Professional Activities

Awards and Nominations

  1. Selected as a member of the inaugural Faculty Leadership Development Academy (FLDA) cohort of 2024-2025, at UCCS.
  2. Teacher of the Year - Tenured Award (2022-23) Engineering and Applied Science (EAS) College, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, October 2023.
  3. Nominated and approved by the Chancellor's Cabinet to be one of six fellows from UCCS to participate in the Excellence in Leadership Program (ELP) for 2023-2024 cohort, within CU system.
  4. Outstanding Teacher Award (2022), University of Colorado Colorado Springs, April 2022.
  5. Awarded Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, June 2021.
  6. Teacher of the Year - Tenure Track Award (2018-2019) Engineering and Applied Science (EAS) College, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, April 2019.
  7. Best Poster Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies, (HEART'18), Toronto, Canada, June 2018. This paper is titled "An FPGA-Based Hardware Accelerator for K-Nearest Neighbor Classification for Machine Learning on Mobile Devices".
  8. Best Paper Award at the 6th IEEE International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud, and Internet Computing (3PGCIC'11), in Barcelona, Spain, October 2011. This paper is titled "FPGA-Based Reconfigurable Hardware for Compute Intensive Data Mining Applications".

Invited Keynote Speaker

  1. Invited Speaker, “Composing FPGA-based architectures and techniques for compute and data-intensive applications on embedded platforms”, for the technical sessions on "Digital Design", at the 35th International Conference on VLSI Design and 21st International Conference on Embedded Systems, (VLSID'2022), March 2022.
  2. Keynote Speaker, “Reconfigurable Hardware Architectures for Edge Computing” at the IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS'21), in Oslo, Norway, October 2021.

Professional Committes/Membership

  1. VLSI Systems and Applications Technical Committee (VSATC) for IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, (from May 2018-present).
  2. Senior Member of IEEE (from 2011-present).
  3. Senior Member of IEEE Computer Society (from 2011-present).
  4. Senior Member of IEEE WIE (Women in Engineering) (from 2011-present).
  5. Senior Member of IEEE CAS (Circuits and Systems) Society (from 2018-present).
  6. Professional Member of ACM (from 2023-present).

Research Proposal Reviews

  1. Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA.
  2. Reviewer for the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Journal Editors

  1. Editorial Board for the Elsevier Journal on Internet of Things (IoT): Engineering Cyber Physical Human Systems, (February 2024 – present), (Impact Factor 5.9).
  2. Editor for the Elsevier Microprocessors and Microsystems Journal (MICPRO) Journal, (from June 2023 - present), (Impact Factor 3.503).
  3. Associated Editor for the Elsevier Microelectronics Journal, (from July 2018 - present), (Impact Factor 1.992).
  4. Guest Editor for IEEE IT Professional Journal, for Special Issue “Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence”, (January 2022 – present), (Impact Factor 2.63).

Journal Reviews

  1. Reviewer for the ACM Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES).
  2. Reviewer for the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS).
  3. Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems.
  4. Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD).
  5. Reviewer for the IEEE Embedded Systems Letter (ESL).
  6. Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing (TPDS).
  7. Reviewer for the ASP Journal of Low Power Electronics.
  8. Reviewer for the Springer Journal of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing.
  9. Reviewer for the Springer Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing.
  10. Reviewer for the Elsevier Microelectronics Journal.
  11. Reviewer for the Springer Journal of Supercomputing.
  12. Reviewer for the IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CJECE.

Conference and Workshop Activities: Conference Organization Committee & Session Chai

  1. Track Co-Chair for the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-Core Systems-On-Chip (MCSoC'24), for the "Chiplet-based Architecture and Design" track, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2024.
  2. Track Co-Chair for the 17th International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS-2024) for the "Embedded Systems and Wearable Computing" track, Taichung, Taiwan, July 2024.
  3. Track Co-Chair for the 38th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'24) for the "Network Architectures, Protocols and Algorithms" track, Kitakyushu, Japan, April 2024.
  4. Session Chair (for two sessrions) for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'23), in Monterrey, CA, May 2023.
  5. Organizer of the workshop "Reconfigurable Technologies in Implementing and Experimenting Software-Defined and Cognitive Radio" at the IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS'21), in Oslo, Norway, October 2021.
  6. Session Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'20), in Seville, Spain, May, 2020.
  7. Session Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig'19), in Cancun, Mexico, December 2019.
  8. Session Chair for the IEEE Pacific Rim International Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, (PacRim'17) in Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2017.
  9. International Liaison (America) for the IEEE Pacific Rim International Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, (PacRim'17) in Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2017.
  10. Session Chair for the 28th Annual IEEE International Conferences on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures, and Processors, (ASAP'17), Seattle, WA, July 2017.
  11. Advisory Chair for the 1st International Conference on Advances in Computation, Communications and Services (ACCSE'16), in Valencia, Spain, May 2016.
  12. Publicity Co-Chair for the 28th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'14), in Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2014.
  13. Chair & Organizer of the workshop "Networking and Cloud Computing Test-Beds', at the Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineers (CCECE'14) in Toronto, ON, Canada, May 2014.
  14. Organizer of the workshop "Benchmarking of Embedded Systems' at the Embedded Systems Week (ESWeek'13), in Montreal, QC, Canada, September-October 2013.
  15. Organizer of the two workshops: "Embedded Systems Design Flow" and "Embedded Linux on Microblaze Processor", at University of Toronto, ON, Canada, 22nd-25th July 2013.
  16. Local Organizer for the IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, (PacRim'07), in Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2007.

Conference and Workshop Activities: Conference Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member

  1. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS'24), in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2024.
  2. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Pacific Rim International Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, (PacRim'24) in Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2024.
  3. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS'23), in Aalborg, Denmark, October 2023.
  4. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC'23), in Santa Clara, California, September 2023.
  5. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'23), in Monterrey, CA, May 2023.
  6. Technical Program Committee Member for the 5th International Workshop on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML 2022): Towards Trustworthy AI, in conjunction with IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'23), Torino, Italy, June-July 2023.
  7. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS'22), in Oslo, Norway, October 2022.
  8. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'22), in Austin, Texas, May 2022.
  9. Technical Program Committee Member for the 16th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS'21), in University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, December 2021.
  10. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS'21), in Oslo, Norway, October 2021.
  11. Technical Program Committee Member for the "Safety and Security in Industrial Applications" Track for the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN'21), in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 2021.
  12. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'21), in Daegu, Korea, May, 2021.
  13. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference (NorCAS'20), in Oslo, Norway, October 2020.
  14. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'20), in Seville, Spain, May, 2020.
  15. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig'19), in Cancun, Mexico, December 2019.
  16. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC'19), in Singapore, September 2019.
  17. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Pacific Rim International Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, (PacRim'19) in Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2019.
  18. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, May 2019.
  19. Technical Program Committee Member for the International Symposium on Rapid Systems Prototyping, (RSP'18), held in conjunction with Embedded Systems (ES) Week, in Torino, Italy, September 2018
  20. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Pacific Rim International Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, (PacRim'17) in Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2017.
  21. Technical Program Committee Member for the 2nd iCatse Symposium on Software Networking (ICSN2017), in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 2017.
  22. Technical Program Committee Member for the 17th IEEE International Conference on Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC'17), in Las Vega, USA, January 2017.
  23. Technical Program Committee Member for the International Conference on Software Networking (ICSN'16), in Jeju Island, South Korea, May 2016.
  24. Technical Program Committee Member for the 1st International Conference on Advances in Computation, Communications and Services (ACCSE'16), in Valencia, Spain, May 2016.
  25. Technical Program Committee Member for the 30th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA'16), in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, March 2016.
  26. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Pacific Rim International Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, (PacRim'15) in Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2015.
  27. Technical Program Committee Member for the 9th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, in Blumenau, Brazil, July 2015
  28. Technical Program Committee Member for the 2nd International Workshop on Communications and Sensor Networks (ComSense-2014), in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, August 2014.
  29. Technical Program Committee Member for the International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks for Industrial Applications, in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, August 2014.
  30. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Pacific Rim International Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, (PacRim'13), in Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2013.
  31. Technical Program Committee Member for the IEEE Pacific Rim International Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, (PacRim'11), in Victoria, BC, Canada, August 2011.
  32. Reviewer for the International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing, (SNDP'08), 2008.

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