Academics

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) with course work CGPA: 9.30/10 from January 2004 to June 2008 (Thesis submitted on June 2008).

• M.Tech. in Computer  Science and Data Processing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur  (IIT Kharagpur) on January 2000 (Rank: 2).

• Qualified in All India IIT GATE examination with percentile score: 99.09 (All India Rank: 7, Eastern Zone Rank: 2) in 1998. [The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an examination conducted in India that primarily tests the comprehensive understanding of various undergraduate subjects in engineering and science for admission into the Masters Program.]

• M.Sc. in Mathematics (with specialization in Computer Science) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) on July 1998 [Major subjects: Mathematics and Computer Science] (Rank: 1) [Recipient of Institute Silver Medal].

• Qualified in All India IIT M.Sc. Entrance Test [now, known as Joint Admission test for Masters (JAM)], June 1996 (All India Rank: 2 for M.Sc. admission in Mathematics,  IIT Kharagpur). [JAM is for admission to M.Sc. (Two-year), Joint M.Sc.-Ph.D., M.Sc.-Ph.D. Dual Degree, and other Post-Bachelors Degree Programmes at INDIAN INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY]

• B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics from the Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India on July 1996 (Rank: within 10 in the University).

Awards/Honors/Achievements

• Excellent (Best) Paper Award in recognition of the outstanding work entitled "Secure Big Data Analytics using Cloud Storage for Internet of Vehicles" contributed to Sixth International Conference on Smart Vehicular Technology, Transportation, Communication and Applications (VTCA 2024), April 16-18, 2024, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Springer)

• 2024 - Research.com Computer Science in India Leader Award (https://research.com/u/ashok-kumar-das)

• Listed in the Web of Science (Clarivate™) Highly Cited Researcher 2023 in recognition of exceptional research performance demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% for field and year. 

• Included in the Stanford University's Top 2% Most Influential Scientists List with Subject Rank (World): 39 for the year: 2022. 

The ranking is based on an independent study done by the Stanford University, USA. For detailed information, please visit: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6

• Visiting Faculty at the Old Dominion University (ODU), Suffolk, VA 23435, USA, with the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center (VMASC) [Duration: 1 May 2022 - 30 June 2022]

• Listed in the Web of Science (Clarivate™) Highly Cited Researcher 2022 in recognition of exceptional research performance demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% for field and year. 

• Included in the Stanford University's Top 2% Most Influential Scientists List with Subject Rank (World): 179 for the year: 2021. 

The ranking is based on an independent study done by the Stanford University, USA. For detailed information, please visit: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4 

• Included in the top 2% scientists world-wide (all fields) and also in the area of Networking & Telecommunications, with Rank world-wide (by subject area): 321 for the year: 2020. The ranking is based on an independent study done by the Stanford University, USA. For detailed information, please visit: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3

• Included in the top 2% scientists world-wide (all fields) and also in the area of Networking & Telecommunications, with Rank world-wide (by subject area): 580 for the year: 2019. The ranking is based on an independent study done by Stanford University scientists. For methodology and data, please visit- https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918

• Included in World Scientist and University Rankings 2022 (Computer Science Ranking: India: 5, IIIT Hyderabad: 1, Asia: 111, World: 596) [AD Scientific Index rankings for Scientist] 

For detailed information, please visit: https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/ashok-kumar-das/358559 

• 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in India Leader Award (https://research.com/u/ashok-kumar-das)

• 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in India Leader Award (https://research.com/u/ashok-kumar-das)

• Listed in the Top Computer Science Scientists in the World database maintained by Research.com with World Ranking: 1650 and Top Computer Science Scientists in India (National Ranking): 8 (https://research.com/scientists-rankings/computer-science/in) [Updated on 19 May 2022]

• Media coverage on "China way ahead in blockchain, India needs to catch up" in the Times of India newspaper on 6 May 2021 (please see at: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/china-way-ahead-in-blockchain-india-needs-to-catch-up/articleshow/82428430.cms ) 

• Having 18,400 citations with h-index: 80 and i10-index: 237 (Source: Google scholar citations:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bToAUHMAAAAJ&hl=en) [Updated on 1 October 2023] 

• Acted as one of the panelists at FICCI Industry Meets Science session on Blockchain held on 22 July, 2021 by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI). The other panelists were Dr. Aloknath De, SVP/CTO (Samsung R&D, Bangalore); Dr. Dilip Krishnaswamy, VP (Emerging Tech R&D) at Reliance Jio Platforms Ltd; Rama Iyer, Head – Innovation @ GMR Group, Hyderabad and Rajesh Dhuddu, Blockchain & Cybersec Leader, Forbes Blockchain, Tech Mahindra, Hyderabad.

• Certificate of Appreciation for Distinguish Lecture at Samsung R & D, Bangalore (2021) for a distinguished talk on ‘Blockchain-Envisioned Secure Data Delivery and Collection for 5G-Based IoT-Enabled Internet of Drones Environment’ as a part of India Research Network 2021 under the theme ‘Secure IoT’

• First rank holder in M.Sc. (IIT, Kharagpur).

• M.C.M. (Merit-cum-Means) scholarship during M.Sc. from IIT, Kharagpur.

• Second Rank in IIT Kharagpur M.Sc. Entrance Test, June 1996.

• INSTITUTE SILVER MEDAL for being the best student in order of merit among the students graduating with M.Sc. degree  (5-Year M.Sc. Course) in Mathematics on 25th July, 1998 from IIT, Kharagpur.

•  Seventh All India Rank holder in GATE-1998.

• Second rank holder in M.Tech. (IIT, Kharagpur).

• Institute fellowship during M.Tech. from IIT, Kharagpur.

• DIVISIONAL AWARD for the year 2002-2003 for Individual Excellence for outstanding work on the development of SS7 Protocol Stack implementation in C-DoT DSS (Digital Switching System) from C-DoT Switching Division, C-DoT, New Delhi, India, on April 2003.

• Certificate of SPECIAL MENTION for the best papers award at EAIT-2006, Kolkata, India.

• Institute fellowship during Ph.D. from IIT, Kharagpur.

• Best Paper Award in the International Workshop on Mobile Systems (WoMS 2008), Kolkata, India.

• Listed in 26th Edition of the Marquis Who's Who in the World, USA, in 2009.

• Certificate of Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award  from Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier), August, 2014.

• Certificate of Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award  from The Journal of Systems & Software (Elsevier), December 2014.

• Certificate of Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award  from Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), July 2015.

• Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), August 2016.

• Reviewer Certificate Award  from  International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), June 2017.

• Certificate of Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award  from Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal (Elsevier), January 2017.

• Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from  Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal (Elsevier), February 2017.

• Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from  Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), March 2017.

• Certificate of Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award  from Computers & Security Journal (Elsevier), December 2017.

• Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from Future Generation Computer Systems Journal (Elsevier), February 2017.

• Certificate of Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Elsevier), September 2017.

• Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Elsevier), October 2017.

• Certificate of Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from Journal of Information Security and Applications (Elsevier), July 2017. 

• Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from Journal of Information Security and Applications (Elsevier), December 2017. 

• Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from  Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences (Elsevier), April 2017. 

• Certificate of Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier), May 2017. 

• Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier), August 2017.

• Certificate of Reviewing (Elsevier Reviewer Recognition) Award from Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier), January 2018.

• Associate Editor: IEEE Systems Journal (2022 SCI Impact Factor: 4.4) 

• Editor:  Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier) (2022 SCI Impact Factor: 8.7) [Duration: October 2020 - November 2023]  

• Associate Editor:  Journal of Cloud Computing (Springer) (2022 SCI Impact Factor: 4 ( https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/about/editorial-board )

• Associate Editor: Cyber Security and Applications (Elsevier) journal [Duration: September 2021 onwards] (https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/cyber-security-and-applications/editorial-board/)

• Editor (Technical Committee):  Computer Communications  (Elsevier) (2022 SCI Impact Factor: 6)

• Associate Editor: IET Communications (2018 SCI Impact Factor: 1.779) 

• Editor: KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (SCI Indexed Journal) 

• Editor: International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (Inderscience) 

• Guest Editor: Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier) (SCI Indexed Journal), Special issue on Big data and IoT in e-healthcare (Deadline: December 30, 2016) [Guest Editors: Marimuthu Karuppiah, Xiong Li, Ashok Kumar Das, Saru Kumari, and Qin Liu] 

• Associate Editor: Recent Advances in Communications and Networking Technology  (2018) 

• Guest Editor: ICT Express (Elsevier) (ESCI Indexed Journal), Special Issue on Blockchain Technologies and Applications for 5G Enabled IoT (Deadline: February 28, 2019) [Guest Editors: Jong-Hyouk Lee, Ashok Kumar Das, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Chia-Mu Yu, and Tooska Dargahi] 

• Guest Editor: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (SCI Indexed Journal), Special issue on “Security and Privacy for Smart Mobile Devices: Attacks, Challenges, and New Designs”, 2020 (Deadline: June 26, 2020) [Guest Editors: Ding Wang, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Weizhi Meng, and Ashok Kumar Das]