Experience & Achievements

Complete CV Available Here (Last Update Jan 30, 2023)

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.