Professional Service

• POWDER. Role: Lead Organizer. Lead the POWDER-RENEW Mobile and Wireless Week. 01/2023 - present
• POWDER. Role: Lead Organizer. Organized POWDER Open Day. 01/2023 - present
• OpenAirInterface. Co-developed and presented a tutorial on “5G RAN” as part of the “ Fall 2021 OpenAirInterface Workshop”. 12/2021 - 12/2021
• NSF. Organizer for First POWDER Users' Workshop. 05/2018 - 05/2018
• Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom). General Chair. 10/2017 - 10/2017
• Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom),. TPC. 04/2016 - 05/2016
• Workshop on All Things Cellular: Operations, Applications and Challenges. TPC. 04/2016 - 05/2016
• USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation. TPC. 03/2016 - 03/2016
• USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI),. TPC. 08/2015 - 09/2015
• NSF. Organizer for First PhantomNet Users Workshop. 01/2015 - 02/2015
• NSF SaTC Panel: Systems. Panel member. 05/2014 - 05/2014
• SIGCOMM Workshop on All Things Cellular: Operations, Applications and Challenges. Technical Program Committee. 04/2014 - 05/2014
• NSF SaTC Panel: Intrusion Detection Systems. Panel member. 04/2014 - 04/2014
• USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC). Technical Program Committee. 01/2014 - 02/2014

Honors & Awards

• Received University of Utah Distinguished Research Award. 03/2022
• Received the USENIX Test of Time award for "developing a logically centralized BGP routing controller, which was an important step towards the centralized routing controllers of Software-Defined Networks". USENIX, 04/2015

Internal Service

• Faculty recruiting committee co-chair. 12/2022 - 05/2023. Department service.
• Director for Computer Engineering program. 06/2022 - present. College service.
• Organize Undergraduate Industry Forum (CS 3011). 01/2015 - 04/2021. Department service.
• RPT Subcommittee. Chair, 09/2013 - 04/2021. Department service.
• Director, Flux Research Group. 09/2012 - present. Department service.

Outreach

• Tech Talk at Salt Lake City Public Library: The POWDER mobile and wireless living laboratory. 03/21/2019 - 03/21/2019

In the Media

• Light Reading article and podcast. POWDER: Open for 5G and whatever's next. 01/2023. https://www.lightreading.com/6g/powder-open-for-5g...
• DeseretNews, Forget about your smartphone. Are you ready for a dumb phone? 10/2019. https://www.deseret.com/utah/2019/10/20/20919463/u...
• US Ignite Press Release, PAWR Program Produces Nation’s First Open, Programmable Advanced Wireless Research Testbed. 04/2019. https://www.us-ignite.org/news/pawr-program-produc...
• TeleCompetitor, PAWR Open Programmable Wireless Research Testbed is City-Scale, with $100 Million Backing from Industry, NSF. 04/2019. https://www.telecompetitor.com/pawr-open-programma...
• Fierce Wireless, PAWR program completes first phase of advanced research test bed. 04/2019. https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/pawr-progr...
• Interviewed for LightReading: "Powder Offering Powerful Wireless Testbed" . 12/2018. https://www.lightreading.com/testing/mobile-wirele...
• POWDER launch coverage: Government Technology: "Salt Lake City and New York to Lead New Wireless Tech Research". 04/2018. https://www.govtech.com/Salt-Lake-City-and-New-Yor...
• POWDER launch: IEEE Spectrum: "Two U.S. Cities Win Support for 5G Wireless Test Beds". 04/2018. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wirele...
• POWDER launch: FierceWireless: "Salt Lake City, New York City to support wireless test beds that go beyond 5G". 04/2018. https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/salt-lake-...
• POWDER launch: Fox13Now: "University of Utah, Salt Lake City, get major grant for wireless innovation". 04/2018. https://fox13now.com/2018/04/09/university-of-utah...
• POWDER launch: Deseret News: "New Salt Lake wireless test area designed to fuel innovations of the future". 04/2018. https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900015365/new-...
• POWDER launch: Salt Lake Tribune: "Self-driving cars in Salt Lake City? Downtown chosen to be lab for `smart city' wireless technology". 04/2018. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/04/09/self-drivin...
• POWDER launch: News Wise: "Wireless `Living Laboratory' Coming to Utah. 04/2018. https://www.newswise.com/articles/view/692348/