computational and Statistical Approaches for Modeling of Proteomic and Genomic Networks,” Advances in Bioinformatics (Jan. 2012-March 2013).
Leading Editor for a Special Issue of the journal EURASIP Journal on Advances on Signal Processing on the topic “Distributed Signal Processing
Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks” (Sept. 2006-March 2008). Guest co-editors Profs. H. Li, A. Dogandzic, P. Cotae, and H. Dai.
Leading Editor for a Special Issue of the journal EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology on the topic "Applications of Digital Signal Processing Techniques in Bioinformatics and Genomics” (Dec. 2007-
Dec. 2008). Guest co-editors Profs. J. Garcia-Frias, Y. Huang, and U. Braga-Neto.
Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the journal EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking on the topic “Synchronization in Wireless Communications” (Febr. 2008-Present). Guest Leading Editor: Prof. H. Steendam (guest co-editors: Profs. M. Luise, E. Panayirci, and M. Ghogho).
Reviewer for the NSF Panel on Signal Processing Systems, CISE Program, March 2001 (15 proposals).
Reviewer for the NSF Panel on Advanced Technologies for Internet, June 2002, CISE Division (12 proposals).
Reviewer for the NSF Career Panel: Networking Research Program, Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research (ANIR), Nov. 2002 (12 proposals).
Reviewer for the NSF ITR Program, CISE Division, May 2004 (12 proposals).
Reviewer for NSF GRFP Program, January 2008 (12 proposals).
Reviewer for NSF GRFP Program, February 2009 (15 proposals).
Reviewer for NSF CCF (CIF) Program, April 2009 (12 proposals).
Reviewer for Research Foundations of Hong-Kong, Saudi Arabia, City University
of Hong-Kong.
Reviewed numerous journal papers (more than 500 papers) for the past five years: IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing (120), IEEE Signal Processing Letters (80), IEEE Trans. on Communications (60), IEEE Communications Letters (200), IEEE Trans. on Information Theory (10), IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications (50), IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control (5), Automatica (2), IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks (5), IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology (12), IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-Part I
(5), Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis (2), Signal Processing, Elsevier (5), Applied Signal Processing, Elsevier (10), IEE Proceedings (1), European Transactions on Communications (1), Wireless Communications Networks (3), etc., and numerous conference papers: ICASSP (120), SSAP (30), ICC (50), GLOBECOM (100), ASILOMAR (10), ISCC (20), Information Theory Workshop (5), etc. Every year, usually I review about 100 journal papers, and 50 conference papers.
Reviewed two textbooks on signal processing, and several book chapters:
S. K. Mitra, Digital Signal Processing: A Computer-Based Approach, McGraw-Hill. Reviewed both the 2nd edition (2001) and the 3rd edition (2004).
T. Bose, Digital Signal and Image Processing, Wiley, 2004.
M. Ibnkahla (Editor), Signal Processing for Mobile Communications Handbook, CRC Press, 2004.
E. Dougherty (Editor), Genomic signal processing and statistics, Elsevier, 2005.
Technical Chair of the Wireless Access Symposium at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2005), Dallas, TX, 2005.
Technical co-Chair of Communication Theory Symposium, Globecom, Nov. 2006.
Chair of the Signal Processing Track at ICT 2010 (International Conference on Telecommunications), Doha, Qatar, April 2010.
Technical co-Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing for Wireless Communications Workshop (SPAWC), June 2012, Cesme, Turkey.
Technical Chair for Signal processing and Adaptive Systems Area at Asilomar
2012 Conference, Pacific Grove, California.
Elected Member of IEEE SPTM (Signal Processing Theory and Methods)
Committee.
Elected Member of IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Committee.
Local organizer for the 8th IEEE Signal Processing Workshop on Statistical Signal and Array Processing, June 24-26, 1996, Corfu, Greece.
Session Chair: Globecom 2001 Conference, Session: Channel Equalization, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 2001.
Local organizer for the Workshop on Discrete Models for Genetic Regulatory Networks, College Station, TX, Nov. 2003.
Member in the technical program and session chair for the SPIE Symposium: Noise in Communications, Canary Islands, Spain, May 2004.
Treasurer and Registration Chair for the IEEE Information Theory Workshop,
San Antonio, TX, October 2004.
Session Chair for the 2nd International Conference on Computing, Communication and Control Technologies: CCCT ’04, Austin, TX, August 14-17, 2004.
Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications Workshop (SPAW 2005), New York, NY, June 5-8, 2005.
Member in the Technical Program Committee and Session Chair for the SPIE Fluctuations and Noise Symposium to be held in Austin, Texas 23-26 May 2005.
Member of the Technical Program Committee and Session Chair at IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2005), Dallas, TX, 2005.
Member of Technical Program Committee, Globecom, Saint Louis, Dec. 2005.
Chair of Local Arrangements, GENSIPS, May 2006, College Station, TX.
Chair of Local Arrangements, Workshop of Genomic Regulatory Networks, Nov. 2005, College Station, TX.
Member in the Technical Program Committee and Session Chair for the Communication Theory Symposium, Globecom, Nov. 2006.
Member of Technical Program Committee, ICC, Glasgow, UK, June 2007.
Member of Technical Program Committee, IEEEWCNC, Hong Kong, March 2007.
Member of Technical Program Committee, ICC 2008.
Member of Technical Program Committee, WCNC 2008.
Member of Technical Program Committee, 24th Biennial Symposium on Communications Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada June 24 - June 26, 2008.
Member of Technical Program Committee, Globecom 2007.
Member of Technical Program Committee, Globecom 2008.
Member of Technical Program Committee, VTC 2008.
Member of Technical Program Committee, Gensips 2007.
Session Chair, Gensips 2007.
Session Chair and Member of Technical Program Committee, ISSPA 2007.
Member of Technical Program Committee, Communications 2008 Conference, Bucharest.
Member of Technical Program Committee, WoSPA 2008.
Member of Technical Program Committee, ICC 2009.
Member of Technical Program Committee, Atom 2008.
Member of Technical Program Committee, Globecom 2009.
Member of Technical Program Committee, VTC 2009.
Member of Technical Program Committee, SpeD 2009, June 2009.
Member of Technical Program Committee, WCNC 2010.
Member of Technical Program Committee, ICC 2010.
Member in the Technical Program Committee and Session Chair at ICT 2010, Doha, Qatar, April 2010.
Member in the Technical Program Committee, Wireless Communications Symposium, Globecom 2011.
Member in the Technical Program Committee, GENSIPS 2011, San Antonio, TX, Dec. 2011.
Member in the Technical Program Committee, Wireless Communications Symposium, ICC 2011, June 2011, Kyoto, Japan.
Member of the Technical Program Committee, International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing, Bucharest, Romania, June 2011.
Member of the Technical Program Committee, The 7th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop, June 2012, Hoboken, NJ.
Member of the Technical Program Committee, 2011 DSP/SPE Workshop -
IEEE Signal Processing Society14th DSP Workshop and the 6th SPE Workshop Enchantment Resort, Sedona, Arizona, USA January 4-7, 2011
Member of the Technical Program Committee, 2012 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP 2012), Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 2012.
Member of the Technical Program Committee, SpeD 2011 - The 6th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, Brasov, Romania, May 18-21, Romania.
Member of Technical Program Committee, ICC 2012.
Member of Technical Program Committee, Globecom 2012.
Member of Technical Program Committee, Gensips 2012.
Member of Technical Program Committee, Asilomar 2012.
Member of the Technical Program Committee, 10th International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems, ISSCS 2011, 30 June - 1 July 2011, Iasi, Romania.
Member of the Technical Program Committee, Signal Processing and Applied Mathematics for Electronics and Communications Conference (SPAMEC 2011), August 26-28, 2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Member of the Technical Program Committee, Advanced Topics in Optoelectronics Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies ATOM-N 2012, August 23 - 26, 2012, Maritime University of Constanta, Romania.
Publicity Chair, 19th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2012), Doha, Qatar, Nov. 26-29, 2012.
Member of Technical Program Committee, ICC 2013.
Member of Technical Program Committee, Globecom 2013.
Created the most complete database of references: “A bibliography on nonlinear system identification,” Signal Processing, Elsevier, NL, vol. 81, pp. 533-580, 2001, which proved to be a very valuable tool for the researchers working in the field. This database was one of the most downloaded references during the period January 2003 - December 2003 among all the papers
published in the journal Signal Processing, Elsevier, NL.
Created the most complete database of references on cyclostationarity: “A bibliography on cyclostationary signal processing,” Signal Processing, Elsevier, NL, Volume 85, Issue 12, pp. 2233-2418, Dec. 2005. This represented one of the top 25 most downloaded papers from the journal EURASIP Signal Processing, Elsevier, for the period Jan. 2006-Dec. 2006.
Mar. 2005-2007: Member in the ECEN Dept. Graduate Teaching Committee.
Sept. 2005-June 2006: Reviewer for the Graduate Admission Committee. Reviewed applications for graduate admission in the group of Telecommunications and Signal Processing.
Jan. 2001-Dec. 2002: Reviewer for the Graduate Admission Committee. Reviewed applications for graduate admission in the group of Telecommunications and Signal Processing.
Oct. 2000-Oct. 2002: ATM-Mentor for Texas A&M University students. Provided help and advice to students for various professional and non professional problems.
Graduate Committee Member for the following students: Ritesh Chaturbedi (MSc., EE Dept.), Xiaoyong Zhang (MSc., EE Dept.), Xuechao Du (MSc., EE Dept.), Hui Liu (MSc., EE Dept.), Yu Zhang (Ph.D., EE Dept.), Wei Zhou (Ph.D., EE Dept.), Mohammed Abdelhakam Ibrahim Mostafa (Ph.D., EE Dept.), Mary Oxford (Ph.D., Dept. of Phsycology), Min Dai (Ph.D., EE Dept.), Peng Xu (Ph.D., EE Dept.), Daryl Morell (Ph.D., EE Dept.), Ching Fu Lan (Ph.D., EE Dept.), Sanju Nair Attoor (MSc., EE Dept.), Francisco
Jaramillo Jr. (PhD, Wild Life and Fisheries Sciences), Min Dai (EE Dept.), Yufei Xiao (ECE Dept.), and many other students.
Member in the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Vice President for Student Affairs (2002-2004).
Member in the Student Recruiting Committee (Special Task Force), chaired by the Graduate Admission Coordinator Prof. G. Huang, ECEN Dept., TAMU (2001-2003).
Member in several Faculty Recruiting Committees.
July 2007-Dec. 2010: Member of ABET Committee, TAMUQ.
July 2007-Dec. 2010: Member of Graduate Admission and Advising Committees, TAMUQ.
July 2007-Dec. 2010: Member of Industry Relations and Internship Program Committee, TAMUQ.
March 2009-Present: Member of FA-SC, Promotion and Rolling Contract Committees at TAMUQ.
September 2011-June 2012: Reviewer of Graduate Admission Committee, TAMU-CS.
Elected Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee (SPTM TC) and Sensor Array and Multichannel Committee
IEEE Senior Member.
Membership in IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Information Theory Society.
EURASIP Member
Past Society Memberships: ASEE, AMS, MAA, SIAM, TAMU-ATM Mentors.
Bell Laboratories: Mathematical Research Center for Communications, Arizona State University, University of Connecticut, University of Minnesota, State University of New York, University of Texas, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Asilomar 2004 Conference, SPIE 2004 Conference: Noise in Communications, Air Force Research Laboratory, International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems: ISSCS 2007, ISSPA 2007, AFRL 2004-2012, etc.