Professional Services & Recognition: NATIONAL


  • Elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for technical leadership and exceptional contributions in applied research in the areas of wireless and wired communication networks (2007)
  • Elected Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), India, 2007
  • Invited to serve in the Board of Governors of IIT Bhilai Innovation and Technology Foundation (ibitf.co.in/struct.html), 2021
  • Invited to serve in the Advisory Committee of the Dharampal Satyapal Group's Centre of Excellence for Entrepreneurship Development, IIT Delhi, 2020
  • Invited to serve as an Expert Member in the Program Advisory Committee of IMPRINT, Science & Engineering Research Board, Government of India, 2018, 2019, 2021
  • Invited to serve on the Governing Council of INAE as the representative of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), 2021
  • Invited to Chair several Project Evaluation Committees (PEC) of the Global Innovation & Technology Alliance (GITA), Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, 2018 – 2021
  • Invited to serve as an Expert Member on the Governing Council/Sectional Committees of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) [Two Terms]
  • Invited to serve as an Expert Member on the Governing Council of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers (IETE)
  • Invited to serve as the Program Director in IT Research Academy (ITRA), Media Lab Asia, a division of the Department of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India, October 2013
  • Invited to serve as the first President of NIIT University, India (2009 – 2012)
  • Member of the Project Review and Steering Group (PRSG), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India, for several projects in the last ten years.
  • Founder member & Steering Committee Chair of COMSNETS conference and COMSNETS Association (A Not-For-Profit Association registered in Bangalore) in the area of Communications, Networking, Applications and Services. COMSNETS is now one of the flagship conferences in India supported by IEEE COMSOC, ACM SIGMOBILE and ACM SIGCOMM.
  • Serving as an Expert Member on the “Task Force on Application Layer Standards” under the 5G High Level Forum co-chaired by the CTO, Tata Consultancy Services and DG, TSDSI. 2018 – current.
  • Serving as an Expert Member on “LITD-28: Smart Infrastructure” Sectional Committee and “Smart Manufacturing” Sectional Committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). 2018 - current
  • Chair of the task force on “Technologies for the Health-Care Sector in India”, research study under the aegis of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2011.
  • Invited to serve as an Adjunct Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering Dept, IIT Delhi, 2017 – current
  • Adjunct Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering Dept, IIT Delhi, 1998 – 2005
  • Visiting Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering Dept, IIT Kanpur, 2000 – 2002
  • Associate Editor, IETE Technical Review: 2018 –
  • Guest Editor, Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, special issue on “Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks”, 2005
  • Technical Program Committee Memberships
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (IEEE ICPWC), New Delhi, India, January 23-25, 2005.
    • International Advisory Committee, IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (ICPWC), New Delhi, India, January 23-25, 2005.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, 6th IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC 2004), 27-30 December, 2004, Kolkata, India
    • Technical Program Committee Member, International Conference on Communication and Broadband Networking (ICBN), May 2003, Bangalore, India.
    • Technical Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (ICPWC), December, 2002, New Delhi, India.
  • Session Chair
    • Session Chair, NCC Conference, New Delhi, India, January 2006
    • Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (ICPWC), 2000
    • IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (ICPWC), 1999
    • IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications (ICPWC), 1997
  • Panel Discussions
    • Invited to serve on a panel titled “The Future of IT Services” at the Business Today Conclave, Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi, February 2019. I was representing TCS in this panel.
    • Invited to serve on a panel titled “CSA – Next 50 Years” (along with Prof. Christos Papadimitriou, Columbia University, USA) at the Computer Science and Automation Department, IISc Bangalore, 4 January 2019.
    • Invited to serve on a panel titled “The Future of Education” in NDTV, 2011, 2012. I was representing NIIT University in these TV panel discussions.
  • Expert Examiner/Evaluator:
    • Ph.D. dissertations: IIT Delhi, Delhi Technological University, IGNOU, Shiv Nadar University
    • M.S. Theses: IISc Bangalore
    • M. Tech Projects: IIT Delhi