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Community services

  1. IEEE Cybersecurity Ambassador (2016-).
  2. Member of the IEEE P2675 - DevOps standards working group (2017-)

Journals and books editing

  1. Guest Co-editor for a Special issue of Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier, 2020
  2. Guest Co-editor for a special issue of the Computers & Security, Elsevier, on Security and Privacy in Smart Cyber-physical Systems, 2019, 2018
  3. Guest Co-editor for a special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Information Security, Springer, on Recent Advances in Software Security, 2018
  4. Empirical Research for Software Security: Foundations and Experience, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, Expected 2017, Co-editor.
  5. Special issue of the International Journal of Secure Software Engineering (IJSSE), IGI-group, Jan./Feb. 2016, Guest Co-editor.
  6. The Hilltop Review - A Journal of Western Michigan University Graduate Research, published by the Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC), WMU, 2009-2010, Editor-in-chief

Event Organization

  1. The 16th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRISIS), Ames, IA, 2021.
  2. The 13th Central Area Networking and Security Workshop (CANSec), Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2019, Co-organizer.

Event Chair

  1. Central Area Networking and Security Workshop (CANSec), Ames, IA, 2019, Co-chair
  2. Fifth International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE’ 19), Canterbury, UK, 2019, Co-chair.
  3. Fourth International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE’ 18), Hamburg, Germany, 2018, Co-chair.
  4. Third International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SSE 17), Reggio Calabria, Italy, 2017, Co-chair.
  5. Workshop on Empirical Research Methods in Information Security, Montreal, Canada, 2016, Cochair.
  6. Second International Workshop on Agile Secure Software Development (ASSD16), Salzburg, Austria, 2016, Co-chair.
  7. First International Workshop on Agile Secure Software Development (ASSD15), Toulouse, France, 2015, Co-chair.

Grant Advisory Board committee

  1. Member of the proposals review panel for the NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SATC) program, 2018
  2. Advisory Board member for the EU project RASEN (Compositional Risk Assessment and Security Testing of Networked Systems), June 2015.
Programs development and assessment
  1. External Assessor for the MSc in Cyber Security Analytics program, University of Exeter, UK. 2020
Panel Member
  1. Software Drives - Automotive Development 2030, Stuttgart, Germany, Sep. 2014.

Conference/Workshop Program Committee Member (Partial list)

  1. AAAI symp. 2022
  2. ASEE Annual Conf. 2022, 2021
  3. International Workshop on Software Engineering Research & Practices for the Internet of Things / ICSE, 2021, 2022
  4. International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRISIS) 2021
  5. International Conference on Software Security and Assurance, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018
  6. The IEEE Computer Society Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2021, 2020, 2019
  7. IEEE CyberSecurity Development Conference (SecDev), 2020, 2018
  8. IEEE 88th Vehicular Technology Conference, 2020, 2018
  9. Wireless Days, 2019
  10. IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Kansas City, USA, 2021, 2019, 2018
  11. IEEE International Workshop on Security, Trust, and Privacy for Software Applications, 2018
  12. IEEE International Multidisciplinary Conference on Engineering Technology (IMCET), 2018
  13. IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (IEEE CIT-2017) 2017.
  14. Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing, 2017.
  15. IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2016.
  16. Workshop Challenges in Information Security and Privacy Management (ARES-ISMP 2016), Salzburg, Austria, 2016.
  17. IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2016.
  18. Int. Conf. on Computer and Information Technology (CIT-2015), Liverpool, UK, 2015
  19. Int. Conf. on Safety and Security in Internet of Things (SaSeIoT) 2015
  20. Int. Conf. on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT), 2015
  21. Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2015
  22. Int. workshop on Mobile Computing Security (MCS), 2015.
  23. 1Int. Conf. Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), 2015, 2014
  24. Int. Conf. on Advanced Computing, Networking and Security (ADCONS) 2013
  25. Workshop on Cloud Computing Issues and Trends, 2013
  26. Int. Conf. on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2013
  27. Int. Conf. on Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), 2013, 2012, 2011
  28. Int. Conf. on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences (ADVCOMP), 2011
  29. Int. Conf. on Advances in Mesh Networks (MESH), 2011
  30. IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2011
  31. 3rd International Workshop on Specialized Ad Hoc Networks and Systems (SAHNS 2011), Minneapolis, USA, 2011
  32. Conf. on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) 2011

Reviewer of journals (Partial list)

  1. Empirical Software Engineering, Springer, 2021
  2. Computers & Security, Elsevier, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
  3. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE, 2018, 2019, 2020
  4. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE), Elsevier, 2018, 2019, 2020
  5. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2017, 2020
  6. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, Elsevier, 2018, 2019
  7. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE, 2016, 2017, 2019
  8. SAE International Journal of Passenger Cars: Electronic and Electrical Systems, 2019 9. Computer Communications, Elsevier, 2018
  9. IEEE Software, IEEE, 2017
  10. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE, 2017 12. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE 2015
  11. Journal of Computer Security, IOS Press, 2015
  12. Software: Practice and Experience, Wiley, 2015
  13. IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2015
  14. Security and Communication Networks (SCN), John Wiley, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
  15. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, 2012, 2013, 2014
  16. Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier, 2014
  17. IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE, 2014
  18. Computers & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, 2014
  19. Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer, 2013
  20. Telecommunication Systems, Springer, 2013
  21. Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, IEEE, 2011
  22. Information Sciences, Elsevier, 2010, 2011, 2012
  23. Transactions on Computational Science, Springer, 2010
  24. Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Springer, 2010
  25. Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, 2010