Nishu Gupta is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Information Technology at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Lucknow, India. He is also associated with the Institute of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics in Aveiro, Portugal, as an Integrated Researcher and collaborator in the Information Systems and Processing group.
Dr. Nishu Gupta is a Senior Member, IEEE. He was a Senior Scientist in the Future Communication Networks research group (https://www.eware6g.com/) at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., located in Oulu, Finland. He is the only Indian selected by VTT for the 2023 Fall call of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Before this position, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Smart Wireless Systems research group in the Department of Electronic Systems, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Gjøvik, Norway.
He has worked as a Research Associate in the Smart Living Lab, a joint project of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), the School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg (HEIA-FR), and the University of Fribourg (UniFR) in the Digitalization and Information Systems Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Information Technology at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia. He is also a visiting researcher at the University of Oviedo in Gijón, Spain, with the research group on Systems for Multimedia and the Internet of Things (SMIOT). He is a serving member of the Zero Trust Architecture working group of MeitY-C-DAC-STQC project under ‘e-Governance Standards and Guidelines’, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India. He is the winner of the International Travel Grant awarded by the journal ‘Electronics’, MDPI for the year 2022.
Before his current fellowship program, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department at the College of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India.
Dr. Nishu Gupta received his Ph.D. in 2016 from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, India, an Institute of National Importance as declared by the Government of India. He specializes in Computer Communication and Networking. His major work focuses on IoT-based enhanced safety applications in vehicular communication. He received his Master’s degree (M.Tech.) from Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India (formerly Delhi College of Engineering) and Bachelor’s degree (B.Tech.) from BBDNITM Lucknow, affiliated to U.P. Technical University, Lucknow, India.
Dr. Nishu is the recipient of the Best Paper Presentation Award at the 4th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has published 5 patents and more than 60 research articles in IEEE Transactions, SCI and Scopus-indexed journals. Dr. Gupta has supervised numerous Master's theses and Bachelor's projects in his main line of work. He has authored and edited several books with international publishers, including Taylor & Francis, Springer, Wiley, and Scrivener. Dr. Nishu is on the Editorial board of various internationally reputed Journals and Transactions. He serves as a reviewer for more than 20 SCI-indexed journals and Transactions, including IEEE Transactions on ITS, IEEE Access, and IET Communications. He was awarded twice for Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing by Elsevier.
Dr. Gupta has chaired several International Conferences and played a key role in successfully organizing various international events. He is serving as the Organizing Chair of the 7th EAI/Springer International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Cyber-Physical Systems (IC4S 2026), to be held later this year. He is in academic cum research collaboration with several academicians and researchers across the globe. He has served as Head of the ECE department and Chief Coordinator of the Institute Innovation Cell under MHRD-IIC, Govt. of India, at his previous organization, and has held many other key positions in the academic, administrative, and research fields.
His research interests include Vehicular Communication, 5G/6G Networks, AI & ML in Healthcare, Intelligent Transportation & Smart Cities, Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things, and Internet of Vehicles.
