Experience & Achievements
Work Experience
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, USA, Aug'20 - Present
Postdoctoral Research Associate, GENESYS Lab, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, May '19 - Aug '20
Tutorial Effective Writing Skills at GENESYS Lab, Northeastern University, Boston, USA, Aug 26 '19
Tutorial Hands-On Kernel Programming at Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana, India, Dec 9 ’18
Invited talk titled "Experiences & Challenges with Server-Side WiFi Indoor Localization Using Existing Infrastructure" at NetSys Lab, Stony Brook University, Nov 05 '2018
Invited for Expert Guest Lecture on WiFi and IoT at BCIIT, March 26 '2018
Teaching Assistant, Mobile Computing, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi, Winter 2018 - Current.
Delivered DRDO WiFi Tutorial
Delivered WiFi Tutorial with IIIT-Delhi IEEE Student Chapter (Video)
Summer Internship with Airtight Networks from May to July 2014.
Teaching Assistant, Technical Communication, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi, Monsoon 2013.
Teaching Assistant, Computer Networks, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi, Winter 2013.
Research Thesis Student, Wireless Sensor Networks, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, Spring 2012.
Teaching Assistant, Software Engineering, Spring 2012, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, Spring 2012.
Teaching Assistant, Software Engineering, Fall 2011, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, Fall 2011.
Team Leader, Web Software Module for Slot Scheduling at National Association for the Blind, Bangalore, fall 2011 - spring 2012.
Software Engineer at Avanade Technology Group, Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd. August 2008 - July 2010.
Service/Reviewing Experience
2023 - Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2022 - Transactions of Mobile Computing, Pervasive and Mobile Computing
2022 - Overall Workshop Co-Chair at COMSNETS 2023
2021 - Overall Workshop Co-Chair at COMSNETS 2022
2021 - Member of TPC for ACM SIGCOMM Artifact Evaluation 2021
2021 - TPC Member for SLICE 2021
2021 - Reviewer ACM IMWUT, Elsevier Adhoc Networks
2020 - Co-organizing STEERS 2021 in conjunction with CCGRID 2021
2020 - Member of Technical Program Committee COMSNETS Graduate Forum, MINDS Workshop, Percom Industry Track
2019 - Mobiquitous, PMC, TMC
2018 - PMC (Externally Reviewed), Member of Technical Program Committee ACM S3 2018 held in conjuction with Mobicom 2018, Transactions of Mobile Computing, IMWUT (Externally Reviewed)
2017 - Transactions of Mobile Computing, (Externally Reviewed)
2016 - Transactions of Mobile Computing (Externally Reviewed), ACM Dev (Externally Reviewed), ANTS (Externally Reviewed), ICDCS (Externally Reviewed)
Mentoring Experience
Naman Gupta, B.Tech - MAIT for Research Assistantship.
Aman Uniyal, M.Tech - IIIT-D for Scholarly Paper.
Harish Fulara, BTech - IIIT-D for BTP Project
Gursimran Singh, BTech - IIIT-D for Independent Project
Akanksha Pandey, MTech - IIIT-D for Independent Project.
Nishtha Phutela, MTech - IIIT-D for Master's Thesis.
Nishtha Phutela, MTech - IIIT-D for Independent Project.
Jagrati Gogia, BTech - IIIT-D for Independent Project.
Jagrati Gogia, BTech - IIIT-D for Summer Internship.
Academic Achievements
Recipient of Intellectual Property and Innovation Disclosure Competition at UNI, Spring '23
UNI CHAS Faculty Support, Fall '22
Received ACM travel grant to attend MobiCom 2018
Best Graduate Forum Award at COMSNETS 2018 for the work titled " Understanding the Impact of Unnecessary Active Scans in WLANs"
Won First Prize at National Level WiFi Th!nkFest 2017 in conjuction with WiFi Knowledge Summit at IIT-Bombay
Won Third Prize at Poster Session held during Research Showcase 2017, IIIT-Delhi, India
Won First prize at Wizshark competition at Comsnets 2014 held by Airtight Networks.
Selected for attending Ph.D. Workshop on Paper Writing in I-CARE 2013.
Institute gold medal for the all rounder of the year (2010 - 2012), International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore.
Selected as student fellow at Apricot 2012 conference from ISOC - Bangalore.
Director's Merit List for M.Tech in 1st and 2nd semester.
Batch Topper in Training Program at Accenture, IDC of Informatica Batch (2008).
College Rank Holder, B.Tech (CSE) 2008 Batch.
Scholarships awarded by B.T.E(Govt. of Delhi) for academic excellence during diploma(2002-05).
Felicitated with certificate of Merit achieved Distinctive Performance in '3rd National Science Olympiad' Year 2001.
Felicitated with certificate of Merit achieved High Distinction awarded by 'Royal Australian Chemical Institute' for Australian National Chemistry Quiz in Year 2000.
Extra Curricular Achievements
Jointly organized summer school for school students at IIIT-Delhi with Dr. Vinayak Naik
Core Committee Member - Research Showcase 2016 - Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi
Selected for Microsoft Research's Summer School 2014 on Wireless Networking to be held at IISc, Bangalore, India.
Core Committee Member - Research Showcase 2014 - Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi.
Invited as Guest of Honor at annual function of Kasturba Polytechnic for Women - Delhi.
Core Committee Member - Research Showcase 2013 - Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi.
Member student elected body - Students Activities Committee (SAC) - International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore - managing various events (Technical/Non-Technical), representing and handling student's issues, concerns with management.
Active volunteer at RetinAware 2011 held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
Active volunteer at IEEE IMSAA 2010 held at International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore.
Active member of AIKYAM - Social Service group at International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore.
Internal A.ffairs Convener, TechSurge 2008 Mridang 2008, Annual Technical Cultural Meet of M.A.I.T.
Joint Secretary, TechSurge 2007 Aavaeg 2007, Annual Technical Cultural Meet of M.A.I.T.
Chairperson, Indian Society Of Technical Education (I.S.T.E) for Kasturba Polytechnic for Women, New Delhi
Awarded certifi.cate of participation in the Six-Day workshop on Disaster Management, Project sponsored by University Of Agriculture, Govt. of India.
Several Prizes Won At Competitions (At college level And School level) - Debate, Skit, Mimicry, Painting, Dumb Charades, Quiz etc.