Co-Principal Investigator in a Sponsored Project entitled “Secure Message Dissemination in Cognitive Vehicular Cloud Network for Improved Road Safety” granted by Council of Science and Technology, Lucknow, Government of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Interested Research Areas: Vehicular Communication, Intelligent Transportation, Smart Cities, Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Cellular IoT, NB-IoT, 5G/6G Networks, V2X, 3GPP, O-RAN, E2E connectivity, EDGE Computing.

Research Recognition

1. Recipient of the "ALAIN BENSOUSSAN" ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) Postdoctoral Fellowship for the year 2024-25 for  Fellowship at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Oulu, Finland.

2. Winner of the 2022 Travel Grant awarded by Electronics, MDPI.

3. Recipient of the "ALAIN BENSOUSSAN" ERCIM Postdoctoral Fellowship for the year 2022-23 for Fellowship at NTNU Gjøvik, Norway.

4. Awarded Best Presentation at 2019 IEEE 4th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (ICCCS-2019) held at NTU Singapore on February 23-25, 2019.

5. Recipient of the Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing by the Vehicular Communications, Elsevier, indexed in SCI in July 2018.

6. Recipient of the Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing by the Journal Computer Networks, Elsevier, indexed in SCI in July 2017.

7. Recipient of Scholarship from Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt. of India from July 2013 to July 2016 during Ph.D. Program.

1. 1. Designated as Organizing Chair at the 6th International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical Systems (EAI IC4S 2025), to be held during September 1-3, 2024, at Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India.

   2. Designated as Organizing Chair at the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies in Electronics, Communications and Signal Processing (EAI-ICATECS 2025), to be held during August 29-30, 2025, at Hyderabad, India.

   3. Served as Workshop Chair at International Workshop on Energy-Aware Mobile IoT (Eware-IoT 2024), held during November 19, 2024, co-located with ACM IoT 2024 conference held during November 19-22, at Oulu, Finland

   4. Designated as Organizing Chair at the 1st International Conference on Advanced Technologies in Electronics, Communications and Signal Processing (EAI-ICATECS 2024), to be held during July 26-27, 2024, at Hyderabad, India.

   5. Designated as Program Chair at the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical Systems (EAI IC4S 2024), held during April 5-7, 2024, India.

   6. Designated as Organizing Chair at the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical Systems (EAI IC4S 2023), held during August 4-6, 2023, India.

   7. Designated as Organizing Chair at the 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical Systems (EAI IC4S 2022), held during November 26-27, 2022, India/Web.

   8. Designated as Conference Chair at the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical Systems (EAI IC4S 2021), to be held during November 24-26, 2021, Portugal/Web.

   9. Organizing Chair at the 2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Energy Advancements (ICCIEA-2021) held during September 11-12, 2021 in Web Format.

   10. Organizing Chair at the 1st International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Energy Advancements (ICCIEA-2020) held during December 12-13, 2020 in Web Format.

   11. Honoured as International Advisory Board member (Editorial Board) in International Journal of End-User Computing and Development (IJEUCD), IGI-Global, SCI Indexed.

   12. Designated as General Chair at the 1st International Conference on Cognitive Computing and Cyber Physical Systems (EAI IC4S 2020), December 2-4, 2020, Viana do Castelo, Portugal.

   13. Invited by Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore, world rank 11, for research visit and collaboration in March 2020.

   14. Potential Inventor of Nokia for its Open innovation initiative “Invent With Nokia”.

   15. Awarded Best Presentation at 2019 IEEE 4th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems held at NTU Singapore on February 23-25, 2019.

   16. Designated as Conference Chair at Global 2020 Congress on Networking and Communications, March 6-8, 2020, Athens, Greece.

   17. Designated as Conference Chair at 1st International Conference on Vehicular Systems, Networks and Technologies, 6-8 March 2020, Athens, Greece.

   18. Awarded Certificate for Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing by the Vehicular Communications, Elsevier, indexed in SCI in July 2018.

   19. Awarded Certificate for Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing by the Journal Computer Networks, Elsevier, indexed in SCI in July 2017.