Professional Service

• National Science Foundation. CISE Directorate Panelist. 03/31/2022 - 04/01/2022
• National Science Foundation. ENG Directorate Panelist. 02/02/2022 - 02/03/2023
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'21) Workshop - EdgeLearn5G,. Technical Program Committee. 03/2021 - 06/2021
• IEEE Transactions on Communications. Associate Editor. 02/2021 - 05/2024
• National Science Foundation. Panelist. 02/2021 - 06/30/2021
• National Science Foundation. Panelist. 12/2020 - present
• International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for 5G Wireless Cellular Networks, held in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2017. TPC. 11/10/2016 - 10/01/2017
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. Associate Editor. 10/2012 - 10/2015
• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2016. As a Finance co-chair for ICASSP 2016, I was actively involved in placing a bid for ICASSP 2016 in Shanghai, P.R. China. Our bid was successful. I am currently working on budget planning and hotel contracts. 01/2012 - 05/2016
• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. Role: I took the leadership role in initiating this special issue, putting together an editorial team, and handled the peer reviews. Guest Associate Editor. 07/2010 - 12/2011
• IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. Member of SWAT team for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. This team consists of an elite group of reviewers whose primary task is to provide reviews in emergency situations, to guarantee that all papers are given a timely first round review. 05/2010 - 08/2013
• Allerton Conference 2010. Proposed and organized a special session on ``Markov Chain Monte Carlo Detection'', Allerton Conference, 2010. 02/2010 - 09/2010

Honors & Awards

• I received the Best Paper Award from Communications Theory Symposium, 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). IEEE Global Communications Conference , 12/01/2021
• Top 15% of instructors in the College of Engineering at the University of Utah for ECE 6520 "Information Theory" in Spring 2018. University of Utah. 09/01/2018
• Top 15% of instructors in the College of Engineering at the University of Utah for ECE 6521 "Error Control Coding" in Spring 2017. University of Utah, 09/01/2017
• I was rated among the top 15% of instructors in the College of Engineering at the University of Utah for ECE 7520 "Information Theory" in Spring 2011. College of Engineering, University of Utah, 07/2011
• Top 15% instructor in the College of Engineering, University of Utah, 2010. University of Utah, 06/2010
• Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER). National Science Foundation (NSF), 01/23/2006

Internal Service

• RPT committee for Prof. Christopher, Reiche. Member, 02/01/2023 - 03/01/2023. Department service.
• Chair, RPT subcommittee, 3rd-year retention of Dr. Benjamin Sanchez . 09/2022 - 10/2022. Department service.
• chair, informal review for Dr. Yu Xiang. 03/2022 - 04/2022. Department service.
• Member, RPT subcommittee, Dr. Yi Zhou, third-year formal retention. 10/2021 - 11/2021. Department service.
• System group area chair. 07/01/2021 - present. Department service.
• Diversity Committee Chair. 07/01/2021 - present. Department service.
• Senate Faculty Review Standards Committee . 06/16/2021 - 06/16/2025. University service.
• Senate Committee on Academic Freedom and Faculty Rights. 06/2021 - 06/2025. University service.
• Peer review teaching for Dr. Neda Nategh. 05/05/2020 - 05/07/2020. Department service.
• Peer review teaching for Prof. Edward Hsu (Dept. of Bioengineering). 03/2020 - 03/2020. College service.
• conducted informal review for Dr. Yi Zhou. 03/2020 - 03/2020. Department service.
• conducted Informal review for Dr. Mingyue Ji . 03/2020 - 03/2020. Department service.
• During the pandemic, organized a student panel for "Build a positive study/working environment" that includes implicit bias training. 03/2020 - 03/2020. Department service.
• Help create ECE culture survey. Meeting with Mary Anne Berzins to collect results and provide feedback to the department. 10/29/2019 - 02/2020. Department service.
• Helped the department prepare Graduate Council Review progress report. 10/2019 - present. Department service.
• ABET review for ECE 3500 and peer review teaching for Dr. Mingyue Ji. Reviewer, 09/02/2019 - 12/05/2019. Department service.
• Chair of RPT subcommittee for Neda Nategh. chair, 09/02/2019 - 12/02/2019. Department service.
• Curriculum chair for system group. 08/01/2019 - present. Department service.
• Chair of RPT subcommittee for John Palmer. chair, 04/01/2019 - 05/01/2019. Department service.
• Peer review teaching Dr. Neda Nategh . Reviewer, 02/18/2019 - 02/25/2019. Department service.
• ECE executive committee. member, 01/01/2019 - present. Department service.
• Departmental faculty recruiting committee and chair of system sub-area committee. member, 01/01/2018 - present. Department service.
• Diversity Committee. Chair, 01/01/2018 - 07/01/2020. Department service.
• Student emergency fund committee. chair, 01/01/2018 - 09/02/2019. Department service.
• ECE Appeals and Petitions Committee. member, 01/01/2018 - 01/2019. Department service.
• Promotion and Tenure subcommittee for Ross Walker. member, 01/01/2018 - 05/01/2018. Department service.
• Promotion and Tenure subcommittee for Jeff Walling. member, 03/01/2017 - 09/01/2017. Department service.
• Student emergency fund committee. chair, 10/12/2016 - 10/2019. Department service.
• Diversity/Minority Committee. Committee member, 08/03/2015 - 08/01/2016. Department service.
• Diversity Council. member, 01/01/2014 - 12/31/2017. Department service.
• Admission, and Graduation Committee. 01/2010 - 01/2015. Department service.