Miscellaneous

Departmental Duties

• Since 2024, member of the directors of doctoral studies at the CSE department at Chalmers.
• [2020-2024] Director for the Master Program in Computer Systems and Networks (MPCSN)

Community Service

Conference Co-Chair

• ACM International conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS) 2025

Conference Program Committee Co-Chair

• ACM International conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS) – Research track 2022

Conference Program Committee Member

• ACM International conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS) – Research track 2025, 2023-2019, 2017-2015; Demos and Posters 2020.
• ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing 2026
• IEEE CCGrid 2026
• ICDE26
• ADBIS 2025
• ICDCS 2025/2024
• VLDB 2025/2024 (Distinguished Reviewer Award)
• ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference. Research track 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020
• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) – Dependable, Adaptive, and Trustworthy Distributed Systems track (DADS) 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019,  2018,  2017,  2016,  2015
• 5th International Workshop on Cloud, IoT and Fog Systems (and Security) — CIFS 2023
• International Workshop on Scalable Compute Continuum (WSCC 2024, 2023)
  Colocated with the 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023)
• 14TH International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (@ICDE2023)
• DAIS 2023 – 23nd International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
• ICDCS 2023 (Cloud Computing track)
• 14th International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (part of ICDE) 2023
• IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems – ACSOS 2021
• 20th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS) 2020
• International Workshop on Autonomic Solutions for Parallel and Distributed Data Stream Processing (Auto-DASP): 2021
• International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS) 2017
• International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies (EnERGY) 2017
• International Workshop on Autonomic High Performance Computing (AHPC) 2017
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2019, 2017
• International Workshop on Smart Sensor Networks & Applications (WSSNA) 2017
• International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN) 2017
• International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP) – International Workshop on FORmal methods for Security Engineering (ForSE) 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
• IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) – International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Cyber Security (BDA4CS) 2016
• EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good (GOODTECHS) – ICT4D: Information and communication technologies for persons with disabilities special session 2016
• Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) 2016, 2015
• International Conference ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (SEC) Advanced Intrusion Detection and Prevention Workshop (AIDP) 2014

Artifact Evaluation Chair

• EuroSys 2023

Steering Committee

• International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies (EnERGY) 2017

Grand Challenge Chair for the ACM International conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS) 2020,2019,2018,2017,2016

Grants Chair

• EuroSys 2020

Publication Chair

• Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) 2015

Publicity Chair

• 20th ACM/IFIP International Conference MIDDLEWARE 2019
• International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) 2014

Workshop Chair

• International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques (DisCoTec) 2016

Reviewer

• VLDBJ – Part of the review board
• Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems
• Elsevier Journal of Computer and System Sciences (2021/2020)
• Elsevier Vehicular Communications (2021)
• IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2017-2024)
• IEEE Access 2020, 2019
• International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2017)
• Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS) Journal 2016
• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) 2015
• ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA) 2014
• ACM Middleware 2014
• International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC) 2014
• IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2014
• IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 2013
• ACM International conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS) 2013

Other activities

• Reviewer for the internal proposals submitted to Chalmers’ Information and Communication Technology Area of Advance seed project call

Invited Talks:

From Cloud- to Edge-based Stream Processing. IMDEA Software Institute. Madrid. 2025
Efficient and Scalable Data Analysis Infrastructures to Support Data-driven Additive Manufacturing. Invited talk at the second workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Additive Manufacture – CAM2 (Chalmers) & MAPP (University of Sheffield, UK). 2022
Scalable and Elastic Online Data Analysis in Cloud and Edge Computing. Invited talk at the workshop: Artificial Intelligence in Additive Manufacture – CAM2 (Chalmers) & MAPP (University of Sheffield, UK). 2021
Scalable and Elastic Stream Processing in Cloud and Edge Computing. Invited talk at Outscale (France). 2021
Motivations and Challenges for Stream Processing in Edge Computing. Invited talk at Autonomic Solutions for Parallel and Distributed Data Stream Processing (Auto-DaSP 2021, ICPE Workshop). 2021
The Role of Event-Time Order in Data Streaming Analysis.  Tutorial at the 14th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS 2020). Video 1 Video 2 Slides/Code
The data streaming processing paradigm and its use in modern Fog architectures. Invited lecture at the University of Trieste, 2019. [Slides]
Data streaming in IoT and Big Data Analysis. Lecture for the PhD course held at Mälardalens högskola – MDH – 2017. [Slides]
The data streaming paradigm and its use in Fog architectures. EBSIS summer school (Sinaia) 2016. [Slides]
The benefits of fine-grained synchronization in deterministic and efficient stream processing. Yahoo! (Sunnyvale) 2015. [Slides]
An overview of Data Streaming and Stream Processing Engines. Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (INESC-ID). 2013 [Slides]

External Opponent / Evaluator:

• Artem Trofimov, Consistent Scalable Processing of Data Streams in a Distributed Environment. Constructor University. 2025
• Amal Tawakuli, Big Automotive Data: Providing a holistic data view and enabling edge analytics for high performance knowledge driven automotive applications. Université du Luxembourg. 2022
• Zainab Abbas, Scalable Streaming Graph and Time Series Analysis Using Partitioning and Machine Learning. KTH Royal Institute of Technology. 2021
• Víctor Rampérez Martín, A Technology-Agnostic Approach to Auto-Scale Services in Heterogeneous Clouds. Polytechnic University of Madrid. 2021

Internal PhD Committee:

• Backup Grading Committee member: Pirah Noor Soomro, Adaptive Scheduling of inference pipelines on multicore architectures. Chalmers University of Technology.
• Chairman of the PhD defense: Nasser Nowdehi, Automotive Communication Security Methods and Recommendations for Securing In-vehicle and V2X Communications. Chalmers University of Technology. 2020
• Backup Grading Committee member: Beshr Al Nahas, Synchronous and Concurrent Transmissions for Consensus in Low-Power Wireless. Chalmers University of Technology.