Dr. Nishu Gupta is a Senior Member, IEEE. He is a Research Scientist at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, located in Oulu, Finland. He is the only Indian to be selected at VTT for the 2023 Fall call for 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, Department of Electronic Systems, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Gjøvik, Norway.

He has worked as Research Associate in the Smart Living Lab, a joint project of The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg (HEIA-FR), and 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, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University in Rabigh, Saudi Arabia. He is also a visiting researcher at the University of Oviedo, Gijón, Spain under the research group on Systems for Multimedia and the Internet of Things (SMIOT). He served as a Member, 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 Electronics, MDPI 2022 Travel Award.

Before his current fellowship program, he has served as an Assistant Professor in the Electronics and Communication Engineering department at College of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India.

Dr. Nishu Gupta received his Ph.D. degree in 2016 from the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, MNNIT Allahabad, Prayagraj, India which is an Institute of National Importance as declared by the Government of India. He is specialized in the field of Computer Communication and Networking. His major work is in the area of 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 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 theses at Master level and projects at Bachelor level in his main line of work. He has authored and edited several books with international publishers like Taylor & Francis, Springer, Wiley and Scrivener. Dr. Nishu is on the Editorial board of various Internationally reputed Journals and Transactions. He serves as reviewer of more than twenty SCI indexed Journals and Transactions such as IEEE Transactions on ITS, IEEE Access, IET Communications, etc. 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 5th EAI/Springer International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical Systems (IC4S 2024) to be held next month. He is in academic cum research collaboration with several academicians and researchers across the globe. He has served as Head of ECE department; Chief Coordinator of Institute Innovation Cell, under MHRD-IIC, Govt. of India at his previous organization, besides holding many other key positions in the academic, administration and research fields.

His research interest includes Vehicular Communication, Multi-access Edge Computing, Autonomous Vehicles, Intelligent Transportation, Smart Cities, Security in Sensor Networks and Internet of Things, and Internet of Vehicles.