Professional Services
Scientific community leadership and service spanning editorial boards, workshop organization, program committees, and funding agency review panels.
--- Advisory BoardsStrategic guidance for journals and projects.
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), Government Activities Committee — Member, 2024–present.
- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) — Reviewer, 2025.
- MDPI Sensors, Special Issue "Internet of Things Data Analytics (IoTDA)" — Reviewer, 2021–2022.
Served as organizer or co-organizer in 10 workshops and conferences.
2026- Co-Organizer, "The 1st International Workshop on Sustainable and Efficient Language, Vision, and Action Models (SELVA)", ACL 2026.
- Co-Organizer, "Trustworthy, Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Science", Trillion Parameter Consortium, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- Co-Organizer, "1st International Workshop on Sustainable Embodied AI in the Scaling Era", ACL 2026, Austria.
- Co-Organizer, "4th Workshop on Practical Deep Learning: Toward Robust Compressed Foundational Models in the Real World", IJCAI 2025, Singapore.
- Co-Organizer, "6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering for IoT (AIDE4IoT)", IEEE Big Data Conference 2025, Singapore.
- Co-Organizer, IEEE 10th Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference, USA.
- Co-Organizer, "Trustworthiness and Privacy in Distributed Learning: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives", SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science, Atlanta, GA, USA.
- Co-Organizer, "2nd International Workshop on Generalizing from Limited Resources in the Open World", IJCAI 2024, Jeju, South Korea.
- Co-Organizer, "3rd Workshop on Practical Deep Learning Toward Efficient and Reliable LLMs", IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024, Singapore.
- Co-Organizer, "Privacy Algorithms for Systems", ACM CIKM 2022, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Leadership positions in subcommittees, programs, and recurring community events.
- Chair & Founder, IEEE Women in Engineering, East Tennessee Affinity Group, 2021–present.
- Chair, IEEE Power and Energy Society, Computer and Analytical Methods Subcommittee, 2022–2024.
- Co-Chair, IEEE Power and Energy Society, Computer and Analytical Methods Subcommittee, 2021–2022.
- Co-Chair, IEEE BigData — Industry and Government Program, 2020.
- Co-Organizer, Smoky Mountains Data Challenge and Conference, 2019–2021.
Technical review contributions across major AI, data mining, and IoT conferences.
- IJCAI, ACM Web Conference, IEEE ICDM, IEEE BigData, IEEE IoT World Forum.
Peer review support for national and international funding agencies.
- NSF, NIH, NIST, ORNL, US-UK Innovation Prize Challenges in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies.
Senior membership recognitions.
- IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2021–present Senior Member
2016–2021 Member