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 is currently the editor-in-chief for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and sits on the editorial boards of Journal of the ACM and IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications. He also leads IFIP Working Group 7.3 focused on computer performance measurement, modeling, and analysis.  He has also been a member of several other editorial boards, including those for IEEE Transactions on Communications and Performance Evaluation.