Education

Academic Qualifications

Ph. D. in Computer Science

Indian Statistical Institute(ISI), Kolkata (degree awarded by Jadavpur University), India.

Title: Checkpointing and Self-Stabilization for Fault-Tolerance in Distributed Systems

Advisor: Professor Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

Master of Science in Mathematics

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Bachelor of Science with Hons. in Mathematics

University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Academic /Professional Awards and Fellowships

Visiting Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, for research visit to Prof. Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya, Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit, January, May - July 2023.

Visiting Professor, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy for teaching and research visit to Prof. Joseph F. Italian Department of Business and Management, Luiss Guido Carli University, February - May 2023.

DUO-India Professor Fellowship Award 2020 funded by ASEM-DUO Fellowship Programme, Seoul, Korea for research visit to Dr. Stephane Devismes, Universite Grenoble-Alpes, France.

SERB – Overseas Visiting Doctoral Fellowship (OVDF) – Faculty Travel, funded by SERB-DST, Govt. of India for research visit to Prof. Stefan Schmid, University of Vienna, Austria during July 2019.

ISCA Young Scientist Award in Information and Communication Science and Technology (including Computer Sciences) awarded by the President of India in the 94th Indian Science Congress, Annamalainagar, January, 2007.

Received INRIA Postdoctoral Fellowship, GRAND-LARGE team of the INRIA Fururs, France, December 2006.

Awarded Junior Research Fellowship and qualified the National Eligibility Test (NET) for Lectureship in 1999, and awarded Senior Research Fellowship in 2001 by the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India.

Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE - 1999).

Academic Service

Position

PC Co-Chair, ICDCIT 2024

Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair, ICDCN 2022

Poster Review Committee, COMSNETS 2021

Technical Program Committee Member, SSS 2020, ICDCIT 2021, ICDCIT 2023, RAIT 2023.

Finance Co-Chair, ICDCN 2020

Technical Program Committee Member, NSysS 2019

Organizing Committee Co-Chair, WALCOM 2019

Technical Program Committee Member (Distributed Computing Track), ICDCN 2017, ICDCN 2019

Technical Program Committee Member, NetSciCom 2017

Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE ANTS 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Coordinator, GIAN course Autonomic Networks, 2017.

Coordinator, GIAN course on Distributed Network Algorithms, 2016.

Coordinator, QIP-STC on Recent Trends in Networks and Distributed Computing 2015

Workshop & Tutorial Co-Chair, WCSN-2013

Students Forum Chair, ICISS 2012

Responsibilities at IIT Guwahati

Member, Department Faculty Advisory Committee (DFAC) (2021-2022)

Member, Institute Research and Development Committee (2020-2022)

Member, Online (Teaching & Learning) Infrastructure Committee (2020-2022)

Member, Departmental postgraduate Programme Committee (DPPC) (2018-2021)

Member, Postdoctoral Fellowship Screening Committee (2018-2021)

Convener, Department Purchase Committee (2020-2021)

Convener, Department External Relation Committee (2017-2021)

Member, Department Outreach Programme Committee (2015-2021)

Member, Department Infrastructure Advisory Committee (2014-2021)

Member, Departmental Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committe (DUGCRC) (2013-2018)

Member, Department Purchase Committee (2014-2018)

Member, Institute Undergraduate Programme Committee (IUPC) (2016-2017)

Member Secretary, Departmental Disciplinary Committee (2016-2018)

Member Secretary, Departmental Undergraduate Programme Committee (DUPC) (2016-2017)

Member, Department Course Allocation Committee (CAC) (2016-2017)

Faculty-in-charge, Computer Laboratory (2014-2017)

Member, Department Student Welfare Committee (2015-2017)

Faculty Advisor, Department Internship Programme (2013-2015)

Faculty Advisor, B.Tech.(M&C) 2012.

Served as a reviewer for

Information and Computation (Elsevier)

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier)

Information Science (Elsevier)

Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (Old City Publishing)

Wireless Personal Communications (Springer)

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

IEEE Sensors Journal

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

Invited Talk

Invited Speaker on "Autonomous Mobile Robots and Surveillance with UAVs" in the online Short term Course on "Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Automation, Robotics Future of Work & Humanity", organized by the Dept. of Applied Sciences, Gauhati University, Guwahati, March 1-10, 2023.

Invited Speaker on "Autonomous Mobile Entities and Surveillance with UAVs" in the online Faculty Development Program on "Introduction to UAV, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence", organized by the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus, December 20-22, 2021.

Invited Speaker on "Surveillance of Uneven Surface with Self-organizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" in the Webinar Series organized by the Royal School of Applied and Pure Sciences, Royal Global University, Guwahati during November 10-11, 2020.

Invited Lecture on "Generalized Bounded Tree Cover of a Graph" at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Austria on August 1, 2019.

Invited Lecture on "Sweep coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks" at Tezpur University on Faculty Development Program on "Algorithms in Applications", organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tezpur University during December 26-30, 2017.

Invited Lecture on "Sweep coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks" in Faculty Development Program on One Week National Training Programme on Wireless Sensor Networks, at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad organized by Faculty Development Centre (FDC), IIT (ISM), Dhanbad during December 18-22, 2017.

Invited Lecture on "Sweep coverage for WSNs and Distributed Algorithms for Autonomous Robots" at NIT Patna on Expert Lecture Series on Distributed Computing, organized by the NIT Patna under Electronics and ICT Academy Program, DeitY, Ministry of Communications and IT during June 1-6, 2016.

Invited Lecture on "Introduction to Distributed Algorithms" at IIT Guwahati on KIC-TEQIP Workshop on Algorithms in Engineering, organized by Department of Mathematics and Knowledge Incubation Cell, Centre for Edu. Technology of IIT Guwahati during February 15-19, 2016.

Invited Lecture on "Coverage and Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks" at IIT Guwahati on QIP-STC on Recent Advances in Network Algorithms, organized by Department of Computer Science and Engg. and Curriculum Development Cell, Centre for Edu. Technology of IIT Guwahati during September 9-13, 2013.

Invited Lecture on "Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks" in North-East ISI-DU Spring School on Algorithms for Wireless Networks at Dibrugarh University, Assam, Organized jointly by ACMU, ISI Kolkata and Centre for Computer Studies, Dibrugarh University, February 8-10, 2012.

Keynote Address on "Fault Tolerance in Distributed Computing Systems" in the National Conference on Scientific Computing and Applied Mathematics at VLB Janakiammal College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, June 29-30, 2011.

Invited Lecture on "Algorithms for Mobile and Wireless Networks" in North-East ISI-TU Spring School on Selected Topics in Algorithms at Tezpur University, Assam, Organized jointly by ACMU, ISI Kolkata and Dept. of Computer Science and Engg, Tezpur University, March 21-23, 2011.

Invited Lecture on "Distributed Algorithms for Graph Problems" in North-East Spring School on Graphs: Theory, Algorithms and Applications, at NERIST, Nirjuli, Arunachal Pradesh, Organized by ACMU, ISI Kolkata and Dept. of Computer Science & Engg, NERIST, Feburary 22-25, 2010.

Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur on February 14, 2008.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras on January 16, 2008.

Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras on January 16, 2008.

Failure Resilience and Application Guaranteed Integrity in Large-scale Environments (FRAGILE), Winter 2007 Meeting, LIAFA, Paris on January 9, 2007.

Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati on August 10, 2006.

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras on October 9, 2006.