I am running for the position of ComSoc Members-At-Large 2023

 

https://www.comsoc.org/about/board-governors/nominations-elections/comsoc-board-governors-election#:~:text=Dusit%20Niyato,-Members%2Dat%2DLarge

 

 

The election has started on 25 May 2023 and if you have not already done so, I would like to encourage you to cast your vote soon.

 

 

The link to the vote is here: https://eballot4.votenet.com/IEEE

 

 

 

I would be honored to receive your vote and support, and I would also very much grateful if you would share this email with your friends & colleagues within ComSoc and encourage them to support me as well. Graduate students as ComSoc members are eligible to vote. In doing so, a gentle reminder is that IEEE policy does not allow distribution of election campaign messages to IEEE emailing lists and IEEE social networks.

 

 

In the past 15 years, I have had the privilege to serve ComSoc and its Members in various functions including as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, Steering Committee Chair, and Co-Chair of major conferences, and Member of the ComSoc Fellow Evaluation Committee. As a researcher and a volunteer, I can understand and emphatize existing and emerging challenges caused by new technological and professional movements. Therefore, I would like to use this experience to help build an even stronger and more inclusive ComSoc. In particular, I believe that conferences and publications are ComSoc’s keys to drive all technological developments and professional progression, and other activities. On the one hand, ComSoc publications are doing exceptionally well in terms of the quality and quantity of submissions. For example, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST), which I am serving as the Editor-in-Chief, has achieved a remarkable impact factor of 33, among the highest in IEEE journals. To ComSoc members, the major goals are to learn and make contributions of their works through ComSoc publications. Therefore, if elected, I would focus on improving existing and introducing new learning/training platforms. Social media and multimedia can be used as effective tools. Adoptions of promising technologies such as ChatGPT and AI content creation can also greatly benefit ComSoc members. Moreover, I would encourage and enhance the quality and timely publication review process through various mechanisms such as promoting and recognizing deligent reviewers and editors.

 

Meanwhile, I strongly believe that more effort and dedication would be needed to include further providing and opening venues for new and interprofessional, integrative, and collaborative research. I can see potentials of our ComSoc members' works that can be made broader and deeper impacts through other interdisplinary research. Thus, I would exert rich human and technological resources within and beyond IEEE to promote publication and technology transfer platform such as joint special issues and conferences among IEEE Socieities. Yet, we have seen significant changes in conference organizations such as online participations. Hence, I would put efforts to make the conferences more accessible and affordable by adopting new technologies such as virtual and immersive environments. If elected, I will continue to work hard to address these issues. Please find my position statement and biography below.

 

 

 

Thank you very much in advance for your support and trust.

 

 

 

Best wishes,

 

Dusit (Tao) Niyato

 

 

 

 

Position Statement:

 

I have been serving ComSoc and its members with great enthusiasm in a number of functions including as TPC chair of major conferences, Editor-in-Chief, Area Editor, Associate Editor, and ComSoc Fellow Evaluation Committee Member. I would be more than happy and honored to continue my service/volunteer work and help to support and build an even stronger and more inclusive ComSoc to be a better-connected platform for its members, individuals, and organizations across the world. If elected, I will dedicate my effort to:

 

             Provide additional venues for emerging and disruptive new technology initiatives (e.g. new conference tracks, special issues/sections, journals), and more importantly, encourage fast publication review processes as well as incorporate social media to disseminate technological and professional information for ComSoc members

             Improve the high-quality and impactful IEEE ComSoc technical events, conferences, and publications, and make them more accessible by encouraging open access, lowering fees and facilitating low-cost onsite and online participations

             Further improve industry involvement, support, and contributions to conferences, publications, committees, and boards (e.g., industry perspectives, technology panels, journal editors, and conference chairs)

             Promote diversity (including age, gender, and region) within ComSoc and open more training/volunteer opportunities for student members and young researchers and developers

             Open more opportunities for interdisciplinary researches and strengthen the bridges among ComSoc and other IEEE societies.

 

 

 

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Biography:

 

Dusit Niyato is currently a President's Chair Professor in Computer Science and Engineering in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received B.E. from King Mongkuk’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand in 1999 and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 2008. Dusit's research interests are in the areas of distributed collaborative machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), edge intelligent metaverse, mobile and distributed computing, and wireless networks. Dusit won the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Best Survey Paper Award, IEEE Asia-Pacific Board (APB) Outstanding Paper Award, the IEEE Computer Society Middle Career Researcher Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing in and Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award of IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing. Dusit also won a number of best paper awards including IEEE WCNC, ICC, and GLOBECOM. Currently, Dusit is serving as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, an area editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, associate editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Network, and ACM Computing Surveys. He was a guest editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society for 2016-2017. He has published 910+ papers on communication networks and received 60,000+ citations. He was named the 2017-2022 highly cited researcher in computer science. He is a Fellow of IEEE.