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David B. Johnson, Professor of Computer Science and in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University -- Ad hoc networking, sensor networking, Mobile IP
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Professional Activities

Offices in Professional Societies and Associations

  • Member-at-Large, ACM SIG Governing Board Executive Committee, elected June 2008. The SIG Governing Board (SGB) has overall responsibility for the ACM's Special Interest Groups (SIGs). The SGB Exective Committee (SGB-EC) is elected by the SGB members.
  • Member, ACM Distinguished Speakers Program Committee (formerly Distinguished Lectureship Program), since November 2005. Oversees and organizes ACM's international Distinguished Speakers Program; currently reviewing and re-designing of the entire program.
  • Chair and Executive Committee Member, ACM SIGMOBILE, The Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing, since July 2005 (elected). SIGMOBILE's activities include organizing and sponsoring four annual international conferences (MobiCom, MobiHoc, MobiSys, and SenSys) and numerous international workshops (e.g., 11 in 2007, 12 in 2006), and publishing a refereed journal/newsletter for SIGMOBILE members (Mobile Computing and Communications Review, MC2R).
  • Treasurer and Executive Committee Member, ACM SIGMOBILE, The Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing and Communications, October 1997 to June 2005. Appointed position during SIGMOBILE formation as a new ACM SIG, October 1997 to June 2001, and then elected in first SIGMOBILE elections, July 2001.
  • Steering Committee member, The Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE, since October 2004. MobiCom is currently ranked by CiteSeer as the fifth highest impact computer science publication venue, based on the average citation rate of all articles published in each venue.
  • Steering Committee member, The International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and The USENIX Association, since 2003.

Journal Editorial Boards

Conference Executive Committees

Other Conference and Workshop Program Committees

Invited Keynote and Distinguished Lecture Presentations

Invited Government Strategic Planning Groups and Study Panels

  • Invited participant and panelist, NSF Wireless/Mobile Planning Group (WMPG), May 2005 to August 2005. Part of the NSF Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) initiative, the WMPG included about 25 participants from the wireless and mobile network research communities. The WMPG was tasked with identifying service requirements and innovative network architecture concepts, and consolidating this input into a coherent vision/agenda for future research and experimental infrastructure needs. The report of the WMPG was entitled New Architectures and Disruptive Technologies for the Future Internet: The Wireless, Mobile and Sensor Network Perspective.
  • Invited participant, NASA Nomadic Networking Planning Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, November 26, 2002. Planning for upcoming NASA Nomadic Networking project.
  • Invited participant, NASA Strategic Planning Meeting for "Proximity Networks", NASA Space Communications Project, Pasadena, CA, March 20-21, 2002. Meeting, hosted by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to develop technology investment roadmaps for Proximity Networks that will provide the NASA Enterprises with key communications technologies to meet their future needs in this area.
  • Invited participant, NASA Strategic Planning Meeting for "Inter-spacecraft Networks", NASA Space Communications Project, Cleveland, OH, March 7-8, 2002. Meeting, hosted by NASA Glenn Research Center, to develop technology investment roadmaps for Inter-spacecraft Networks that will provide the NASA Enterprises with key communications technologies to meet their future needs in this area.
  • Invited briefing speaker, U.S. Department of Defense JASON Study on RF (Radio Frequency) Network Assurance, June 22, 2000. JASON is a group of academic scientists that provides technical advice to government agencies in the arena of national security. This study was commissioned by DARPA.
  • Invited member, ISAT Study Group on Mobility and Security, January 2000 to July 2000. The DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group (ISAT) was established in 1987 by DARPA to provide DARPA offices with continuing and independent assessment of the state of very advanced information sciences and technologies, and their relationship to critical, long range Defense issues.
  • Invited participant and speaker, DARPA/ATO Workshop on Mobile Wireless Security and Survivability, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, September 15-16, 1999. The goal of this workshop was to identify critical issues, promising technologies, and areas where R&D is needed for security and survivability for mobile wireless network systems, contributing toward the definition of a potential new DARPA Program in this area.
  • Invited briefing speaker, U.S. Department of Defense JASON Study on Self-Organizing Mobile Networks, July 22, 1999. JASON is a group of academic scientists that provides technical advice to government agencies in the arena of national security. This study was commissioned by DARPA.
  • Invited panel member, DARPA GloMo (Global Mobile Information Systems program) Task Force XXI Feedback Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, April 28-29, 1998. The workshop, consisting of 7 invited researchers plus Army Task Force XXI project members, was held in support of the DARPA GloMo Program and the DARPA "Generation after Next Joint Technical Architectural Study" to examine how the emerging DARPA GloMo technologies could be utilized to overcome problems encountered in TF XXI.
  • Invited panel member, Army Tactical Internet Graybeard Panel, Dominguez Hills, CA, November 4-5, 1997. The panel consisted of 14 invited scientists and engineers to advise TRW, the Army Digitization Office, and the Army Science Board on the outcome of the Task Force XXI exercise and the design of the Tactical Internet, a large wireless and mobile network for battlefield communication.
  • Invited panel speaker, NSF Wireless and Mobile Communications Workshop, National Science Foundation, Airlie House and Conference Center, Warrenton, VA, March 24-26, 1997. Workshop by invitation only and consisted of 15 researchers in wireless and mobile communications and 15 researchers in wireless and mobile networking. The output of this workshop was published as a report to the NSF, coauthored by the workshop participants, on Research Priorities in Wireless and Mobile Communications and Networking, published by NSF.
  • Invited panel speaker, Wireless Communications Technology Workshop, Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), United States Congress, Washington, DC, September 27, 1994. The OTA operated from 1972 to 1995, providing technical analysis and advice to Congress on complex scientific and technical issues. One of 12 invited speakers at the workshop. The output of this workshop, together with a second related workshop, was a report to Congress on Wireless Technologies and the National Information Infrastructure, published by OTA in July 1995.

Selected Honors and Distinctions

  • Advisory Professor of the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. Appointed December 18, 2007.
  • Outstanding Faculty Associate, Lovett College (undergraduate residential college), Rice University, 2006-2007 academic year (University recognition).
  • 2 papers on CiteSeer's list of top 100 most cited source documents in the CiteSeer database (all years), as of September 2006 (database includes 751,212 documents). List is based on all documents for which the citing and cited documents are both in the CiteSeer database (self-citations are excluded).
  • 14 papers on CiteSeer's list of most cited articles in all of Computer Science (all years), as of September 2006. List is based on all citations in documents in the CiteSeer database, whether or not the document cited itself is in CiteSeer (self-citations are excluded).
  • Distinguished Faculty Associate, Lovett College (undergraduate residential college), Rice University, 2004-2005 academic year (Lovett College recognition).
  • Distinguished Service Award, SIGMOBILE, The ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing, July 2001. The first Distinguished Service Award given by ACM SIGMOBILE, and one of only 3 given to date since SIGMOBILE's founding in 1996. Award given with the citation: "In Recognition of His Perennially Vital and Consistently Excellent Service to ACM SIGMOBILE MobiCom".
  • Web pages for my research in wireless and mobile networking, known as the Monarch Project, selected as "Web Site of the Week" by PC Week magazine, December 6, 1996 issue. Web URL was originally http://www.monarch.cs.cmu.edu/. Pages have now moved to http://www.monarch.cs.rice.edu/.
  • Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, "Wireless and Mobile Internetworking", National Science Foundation, Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure, Networking and Communications Research Program, 1995 to 1998.
  • Elected to Full Membership in Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (honor society), 1993.
  • ACM National Scholastic Programming Contest, national finals, St. Louis, MO, member of national second place team, 1981. Winning team consisted of four members: Scott Comer, Gordon Goetsch, David Johnson, and Thom Potempa. This contest is now international and is known as the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
  • National Merit Scholarship, Shell Companies Merit Scholar, 1978 to 1982.

Organizational Memberships


ACM
ACM SIGMOBILE
ACM SIGCOMM
ACM SIGOPS
IEEE
IEEE Computer Society IEEE Computer Society

USENIX
ISOC
Sigma Xi
AAAS IETF