2025: Clarivate ESI Highly Cited Researcher 2025 (Top 1% of Citations in the field Globally)
2025: IEEE Eurocon 2025 Best Poster Award 2025: P. Sengupta, M. Raikwar, S. Maharjan, F. Eliassen and Y. Zhang, "Context-Aware Adaptive Post-Quantum Framework for Autonomous Vehicular Networks," IEEE Eurocon 2025, Gdynia, Poland, June 2025
2024: Clarivate ESI Highly Cited Researcher 2024
2024: IEEE Best Vehicular Electronics Paper Award 2024: Y. Lu, X. Huang, K. Zhang, S. Maharjan, and Y. Zhang: “Blockchain Empowered Asynchronous Federated Learning for Secure Data Sharing in Internet of Vehicles,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 4298–4311, Apr. 2020.
2023: Clarivate ESI Highly Cited Researcher 2023
2022: Clarivate ESI Highly Cited Researcher 2022
2021: Clarivate ESI Highly Cited Researcher 2021
2020: IEEE TCGCC Outstanding Young Researcher Award, 2020
2020-2022: Vice-Chair, IEEE TCGCC SIG on Green AI (2020-2022)
2019: IEEE Senior Member
2019: IEEE ICCT Best Paper Award 2019: Y. Dai, D. Xu, K. Zhang, Y. Lu, S. Maharjan and Y. Zhang, Deep Reinforcement Learning for Edge Computing and Resource Allocation in 5G Beyond, IEEE ICCT 2019.
2016: Best Paper Award, IEEE CS Cloud 2016: J. Kang, R. Yu, X. Huang, S. Maharjan and Y. Zhang, On-demand Pseudonym Systems in Geo-distributed Mobile Cloud Computing, IEEE CS Cloud, 2016)
2015: Best Paper Award, IEEE Scalcom 2015: X. Huang, R. Yu, J. Kang, J. Ding, S. Maharjan, S. Gjessing and Y. Zhang, Dynamic Resource Pricing and Scalable Cooperation for Mobile Cloud Computing, IEEE SCALCOM 2015
2011: Gold Award Winner- Mondialogo Engineering Award (worldwide competition) by Diamler and UNESCO
Editor
IEEE Trans. on Green Communications and Networking (IEEE TGCN): 2023 onwards
Associate Editor
IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics (IEEE TII): 2025 onwards
IEEE Internet of Things Journal: 2020-2024 onwards
IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society :2020 onwards
Guest Editor
IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Digital Twin for Mobile Networks (Submission deadline: June 15, 2021)
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (IEEE TGCN) SI on Edge Intelligence for Sustainable Smart Environments (Submission deadline: June 15, 2021)
IET The Journal of Engineering SI on Engineering Techniques and Technologies to Enhance Power System Resilience (Submission deadline: December 15, 2020)
IEEE Access SI on Blockchain-Enabled Trustworthy Systems (Submission deadline: 01 April 2020) Closed!
IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications
2015 to present: Organizer/Chair/Member
2025: Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (IEEE WCSP) 2025 Oct. 2025, Hefei, China
2025: Special Session Co-Chair, IEEE NextGCom 2025
2024-2025: Conference General Co-Chair, IEEE VTC Spring 2025 (June 2025)
2025: TPC Member, IEEE VNC, June 2025, Porto, Portugal
2024: Symposium Chair, IEEE Globecom 2024 (Dec. 2024)
2023-2024: Conference TPC Chair, IEEE SmartGridComm 2024 (Sept. 2024)
2020-2022: Vice-Chair, IEEE TCGCC SIG on Green AI 2020-2022
2022: Program Committee Member, 2022 LUCS-PACE Summer School on From Energy Systems to Energy Justice, Sundvollen, Norway, Aug.-Sept. 2022.
2022: General Chair and Program Coordinator, First PriTEM Research Seminar, Oslo, Norway, March 2022.
2022: Program Committee Member, 2022 LUCS-PACE Workshop, Technical University of Munich, Germany, March 2022.
2021: Program Committee Member, 2021 LUCS-PACE Summer School on Green Computing meets Green Energy, Lille France, Sept. 2021.
2021: Program Committee Member, 2021 LUCS-PACE Workshop, Norway.
2020 Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE M2EC 2020 (in conjunction with AINA 2020)
2019: General Chair and Program Coordinator, 2019 Summer School on Smart Cities for a Sustainable Energy Future- From design to practice
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE AINA 2019
Technical Program Committee Member, First Nepal Winter School in AI, Dec. 2018, Nepal
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE WCNC 2019
General Chair and Program Coordinator, 2018 Summer School on Future Energy Information Networks, Oslo, Norway.
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE INFOCOM 2018
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE IWQoS 2018
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE WCNC 2018
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE INFOCOM 2017
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE IWQoS 2017
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Globecom 2017
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE ICC 2017
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE ICC 2016
Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE ICC 2015
Technical Program Committee Member, 2016 International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON) 2016, (TPC CoChair, Track, Cloud & Big Data)
Reviewer for Journals
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT)
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE Trans. ITS)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC)
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (IEEE TSG)
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IEEE TII)
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (IEEE TCNS)
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (IEEE TAC)
IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (IEEE TGCN)
IEEE Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (IEEE TETC)
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine
IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine
IEEE Access
ACM Computing Surveys
IEEE Systems Journal
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Elsevier FCGS
Elsevier COMNET
Dynamic Games and Applications, Springer
Wireless Personal Communications, Springer
Reviewer for Conferences
IEEE INFOCOM 2018
IEEE GLOBECOM 2018
IEEE WCNC 2018
WT-IoT 2018
IEEE VTC 2017
ACC 2017
IEEE LAN/MAN 2017
IEEE INFOCOM 2016
IEEE LAN/MAN 2016
IEEE INFOCOM 2015