Professional Services & Recognition: INTERNATIONAL


  • ACM Distinguished Scientist, 2014
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal, 2019 -
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2006 – 2010
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET), Springer, since 2006
  • Contributor, Industrial Internet Security Framework (IISF), Industrial Internet of Things Volume G4: Security Framework Paperback – September 19, 2016
    • This is the first document published globally in the area of security of Industrial IoT. The document has influenced global standards in the area of Internet of Things. Document available from Amazon.com.
  • Guest Editor, IEEE IoT Journal special issue on “Artificial Intelligence-Based Systems for Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0”, to be published in July 2021
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications special issue on “Recent Advances in Wireless Multimedia”, published in fourth Quarter 2003.
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications special issue on “Security in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”, February 2006.
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications special issue on “Vehicular Networks”, published in fourth Quarter 2007.
  • Conference Chair/Co-Chair
    • Sponsorship Co-Chair, IEEE Connecting the Unconnected (CTU) Summit, IEEE Future Networks, 2021
    • General Co-Chair, IEEE 5G World Forum, India, 2020
    • Workshop Co-Chair, 5G Applications and Services, IEEE 5G World Forum, Dresden, Germany, September/October 2019
    • General Co-Chair, ACM MobiCom 2018 Conference, 29 Oct - 2 Nov 2018, New Delhi, India. This is a Tier-1 and most reputed conference of ACM SIGMOBILE.
    • Workshop Co-Chair, Workshop on SDN and IoT (SDN-IoT 2016), IEEE NetSoft, Seoul, Korea, 6-10 June 2016
    • General Co-Chair, ACM e-Energy 2015, July 2015, Bangalore, India
    • Co-Chair, IoT Special Track, IEEE SERVICES, New York, 27 June – 2 July 2015
    • General Vice Chair, ACM SIGCOMM 2010, 30 August – 3 September 2010, New Delhi, India. This is a Tier-1 and most reputed conference of ACM.
    • Steering Committee Chair, International Conference on “Communication Systems and Networks” (COMSNETS) (www.comsnets.org). The conference is supported by IEEE COMSOC, ACM SIGCOMM and ACM SIGMOBILE.
    • Steering Committee Co-chair, First, Second, Third International Conference on “Communication System Software and Middleware” (COMSWARE), 2006, 2007, 2008 (www.comsware.org)
    • General Chair, ACM VANET 2009 Workshop, ACM MOBICOM Conference, Beijing, China, September 2009
    • Technical Program Committee Chair, IEEE ISWCS 2009 Conference, Siena, Italy, September 2009 (http://www.iswcs.org/iswcs2009/committee.html)
    • Technical Program Committee Chair, 1st International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), 16-18 January, 2006, Phuket, Thailand.
    • General Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Mobile, Wireless and Sensor Networks (MOBWISER), March 5-6, 2004, Singapore.
    • Wireless Workshop Co-Chair, IEEE/ACM BroadNets 2004, San Jose, CA, USA, October 25-29, 2004.
  • Technical Program Committee Membership
    • Technical Program Committee Member, 5G Applications and Services Workshop, IEEE 5G World Forum, Dresden, Germany, September/October 2019
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks conference (IEEE SECON'2010), June 21-25, 2010, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, ACM VANET 2010 Workshop, ACM MOBICOM Conference, September 2010, Chicago, IL, USA.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks conference (IEEE SECON'2006), September 25-28, 2006, Reston, VA, USA.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Globecom’06-WirelessComm (Globecom 2006), 27 November – 1 December 2006, San Francisco, USA
    • Technical Program Committee Member, ACM MOBICOM’2005 conference, August 28 - September 2, 2005, Cologne, Germany, USA.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks conference (IEEE SECON'2005), September 26-29, 2005, Santa Clara, USA.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Infocom’2006 conference, to be held in Barcelona, Spain, April 24-27, 2006 (http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2006/)
    • Technical Program Committee Member, The Second IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNetS-II), May 30-31 2005, Sydney, NSW, Australia (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~emnet/)
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE WowMom’2005, Taormina / Giardini Naxos, Italy, June 13-16, 2005
    • Technical Program Committee Member, Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (IEEE PerCom), Hawaii, USA, March 8-12, 2005
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE WCNC, 2005, New Orleans, USA
    • Technical Program Committee Member, ACM MOBICOM’2004 conference, September 26-October 1, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks conference (IEEE SECON'2004), October 4-7, 2004, Santa Clara, USA.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, ACM WMASH'2004 - Second ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots, October 1, 2004, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Workshop on "Online algorithms for mobile wireless computing and networking" to be held in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2004, Dallas, Texas, USA, November 28, 2004.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), 2004, Singapore
    • Technical Program Committee Member, The 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS), October 24-27, 2004, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Infocom’2004 conference, Hong Kong, March 2004
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC’2004), Multimedia Symposium, Paris, June, 2004.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Infocom’2003 conference, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 2003
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC’2003), Symposium on Personal Communication Systems and Wireless LANs, to be held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May, 2003.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, QoS-IP 2003, the Second International Workshop on QoS in Multiservice IP Networks, to be held in Milan, Italy, February 24-26, 2003.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Infocom’2002 conference, New York, USA, June, 2002 (see http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2002/)
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Globecom’2002 (Internet Performance Symposium) to be held in Taipei, R. O. C, November, 2002.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC), 2002.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE Globecom’2001 (Internet Performance Symposium), San Antonio, Texas, USA, November, 2001.
  • Session Chair
    • Session Chair, IEEE VTC’2009, Anchorage, Alaska, September 2009
    • Session Chair, IEEE PerCom’2006, Pisa, Italy
    • Session Chair IEEE PerCom’2005, Kauai, Hawaii, USA
    • Session Chair IEEE WCNC’2005, New Orleans, USA
    • Session Chair, ACM Mobicom’2004, Philadelphia, USA, September 2004
    • Session Chair, IEEE Infocom’2004, Hong Kong, March, 2004
    • Session Chair, IEEE Infocom’2002, New York, USA
    • Session Chair, IEEE Infocom’2001, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
    • Session Chair, IEEE Globecom’2002, Taiwan
    • Session Chair, IEEE Globecom’2001, San Antonio
    • Session Chair, IEEE ICC’2003, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2003
  • Peer Reviewer for Notable Journals:
    • IEEE Journal on Selected areas in Communications
    • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
    • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
    • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
    • ACM Transactions on Modeling & Computer Simulation
    • ACM/Springer Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET)
    • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
    • ACM MONET Journal
    • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
    • IEEE Communications Magazine
  • Expert Examiner/Evaluator:
    • Ph.D. dissertation: University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC), USA
      • Ph.D. candidate: Kaustubh Dhondge