Elected Office

• Chair (and Founder), IEEE Technical SubCommittee on Fiber and Wireless Integration for Access/Metro (FiWi), part of TC on Emerging Technologies, Feb 2006 - present.
• Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking (TCHSN), formerly known as TC Gigabit Networks, April 2006 to March 2008.
• Vice Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on High-Speed Networking (TCHSN), formerly known as TC Gigabit Networks, March 2001 - April 2006.
• Chair (and Founder), Technical Group on Optical Networks (TGON), 1999 - 2003.
  

Professional Memberships

• IEEE Fellow.
• Fulbright Scholar (Senior Specialist), Jan 2007 to present.
  
• IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, Jan. 2011 to Dec. 2012.
  

Conference/Workshop Steering and Advisory Committee

• Steering Committee Member, IEEE/ACM Symp on QoS (IWQoS), 2011-2014
• Advisory Board,IEEE Conf on High-Speed Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2006 - present
• Steering Committee Member, IEEE/ACM Symp on QoS (IWQoS), 2011-2014
• Steering Committee Chair, International Conf on Future Information Networks (ICFIN), Beijing, China, Oct. 2009
• Steering Committee Co-Chair, Int’l Workshop on Optical Networks (iWON), 2013
• Steering Committee Chair, Third International Workshops on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS), colocated with IEEE Broadnet, San Jose, CA, Oct. 2004,
• Steering Committee Chair,Fifth International Workshops on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS), colocated with IEEE Broadnet, Boston, MA, Oct. 2005.

Conference/Symposium Organization

• TPC Co-Chair 18th IEEE/ACM Symp on QoS (IWQoS), Beijing, June 2010
• Symposium Co-Chair, General Symp. on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Int’l Conf. Communications (ICC), Cape Town, S. Africa, May 2010
• TPC Vice-Chair, IEEE Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2008
• Symposium Co-Chair, Symp. on Advances in Networks and Internet, as a part of IEEE Int’l Conf. Communications (ICC), Beijing, China, 2008.
• Vice-General Chair, IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007.
• Co-General Chair, IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless and Mobile Multimedia, Niagara Fall, NY, June 2006.
• Symposium Chair, Symp. on Optical Networks, as a part of IEEE Int’l Conf. Communications (ICC), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2003.
• General Chair, Opticomm’02 (Conf. on Optical Networks and Communications, predecessor of IEEE Broadnets), Boston, MA, Aug. 2002.
• Conference Co-Chair, Conf. on Optical Networking (with its own program committee and technical program), as a part of Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications (APOC), Shanghai, China, Oct. 2002
• Conference Co-Chair, Program Section on IP/WDM and Optical Internet (with its own program committee and technical program), as a part of Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications (APOC), Beijing, China, Sept. 2001.
• Program Chair, SPIE Photonic East Program on Optical Layer and Internetworking Technology (with multiple conferences and short courses), Boston, MA, Oct. 2000.
• Conference Vice Chair, 7th Int’l Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks (IC3N), Oct. 1998, Lafayette, LA
• Conference Co-Chair (four consecutive years), SPIE’s Annual Conf. on All-optical Networking, Dallas, TX, Oct. 1997, and Boston, MA, from 1998 to 2000.

Workshop Organization

• TPC Co-Chair, IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (CCW), Niagara Falls, Nov. 2013.
• TPC Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM Workshops, Shanghai, April 2011
• TPC Co-Chair, 18th IEEE Int’l Workshop on QoS (IWQoS), Beijing, June 2010
• TPC Co-Chair, Workshop on Integrated Optical-Wireless Networks, at IEEE WCNC, Australia, April 2010
• Workshop Co-Chair, Cloud and Grid Computing, at IEEE/OSA OFC 2009, San Diego, CA, March 2009
• Workshop Co-Chair, Optical Grids, at ECOC 2008, Brussel, Belgium, Sept. 2008
• Workshop Co-Chair, Optical and Wireless Integration, at IEEE/OSA OFC 2008, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008.
• Workshop Co-Chair, Third FON, at the Opto-Electronic Comm. Conference (OECC), Yokohama, Japan, July 2007
• Workshop Co-Chair, International Workshop on Intermittently Connected Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (ICMAN), at IEEE PerCom, NY, March 2007.
• Workshop Co-Chair, First and Second International Workshop on Future Optical Networks (FON), at the Joint IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) conference, March 2006 and 2007, respectively (http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/?qiao/workshop), Anaheim, CA
• Workshop Chair, Fourth International Workshop on Optical Packet/Burst Switching, co-located with Conf on Optical Internet (COIN), ChongQing, Sichuan, China, May 2005.
• Workshop Chair, Second International Workshop on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS), as a part of IEEE Globecom’03, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 2003
• Workshop Chair, First International Workshop on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS), co-located with Opticomm’03, Dallas, TX, Oct. 2003. http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/?qiao/workshop/wobs
• Workshop Co-Chair, Workshop on High Speed Networking (formerly GBN) at IEEE Infocom 2002,New York, NY, June 2002
• Workshop Co-Chair, Gigabit Networking Workshop (GBN) at IEEE Infocom 2001, Anchorage, Alaska, April 2001.

Other Meeting Activities

• TPC Area Chair, IEEE Infocom, 2012 to present.
• TPC Area Chair, IEEE Int’l Conf on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2014.
• TPC Co-Chair, IEEE Int’l Conf on Comm in China, Beijing, Aug 2012
• Steering Committee Chair, International Conf on Future Information Networks (ICFIN), Beijing, China, Oct. 2009
• Subcommittee Chair, "Optical Networks", IEEE/OSA OFC 2008, and "Applications and Demo", IEEE/OSA OFC 2009.
• Publicity Co-Chair and Executive Committee, IEEE Infocom, Miami, FL, March 2005
• Keynote Co-Chair and Executive Committee, IEEE Infocom, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006
• Sponsorship Chair, IEEE WoWMoM, Helsinki, Finland, June 2007
• Workshop Steering Committee Chair, (Third and Fifth) International Workshops on Optical Burst Switching (WOBS), co-located with IEEE Broadnet (formerly Opticomm), respectively, in San Jose, CA, Oct. 2004, and Boston, MA, Oct. 2005.
• Steering Committee, IEEE High Performance Switching and Routing, Poland, June 2006
• Industry Liaison, Opticomm (brought in sponsorships from more than six major networking companies), Dallas, TX, Dec. 2000.
• Breakout Session Leader, Optical Networks at NSF Advanced Networking Infrastructure Research (ANIR) Program’s PI Workshop (also drafted a report to NSF), Washington, D.C., Jan. 2003
• Panel Organizer/Moderator IP over (ATM/SONET/WDM) at IEEE Globecom, Rio, Brazil, Dec. 1999.
• Session Organizer/Chair, at many conferences and workshops including Session on Ad hoc Networks at Infocom’00, Session on OBS at Infocom’03, and Session on Sensor Networks at WCNC’03.
• Panel Speaker, Panel on Optical Networks (along with J. Turner of U. Washington St Louis, and J. Mambretti of Northwest Univ and W. Huntoon of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center), NSF ANIR PI Workshop, Washington, D.C., Jan. 2003.
• Panel Speaker, Terabit Challenges (along with N. Rao of Oakridge National Lab and E. Modiano of MIT), IEEE TCHSN Workshop, Narcelona, Spain, April 2006.
• Panel Speaker, How REAL must be the ad hoc network research (along with Jon Crowcroft of U. Cambridge and Adam Wolisz of TU Berlin), ACM MobiHOC Workshop on REALMAN, Florence, Italy, May 2006.
• Invited Discussant: Attended several workshops (whose attendance was by invitation only), including DARPA’s Workshop on Optical Internet where I presented OBS (http://www.isi.edu/?workshop/oi97/), Washington D.C., Oct. 1997, and NSF’s Ultra Highcapacity Optical Communications and Networking, Washington, D.C., Oct. 2002. ).
• Technical Program Committee, for more than two dozens conferences and workshops, including IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) 2005, IEEE INFOCOM 2005, 2004 & 2003, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf (VTC) 2003, Opticom 2003 & 2000, GLOBECOM’02, ICC’02, Int’l Conf. on Computer Comm and Networks(IC3N) 2000 & 1999; Int’l Conf on Network Protocol (ICNP), 1999; Symposium on High-Speed Networks (at Globecom) 1999; Int’l Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, 1999; 3rd Workshop on Optics and Computer Science (WOCS), 1999; (and many other between 1994 and 1998).

Editorial Service

• Guest-Editor, Elsevier Transportation Research Part C (TRC), SI on Advances in Computing. 2014
• Guest-Editor, Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking. SI on Resilient Virtual Infrastructure Design and Recovery, Jan 2014.
• Lead Guest-Editor, IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Emerging Technologies, Fiber-Wireless Integration. 2012 to present.
• Editor, Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking. Jan 2004 to present.
• Editor, Journal of High Speed Networks, May 1998 present.
• Editor, Optical Networks Magazine. March 1999 to Dec. 2002.
• Editor-at-Large, IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc). Sept. 2000 - Nov. 2002. (Responsible for interacting with other Editor-in-Chiefs of IEEE ComSoc journals and magazines to identify directions, special issue topics and guest editors in the area of optical networking and computing).
• Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. March 2001 to Feb 2009.
• Area Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine. June 2002 to Feb. 2006 (In charge of the recently created IEEE Optical Communications Supplement).
• Editor, Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking. Jan 2004 to present.
• Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). June 2007 to present.
• Lead Guest-Editor, IEEE JSAC, Special Issue on WDM-based Architecture, with E. Modiano (MIT), G. Ellinas (Tellium) and D. Datta (IIT Kharagpur) and A. Gladisch (Deutsche Telekom). Jan. 2002.
• Co-Guest-Editor, Optical Networks Magazine, Special Issue on Optical Packet Switched Networks, with A. Pattavina (Italy), Nov/Dec 2002
• Co-Guest-Editor, IEEE JSAC Special Issues on High-Performance Optical/Electronic Switches/Routers for High-Speed Internet (two issues), with Dan Blumenthal (UCSB), J. Chao (Polytech Univ), M. Hamdi (HKUST), E. Leonardi (Politecnico di Torino) and K. Yun (Applied Micro Circuits). May and Sept 2003, respectively.
• Co-Guest-Editor, Optical Networks Magazine, Special Issue on Engineering the Next Generation Optical Networks, with M. Hamdi (HKUST), Nov/Dec 2003
• Co-Guest-Editor, ACM/Baltzer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Special Issue on Integrated Wireless Systems, with H. Wu, S. Dixit, and E. Cayirci. To appear in 2004.
• Co-Editor: Proceedings of Conf. on All-optical Networking (as a Conference Co-Chair):
                            SPIE Vol. 3230 (with J.M. Senior), 1997
                            SPIE Vol. 3531 (with J. M. Senior), 1998
                            SPIE Vol. 3843 (with J. M. Senior and S. Dixit), 1999
                            SPIE Vol. 4213, (with J. M. Senior and S. Dixit), 2000
• Co-Editor: Proceedings of Conf. on Optical Networking (as a Conference Co-Chair): SPIE Vol. 4585 (with S. Xie), 2001
• Co-Editor: Proceedings of Conf. on Optical Networking (as a Conference Co-Chair): SPIE Vol. 4910 (with S. Xie and Y. Chung), 2002