Academic Services

Academic Leadership  |  Editor and TPC Memberships  |  Keynotes and Invited Talks

Chairing Workshops and Plenary Sessions

1. Organizing Committee Member - 2024 Australian Academic Integrity Network (AAIN) Forum – Sep 2024 (Link)

2. Workshop Convener - DoT-TSDSI Micro Workshop Series on ‘Advancing 5G towards 6G’ – Jan 2023 (Link)

• A very successful and innovative international technical workshop series to promote next generation standardization from Indian universities and global organizations. 

3. Workshop Chair – TSDSI-BIS Joint online workshop on Drone Connectivity, Operations and Standards – Oct 2021 (Link) 

4. Convener – Drones Workshop at TSDSI – 2019 (Link) 

5. Co-Organizer – LastMileS workshop at IEEE COMSNETS – 2019 (Link) 

6. Organizer – ICN Workshop at TSDSI – 2018 (Link) 

7. Co-Chair – Industry Expo at IEEE ANTS – 2018 (Link) 

8. Co-Organizer – Last MileS workshop at IEEE ANTS – 2017 (Link) 

9. Organizer – ICN Workshop at IEEE ANTS – 2016 (Link) 

Title – Information Centric Networking

10. Chair – Plenary Session at CCICI - NIST International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Cyber Physical Systems. – June 2016

Title: Communication technologies and challenges in CPS (Edge, last mile technologies)

Conference Tutorials & Demos

1. Demo Paper at IEEE COMSNET 2017 (Link)

Title: Robotic Communication using Multipath TCP

2. Tutorial at IEEE NCC 2016 (Link)

Title: Information Centric Networking - an Insight on Architecture and Caching

3. Demo at IEEE COMSNETS 2016 (Link)

Title: An NS3-based Overlay ICN Simulator (OICNSIM)

4. Poster Demos at IEEE ANTS 2015

Titles:

i)     A Novel Overlay Architecture for Information Centric Networking (O-ICN)

ii)    Software Defined Networking,

iii)   Device-to-device (D2D) Communication for Undelaying LTE Network

iv)   TCS Network Planner (TNetPlan) for Cellular Networks

5. Tutorial at IEEE ANTS 2014 (Link)

Title: Information Centric Networking – The future of Internet

Editor, TPC Member and Reviewer of Journals/Conferences

1. Guest editor for Special Edition on IoT and Sensor Networks, MDPI Journal. 

2. TPC member of IEEE NCC-2019, CONNECT-2018, ICIT-2018, IEEE ANTS 2018, IEEE NCC-2018, WSCAR-2018, IEEE ANTS 2017, ISAPE-2017, GSCIT-2016, GSCIT-2015, ISSPIT-2015 and many other conferences.

3. Reviewer for Elsevier Journal of Network & Computer Applications, KSII Transactions, Springer Journals, IEEE Communication Magazine, IEEE Communication letters, and ACM Transaction etc.

4. Participated in ITU AI/ML challenge in 5G. Worked on two academic problems related to Dynamic Spectrum Sharing and Optimal Resource Allocation using RL in WiFi/5G co-existence. – (Aug-Dec 2020)

Keynote / Eminence / Invited Talks

1. Invited Panelist at IETE International Conference on AI & ML driving 5G-Advanced & 6G - 05 May 2023 (Link)

Title: 5G/B5G/6G: Expectation from Industry, Trends and Challenges

2. Invited talk at Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) – Jun 21, 2022  

Title: The Road to the Next G

3. Industry Talk at WiFi India Submit organized by BIF – Jan 22, 2022 (Link) 

Title: Using 6GHz Wi-Fi to Enable PM-WANI

4. Expert Speaker at DoT 6G Workshop (online) – Jan 14, 2021

Title: Views on 6G Systems

5. Special Lecture at RGIPT (online) – Dec 17, 2021 (Link) 

Title: Information Centric Networking - Future of the Internet

6. Keynote Talk at IEEE ANTS workshop on Edge Computing (online)– Dec 13, 2021 (Link) 

Title: Edge Computing - Architectures, Standards & Use Cases

7. Panel Speaker at TSDSI Tech Deep Dive (TDDD) event (online) – Oct 27, 2021 (Link) 

Title: Role of Private Networks in India’s Digital Transformation

8. Expert Talk at TSDSI-BIS joint workshop (online) – Oct 4, 2021 (Link) 

Title: Drones Communication – A Standards Perspective

9. Invited Talk at DoT Workshop (online) – Jul 27, 2021

Title: AI & Big Data

10. Faculty Development Program at SMIT – Jul 22, 2021

Title: Communication Protocols and Standards for Industrial IoT

11. Expert Talk at AICTE sponsored Short Term Training Program-III at V. R. Siddhartha Engineering College – Sep 14, 2020 (Link) 

Title: Information Centric Networking

12. AIP sponsored FDP Session at JNN College of Engineering, Shivamoga – Sep 2, 2020

Title: Software Defined Networks

13. Expert Talk at AICTE sponsored STTP at V. R. S. Engineering College – Aug 24, 2020 (Link) 

Title: Role of AI in 5G – Opportunities and Challenges

14. Invited Talk at TCS – July 28, 2020

Title: 5G – Enabler of Disruptive Growth

15. Faculty Development Program, MIT Manipal – Nov 22, 2019

Title: Information Centric Networking 

16. Faculty Development Program, IIIT Dharwad – Jul 08, 2019)

Title: ICN: An insight into Architecture & Caching

17. Expert talk at Global Standards Collaboration (GSC-22), Montreal, Switzerland – Mar 22, 2019) (Link) 

Title: AI in 5G 

18. Panel Moderator at LastMileS workshop at COMSNETS 2019 (Link) 

19. Guest Talk at TSDSI Workshop on Indian languages and Information Centric Networking (ICN), 2018 (Link) 

Title: Information Centric Networking

20. Faculty Development Program, New Horizon College, Bangalore – Jan 20, 2018

Title: Information Centric Networking

21. Invited Talk at TSDSI-TAICS Indo Taiwan collaboration workshop, Delhi – Nov 15, 2017

Title: Standards in Augmental Robotics 

22. Expert talk at Global Standards Collaboration (GSC-21), Vienna – Sep 26, 2017 (Link) 

Title: Augmental Robotics – An Indian Perspective

23. Invited talk at Samsung Developer’s day – Aug 31, 2017

Title: Information Centric Networking – A use case in LTE Networks

24. Invited webinar at INDIA-EU Collaboration Technical Talk Series – Apr 07, 2017

Title: Information Centric Networking – The future of Internet) [https://youtu.be/_xPUzr3e9Zk] 

25. Invited Lecture Series at IIIT Bangalore – Mar 30 and Apr 04, 2017

Title: Enabling IoT with SDN/NFV. 

26. Invited talk at IEEE 5G Summit, Kolkata – Mar 18, 2017 (Link) 

Title: Software Defined Networking – Past, Present and Future

27. Invited talk at WIPSeN – CDAC-IISc Joint Workshop – Mar 03, 2017

Title: Virtualization – 5G & Beyond

28. Invited talk at NITTE Mangalore – Feb 17, 2017

Title: Software Defined Networking

29. Faculty Development Program at TCS Global Axis – Feb 10, 2017

Title: Mobile Edge Computing

30. Invited Talk at NIE Mysore.

Title: Software Defined Networking – Feb 03, 2017 

31. Expert talk at 2017 edition of Network University, organized by HPE Aruba, Bangalore – Jan 19, 2017

Title: Software Defined Data Center (Link) 

32. Invited talk at INUCom workshop at ICON 2016 conference at IIT BHU – Dec 17, 2016

Title: IoT and Fog Computing

33. Eminence Talk at TCS Kochi – Oct 28, 2016

Title: Software Defined Data Center

34. Invited Talk at IIIT Guwahati – Mar 04, 2016

Title: Software Defined Networking 

35. Presentation at Sangam, a TCS branding event for educational institutes – Feb 2016

Title: Software Defined Networking 

36. Presentation at University of Southern California – Oct 2015

Title: Information Centric Networking

37. Chairs Talk at TSDSI-EU Workshop on Intelligent Transport System – Nov 2015 (Link) 

Title: Intelligent Transport System

38. Keynote Talk at IEEE iCATccT – Oct 2015 (Link) 

Title: Information Centric Networking – the future of Internet

39. Pre-visit orientations talk at IIIT Bangalore – Aug 2015

Title: Research in Wireless at TCS Networks Lab.

40. Faculty Development Program (under AIP) at SDM Dharwad – Jun 2015

Title: Software Defined Networking

41. Invited Talk in RSC-2015 event at IIT Guwahati – May 2015

Title: Information Centric Networking