Events Council

The Events Council’s scope of activities is focused on ICST events including scientific, business-to-business and engineering-for-innovation symposia, workshops, symposia, summits, etc. 

The Events Council monitors and mentors the generation and organizational development of ICST events and provides recommendations in:

• Recognizing nascent and emerging technological areas that could benefit from new ICST events;
• Monitoring the overall growth, quality and future planning of ICST events;
• Identifying methods for improving conference organizing procedures for ICST events; 
• Providing recommendations and approving proposals for organizing committee positions, dates, locations, technical sponsorships and other relevant issues of ICST events;
• Setting the rules and regulations that ensure the democratic nature and processes of research promotion mechanisms within the realm of ICST events, and; 
• Moderating the operation of such mechanisms through the related sections of the ICST Agora platform. 

Brian J. Bigalke - Vice Chair

Vice Chair, Events Council, ICST. Director - SIB Program Development, European Alliance for Innovation (EAI).

Brian J. Bigalke has over 30 years experience working within the professional non-profit sector developing the strategic, operational, financial and technical components of international meetings and conferences in concert with industry specific, worldwide volunteer leadership communities.

Formerly with the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA) as Director of Meetings and Conferences; and the IEEE Communications Society as Department Head, Meetings and Conferences, Brian’s expertise includes a comprehensive business development, management and entrepreneurial approach covering conference content and revenue strategies for high-quality, cost-effective programs and related products in keeping with member needs and professional service requirements of high performance team environments.

Brian earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Industrial Business Psychology from Michigan State University prior to his career launch. He received numerous organizational service, professional achievement and leadership awards and an Emmy nomination (1992) as Production Designer for MTV’s “The Real World.”

Krishna M. Sivalingam - Vice Chair

Department of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, Chennai, INDIA

Krishna M. Sivalingam is a Professor in the Department of CSE, IIT Madras, Chennai, INDIA. Previously, he has held faculty positions in the Department of CSEE at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA from 2002 until 2007; the School of EECS at Washington State University, Pullman from 1997 until 2002; and the University of North Carolina Greensboro from 1994 until 1997. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994 and 1990 respectively; and his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 1988 from Anna University’s College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai (Madras), India. His research interests include wireless networks, optical wavelength division multiplexed networks, network security and performance evaluation.

He is serving or has served as a member of the Editorial Board for ACM Wireless Networks Journal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking Journal, International Journal of Security and Networks, Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks Journal, International Journal of Vehicular Technology, and KICS Journal of Communications and Networks. His homepage is at www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~skrishnam.

Jun Zheng

Southeast University Jun Zheng is a Full Professor with the School of Information Science and Engineering of the Southeast University (SEU), China. He received his Ph. D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Hong Kong, China. Before joining SEU, he was with the School of Information Technology and Engineering of the University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Zheng serves as an Associate Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, an Associate Editor of IEEE/OSA Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, an Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an editorial board member of several other refereed journals. He has guest-edited eight special issues for different refereed journals and magazines, including IEEE JSAC and IEEE Network, all as Lead Guest Editor. He has served as General Chair of AccessNets’07 and AdHocNets’09, and TPC or Symposium Co-Chair of several international conferences and symposia, including ICC’09 and GLOBECOM’10 Optical Networks and Systems Symposiums. He has also served on the TPCs of a number of international conferences and symposia. Dr. Zheng’s research interests include the design and analysis of network architectures and protocols for efficient and reliable communications, and their applications to different types of communication networks, covering optical networks, wireless networks, and IP networks. His current research interests focus on broadband access networks, and wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. He has co-authored (first author) the book Optical WDM Networks: Concepts and Design Principles (Wiley-IEEE Press) and has published a number of technical papers in refereed journals and magazines, and peer-reviewed conference proceedings.

Ling Liu

Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Ling Liu is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. There she directs the research programs in the Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL), examining performance, security, privacy, and data management issues in network centric computing systems, ranging from decentralized overlay networks, mobile network computing systems and location based services, sensor networks and data and event stream processing, to service oriented computing and network architectures and technologies. She has published over 200 international journal and conference articles in the areas of distributed systems, Internet Computing and Internet data management, databases and data mining, data privacy, security in network computing and systems. She has chaired a number of conferences as a general chair, a PC chair, or vice PC chair, including IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2004, ICDE 2006, ICDE 2007), IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS 2006), IEEE/ICST/CreateNet International Conference on Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2005, 2006), IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2004), ACM International Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2000). Dr. Liu is currently on the editorial board of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, International Journal of Very Large Database systems (VLDBJ), International Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer), International Journal of Web Services Research, Wireless Network Journal (WINET). Dr. Liu is a recipient of the best paper award of ICDCS 2003, and the best paper award of WWW 2004, a recipient of 2005 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award, and a recipient of IBM faculty award in 2003 and 2006. Dr. Liu's research is primarily sponsored by NSF, DARPA, DoE, and IBM.

Prithwish Basu

Prithwish Basu is a Scientist in the Network Research group at BBN. He is the research lead at BBN on the DARPA DTN project and a lead researcher on the CTA and ITA projects funded by the Army Research Lab.
His current research interests include theoretical as well as practical aspects of disruption tolerant networking, and energy efficient routing and synchronization in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Prithwish received a BTech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi (India), and MS (1999) and PhD (2003) degrees in Computer Engineering from Boston University. Prithwish has co-authored several conference and journal articles, and two invited book chapters, and has two patents pending. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM, and Sigma Xi, and has served/is serving on technical program committees and organizing committees of several networking conferences. He is currently the TPC co-chair for BodyNets 2007 and a TPC member for ACM CHANTS 2007 and IEEE Globecomm 2007. Prithwish was recently named on MIT Technology Review's list of "Top Innovators under 35" in 2006.

Tuna Tugcu

Tuna Tugcu is an assistant professor in the Dept. of Computer Engineering at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Previously, he worked as a visiting professor at Georgia Institute of Technology for two years and as a post-doctoral fellow for 18 months in the Broadband and Wireless Networking Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University in 2001, M.S. degree in Computer and Information Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1994, and B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University in 1993.

His research interests include computer networks with the emphasis on wireless communication systems and real-time systems. He is currently focused on Next Generation Wireless Systems, WiMAX, location estimation in cellular systems, vehicular mobility modeling, and wireless sensor networks.

He serves as the general co-chair of MobilWare 2008 to be held in Innsbruck, Austria, during February 2008. He also serves on the editorial board of Elsevier Computer Networks Journal. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

He worked as a consultant for Alcatel-Teletas during 1998-2000, and as the CTO for MiQoS Inc., Atlanta, during 2001-2002.