Professional Activities

Scientific community leadership and service.

Strategic guidance for national AI policy and scientific governance.

• Advisor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), Government Activities Committee, 2024–present.
• Advisor, IEEE USA Artificial Intelligence Policy Committee, 2025-present.
• Advisor, AI TechX Research Advisory Council, University of Tennessee, 2026–present.
• Advisor, AI TechX Entrepreneurship Advisory Council, University of Tennessee, 2026–present.

Invited peer review of grant proposals for national and international funding agencies.

• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), US-UK Innovation Prize Challenges in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies.

Editorial leadership across top-tier venues.

• Lead Editor, Springer Evolving Systems Special Issue "Verifiable and Composable Trust in Dynamically Evolving Federated and Distributed Learning Systems", 2026.
• Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 2024-present.
• Editor, MDPI Sensors Special Issue "Internet of Things Data Analytics (IoTDA)", 2021–2022.

Leadership positions in subcommittees, 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.

Served as lead organizer, co-organizer, or advisor across 13 workshops, conferences, and community sessions at top venues.

• Lead Organizer, Birds of a Feather "Training Without Sharing: Federated Learning on the World's HPC Systems for Science", International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC26), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Lead Organizer, Birds of a Feather "Three Axes for Scientific AI on HPC: Energy Efficiency, Uncertainty, and Verifiable Trust", International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC26), Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Moderator & Advisor, "3rd Workshop on Federated and Privacy-Preserving AI for HPC", IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster) 2026, Alexandria, Virginia, USA.
• Co-Organizer, "The 1st International Workshop on Sustainable and Efficient Language, Vision, and Action Models (SELVA)", Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026, San Diego, California, USA.
• Lead 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", Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2026, Vienna, Austria.

• Co-Organizer, "4th Workshop on Practical Deep Learning: Toward Robust Compressed Foundational Models in the Real World", International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (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", Nashville, Tennessee, 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", International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (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.

• Lead Organizer, "Privacy Algorithms for Systems", ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2022, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Technical review contributions across major AI, data mining, and IoT conferences.

• Conferences: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), The Web Conference, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, IEEE IoT World Forum, IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science and AI.
• Journals: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).

Senior membership recognitions.

• IEEE — Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  2021–present   Senior Member
  2016–2021   Member