(Dr. Randhir Kumar) received his Ph.D. in the department of Information Technology from NIT Raipur, India. He completed his Postdoctoral from department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM University, AP. He is having 7 years of teaching and 4 years of research experience. He has published his research articles in leading journal and conferences from IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, and John Wiley. His paper has been published in some of the high impact factor journals such as – IEEE Internet of Things, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, IEEE COMSNETs, IEEE ICC, MobiCom, GlobeCom, Computer Networks, JPDC, and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT Wiley). His paper was recognized as most cited paper of year 2020-2021 in one of the reputed journal i.e., Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. He received best paper presentation award in one of the reputed conference i.e., GLOBECOM in the year 2022. He has qualified UGC-NET in the year of 2018. He has been awarded as Best Engineer Trainee by Honeywell Technology, India in the year 2009.  He is active reviewer of many of the reputed journals like IEEE TDSC, IEEE TGCN, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TII, IEEE Access, Journal of Super Computing, Journal of Ambient Intelligent and Humanized Computing, and International Journal of Information Security and Privacy, IGI global. His research interest includes Cryptographic Techniques, Information Security, Blockchain Technology, Digital Twin and Services, Machine Learning, and Web Mining. He is also a member of IEEE, IAENG. 

Currently, I am investigating Parallel Execution of smart contracts and interoperability challenges in blockchain-enabled frameworks and services.