Towsley currently serves as editor-in-chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and on the editorial boards of Journal of the ACM and IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications. He is currently the chair of the IFIP Working Group 7.3 on computer performance measurement, modeling, and analysis. He has also served on numerous editorial boards, including those of IEEE Transactions on Communications and Performance Evaluation.
Towsley currently holds the position of editor-in-chief for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and is a member of the editorial boards for Journal of the ACM and IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications. He also chairs IFIP Working Group 7.3 on computer performance measurement, modeling, and analysis.  He has also served on numerous editorial boards, including those of IEEE Transactions on Communications and Performance Evaluation.