Leadership
- Department Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Toledo, 2021-present: department enrollment, scholarship and ranking enhancement, curriculum improvement, fundraising, human resource development. The department has about 700 undergraduate, Master’s and PhD students majoring in CS, CSE, and/or EE on 2 campuses. The department created a new program of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science after Dr. Cheng’s first year of service (2021-2022), and turned a multi-year enrollment decline around to an enrollment increase after his second year of service (2022-2023). The department has doubled its research expenditure and received significant donations supporting scholarship and education such as an endowed professorship and a new Senior Design lab since 2021.
- Faculty Senator, Lehigh University, 2018-2021: Faculty Affairs Subcommittee, leadership in updating Rules and Procedures of the Faculty with new categories of faculty (e.g. Research Faculty and Teaching Faculty) added with their rights and responsibilities for equity and long-term growth of the university
- Faculty Tri-Chair and Member at Large, Council for Equity and Community, Lehigh University, 2016-2020: leadership in updating the Bylaws of the Council for Equity and Community to include the representation of Professor of Practice and achieve more diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Council and the university
- Leadership Council Member, Institute of Cyber-Physical Infrastructure and Energy, Lehigh University, 2017-2021
- Program Co-Chair, The 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2019)
- Special Session Co-Chair, The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom-2019)
- Co-Chair, BIoT 2018: The 1st International Workshop on Blockchain for the Internet of Things
- Program Co-Chair, The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2016)
- Local Chair (received Best Service Award), The 11th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2014)
- Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing, 2014
- Co-Chair, Student Travel Grants Committee, The 28th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2009)
- Program Chair, 2005 IEEE Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications
- Student Paper Contest Chair, IEEE Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications, 2004
Knowledge Transfer to Local Communities
- Group members gave a talk at the Sleek Academy, April 2023.
- Talk at the Aerospace and Natural Science Academy of Toledo (ANSAT), October 2022
- Talk at the Drone Academy, November 2022
- Drone club for middle- and high-school students at the research lab of CHENGS group, Spring 2023
Board Membership
- Advisory Board Member, Allegheny Region Cleantech University Prize Collegiate Competition, 2015
- Advisory Board Member, Computer Science Department, Kutztown University, 2014-2021
- Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2007-2014
- Editorial Board Member, Cyber-Physical Systems, 2020-2023
Proposal Panelist/Reviewer
- Served on proposal review panels for multiple NSF (National Science Foundation) programs, an NSF-sponsored GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations) program, and an NIH (National Institute of Health) program.
- Expert Reviewer for DOE (Department of Energy), ACS (American Chemical Society), NRI (Nebraska Research Initiative), Swedish Knowledge Foundation, Austrian Science Fund, and Singapore’s Land Transport Authority
Panelist and Judge
- Judge, Pitch & Pour Competition, The University of Toledo Business Incubator, 2022, 2023
- Panelist (Network Processor), 2005 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing, Hong Kong, May 2005
- Panelist (Wireless Sensor Networks), The Fourth ECCMA (Electronic Commerce Code Management Association) Annual Conference, Bethlehem, October 2003
Conference and Workshop TPC Membership
- BLOCKCHAIN’19: The First International Congress on Blockchain and Applications
- DLoT 2018: The First International Workshop on Distributed Ledger of Things
- BlockSys 2018: ACM SENSYS Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems
- ICCPS 2018: The 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
- 2017 IEEE WCNC Workshop on M2M Communications and the Internet of Things
- INFOCOM: The Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2007-Present
- International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium (ICNC 2012)
- The International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications (Mobilware 2011, 2010)
- International Workshop on Wireless Networking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, 2010-present
- International Workshop on Sensor Networks (SN 2009, 2010)
- The Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2009 (ISWCS 2009)
- The International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications (Mobilware 2008, 2009)
- 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2008), TPC member for the MAC & Cross-Layer Design Track
- The 51th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2008), TPC member for The Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium
- International Conference on Sensor Networks (SN 2008)
- The Fifth IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2008), TPC member
- The 50th IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2007), TPC member for The Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium and The Communications Software and Services Symposium
- 2007 IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2007 Fall)
- The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007)
- 2006 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS 2006), TPC member
- 2006 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), TPC member
- IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control (ICNSC 2004, 2005, 2006)
- The 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004)
- VTC 2003 – Integrated Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
- IEEE Computer Communications Workshop 2003
- IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
- IEEE Fifth International Workshop on Networked Appliances
Other Services
- Data Science Advisory Committee member, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Toledo, 2023-present
- Executive Committee Member, IEEE Toledo Section, 2022-present
- Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Special Section on Data-driven Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart Cities, 2019-2020
- Co-Director, Graduate Studies, Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Fall 2018
- Guest Editor, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, 2011-2012
- Session Chair at conferences, e.g. a recent one for 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling Symposium
- Reviewer for ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics, etc.