Conference/Workshops Organized

• Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, IEEE International Conf. Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2018), to be held in San Diego.
• Co-Chair, Panel Sessions, IEEE Globecom Conference, Dec. 6-10, San Diego, 2015.
• Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, IEEE Globecom Conference, Dec. 6-10, San Diego, 2015.
• General Chair, 9th IEEE International Conf. Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2014), Dec. 15-17, 2014, Gwalior, India.
• Co-Chair, International Workshop on Cognitive Computing and Networking, in IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication Conference (IEEE PerCom), March 18-22, 2013, San Diego, CA.
• Co-Chair, Workshop on Cyber Physical Systems, in IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE ICNC), Jan. 28-31, 2013, San Diego, CA.
• Co-Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, IEEE Visual Communication and Image Processing Conference (IEEE VCIP), Nov. 27-30, 2012, San Diego, CA.
• Session Chair at International Conf. Soft Computing for Problem Solving, IIT Roorkee, India, Dec 20-22, 2011.Co-Chair, Workshop on Cross-Layer Design in Ad Hoc Networks, in 1st International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks, Sept. 23-25, 2009, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
• Chair, Special Session on QoS-Support for Multimedia Traffic in Networks, in Internet Multimedia Management Systems Conf. (SPIE ITCOM), Oct. 25-28, 2004, Philadelphia, PA.
• Chair, Session on ‘Multimedia Applications I’, in Multimedia Systems and Applications VII Conf. (SPIE ITCOM), Oct. 25-27, 2004, Philadelphia, PA.
• Chair, Special Session on QoS-Support and Resource Management, in Internet Multimedia Management Systems Conf. (SPIE ITCOM), Sept. 09-11, 2003, Orlando, FL.
• Chair, Special Session on JPEG2000 and Applications, in Applications of Digital Image Processing Conf. (SPIE Annual Meeting), Aug. 03-08, 2003, San Diego, CA.
• Chair, Session on ‘Compression and Processing’ in Multimedia Systems and Applications (SPIE ITCOM), Sept. 09-11, 2003, Orlando, FL.
• Session Chair at SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) Conf., Jan. 2002, San Jose, CA.

Conference Technical Program Committee Member

• International Conf. on Computing, Networking and Communications, Cognitive Computing and Networking (ICNC), 2016.
• 3^rd IEEE Conf. on Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS 2015), Dec. 10-12, 2015, Trivandrum, India.
• Cognitive Computing and Networking Symposium (COG 2015) as part of International Conf. Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2015), Anaheim, CA, Feb. 16-19, 2015.
• International Conf. Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2014), Delhi, India, Sept. 24-27, 2014.
• IEEE Military Communications Conf. (MILCOM 2013) Track 2: Networking Protocols and Performance, San Diego, CA, Nov. 18-20, 2013.
• MobileCloud'13 Workshop, Bangalore, India, July 29, 2013.
• International Conf. Multimedia, Signal Processing and Communication Technologies" (IMPACT 2011), Dec. 2011, Aligarh, India.
• International Workshop of Next Generation Wireless Networks (WoNGeN), Dec. 2011, Bangalore, India.
• IASTED International Conf. Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2011), May 16 - 18, 2011, Washington DC.
• 2nd International Conf. Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets 10), Aug. 18-20, 2010, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
• International Conf. Access Networks (AccessNets’10), on Nov. 3-5, 2010, Budapest, Hungary.
• Sensor Network Applications Conference (SNA 09), Nov. 2009, San Jose, CA, USA.
• 1st International Conf. Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets 09), Sept. 23-25, 2009, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
• IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2009), Aug. 17-19, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
• Next Generation Wireless Networks 2008 (in conjunction with HiPC 2008), Dec. 17-20, 2008, Bangalore, India.
• Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium, Aug. 25-27, 2008, Hangzou, China.
• World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, Oct. 24-26, 2007.
• IEEE Pervasive Wireless Networking Workshop (PWN), 2005-06.
• First International Workshop on eSafety and Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (eSCo-Wi’06).
• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2004.
• International Conf. Multimedia Systems and Applications (SPIE ITCOM), 2004.
• International Conf. Internet Multimedia Management Systems (SPIE ITCOM), 2003-05.
• International Conf. Applications of Digital Image Processing (SPIE Annual Meeting), 2003-04.
• International Conf. Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology (CISST), 2003-05.

Invited Lectures and Short Courses

• Directional Wireless Networks: Introduction and Design Issues, NIT Surat, July 25-26, 2016.
• A short Course on Advances in Video Compression, NIT Surat, India, June 29 – July 1, 2015.
• Novel Directional Mesh Network Protocols for Prioritized, QoS-aware Data Transmission and their Implementation in OPNET and on a Hardware Testbed, Information Directorate, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, Dec. 15, 2014.
• Cross-layer Protocols for Transmission of Prioritized Video Bitstream, ECE Research Seminar, Univ. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Oct. 1, 2014.
• Workshop on Advances in Video Compression, Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management, Gwalior, India, Aug. 5, 2013.
• Prioritized, QoS-aware Video Transmission over Wireless Networks, Bharti School of Telecommunication and Management, IIT, Delhi, India, Aug. 2, 2013.
• Research Directions in Video Compression and Wireless Transmission, SV National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, July 26, 2013.
• Issue in Robust Video Transmission over Wireless Networks, College of Engineering Seminar Series, Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MO, Nov. 9, 2012.
• Cross-layer Protocols for Robust Video Transmission in Wireless Networks, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, June 21, 2012.
• Issues in Robust Video Steganography over Wireless Networks, International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving, IIT Roorkee, India, Dec. 20-22, 2011.
• Cognitive Routing and Scheduling for High-quality Video Delivery over Cognitive Radio Networks, DOD Cognitive RF Workshop, Dayton, OH, Sept. 23, 2011.
• Cross-layer Design for Robust Video Transmission in Wireless Networks, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Nov. 12, 2010.
• Tutorial on ‘Robust Coding and Transport of Motion Imagery Data for DOD Tactical Networks’, IEEE Military Communications Conf. (MILCOM 2010), Nov. 2, 2010, San Jose, CA.
• Cross-layer Design for Robust Multimedia Transmission in Wireless Networks, DOD TTCP Workshop on Tactical Communications, SPAWAR, San Diego, Oct. 25-29, 2010.
• Cross Layer Design for Robust Motion Imagery Transmission in Military Networks, DOD Cognitive RF Workshop, Sept. 15-16 2010, Rome, NY.
• Tutorial on ‘Robust and Scalable Video Compression Techniques for Wireless Networks’, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, July 14-15, 2009.
• Wireless Network Technology and its Applications, Computational Science Research Center Colloquium, SDSU, Feb. 20, 2009.
• Panelist in ‘Utilities Panel’ at ‘Forum on Analytics’ organized by San Diego Software Industry Council (SDSIC) , San Diego, Nov. 12, 2008.
• Issues and Strategies for Robust Video Transmission over Airborne Wireless Networks, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, Aug. 14, 2008.
• Cross-layer MANET Protocols using Dynamic Spectrum Access, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT), Gandhinagar, India, July 30, 2007.
• Video Transmission over Wireless Networks, JP Institute of Technology, Noida, India, Aug. 7, 2007
• Wireless Network Technology and Applications, IEEE SDSU Chapter, Feb. 20, 2007.
• QoS-aware Cross Layer Issues in Airborne Network Protocols under Dynamic Spectrum Access Paradigm, Air Force Research Lab, Rome, NY, Oct. 2006.
• Error Resiliency Schemes in H.264/AVC Video Coding Standard, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Aug. 2004.
• Error Resilient Video Compression, Indian Space Research Organization, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, July 2004.
• Delivering Multimedia over Wireless Networks, EECS Department, Syracuse Univ., April 2003.
• Introduction to JPEG2000: the New Image Compression Standard, Research Division of Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd., Delhi, India, Dec. 2002.
• MPEG4 Video Compression Standard, DA Institute of Information & Communication Technology, Gandhi Nagar, India, Dec. 2002.
• Delivery of Multimedia on Wireless Networks, CS Department, Clarkson University, Oct. 2002.
• JPEG2000 and Error Resilience Techniques, JPL-NASA, Pasadena, CA, Aug. 2001.

• Expert Reviewer of Projects at International Innovation Initiative (i3) Workshop, organized by CALIT2 (UCSD) and Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Aug. 29, 2013.
• Reviewer of DOE SBIR Proposals for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, April 2013.
• Participation in NSF Review Panels since 2003: Power, Control, and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) panels in March 2009, 2010, CAREER Panel in ECS Oct. 2007; PCAN Program Panel March 2007; PCAN Program Panel March 2006; Control, Networks & Comp Intelligence Panel March 2005; CAREER Panel in ECS Oct. 2003.
• IEEE Senior Member Review Panel, Jan. 2010.
• Journal Review: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Image Processing, Signal Processing, Multimedia, Mobile Computing, Communication Letters, Signal Processing Letters, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Optical Engineering Journal (SPIE); Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Computer Networks (Elsevier), Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Multimedia Systems Journal.
• Conference Review: IEEE Milcom, IEEE GlobeCom, IEEE WCNC, IEEE PERCOM, IEEE ICNC, IEEE WTS, IEEE ICIP, IEEE ISM, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE VCIP, BIT-TA, WICT, ChinaCom, WCECS, AdHocNets, ACCESSNET, SNA.
• Guest Editor: Journal of Visual Communication & Image Representation (Elsevier), Special Issue on Emerging H.264/AVC Video Coding Standard, Volume 17(2), April 2006.