Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor | University of Louisville , KY, USA [July'21 - Present]
- Postdoctoral Scholar | University of California , San Diego, CA
[Oct'19 - Jun'21]
- Research Intern | Nokia Bell Labs, UAVs over Edge-Cloud, Murray
Hill, NJ [Jun.'17 - Sep.'17]
- Research Intern | Huawei Research Labs, Network Virtualization
Group, CA [Jun.'16 - Sep.'16]
- Software Engineer | Cisco Systems, Software Routing Group
for 3G/4G, CA [Sep.'13 - Sep.'14]
- Software Developer Intern | BlackBerry Ltd., Radio Applications R&D, TX [Jan.'13 - May'13]
- Visiting Resercher | WINLAB, Rutgers University, NJ [May'12 - Aug' 12]
- Senior System Engineer | IBM, Telecom
Group, Noida, India [Sept.'07 -
Jun.'11]
Honors & Awards
- Student Travel Grant offer for ACM SIGCOMM Conference [2019]
- People’s Choice Award, Graduate Research Symposium, UCI
[2018]
- NSF Travel Grant for ACM MobiHoc Conference [2018]
- Student Travel Grant for ACM SIGMETRICS Conference [2018]
- Selected among 8 teams
nationwide for DARPA SDR Hackfest [2017]
- Best Poster Award in Computer Science Research Showcase, UCI
[2016]
- Third best poster award in Intern Research Showcase at Huawei
Research Labs, CA [2016]
- Graduate Fellowship from Computer Science dept. of UC Irvine.
[2014]
- Certificate of Academic Excellence, Computer Science Department,
UT Dallas [2013]
- Nominated for membership in ‘Golden Key International Honour
Society’ by the UT Dallas. [2012]
- 5th Place in Cyber Security and ethical hacking at TexSAW at UT
Dallas. [2011]
- Ranked 2nd (all departments) in the
undergraduate College. [2007]
Certifications
- Micro-MBA, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego [2020]
- Preparing for a faculty career program, UC Irvine [2018]
- Course Design Certificate Program, UC Irvine [2018]
- Machine Learning certification with Coursera by Stanford
University [2017]
- Certified in Mentoring Excellence Program (MEP) in UC Irvine
[2015]
- IBM certified SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Associate [2008]
- Certified in Presentation Skills & Time mgmt. by IBM Siksha Consulting [2007]
- Summer training certification on MMDS networks, TATA Communications [2006]
Affliliations
- Peer mentor, Graduate Resource Center, University of California,
Irvine
- Member, Golden Key International Honour Society
- Member, IEEE Communication Society
- Member, IEEE
- Member, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Services
- TPC Member: ACM SenSys 2020 (Poster & Demo), IEEE COMSNETS 2020 (PhD forum)
- Reviewer for Journals: IEEE Transactions of Cognitive Comm.&Networking, IEEE Access, IEEE OJCOMS,
ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
- Reviewer for Conferences: IEEE SECON, WCNC, ICNC, PIMRC, ICRA, COMSNETS and ACM MSWiM, SenSys
- Student Volunteer: IEEE SECON Conference 2017, San Diego, CA
- External Relations Committee: IEEE-UCI 2016
- Student Organizer: Campus visit for incoming PhD students, Computer Science department, UCI, 2018
- Student Speaker: Workshop on “Understanding the U.S. Classroom as a Student and Teaching Assistant” at GRC, UC Irvine, 2015
