• The University of New South Wales- Doctor of Philosophy.
• Monash University- Bachelor of Computing.
• Victoria University- Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education.

• Monash University
• The University of Sydney
• The University of New South Wales
• Victoria University

• Recipient of the Australian Awards for University Teaching: Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in the 2024, Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT).
• Recipient of the 2024 Dean's Award for Research Excellence.
• Special Achievement Award- For Organising the DroneSense-AI 2024 Workshop at SIN 2024.
• CSIRO ON Prime facilitator prize winner (CQU's IoE Research Team), November 2023.
• CSIRO ON Prime performance bonus award, CQU Smart IoT and Drones Team, 2022.
• Finalist, the Regional Universities Network (RUN) Learning and Teaching Awards 2023. 
• Recipient of the 2023 Vice Chancellor's Commendation for Outstanding Practice in Learning and Teaching.
• Recipient of the 2021 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Learning and Teaching.
• Recipient of "Student Voice Commendations" for COIT11238 and COIT20261 (2021).
• Recipient of the "Best Paper Award" at the IEEE MICC 2019 Conference, for the paper titled "AETD: An Application-Aware, Energy-Efficient Trajectory Design for Flying Base Stations".
• Recipient of "Highly Commended Paper Award" at the 28th International Telecommunications and Applications Conference 2018 (ITNAC), for the paper titled "Enabling Efficient and High Quality Zooming for Online Video Streaming using Edge Computing".
• Recipient of CQUniversity New Staff Research Grant, 2019.
• Recipient of the University of Sydney Bridging Support Grant, 2006-2007.

• Virtual lab bringing learning to life wins national award (AAUT Citation for Outstanding Contributions) (24 February 2025)
• AAUT awards announcement (Page 21 of booklet) (24 February 2025)
• Autonomous weed-targeting AI drones a sky-high success (EATP Project demo news) (24 February 2025)
• Cornell University Networking course blog post on Game Theory, Brinkmanship, and Wireless Carriers, mentioning my Game Theory paper (published September 18, 2022)
• Farming Ahead-  IoT-augmented drones to take war on weeds to the skies (15 February, 2023)
• Grain Central- CQU’s drones take war on weeds to the skies. (10 February, 2023)
• North Queensland Register-  CQU's drones take war on weeds to the skies (15 February, 2023)
• ABC Western Queensland AM Radio Rural Reports on our AI & drone assisted weed management project. (13 February, 2023)
• ABC North Queensland AM Radio Rural Reports (11 February, 2023)
• ABC Capricornia AM Radio Rural Reports (11 February, 2023)
• Queensland Country Life- CQU’s drones take war on weeds to the skies. (February 11 2023 )
• CQU’s IoT-augmented drones are taking war on weeds to the skies (CQUniNews, Feb 08, 2023) 
• Research project video on IoT-augmented drones for precision weed management
• Facebook’s lax security has left millions of users with a lot to worry about (The NewDaily, Mar 22, 2019)
• Drones could be recharged without disrupting their mission flight path (CQUniNews, October 11, 2019)
• Mid-air wireless charging could keep drones aloft indefinitely-CQU looks at drone-to-drone charging (iTnews, October 21, 2019)

Taught ICT/Computer Science subjects at the following Australian universities:

• Monash University
• University of New South Wales
• University of Sydney
• Victoria University
• Federation University

• Chair, DroneSense-AI 2025: The 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Networked Drone and Sensor Applications, in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2025, May 27-30, 2025, Fort Worth, Texas,  (LinkedIn post).
• Book Editor: IGI Global book "Intelligent Internet of Everything for Automated and Sustainable Farming" (forthcoming).
• Book Editor (Lead): Springer Nature book "Machine Learning for Drone-Enabled IoT Networks: Opportunities, Developments, and Trends"
  Opportunities, Developments, and Trends" (release date: May 2025). Amazon link.
• Technical Program Committee Member for International Conference on Wireless Communication, Sensing, and Computing 2025 (WCSC 2025).
• Tutorial presentation, "Next-Generation Sensing for Precision Agriculture: Tools and Techniques for the Modern Farm", ITNAC 2024, November 29, 2024, Sydney, Australia (LinkedIn post). 
• Chair, DroneSense-AI 2024: The 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Networked Drone and Sensor Applications, December 02, 2024 (CFP, LinkedIn post).
• Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (2024).
• PhD Thesis Examiner- Topic area: IoT Data Governance, University of South Australia (2024).
• N2WOMEN Co-Chair, IEEE WOWMOM 2024.
• Book Editor (Lead): IGI Global book "Applications of Machine Learning in UAV Networks".
• Area Editor, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal (Since 2021- ) (Q1, IF 4.8, Citescore 12.1).
• Guest Editor for Energies Special Issue on Energy Harvesting for Industry 4.0 in B5G (Q1, IF: 3.252, Citescore 5.0), 2023.
• Reviewer for Elsevier Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (2022).
• Reviewer for IEEE SECON 2022, IEEE ICC 2022, IEEE LCN 2022, ACSW 2022, IEEE ITNAC 2022, IEEE LCN 2023, IEEE LCN 2024. 
• Guest Editor for Drones Special Issue on Drone Computing Enabling IoE (Q1, IF: 5.532, Citescore 7.2), 2022.
• Technical Program Committee Member for ACN 2023.
• Technical Program Committee Member for CoCoNet 2023.
• Technical Program Committee Member for IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN): LCN 2021, LCN 2022, LCN 2023, LCN 2024.
• Technical Program Committee Member for Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) 2022.
• Technical Program Committee Member for International conference on connected systems and intelligence (CSI), 2022.
• Technical Program Committee Member & Reviewer for COMSNETS 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
• PhD Thesis Examiner- Topic area: Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks, Curtin University (2021).
• Steering Committee Member for International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) (since 2021).
• Technical Program Committee Member for International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) since 2021.
• Session Chair at IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Nevada (Online mode), 2021.
• Reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine (2021).
• Reviewer for Elsevier Pattern Recognition (2021).
• Reviewer for Digital Communications and Networks (2021).
• Reviewer for Elsevier Computer Communications (2021).
• Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2021
• Lead Guest Editor for Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal Special Issue on Trends and Challenges in Energy-Efficient UAV Networks (IF: 3.643 ), 2021
• Chair for Women in Technology Workshop at 30^th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) 2020
• PhD Thesis Examiner- Topic area: Performance management of UAV Networks, University of Wollongong (2020)
• Technical Program Committee Member for IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN) 2020
• Technical Program Committee Member for 30^th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) 2020
• Reviewer for IEEE Local Computer Networks Conference (LCN) 2020
• Reviewer for International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) 2020
• Reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine (2020)
• Reviewer for IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM) 2020
• Reviewer for Wiley Engineering Reports Open access journal (2020)
• Reviewer for MDPI Applied Sciences Journal (2020)
• Reviewer for MDPI Journal on Internet of Things (2020)
• Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (2019)
• Reviewer for Elsevier Computer Communications (2019)
• Technical Program Committee Member and Reviewer for International Telecommunication Network and Applications Conference (ITNAC), 27-29 November, 2019, Auckland, New Zealand
• Technical Program Committee Member and Reviewer for International Telecommunication Network and Applications Conference (ITNAC), 21-23 November, 2018, Sydney, Australia
• "Women in Technology" track co-chair for 6th IEEE CSDE, 9-11 December, 2019, Melbourne, Australia
• Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on “Traffic management for mobile broadband networks”, 49(10): 90-100 (2011)
• Guest Editor for IEEE Network Special Issue on "Improving quality of experience for network services", 24(2):4-6 (2010)
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC), 7-10 April, 2013, Shanghai, China
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), 9-13 June, 2013, Budapest, Hungary
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC), 9-12 September, 2012, Sydney Australia
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), 10-15 June, 2012, Ottawa, Canada
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications(IEEE ICNC), 30 January-2 February, 2012, Hawaii, USA
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC), 28-31 March, 2011, Cancun, Mexico
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE Globecom), 6-10 December, 2010, Miami, USA
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC), 18-21 April, 2010, Sydney, Australia
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE 2nd International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), 7-9 May, 2008, Santorini, Greece
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), 24-28 June 2007, Glasgow, Scotland
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE 2nd International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), 5-7 February, 2007 San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 15-18 October 2007, Clontarf Castle, Dublin, Ireland
• Technical Program Committee member and Reviewer for IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), November, 2006, Tampa, Florida, USA

• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)- Senior Member (since April 2019)
• Australian Computer Society (ACS)- Member and Certified Professional (ACS CP), IP3P

• Discipline Lead – ICT Foundations (UG & PG combined), College of ICT.
• Member- Curriculum Committee
• Member- Academic Board

• Lead Editor for IGI Global book "Applications of Machine Learning in UAV Networks".
• Lead Editor for Springer Nature book "Machine Learning for Drone-Enabled IoT Networks: Opportunities, Developments, and Trends".
• Book Editor for IGI Global book "Intelligent Internet of Everything for Automated and Sustainable Farming".
• Guest Editor for Energies Special Issue on Energy Harvesting for Industry 4.0 in B5G (Q1, IF: 3.252, Citescore 5.0), 2023.
• Guest Editor for Drones Special Issue on Drone Computing Enabling IoE (Q1, IF: 5.532, Citescore 7.2), 2022.
• Area Editor for Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks (2021-present).
• Lead Guest Editor for Special issue on "Trends and Challenges in Energy-Efficient UAV Networks", Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, 2021. (CFP)
• Guest Editor for Special issue on “Traffic management for mobile broadband networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2011 .
• Managing Guest Editor for Special issue on “Improving quality of experience for network services”, IEEE Network, 2010.