Professional Activities

Journal Editorial Board Member / Guest Editor

• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

• ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

• Artificial Intelligence Review

• Future Generation Computer Systems (Advisory Board) 

• IET Intelligent Transport Systems

• Frontiers in Big Data

• PeerJ Computer Science

• PLoS One (2017-2021)

• IEEE Access (2016-2021)

• Journal of Network and Computer Applications (2012-2021)

 Conference Committees

Founder and Lead Chair

• GraphLearning 2022: The International Workshop on Graph Learning. A workshop of The ACM Web Conference 2022, April 25, 2022, Online; http://www.graphlearning.net/. Co-Chairs: Feng Xia, Renaud Lambiotte, Charu Aggarwal

• ACM SAC 2022 Track on Knowledge Graphs, The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Brno, Czech Republic, April 25 - April 29, 2022; https://sites.google.com/view/sac2022kg/. Co-Chairs: Feng Xia, Shuo Yu, Francesco Osborne

• IAAA: International Workshop on Intelligence-Augmented Anomaly Analytics. A workshop of IEEE ICDM 2021; https://sites.google.com/view/iaaa2021/. Co-Chairs: Feng Xia, Leman Akoglu, Charu Aggarwal, Huan Liu

• IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT 2021 Special Track on Social Computing, The 20th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, December 14-17, 2021, Melbourne, Australia. Chair: Feng Xia

• BigScholar: International Workshop on Big Scholarly Data. A workshop of CIKM 2019, KDD 2018, WWW 2014-2017; http://thealphalab.org/bigscholar/. Co-Chairs: Feng Xia, Huan Liu, Irwin King, Kuansan Wang 

• PhoneCom: International Workshop on Sensing, Networking, and Computing with Smartphones. A workshop of CPSCom 2013, ICDCS 2012, CPSCom 2011. 

• MobiCPS: International Workshop on Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems. A workshop of UIC 2010.  

Chair

• Advisory Chair / Advisory Board Member: CyberSciTech22, CyberSciTech21, CyberSciTech20, IOV19, DataCom19, CyberSciTech19, CSDE19, IOP18, IOP16, IOP15, SocialCom14, ITST11

• General Chair: DataCom22, CSDE21, APWConCSE17, ICUMT13, ICUMT11, EaCN10, ICUMT10

• Executive Chair: CPSCom11

• Technical Program Committee (Vice-)Chair: DataCom18, SocialCom15, IOV15, CSA14, ICESS13, CUTE13, GlobeCom-ETSD12, iThings11, GreenCom10, IOTS10, ICNS09

• Workshop Chair: Sci-K23 (ACM TheWebConf/WWW 2023 International Workshop on Scientific Knowledge), KG22 (IEEE ICDM 2022 International Workshop on Knowledge Graphs), KDD-2022 Workshop on Data-Driven Science of Science, CPSCom10, AAAI-SBD15, TACPS12

• Publicity Chair: ICUMT19, COMPLEXNETWORKS19, COMPLEXNETWORKS18, COMPLEXNETWORKS17, ICUMT15, ICC-SCAN15, ICUMT14, RNN14, BCFIC12, GreenCom11, ICESS11, BCFIC11, PAAP10

Program Committee Member

100+ conferences/workshops, including e.g.:

• IJCAI23: The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• KDD23: The 29th SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

• TheWebConf23: The ACM Web Conference

• WSDM23: ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

• NetSci23: International School and Conference on Network Science

• NetSci-X23: International School and Conference on Network Science

• ICC23: International Conference on Communications

• TheWebConf22: The ACM Web Conference

• IJCAI-ECAI22: The 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• KDD22: The 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

• AAAI22: The Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• BigData22: IEEE International Conference on Big Data

• NetSci22: International School and Conference on Network Science

• NetSci-X22: International School and Conference on Network Science

• SAC22: The 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

• AAAI21: The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• CogMI21: The Third IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence

• BESC21: The 8th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing

• IJCAI20: The 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• AAAI20: The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• NetSci20: International School and Conference on Network Science

• NetSci-X20: The Sixth International Winter School and Conference on Network Science

• ICC20: International Conference on Communications

• ICWSM20: The International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

• CIKM19: The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

• ADMA19: The 15th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications

• BigData18: IEEE International Conference on Big Data

• UIC18: The 15th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing

• WWW-IWSC17: WWW 2017 Workshop on Social Computing

• SmartComp16: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing

• IJCAI-SBD16: IJCAI 2016 Workshop on Scholarly Big Data: AI Perspectives, Challenges, and Ideas

 Conference Keynote Speeches

• Challenges and Advances in Trustworthy Graph Learning, WSDM 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning on Graphs (MLoG), Singapore, March 3rd, 2023; https://mlog-workshop.github.io/wsdm23.html

• Scholarly Social Computing, The 9th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS 2019), Seoul, Korea, 26-28 June 2019; http://ke.cau.ac.kr/wims2019/ 

• The Web of Scholars, The 20th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS 2018), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 19-21 November 2018; http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/iiwas2018/ 

• Data Science in Science, the 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM 2018), Langkawi, Malaysia, January 5-7, 2018; http://www.imcom.org/ 

• Network Science Meets Data Science: Opportunities and Challenges, the 15th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2017), Islamabad, Pakistan, Dec. 18-20, 2017; http://www.fit.edu.pk/ 

• Embracing Computational Social Science: In the Name of Data, the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (DataCom 2017), Orlando, Florida, USA, November 6-10, 2017; https://grid.chu.edu.tw/datacom2017/ 

• Computational Social Science Meets Big Data, 16th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2016), Yanuca Island, Fiji. 7-10 December 2016; http://nsclab.org/cit2016/ 

• Big Scholarly Data: Towards Connected Scholars, 3rd Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computer Science and Engineering (APWConCSE 2016), 4-6th December, 2016. Denarau Island, Fiji; http://ilab-australia.org/apwconcse2016/ 

Invited Reviewer/Panelist

• Invited Reviewer for numerous prestigious journals, including e.g.:

  • ACM Computing Surveys

  • ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data

  • IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

  • IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

  • IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

  • IEEE Intelligent Systems

• PhD Thesis Examiner / Promotion Review Panelist for e.g.:

  • Griffith University, Australia

  • Macquarie University, Australia

  • University of Technology Sydney, Australia

  • Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

  • Capital University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

  • COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan

  • National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

  • University of the Punjab, Pakistan

  • University of Malaya, Malaysia

  • University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

  • Tsinghua University, Pecking University, Zhejiang University; Nanjing University; Sichuan University; Shandong University, etc., China

• Research Proposal Reviewer for e.g.:

  • National Natural Science Foundation of China 

  • Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation

  • Swiss National Science Foundation

  • The Research Council of Oman