Academic & Professional Activities
Professional Service
- Book Editor: Smart Technologies for Emergency Response & Disaster Management, IGI Global, 2016
- Editor: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE, 2019 to Present
- Editor: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE, 2022 to 2025
- Editor: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE, 2019 to 2022
- Editor: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE, 2017 to 2021
- Editor: IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE, 2016 to 2019
- Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE, 2024 to Present
- Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE, 2024 to Present
- Associate Editor: SN Computer Science, Springer, 2021 to Present
- Associate Editor: Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Old City Publishing, 2014 to Present
- Associate Editor: International Journal of Embedded Systems, Inderscience, 2014 to Present
- Associate Editor: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Springer, 2013 to 2019
- Leading Guest Editor: Sensors, Special Issue on Big Data Driven IoT for Smart Cities, MDPI, 2019
- Leading Guest Editor: ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, Special Issue on Deep Learning for Mobile Multimedia, ACM, 2016
- Guest Editor: Future Generation Computer Systems, Special Issue on Next-Generation Web 3.0 for Digitalized Industrial applications in the 5G/6G Era, Elsevier, 2024
- Guest Editor: Journal of Cloud Computing, Special Issue on Blockchain-enabled Decentralized Cloud/Edge Computing, Springer, 2023
- Guest Editor: Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Special Issue on Complex Problem Solving with Digital Technologies, Hindawi, 2022
- Guest Editor: Complexity, Special Issue on Complexity Problems Handled by Advanced Computer Simulation Technology in Smart Cities, Hindawi, 2021
- Guest Editor: Future Generation Computer Systems, Special Issue on Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical System in Smart City, Elsevier, 2020
- Guest Editor: Complexity, Special Issue on Complexity Problems Handled by Big Data Technology, Hindawi, 2018
- Guest Editor: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Special Issue on Big Data and Smart Computing in Network Systems, Springer, 2018
- Guest Editor: IEEE Access, Special Issue on Multimedia Analysis for Internet-of-Things, IEEE, 2018
- Guest Editor: International Journal of Information Management, Special Issue on Mobile Cloud-Assisted Paradigms for Management of Multimedia Big Data in Healthcare Systems, Elsevier, 2018
- Guest Editor: IEEE Network, Special Issue on Exploring Deep Learning for Efficient and Reliable Mobile Sensing, IEEE, 2018
- Guest Editor: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Special Issue on Theories and Applications of NB-IoT, IEEE, 2017
- Guest Editor: IET Communications, Special Issue on Advances in Enabling Technologies for Green Communications and Networking, Wiley, 2017
- Guest Editor: Future Generation Computer Systems, Special Issue on Towards Smarter Cities: Learning from Internet of Multimedia Things-Generated Big Data, Elsevier, 2017
- Guest Editor: Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Special Issue on Security and Privacy Protection of Social Networks in Big Data Era, Hindawi, 2017
- Guest Editor: Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Special Issue on Security and Privacy for Big Data Storage in the Cloud, Springer, 2016
- Guest Editor: International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Special Issue on Space Information Networks: Architectures, Technologies, and Application, Wiley, 2016
- Guest Editor: IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on Software Defined Vehicular Networks: Architectures, Algorithms and Applications, IEEE, 2016
- Guest Editor: IEEE Wireless Communications, Special Issue on Quality-of-Experience (QoE) and Quality-of-Protection (QoP) Provisions in Emerging Mobile Networks, IEEE, 2014
- Guest Editor: IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Special Section on Frontiers of Internet of Things, IEICE, 2013
Supervision
Professor Ota leads research supervision for Ph.D.and Masters students at Tohoku University and Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan.