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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

  • Executive Committee Member and Past Chair, ACM SIGMOBILE, The Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing, since July 2009. SIGMOBILE's activities included organizing and sponsoring five annual international conferences (MobiCom, MobiHoc, MobiSys, SenSys, and Ubicomp) and numerous international workshops, and publishing a refereed journal/newsletter for SIGMOBILE members (Mobile Computing and Communications Review, MC2R).
  • Member-at-Large, ACM SIG Governing Board Executive Committee, July 2008 to June 2010 (elected). 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. As Member-at-Large, I am serving as the Small SIG Advisor.
  • Chair and Executive Committee Member, ACM SIGMOBILE, The Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing, July 2005 to June 2009 (elected).
  • Member, ACM Distinguished Speakers Program Committee (formerly Distinguished Lectureship Program), November 2005 to January 2008. Oversees and organizes ACM's international Distinguished Speakers Program; reviewed and re-desiged entire program.
  • 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 University Service

  • Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, School of Engineering, Rice University. 2010-2011 academic year.
  • Member of the Marshals Committee, Rice University, since 2006. Commencement Security Marshal, 2001, 2003, and annually since 2006.
  • Chair of the Graduate Committee, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, 2003 to 2008.
  • Faculty Associate, Lovett College (undergraduate residential college), Rice University, 1990 to 1992 and since 2000. Named the Outstanding Faculty Associate, 2006-2007 academic year, and a Distinguished Faculty Associate, 2004-2005 academic year.
  • Member of the university Wireless Steering Committee, Rice University, 2000 to 2001.
  • Engineering Divisional Advisor, Lovett College (undergraduate residential college), Rice University, 1990 to 1992.
  • School of Computer Science representative to the Admissions Committee, Master of Science in Information Networking, Information Networking Institute (INI), Carnegie Mellon University, 1993 to 1998 and 2000. The MSIN degree at the time was a joint program of the Schools of Computer Science, Engineering, and Business.
  • Executive Committee Member, Information Networking Institute (INI), Carnegie Mellon University, 1999 to 2000.
  • Immigration Course (IC) Director, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998. The Immigration Course is a three-week orientation course at the beginning of the Fall semester, for all new Ph.D. students in the department.
  • Coordinator for the weekly Programming Systems Seminar series, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992 to 1994.

Selected Honors and Distinctions

Organizational Memberships


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

USENIX
ISOC
Sigma Xi
AAAS IETF