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  • Australia-India AICCTP collaborative project on Wireless Network Security

  • Speaker/Panelist, Asia Innovation Summit 2021 

  • Panelist, India Gaming Conclave, 2021

  • Quantum processing-related patent filings highlighted in Recent Corporate Annual Report 

  • Invited Speaker at Future ICT for Sustainable Cities Forum, 2020, Bangalore

  • Invited Speaker (youtube) on “5G, IoT, AI and Blockchain for Mobility” at the Mobi Colloquium, 2019.

  • Chair, IEEE Communications Society Bangalore Chapter, 2019 (Chapter Achievement Award for 2019 )

  • Keynote Talk (IEEE TV video) on "Exploring New Technologies and Directions for 5G and Future Networks and Systems”, (slides), 5G Technology and Standards Track, colocated with the India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2018 , New Delhi, Oct 2018.

  • Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications, 2009-2014.

  • Board of Advisors, ECE Dept at UC Davis, 2006-2014.

  • Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE 5G World Forum 2020/2019/2018.

  • Invited Speaker (Distributed Processing in 5G Networks), and Panelist at the IEEE 5G World Forum 2018, Santa Clara CA, USA

  • Hard Fork Interview with Shantanu Sharma (text, video)

  • TPC Member, IEEE Blockchain Conference 2018/2019/2020

  • TPC Member  IEEE Intl Conf on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2018/2019/2020

  • General CoChair, International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2019), IISc Bangalore, Jan 2019.

  • TPC CoChair, National Conference on Communications, IISc Bangalore, Feb 2019,     

  • Invited Talk at IISc Bangalore during NCC 2019 on “Distributed Smart Networks: A convergence of 5G, IoT, AI, and Blockchain”, 2019

  • Participant in the Vigyan Samagam (for physics students in India) LIGO Panel (2019).

  • IEEE ANTS 2019 Panel in Goa on "5G Challenges and Opportunities in India”

  • Keynote Talk, “Distributed Processing in 5G Data Networks”, IEEE ADCOM 2019, Bangalore

  • Co-Founded the NFV Research Group in the Internet Research Task Force at IETF in 2014 (https://www.zurich.ibm.com/pdf/dcperf14/DCPerf14-Krishnaswamy.pdf)

  • Invited talk on "Use Cases (5G/Edge Computing)" at IRTF/IETF NFV Research Group session on "Model-driven & AI-Enabled Inter-Cloud Optimization", 2018

  • Technical Program Chair, IEEE NFV-SDN Conference in Palo Alto 2016, California.

  • Executive Chair for IEEE Globecom 2015 in San Diego, CA.

  • Chair, IEEE Comsoc Emerging Technical Subcommittee on Applications of Nanotechnologies in Communications from 2009-2013.

  • Editor for the Journal of Nano Communication Networks from 2011-2016. 

  • Editor, IEEE JSAC, Molecular, Biological, and Multi-scale Communications Series 2012-2014.

  • Blockchain Academic Research Program lead for IBM India Research labs.

  • Co-chair for the IoT PIC (Professional Interest Community) at IBM Research. 

  • Chaired the committee for the annual Pat Goldberg IBM Research CS/EE/Math best paper competition (late 2014 to early 2018). 

  • Forbes-India Blog - Distributed Function Virtualization & National Knowledge Centers.

  • Keynote Speaker, Genesis Devcon Blockchain Summit https://theibc.events/, Bangalore, Nov 2019 (Interview News Article) 

  • Invited Speaker , Trescon World Blockchain Summit, https://india.worldblockchainsummit.com/ , Mumbai, June 2019 ( News article) 

  • TPC CoChair, IEEE WoWMoM 2017, IEEE ISCC 2017,

  • General CoChair, ICDCN 2015, ICDCN 2014, DCPerf 2014, ICACCI 2015

  • Wild Ideas Co-Chair and Committee Member, ACM Mobicom/Mobihoc 2010

  • 5G IoT M2M Service Layer Design - IEEE 5G IoT Summit, Bangalore, July 2016

  • IEEE 5G Summit (DFV for 5G) - Aalborg - July '16,

  • IEEE ICC (5G Architecture Panel, Young Professionals Panel) -  Kuala Lumpur - May '16,

  • CDoT (Shannon Day Event) - Bangalore - May '16, 

  • Invited Speaker, SDN-India Summit, CDAC Trivandrum, Jan 2015

  • IDRBT White Paper related to Blockchain Technology

  • Invited Talk on "Distributed Platforms, Technologies, and Services for Smart Cities" at The India Advantage (TIA) Summit, World Trade Center, Bangalore, September 2017

  • Invited Talk on "Cognitive and Cloud Solutions for Smart Ciities" at Vikasa Soudha, Bangalore, Oct 2017

  • Keynote speaker, Talk on "Searching for Gravitational Waves", ICACCI 2017

  • IIT Gandhinagar Invited Talk on "A Random sampling of Random research problems" 

  • Interviewed in IEEE Spectrum Jan 2011 Top 11 Technologies of the Decade (Smartphone as a Sixth Sense with user-aware analytics)

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