Scholarly and Professional Activities

Executive Committee Member:
2006
The IEEE EDOC “Enterprise Computing,” IEEE Computer Society and Communication Society, USA
2003
The IEEE Computer Society Technical Steering Committee for Services Computing (TSC-SC), USA

 

External Thesis Committee Member:     
2009 Invited to examine Master Theses on “Adaptive Bidding Strategies for Combinatorial Auctions” and “Ontology Learning from Folksonomies” by Prof. Ho-Fung Leung, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

2009 Invited to examine a Ph.D. Thesis on “Trust Computing” supervised by Prof. Vijay Varadharajan, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

2008
Invited to examine a Ph.D. Thesis on Trust Computing supervised by Prof. Vijay Varadharajan, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
2007 
Mr. Ming Gong (Supervisor: Prof. Hassan Naser), "Link-Disjoint Shortest-Delay Path-Pair Computation Algorithms for Shared Mesh Restoration Networks," Master Thesis, Department of Software Engineering, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
2007 Ms. Julian Sungsuk Jang (Supervisor: Prof. Alan Fekete), "Building Reliable And Robust Service-based Systems for Automated Business Processes," Ph.D. Thesis, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2007 Mr. Sarath Indrakanti (Supervisor: Prof. Vijay Varadharajan), "On Engineering Authorization Systems for Web Services based Service-Oriented Architecture," Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
2004 Capt. Jason Furlong (Supervisor: Prof. Scott Knight), "Using Aspect-Oriented Software Development to build a Scenario Based Access Control Reference Monitor," Master's Thesis Oral Examination, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

 

Keynote Speaker :     
2009 "How Practical is Zero Tolerance of System Failures?" in the 2009 Canadian Conference on IT Audit Governance and Security, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 6-7, 2009
2007  "Privacy Issues in Middleware for Service-oriented Applications," in the 2007 Middleware for Web Services (MWS 2007) Workshop, in conjunction with the 11th International IEEE EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007) "The Enterprise Computing Conference", Annapolis, Maryland, October 15-19, 2007
2006  "Web Service Composition for E-Commerce: A Security Perspective," the International Summer School: "Track 4 – Technology Platforms for the Extended Enterprise," Ostuni, Italy
2006  "Web Services Composition for E-Commerce: A Security Perspective," in the Joint Workshop on Cyber Security: Computer Forensics, Wireless Security, e-Commerce Security and Security Infrastructure Development in the Academic and Business Environment (Supported by NSF, FBI, Erie Community College), University at Buffalo, New York, USA, March 31, 2006
2005    "An Introduction of Web Services Privacy Issues," Ph.D. course on Business Process Integration, Tilburg University, Enschede, The Netherlands

 

Research Proposal Reviewer:
2007 Proposal Reviewer: NSF, NSERC and Research Grants Council (Hong Kong)
2005        Academic Research Project (ARP) - Department of National Defence (DND), Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
2000 Panelist and Reviewer: The Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs, the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA

 

Visiting Ph.D. Student Position:
1998  RSA Laboratories West, San Mateo, California, USA (hosted by Dr. James W. Gray. III)
1998  Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan (hosted by Yahiko Kambayashi)