Education
- Post Doctoral Training, 2008, University of California San Diego, CA, 92093
- Ph.D, Computer Science and Engineering, 2004, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
- Masters, Department of ECE, Pondicherry Engineering College (now the Podicherry University of Technology), Pondicherry, India.
Specialization: Computer Networks, Complex Networks, Network Science, Advanced Data Structures, Graph Theory, Cyber-Physical Systems, Wireless Networks, Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Cyber Security, Hybrid Wireless Networks, and Next Generation Internet.
Course Offered
- Summer 2023: Computer Architecture and Organization (AV 312), Complex Networks (AVD 888), Microprocessors and Microcontrollers (AV332)
- Winter 2023: Internet of Things (AVD 887), Computer Networks (AV 321) and Computer Networks Lab (AV341)
- Summer 2022: Computer Architecture and Organization (AV 312), Complex Networks (AVD 888), Microprocessors and Microcontrollers (AV332)
- Winter 2022: Internet of Things (AVD 872), Computer Networks (AV 321) and Computer Networks Lab (AV341)
- Summer 2021: Computer Architecture and Organization (AV 312), Microprocessors and part of Microcontrollers (AV332), Wireless Mesh Networks (AV828), and Satellite Communication (AV412)
- Winter 2021: Internet of Things (AVD 872), Computer Networks (AV 321) and Computer Networks Lab (AV341)
- Summer 2020: Internet of Things (AVD 872), Wireless Mesh Networks (AV 484, AV848)
- Winter 2020: Computer Architecture and Organization (AV 312), Microprocessors and Microcontrollers Lab (AV332), and Wireless Mesh Networks (AV 484)
- Summer 2019: Wireless Mesh Networks (AV 484, AV848)
- Winter 2019: Computer Networks (AV 321) and Computer Networks Lab (AV 341)
- Summer 2018: Wireless Mesh Networks (AV 482, AV 848) and Research Methodology
- Winter 2018: Computer Networks (AV 321) and Computer Networks Lab (AV 341)
- Summer 2017: Data Structures and DBMS (Av 482)
- Winter 2017: Computer Networks (AV 321) and Computer Networks Lab (AV 341)
- Summer 2016: Wireless Mesh Networks (AV 484) and Data Structures and DBMS (Av 482)
- Winter 2016: Computer Networks (AV 321) and Computer Networks Lab (AV 341)
- Summer 2015: Wireless Mesh Networks (AV 484) and Data Structures and DBMS (Av 482)
- Winter 2015: Computer Networks (AV 321) and Computer Networks Lab (AV 341)
- Summer 2014: Wireless Mesh Networks (AV 484) and Data Structures and DBMS (Av 482)
- Winter 2014: Computer Networks (AV 321) and Computer Networks Lab (AV 341)
- Summer 2013: Wireless Mesh Networks (AV 484), Data Structures and DBMS (AV 482), Data Structures and DBMS (AV 495) and Embedded Systems and RTOS (AV 462)
- Winter 2013: Computer Networks (AV 321) and Computer Networks Lab (AV 341)
- Summer 2012: Wireless Mesh Networks (AV 484) and Data structures and DBMS (AV 482)
- Winter 2012: Computer Networks (AV 321)
- Winter 2012: Computer Networks Lab (AV 341)
- Summer 2011: Wireless Mesh Networks (AV 484) and Data structures and DBMS (AV 482) [Second part of Data structures and DBMS]
- Winter 2011: Computer Networks (AV 321) and Computer Networks Lab (AV 341), Department of Avionics, IIST, India.
- Fall 2010: Networked Services (CSE 124), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
- Winter 2010: Principles of Wireless Mesh Networks (ECE 287), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
- Fall 2009: Networked Services (CSE 124), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
- Spring 2009: Data Networks II (ECE 158B), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
- Spring 2008: Data Networks II (ECE 158B), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
- Spring 2007: Data Networks II (ECE 158B), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
- Spring 2006: Data Networks II (ECE 158B), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego.
Experience
- December 2023-Present: Professor and Associate Dean, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
- January 2017-December 2023: Professor, Avionics at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
- January 2017-December 2019: Professor and Head, Avionics at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
- November 2016-December 2016: Associate Professor and Head, Avionics at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
- January 2011-November 2016: Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
- March 2008- January 2011: Assistant Research Scientist and Lecturer at UCSD, San Diego, CA 92093, USA. Responsibilities include teaching the senior undergraduate and graduate level course on DATA NETWORKS II (ECE 158B), research on next generation wireless systems, and leading the newly formed CalIT2 Systems and Networks research group in addition to leading the networking group for the NSF-sponsored homeland security projects such as RESCUE (www.itrrescue.org), Responsphere (www.responsphere.org), and the exploratory research project CogNet (www.cognet.info).
- February 2005- February 2008: Lecturer and Post Doctoral Scholar at UCSD, San Diego, CA 92093, USA. Responsibilities include teaching the senior undergrad and graduate level course on DATA NETWORKS II (ECE 158B), research on next generation wireless systems, and leading the networking group for the NSF-sponsored homeland security projects such as RESCUE (www.itr-rescue.org), Responsphere (www.responsphere.org), and the exploratory research project CogNet (www.cognet.info). Mentored several batches of undergraduate and graduate students for courses such as ECE 191, ECE 192, and ECE 291 in the UCSD Division of CalIT2.
- January 2004-January 2005: Project Officer at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Responsibilities include research in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks.
- January 2000-January 2004: Infosys Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. Responsibilities include research in wireless ad hoc networks and hybrid wireless networks.
- March 1998-January 2000: Senior Engineer at Banyan Networks Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India. Responsibilities include design and implementation of real-time protocols for voice over data networks.
Research Work / Area
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, AI-driven Computer Networks, Internet, Internet Security, Next Generation Internet, Wireless Networks, Ad hoc wireless networks, Wireless Mesh Networks, Cognitive Networks, Sensor Networks, Complex Networks, Quantum Big Data Analysis, and Future Networked Systems.
Area of Interest
Social Networks in various domains such as research as provided by platforms such as ResearchBase.
Awards
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award for the paper titled "Analysis of Intra-cellular Handoff in Multi-hop Cellular Networks" at IEEE Indiscon 2023, August 2023.
- Recipient of IEEE Outstanding Researcher 2020 award from IEEE Kerala section.
- Mentored the B.Tech thesis work titled "A Lightweight Software Defined Networking Architecture for DebriNet 3" carried out by Shivang Bharti during January-June 2021, which won the 2nd runner-up award by IEEE CASS UG Project Awards 2021.
- Mentored the B.Tech thesis work titled “PS4Net: An Opportunistic Software Defined Networking Framework Over PSLV Stage 4” carried out by Suraj Rajesh during January-June 2019 that won the INAE Innovative Student Project Award (Bachelors level) 2019. INAE stands for Indian National Academy of Engineering.
- Recipient of Teaching Innovator 2016 Certificate/Award by the Teaching Innovator 2016 program by the Ministry of Human Resource Development for developing Multi-Track Modular-Teaching Methodology.
- Co-author of the paper titled "Graph Fourier Transform Based on Directed Laplacian" that was awarded Springer Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) 2016, IISc Bangalore, India, June 2016.
- Recipient of IEEE ICNC 2015 Outstanding Leadership Award. ICNC stands for International Conference on Computing, Networking, and Communications (ICNC) and is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Computing Society. IEEE ICNC 2015 was held in Anaheim, California on February 16-19, 2015.
- Co-authored the paper titled “Comparative evaluation of ARIMA and ANFIS for modeling of wireless network traffic time series,” published in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking in January 2014, which was recognized as "Highly Accessed" by the journal. This paper was co-authored with Rajnish K. Yadav.
- Advised the B.Tech thesis work titled “On the Use of Undirected Probabilistic Graphical Modeling for Cognitive Wireless Networks” carried out by Rajnish K. Yadav during January-June 2012 that won the INAE Innovative Student Project Award 2012. INAE stands for Indian National Academy of Engineering.
- Recipient of the Elsevier Ad hoc Networks Journal’s Top Cited Article during 2005-2010 Award for the article titled Quality of Service Provisioning in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: A Survey of Issues and Solutions,” co-authored with T. B. Reddy, I. Karthigeyan, and C. Siva Ram Murthy and published in Elsevier Ad Hoc networks, Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2006.
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award for the paper entitled “On Optimizing Non-Asymptotic Throughput of Wireless Mesh Networks," co-authored with P. Zhou and Ramesh Rao, at the 5th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2008 (IEEE CCNC 2008) held in Las Vegas, USA, during January 10-12, 2008.
- Recipient of IBM Outstanding Ph.D Student/Thesis Award for the year 2004.
- Recipient of ISCA (Indian Science Congress Association) Young Scientist Award for the year 2003.
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award for the paper entitled “A Novel Battery Aware MAC Protocol for Ad hoc Wireless Networks”, co-authored with S. Jayashree and C. Siva Ram Murthy, at the 11th International Conference on High Performance Computing 2004 (HiPC 2004) held in Bangalore, India during December 19-22, 2004.
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award for the paper entitled “Multi-hop Cellular Networks: Architecture and Protocols for Best-effort and Realtime Communication”, co-authored with R. Ananthapadmanabha and C. Siva Ram Murthy, at the First Inter Research Institute Student Seminar in Computer Science 2002 (IRISS 2002) held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, during March 28-29, 2002.
- Recipient of Infosys Research Fellowship Award.
- University 2nd Rank in M.Tech.
- Recipient of Best Project Award in Masters (M.Tech) for the project titled “Design and Implementation of Gateway for TCP/IP and ATM Networks”.
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Professional Affiliations
- Chair, IEEE RFID Council Kerala Chapter (2023-)
- Chair, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, (IEEE EMBS), Kerala Chapter (2021-2022)
- Fellow of IETE (2021)
- Fellow of IE(I) (2020)
- Senior Member, ACM (since 2019)
- Member, Conference Activities Board, IEEE Kerala Section (2015-2018)
- Chair, IEEE ComSoc Chapter, IEEE Kerala Section (2013-2014).
- Secretary, ACM Trivandrum Chapter (2013)
- Vice-Chair, IEEE ComSoc Chapter, IEEE Kerala Section (2012).
- Senior Member of the IEEE (since 2008).
- Former Member of IEEE Standardization Association.
- Member of the IEEE Communications Society.
- Member of the ACM (Since 2007).
- Founding Member of the ISCRAM Association.
- Associate Member of the Institution of Engineers (India).
- Former Member of Center for Wireless Communications (CWC), Department of ECE, UCSD.
- Former Member of San Diego Writers Ink, San Diego.