Sabita Maharjan [SM'19] is a Full Professor at the Department of Informatics (IFI), University of Oslo, Norway from September 2022, and leads the “Energy Informatics” Research at IFI.  I received my Ph.D. degree in Networks and Distributed Systems from the University of Oslo and Simula Research Laboratory, Norway, in 2013. She worked as a Research Engineer in Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore in 2010. She was a Visiting Scholar at Zhejiang Univeristy (ZU), Hangzhou, China in 2011, and a Visiting Research Collaborator in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), USA in 2012. From 2024-2016 She worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at Simula Research Laboratory (SRL), Norway. From 2017-2022, She worked as a Senior Research Scientist at SRL and SimulaMet, Norway and as an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway.Her primary research interests include Energy informatics, Energy Edge AI, vehicular networks, B5G/6G technologies, network security, Internet of Things, and AI for networks. She has authored over 120+ papers in prestigious IEEE journals and conferences.

She has had the honour of receiving the IEEE TCGCC Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2020, and has been ranked as the Highly Cited Researcher for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 according to Web of Science- which is an accolade given in recognition of the exceptional research performance demonstrated by multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% of citations for field and year- worldwide. 

Her academic services include her role as the (Selected List)

• Vice Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC) SIG on Green AI (2020-2022)

• Editor for IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (IEEE TGCN): 2023 onwards

• Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IEEE TII) : 2025 onwards

• Associate Editor for the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoT-J) : 2020-2024

• Associate Editor for the IEEE Open Computer Society Journal (IEEE OJCS): 2020 onwards

• Guest Editor for top-tier journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE JSAC), IEEE Trans. on Green Communications and Networking (IEEE TGCN) and IEEE Access.

She served as the General Co-Chair of the IEEE VTC Spring 2025 held in Oslo Norway in June 2025, the Technical Program Committee Chair of IEEE SmartGridComm 2024 held in Oslo Norway in Sept. 2024; and the Symposium Chair for the Green Communication Systems and Networks Symposium in the IEEE Globecom 2024- held in Capetown, South Africa in December 2024. Other recent academic services include her role as the Symposium Co-Chair for the track Wireless Networks, Services and Network Security Symposum in the IEEE Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (IEEE WCSP) 2025 Oct. 2025, Hefei, China, and the Special Session Co-Chair in the NextGCom 2025 (2nd Training School and Research Colloquium on Next Generation Communications with the focus on AI/ML for 6G Communication Networks) held in Argostoli, Kefalonia (Greece) in Oct. 2025. In the past, she has contributed actively in the technical program committees of conferences including top conferences like IEEE INFOCOM and IEEE IWQoS.