PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES

· Member of the editorial board, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials Journal since August 2005

· Member of the IEEE Communication Society technical committees on:

– Communications and Information Security

– Communication Systems Integration and Modeling

· Grant Reviewer

– NSERC strategic grants

– NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) grants

– Natural Resources and Applied Sciences Endowment Fund, British Columbia Innovation Council, Province of British Columbia

· Technical Program Committee member of

– IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005

– IEEE Global Communications Conference (GlobeCom) 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006

– IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005

– IEEE symposium on Computers and Communications 2010

– The third Intl. Conf. on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, NTMS (Security track), 2009

– Intl. Conf. on the Next Generation Networks and Services, Rabat, Morocco, 2009

– Queen’s University 23^rd Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Ontario, May 2006.

– Intl. Conf. on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST2006), Oshawa, Ontario, October 2006.

– Networks2004, Vienna, Austria, June 2004.

· Reviewer for several technical journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Letters, Computer Networks, ACM Trans. on Simulation and Modeling, International Journal on Communication Systems, Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Globecom2000, ICC2002, Globecom2002, ICC2004, GlobeCom2004, InfoCom2004, and ICC2005.

· Judge for the poster session of MITACS Atlantic Interchange, Dalhousie University, March 2003.

· Member of MITACS Student and Post Doctoral Fellows Advisory Committee for the year 2002-2003, a seven-member national committee (http://www.mitacs.math.ca).

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES AT CARLETON

At Carleton University, I have been be responsible for the following administrative duties

University level

2004-2007	Elected member of Carleton University Senate
2005	Toronto Information Nights (Recruitment)
	Ontario University Fair (Recruitment)

Faculty level (engineering)

2005-2007	First year’s instructor’s committee
2009	Selection committee for the associate dean (research)

School/Department level

Major tasks

Jul/09-June/10	Associate Director, Carleton School of Information Technology, Carleton University · Member of the Joint Academic Council of the School of IT. · Chair, School of IT Promotion Committee · Member, School of IT Tenure Committee · Member, Faculty of Engineering and Design Tenure and Promotion Committees · Chair, School of IT Committee for Ontario Graduate Scholarship · Chair, network and computing committee of the School of IT · Chair, curriculum committee · Chair, students appeal committee · Supported recruitment activities by delivering talks and presentations about the program · Served as acting director as required.
Jul/09-June/10	Chair, the Undergraduate Program Review Committee, Carleton School of IT This was the first program review the school goes through. It was a major task where I headed a task force of nine members from two institutions. I was responsible for coordinating the review process activities. I wrote the main deliverable of this exercise which is the self-appraisal report.
Jul/04-June/07	Coordinator of the NET Program, School of Information Technology, Carleton University Served as the first coordinator for the newly created school. Duties included: · Member of the Joint Academic Council of the School of IT · Undergraduate advisor for the NET program: This task required more time than most of the other administrative tasks specially due to the lack of past practices · Member of advanced standing committee · Member of the students appeal committee · Reviewing calendar changes

Other tasks

2007	Setting and marking the department Ph.D. comprehensive exam in computer communications (with Professor R. Yu)
2006-2007	Member of equipment purchase committee
2005-2007	Member of the school website committee
2004-2007	Chair and examiner of thesis and comprehensive defenses/exams (SCE)
2004-2007	Member of the NET curriculum committee
2005-2007	Member of faculty hiring committee
2004-2006	Promotion and recruitment activities for the school
2006	Space planning committee
2005	Staff hiring committee

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCITIES

· Senior Member of the IEEE (Communications Society and Computer Society)

· Member of ACM SIGCOMM

· Licensed Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) in Ontario since 2005

· Certified Engineer in Egypt since 1993.

· Member of the Communications Society of the IEICE (2002-2003)