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.

Editorial leadership across top-tier venues.

• 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 organizer or co-organizer in 10 workshops and conferences at top venues.

• 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.
• 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", 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.

• Co-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), IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 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

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.

Senior membership recognitions.

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