Dr. Zhao has served on the US National Science Foundation panels, as a conference organizer, as a tutorial instructor, and as a member of the technical program committee of numerous conferences/workshops, including the IEEE Smart World Congress, IEEE Smart IoT Conference, IEEE International Conference on Web Services, IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Services, the IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems. Dr. Zhao is currently serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and MDPI Computers, as an Academic Editor for PeerJ Computer Science, and on the editorial board of International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed Systems, Applied System Innovation (MDPI), International Journal of Performability Engineering (Rams Consultants), International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IGI Global).