in CSE with Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India. She has 15+ years of teaching experience. She received an MCA degree from Maharishi Dyanand University, Rohtak, in 2004, an M.Tech. degree in computer science from Janardan Rai Nagar Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur, in 2007, and a PhD degree in computer applications from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, in 2017. Her main areas of interest and research are wireless sensor networks, underwater sensor networks, and Internet of Things. She has published and presented more than 50 papers in international journals/conferences (SCI+Scopus) and two books with Springer. She is serving as an associate editor of IEEE Future Directions Newsletter. She has worked on big data, cloud computing, fog computing, underwater acoustic sensors, and IoT to show the importance of WSN in IoT applications. She won the Young Scientist Award in February 2014 from Punjab.
Dr. Maheswar Rajagopal has completed his B.E (ECE) from Madras University in 1999, and M.E (applied electronics) from Bharathiyar University in 2002, and a PhD in the field of wireless sensor networks from Anna University in 2012. He has about 19 years of teaching experience at various levels and is presently working as Dean – Research (Assistant) and Dean In‐Charge for the School of EEE, VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal. He has published around 70 papers at international journals and international conferences and published four patents. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, IoT, queueing theory, and performance evaluation. He has served as guest editor for Wireless Networks Journal, Springer, currently serves as editorial review board member for peer‐reviewed journals, and has also edited four books supported by EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing book series. He is presently an associate editor in the Wireless Networks Journal, Springer, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier, and Ad‐hoc Sensor Wireless Networks Journal, Old City Publishing.
Professor Neeraj Kumar (SMIEEE) is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala (Pb.), India. He is also adjunct professor at Asia University, Taiwan, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Charles Darwin University, Australia. He has published more than 400 technical research papers (DBLP: https://dblp.org/pers/hd/k/Kumar_0001:Neeraj) in top‐cited journals and conferences, which have been cited more than 17000 times from well‐known researchers across the globe, with current h‐index of 71 (Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=gL9gR‐4AAAAJ). He was highly cited researcher in 2019 and 2020 in the list released by Web of Science (WoS). He has guided many research scholars leading to PhD and M.E./M.Tech degrees. His research is supported by funding from various competitive agencies across the globe. His broad research areas are green computing and network management, IoT, big data analytics, deep learning, and cybersecurity. He has also edited/authored 10 books with international and national publishers such as IET, Springer, Elsevier, CRC: Security and Privacy of Electronic Healthcare Records: Concepts, Paradigms and Solutions (ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐78561‐898‐7), Machine Learning for Cognitive IoT, CRC Press, Blockchain, Big Data and Machine Learning, CRC Press, Blockchain Technologies across Industrial Vertical, Elsevier, Multimedia Big Data Computing for IoT Applications: Concepts, Paradigms and Solutions (ISBN: 978‐981‐13‐8759‐3), Proceedings of First International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Cyber‐Security (IC4S 2019; ISBN 978‐981‐15‐3369‐3), and Probabilistic Data Structures for Blockchain based IoT Applications, CRC Press. One of the textbooks he edited, entitled Multimedia Big Data Computing for IoT Applications: Concepts, Paradigms, and Solutions, published in Springer in 2019, has had 3.5 million downloads as of June 2020. It attracts the attention of the researchers across the globe. (https://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811387586). He serves as editor of ACM Computing Survey, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Communication Magazine, Elsevier Journal of Networks and Computer Applications, Elsevier Computer Communication, and Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems. Also, he has organized various special issues of journals of repute from IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer. He has been a workshop chair at IEEE Globecom 2018, IEEE Infocom 2020 (https://infocom2020.ieee‐infocom.org/workshop‐blockchain‐secure‐software‐defined‐networking‐smart‐communities) and IEEE ICC 2020 (https://icc2020.ieee‐icc.org/workshop/ws‐06‐secsdn‐secure‐and‐dependable‐software‐defined‐networking‐sustainable‐smart) and Track Chair of Security and Privacy of IEEE MSN 2020 (https://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/msn2020/cf‐wkpaper.php). He is also TPC Chair and member of various international conferences such as IEEE MASS 2020 and IEEE MSN2020. He has won the best papers award from IEEE Systems journal and IEEE ICC 2018, Kansas City, in 2018. He won the best researcher award from a parent organization every year for the last eight consecutive years.
Dr. Syed Hassan Ahmed Shah (SM’18) Ahmed is IEEE Senior Member and ACM Distinguished Speaker. He currently works at JMA Wireless as a product specialist for distributed antenna systems (DAS), CBRS, small cell, and the virtualized RAN product line. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia Southern University, US, where, he also founded the Wireless Internet and Networking Systems (WINS) lab. Prior to this, he was a Post‐Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, US. Before moving to the United States, he completed his BS with honors in CS from Kohat University of Science & Technology (KUST), Pakistan, and Master combined PhD degree from the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Kyungpook National University (KNU), Republic of Korea (South Korea). In the summer of 2015, he was also a visiting researcher at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, US. Overall, he has authored/coauthored over 200 international publications including journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and three books. In 2016, his work on robust content retrieval in future vehicular networks led him to win the Qualcomm Innovation Award at KNU, Korea. Dr. Hassan’s research interests include sensor and ad hoc networks, cyber‐physical systems, vehicular communications, and future Internet. He has been an appointee of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society as liaison to IEEE Young Professionals society for 2018–2019. Since 2018, he is also an ACM Distinguished Speaker. Furthermore, Dr. Hassan is a Senior IEEE and ACM professional member, has served as a TPC Member or Reviewer in 100+ international conferences and workshops including IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICNC, IEEE VTC, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CoNEXT, ACM MobiHoc, and ACM SAC. Additionally, he has been reviewing papers for 30+ international journals including IEEE Wireless Communications magazine, networks, communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Sensors Letters, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vehicular Technologies, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Big Data, and Mobile Computing. Moreover, Dr. Hassan has been an editorial member of more than 30 special issues with top‐ranked journals in Communication Society and has served as an editorial board member of KSII Transactions on Internet & Information Systems and Wiley’s Internet Technology Letters, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, IEEE Newsletters on Internet Initiative, Future Directions, and Software Defined Networks.
