Professional Activity

2024

Co, Chair, Local Organizing Committee, Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy.

2022

Challenge Evaluation Committee, Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN), New America.
Merit Reviewer, Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program, National Telecommunication and Information Administration.
Scientific Committee, Computer Applications & Technological Solutions (CATS) 2022.

2021

STEM Pathways Adviser, Smithsonian Lemelson Center.
Ambassador, Island Innovation.
Member, People's Academy for Community Engagement program, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods & Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle.
Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Computing Education.
Advisory Board, Intelligent Automation Network.
Co-Chair, Seattle Human Rights Commission (HRC).
Board Member, Seattle Community Technology Advisory Board.

2020

Co-Chair, Nominations and Opportunities Committee, Global Young Academy.
Co-Chair, Seattle Human Rights Commission (HRC).
Board Member, Seattle Community Technology Advisory Board.
Judge, Entrepreneurship World Cup.
Co-Founder, The Human Collaborative.
Co-Founder, Black In Computing.
Co-Founder, Black in Engineering.
Organizing Team, Ethics4NextGen AI Summit.
Board of Advisors, Citizens for Citizens.
Member, COVID-19 Rapid Response Task Force, Federation of American Scientists.
Volunteer, Biden-Harris Science Policy Committee.
Volunteer, Biden-Harris Health Policy Committee.
Board Member, World Without Hate.
Tukwila Community Organizer, Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Partner, Truman National Security Project.
Member, Forbes Technology Council.
Advisory Committee Member, Computer Information Systems Advisory Program. University of Technology, Jamaica.
Member, Black Women Talk Tech, Seattle Chapter.
Ambassador, Make It Count.
Program Committee, IFIP WG 11.11 international Conference on Trust Management, June 29 - July 1, 2020, TEl-Aviv, Israel.

2019

Co-Chair, GYA (Global Young Academy) Incubator on “Industry 4.0 & beyond”.
Judge, The Opportunity Project, US Census Bureau.
Judge, Growth Accelerator Fund Competition, US Small Business Administration.
Judge, InnoStars Competition.
External Evaluator, Tech Done Right National Challenge, Kapor Center.
External Reviewer, AnitaB.org Women's Pitch Competition.
Member, Global Young Academy (May 2019-May 2024).
Commissioner, Seattle Human Rights Commission (HRC).
Judge, CES Asia Innovation Awards.
Judge, 2019 GIST (Global Innovation through Science and Technology) Tech-I Competition.
Fellow Advisor, Eisenhower Fellowship Global Program.
Privacy and CyberSecurity Committee. Community Technology Advisory Board (CTAB), City of Seattle.
Smart City and Community Innovation Committee. Community Technology Advisory Board (CTAB), City of Seattle.
SIGCHI Inclusion Innovator, Diversity & Inclusion Events and Activities.
Mentor, Faster Capital.
General Co-Chair, 13th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference on Trust Management. July 17-19, 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Review Panelist, 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
Strategic Board of Advisors, Potencity.
Board of Advisors, QualityWorks.
Mentor, Chinaccelerator.
Reviewer, HIMSS2019.
Judge, CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Innovation Awards - Smart Cities.
Judge, SC Awards 2019.

2018

Commissioner, Seattle Human Rights Commission (HRC).
Co-Chair, Race and Gender Equity Task Force, City of Seattle HRC.
Volunteer, ION cohort 3, Washington Technology Industry Association.
Chair, Advisory Board. Innovative Data Mining & Advanced Analytics Partners (IDMAPS), Inc.
Member, Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Automation (AiiA) Practitioner Advisory Board.
Reviewer, Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal.
Distinguished Advisory Board, Seattle CIO Summit.
Executive Steering Committee, CIO Visions.
Smart City and Community Innovation Committee. Community Technology Advisory Board (CTAB), City of Seattle.
Judge, SC Awards.
Judge, CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Innovation Awards - Software and Mobile Apps.
Program Committee, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2018.

2017

Senior Advisor, The National Center for Opportunity Engineering & Analysis.
Member, UW (University of Washington) Medicine Research Information Technology Oversight Committee.
Board Director, Operation Code.
BIG Mentor, Digital Undivided.
Board Member, InnovatorsBox.
Board Member & Team Captain, Presidential Innovation Fellowship (PIF) Foundation 2017-19.
Mentor, Tech Jobs Tour.
Reviewer - Scholarship Applications, 2017 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference.
Judge, CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Innovation Awards - Eco-Design and Sustainable Technologies.
Senior Advisor, National Laboratory for Education Transformation.
Science Advisor, Golden Griffin Society. JCOBA-NY.
Program Committee, The 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2017).

2016

Member, National Information and Communications Technology Advisory Council - The Country of Jamaica, 2016-18.
Judge, API:World Hackathon.
Reviewer, Regional Innovation Strategies Program (RIS) – US Economic Development Administration.
Judge, 2016 US SBA (Small Business Administration) Growth Accelerator Fund Competition.
Program Committee, The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Internet of People, July 18-21, 2016, Toulouse, France.
Social Media Ambassador, The Aspen Institute Symposium on the State of Race 2016.
Member, Department of Commerce Technology Review Board.
Board Member, Open Data Nation.
Advisor, NovitaCare.
Program Committee, The 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing. June 27 - July 2, 2016. San Francisco, USA
Member, YAFCEA Bethesda Chapter Government Advisory Council
Member, USENIX Security 2016 invited talks committee.
Member, 2016 NextGen Summit Advisory board.
Guest Editor, IEEE Security and Privacy. Special Issue on the Interconnected Web Ecosystem.
Chair, Advisory Board, Leadership and Innovation Network in Commerce, US Department of Commerce 2015-16.
Program Committee, The 3rd Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference (MISNC) 2016.
Member, 2016 Tapia Scholarship Committee.
Ambassador, CiviCRM.

2015

Coach, Startup Weekend DC Flip The Ratio. September 25 - 27, 2015.
Poster Judge, The Symposium of Health Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Reviewer, Regional Innovation Strategies Program, Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Economic Development Administration.
Proposal Judge, The U.S. Small Business Administration Startup In A Day Competition.
Guest Editor, IEEE Software. Special Issue on Web Security and Privacy on the Web.
Program Board Member, The 3rd International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust.
Program Committee, The 29th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec) 2015.
Program Committee, IEEE 5th International Workshop on Security and Privacy Engineering (SPE2015).
Program Committee, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics.
Reviewer, ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.
Workshop Chair, Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP 2015) at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2015.

2014

Guest Editor, IEEE Internet Computing. Special Issue on Web Security and Privacy in Web 2.0. Nov/Dec 2014.
Chair, The First International Workshop on Privacy and Security in Programming (PSP 2014).
Chair, The First IEEE International Workshop on Big Data Security and Privacy (BDSP 2014).
Chair, Diversity in Privacy and Security Series (DiPaSS).
Program Chair, Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP) 2014 at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2014.
Committee Member, Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC).
Program Committee, The 2014 Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference (MISNC).
Program Committee, The 6th International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS 2014).
Program Committee, The 2014 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2014).
Program Committee, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Big Data.
Program Committee, Industry Track, The 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2014.
Program Committee, The 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining.
Program Committee, The 7th Annual Conference on Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technologies (CGAT) 2014.
Program Committee, New Trends in Trust Computational Models (NTTCM) 2014.
Guest Editor, School of Computing and Information Technology - Journal of Information Systems and Management (SCIT-JISM).
Program Committee, First International Conference on Information Systems.
Program Committee, The IEEE 2014 8th International Symposium on Scientific Workflows and Big Data Science (SWF 2014).

2013

Technical Advisory Group, Southern Oregon Regional Economic Development Inc (SOREDI)
Advisory Council, The Greatest Pitch
Graduate Program Advisor, T he University of Technology, Jamaica.
Adjunct Professor, School of Computing & information Technology, University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica.
Course Advisor, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Research/Industry Chair, The Third International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology (BUSTECH) 2013
Working Group, ISO Joint Technical Committee (JTC) SC 27 (IT Security Techniques)
Program Committee, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2013).
Program Committee, 2013 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES).
Program Committee, 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2013).
Program Committee, The 3rd International Workshop on Issues and Challenges in Social Computing (WICSOC), 2013.
Program Committee, 10th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM 2013).
Program Committee, IEEE 2013 Third International Workshop on Security and Privacy Engineering (SPE2013).
Program Committee, The 6th Annual Conference on Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technologies (CGAT) 2013.
Reviewer, The 8th International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE) 2013.
Committee, W illiam Winsborough Commemorative Award 2013.
Reviewer, International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI).

2012

Reviewer, Journal of Medical Internet Research
Program Committe, Workshop on Trust in Social Networks (WTSON2012)
Scientific Advisory Board, World Congress of Cloud Computing-2012 (CloudCon-2012), Dalian, China.
Editorial Board, Journal of Convergence: Security and Trust
Program Committee, The 2nd Workshop on Issues and Challenges in Social Computing (WICSOC 2012)
Program Committee, The 9th edition of the Secure Data Management workshop
Program Committee, The 2nd International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology
Program Committee, IEEE 2012 Services Workshop on Security and Privacy Engineering (SPE2012)
Program Committee, The joint 5th Secure Knowledge Management Workshop (SKM 2012) and 7th Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA 2012)
Program Committee, The Sixteenth IEEE International Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC) 2012
Program Committee, The 2012 International Workshop on Social Computing, Network, and Services (SocialComNet 2012)
Reviewer, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2012
Program Committee, 2012 ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2012).

2011

Reviewer, IBM Journal of Research and Development
Reviewer, Journal of Security and Communication Networks
Industry Chair, The First International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology (BUSTECH), 2011.
Tutorial Committee, The 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2011.
Program Committee, Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Congress 2011.
Program Committee, First International Workshop on Trust and Reputation in Distributed and Multi-agent Systems 2011.
PhD Examiner, Rutgers University.
Program Committee, International Conference on Social Computing and Applications (SCA) 2011.
Program Committee, 1st International Workshop on Issues and Challenges in Social Computing (WICSOC 2011).
Reviewer, IEEE Computer.
Reviewer, The XXIII International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE), August 2011.
Program Committee, First International Conference on Massive Information Sharing and Integration (MISI), August 2011.
Program Committee, The 27th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2011.
Reviewer, Journal of Internet Services and Applications, 2011.
Program Committee, 4th International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in Information Society (PAIS) 2011.
Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Social Computing and Behavioral Modeling (SocialComp) 2011
Program Committee, Fifteenth IEEE International Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC) 2011.

2010

Reviewer, HIMSS Asia10 HIT Congress.
Membership Committee, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2010-2011.
Working Group Steering Committee, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2010-2011.
Editorial Board, International Journal of Computer Applications.
Tutorial Committee, The 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2010.
Program Committee, The 1st ACM International Conference on Health Informatics (IHI) 2010.
Program Committee, The International Conference on Advances in Social network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) 2010.
Program Committee, The 14th IEEE Enterprise Computing Conference (EDOC) 2010.
Program Committee, The 3rd International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS) 2010.
Program Committee, The 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2010.
Program Committee, The 7th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM) 2010.
Technical Program Committee, The Workshop on Secure Knowledge Management (SKM) 2010.
Program Committee, Workshop on Privacy on the Web, The 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.

2009

Privacy and Security Steering Committee (2009-2011), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
Program Committee, 2009 AoT Security and Privacy Symposium
Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF), Directorate of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS).
Program Committee, The Secure Data Management (SDM) 2009 workshop.
Program Committee, The IEEE International on Social Computing (SocialCom-09).
Program Committee, The International Workshop on Context-Awareness Trust and Web 2.0 Trust.
Program Committee, The First International ACM Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity for Very Large Datasets.
Program Committee, The International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining.
Program Committee, The 2nd International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS).
Program Committee, The 12th IEEE International Enterprise Computing Conference Conference (EDOC) .

2008

Reviewer, Journal of Computer Security
Program Committee, Third Workshop on Secure Knowledge Management (SKM) 2008.
Program Committee, Workshop on Combining Context with Trust, Privacy and Security (CAT08), co-located with iTrust/PST (IFIPTM) conference.
Program Committee, The 5th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM) 2008.
Program Committee, The 12th IEEE International Enterprise Computing Conference Conference (EDOC) 2008.
Program Committee, International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity in the Information Society (PAIS) 2008.

2007

Program Committee, International Workshop on Privacy and Trust on the Web 2007.
Program Committee, 1st International Workshop on Model-Based Trustworthy Health Information Systems (MOTHIS) 2007.
Program Committee, The First ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD'07).
Program Committee, 2nd International Workshop Dependability Aspects on Data Warehousing and Mining applications.
Program Committee, 4th VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management - with special session on security and privacy in healthcare
Program Committee, IBM (Academy of Technology) Security & Privacy Symposium.
Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF), CyberTrust.
Reviewer, Communications of the ACM.
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
Reviewer, Journal of Systems and Software.

2006

Program Committee, Database Applications (DBA), IASTED.
Program Committee, Dependability Aspects on Data Warehousing and Mining Applications (DAWAM).
Program Committee, Secure Data Management(SDM).
Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Belief Reasoning (IWBR2006).
Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering
Member of panel reviewing proposals, National scien Foundation.
Program Committee, IBM Academy of Technology Symposium on Security and Privacy
Reviewer, Transactions on Internet Research
Reviewer, IEEE International Conference On Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC)
Reviewer, ACM SIGMOD
Reviewer, Encyclopedia of Database Technologies and Applications.