Professional Activities

Professional:

• 2015-to date, Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE)
• 2015-2015,  Member of Service Award Committee, Technical Council on Software Engineering,  IEEE Computer Science Society
• 2014-to date, Member at-large of  IEEE Conference Advisory Committee(CAC), IEEE Computer Science Society
• 2014-to date, Associate Editor, Big Data and Information Analytics Journal, American Institute for Mathematical Sciences
• 2014-2014,  Vice Chair of the European Union’ Adaptive Machines in Complex Environment Evaluation Panel
• 2007-2009, Director of Research, Centre of Excellence for Research in Adaptive Systems (CERAS)
• 2003-2007, Chair of the Board of Directors for Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER) of Canada
• 2003-2008, Member of the IBM’s Academy Affiliate, Canadian Technical Excellence Council (CTEC)

Conferences, Steering Committee Member/Chair:

• 2005-to date, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Software Engineering for Autonomic and Self-Adaptive Systems (SEAMS), Chair
• 2012-to date, The International Conference on Software and Systems (CASCON), Member
• 2012-2015, The IEEE Symposium on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented Systems and Cloud-Based Environments, Member
• 2012-2015, The International Workshop on  Load Testing of Large Software Systems(LT), Member

Selected Conferences, Chair:

• 2015          Program Chair, IBM International Conference on Software and Systems (CASCON), Nov 4-7, Toronto, Canada, 2015
• 2015          Co-Chair, International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), Workshops Track, Jan 29-Feb 3, Austin, Texas, 2015
• 2015          Chair, International ACM/IEEE/USENIX Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Poster Track, Grenoble, July 2015
• 2014          Program Co-Chair of the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Industry Track, Sept 28-Oct 3, Victoria, Canada
• 2014          Program Co-Chair of the International Workshop of  Large Scale Testing, Dublin, March 22, 2014
• 2013          Program Co-Chair, The First International Workshop on Load Testing of Large Software Systems (LT13), CASCON 2013, November 2013
• 2013          Program Co-Chair, The 3rd International Workshop on Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructure (SAVI), ON 2013, November 2013
• 2013          General Chair, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Software Engineering for Autonomic and Self-Adaptive Systems (SEAMS), San Francisco, May 2013
• 2013          Program Co-Chair, IEEE MESOCA, Eindhoven, September 2013
• 2012          Program Co-Chair, IEEE MESOCA, Trento, September 2012
• 2012          Program Co-Chair, IEEE CCOPT, Ottawa, May 2012
• 2012          Program Co-Chair, IEEE CCGrid, Workshops, Ottawa, May 2012
• 2012          Program Co-Chair, The First International Workshop on Load Testing of Large Software Systems, Montreal 2012
• 2011          Program Co-Chair, 5^th   CASCON Workshop on Cloud Computing, Toronto, November, 2011
• 2011          Program Co-Chair, 1^st   CASCON Workshop on Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructure, Toronto, November 2011
• 2011          Program Co-Chair, CASCON 2011, November 2011
• 2010          Co-Chair, 4^th   CASCON Workshop on Cloud Computing, Toronto, November 2010
• 2009          Co-Chair, 3^rd   CASCON Workshop on Cloud Computing, Toronto, November 2009
• 2008          Co-Chair, 6^th  CASCON Workshop on Engineering Autonomic Systems, Toronto, October 2008
• 2008          Co-Chair, 2^nd  CASCON Workshop on Cloud Computing, Toronto, October 2008
• 2008          Co-Chair, ACM/IEEE SEAMS 2008, Leipzig, Germany, May
• 2008          Co-Chair, ACM/IEEE SDSOA 2008, Leipzig, Germany, May
• 2007          Co-Chair, ACM/IEEE SEAMS 2007, Minneapolis, USA, May
• 2007          Co-Chair, ACM/IEEE SDSOA 2007, Minneapolis, USA, May
• 2007          Co-Chair, 5^th  CASCON Workshop on Engineering Autonomic Systems, Toronto, October
• 2007          Co-Chair, 5^th  CASCON workshop on Self-Optimizing Systems, Toronto, October
• 2007          Co-Chair, 1^st  CASCON workshop on Adaptive Systems, Toronto, October
• 2006          Co-Chair, 4^th CASCON workshop on Engineering of Autonomic Systems, Toronto, October
• 2006          Co-Chair, 4^th CASCON workshop on Self-Optimizing Systems, Toronto, October
• 2005          Co-Chair, ACM/IEEE Workshop on Design and Evolution of Autonomic Software  (DEAS 2005), St Louis, USA, May
• 2003          General Co-Chair, CASCON 2003 Workshops Organizing Committee
• 2002          General Co-Chair, CASCON 2002 Workshops Organizing Committee
• 2001          General Co-Chair, CASCON 2001 Workshops Organizing Committee

Selected Program Committees, Member:

• 2015          11th International ACM Sigsoft Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA 2015)
• 2015          10th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (TRIDENTCOM 2015)
• 2015          International ACM/IEEE/USENIX Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2015)
• 2015          The 35^th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2015)
• 2015          ACM/IEEE Workshop on Principles of Engineering for Service Oriented Systems (PESOS 2015)
• 2014          IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Industry Track,
• 2014          ACM/IEEE Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self – Managing Systems (SEAMS 2014)
• 2013          ACM/IEEE Workshop on Principles of Engineering for Service Oriented Systems (PESOS 2013)
• 2013          ACM/IEEE Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self – Managing Systems (SEAMS 2013)
• 2013          The First International Workshop on Advancement from Confluence of Emerging Technologies
• 2013          ACM/IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC)
• 2013          ACM, 9th International Sigsoft Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures(QoSA 2013)
• 2012          ACM, 8th International  Sigsoft Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures
• 2012          IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2012)
• 2012          ACM/IEEE Workshop on Principles of Engineering for Service Oriented Systems (PESOS 2012)
• 2012          ACM/IEEE Symposium on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2012)
• 2012          CASCON 2012
• 2012          The 9th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems
• 2012          ACM/IEEE Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self – Managing Systems (SEAMS 2012)
• 2012          9th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) 2012
• 2012          2^nd International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER) 2012
• 2012          International Workshop on Cloud for Enterprises (C4E)
• 2011          IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2011)
• 2011          ACM/IEEE Workshop on Principles of Engineering for Service Oriented Systems (PESOS 2011)
• 2011          ACM/IEEE Symposium on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2011)
• 2011          IEEE International Workshop on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems
• 2011          CASCON 2011
• 2011          International Workshop on Cloud for Enterprises (C4E)
• 2011          Testing in Clouds, IGI Book, Editorial Board Member
• 2010          IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2010)
• 2010          ACM/IEEE Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self – Managing Systems (SEAMS 2010)
• 2010          IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2010)
• 2010          CASCON 2010
• 2010          ACM/IEEE Workshop on Principles of Engineering for Service Oriented Systems (PESOS 2010)
• 2010          ACM/IEEE Workshop on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2010)
• 2010          IEEE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive Software Systems (SEASS 2010)
• 2010          25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems Track
• 2009          ACM/IEEE Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self – Managing Systems
• 2009          IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2009)
• 2009          CASCON 2009
• 2009          ACM/IEEE Workshop on Principles of Engineering for Service Oriented Systems
• 2009          IEEE International Conference of Program Comprehension (ICPC 2009)
• 2008          ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE (Workshop PC Committee)
• 2008          IEEE International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS 2008)
• 2008          IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2008)
• 2008          CASCON 2008
• 2007          IEEE Automated Software Engineering Conference, ASE
• 2007          IEEE International Conference of Program Comprehension (ICPC 2007)
• 2007          IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2007)
• 2007          International Conference on Virtual Computing Initiative
• 2007          3rd Workshop on Middleware for Web Services
• 2007          The Sixth IEEE International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems - ICCBSS 2007
• 2006          ACM ICSE 2006 Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and  Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS)
• 2006          2^nd Workshop on Middleware for Web Services, in conduction with EDOC 2005, Hong Kong.
• 2006          Multiagent Systems and Software Architecture – MASSA 2006, Erfurt, Sept 18-21
• 2005          CASCON 2005
• 2005          Workshop on Middleware for Web Services, Netherlands, Sept 16-19.
• 2005          Reverse  Engineering to Requirements Workshop, RETR 2005
• 2004          CASCON 2004
• 2004          IEEE Workshop on Web-Site Evolution, Chicago, IL, Sept 19, 2004
• 2003          CASCON 2003
• 2003          12^th International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering, 2003
• 2003          IEEE Workshop on Web-Site Evolution,  Montreal, Oct 2003
• 2002          CASCON 2002
• 2002          CAISE 2002

Graduate Student Examination Committee Served

• 2014          External Examiner, Michael Tighe, PhD, CS, Western University
• 2014          Chair of the Examination Committee, Saideh Hamidi, Masters, MAIST, York University
• 2014          Examination Committee Member, Nastaran Shafiei, PhD, CSE, York University
• 2013          External Examiner, Young Yoon, PhD, ECE, University of Toronto
• 2013          External Examiner, Haroon Malik, PhD, CS, Queen’s University
• 2013          External Examiner, Rizwan Mian, PhD, CS, Queen’s University
• 2012          Dissertation Committee Member, Alessio Gambi, PhD, University of Lugano
• 2011          Chair of the Examination Committee, Rina Jalban, MAIST, School of Information Technology, York University
• 2011          Dean Representative, Haneen Dabain, MSc, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University (Supervisor: Vassilios Tzerpos)
• 2011          Examination Committee Member, Rina Jalban, MAIST, School of Information Technology, York University
• 2010          External Examiner, Halina Kaminsky, PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario (Supervisor: Mark Perry)
• 2010          External Examiner, Scott Brousseau, MSc, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria (Supervisor: Hausi Muller)
• 2010          External Examiner, Brad Simmons, PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario (Supervisor: Hanan Lutfiyya)
• 2009          Chair of the Committee, Miao Wen, MSc, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University (Supervisor: Jimmy Huang)
• 2009          Committee Member, Vivian Hu, MSc, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University (Supervisor: Jimmy Huang)
• 2009          Committee Member, Mohamad Munawar, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, (Supervisor: Paul Ward)
• 2008          External Examiner, Alex Duran, PhD, Department of Computer Science, Universitat Politechnica de Calalunya (Supervisor: Eduard Ayguade)
• 2007          External Examiner, Qian Zhao, PhD Defense, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario (Supervisor: Mark Perry)
• 2007          External Examiner, Sangeeta Neti, MSc, Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria (Supervisor: Hausi Muller)
• 2007          Committee Member, Kevin Quan, MSc, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, (Supervisor: Paul Ward)
• 2006          External Examiner, Qufei Wang, PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario (Supervisor: Hanan Lutfiyya)
• 2006          Committee Member, Ahmad Munawar, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, (Supervisor: Paul Ward)
• 2004          Committee Member, Vijay Dheep,  MSc, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, (Supervisor: Paul Ward)
• 2003          Committee Member, Faryaaz Kasam,  MSc, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, (Supervisor: Kostas Kontogiannis)