Awards & Recognitions

Professional Societies Memberships

  • Senior Member, IEEE #90899329
  • Senior Member, ACM #7294182
  • Member, IEEE Computer Society
  • Member, OpenPOWER Foundation
  • Member, DMTF
  • Life Member, IETE
  • Life Member, CSI (Computer Society of India)
  • Life Member, ISTE (Indian Society for Technical Education)

Awards

  • IEEE MGM Award, 2023, IEEE Member-Get-A-Member Award.
  • Best B.Tech. Project (BTP) Award, 2023, Professional & Innovation Award (Jury Choice), 2023 to the team consisting of Ms. Keerthana Nuti, Mr. Shashank Aital, and Mr. Shreyas Dodamani. (Topic: An Algorithm for Periodic Coverage Path Problem in a Multi-Drone Setting).
  • Best Poster Award, 2023 to the student Mr. Suvra Pattanayak whom I co-supervised (Paper: Heuristic approach for mitigation of time Delay cyberattacks using NLADRC) at Institute Research Day, IIT Roorkee.
  • Recipient of the Best B.Tech. Project (BTP) Award, 2021 to the student Mr. Nikunj Gupta whom I supervised (Topic: Asynchronous Many-Task Systems for Per-formant Linear Algebra Kernels and Low Overhead Software Resilience).
  • Recipient of the Best DIC Summer Intern 2020 Award to the student Mr. Hardev Khand- har, CHARUSAT, whom I supervised (Topic: Android Malware Classification using Machine Learning.
  • Recipient of the Best Mess Award, 2020, New Hostel Vigyankunj for the services rendered at the capacity of Chief Warden.
  • Award for Cleanliness, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), 2020, New Hostel Vigyankunj for the services rendered in the capacity of Chief Warden.
  • Recipient of the Faculty Cloud Ambassador, 2019, AWS Educate Program.
  • Recipient of IBM Shared University Award (from September 2013 to September 2016)
  • Recipient of the Microsoft Educate Award (Conference).
  • Recipient of the Travel Grants from Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of S & T (INR 1.8 Lakhs).
  • Recipient of the Best Paper Award (Conference).
  • Recipient of the Best Presentation Award (Conference).
  • Grant Received due to Summer Undergraduate Research Award (SURA) offered by IIT Roorkee, India
  • Recipient of the Merit Scholarship for University 4th Rank in Master’s Course (1995).

Recognitions

  • Expert Member, Meeting with Chief Secretary, Government of Uttarakhand, Establishment of Center of Excellence in Cyber Security”, January 19, 2024.
  • Member, Senators, IIT Roorkee, from December 1, 2023.
  • External Expert, Interviews for the Chief Systems Manager, IIT(ISM) Dhan-bad, Dehradun, December 24, 2023.
  • External Expert, CCTV Data Storage Safety Decision Committee, Uttarakhand Public Service Commission, December 05, 2023.
  • Member Academia, External Expert, Project Review Committee for the Project, Space based Military Internet of Things (S-MIoT), Defence Electronics Applications Laboratory (DEAL), Dehradun, November 09, 2023.
  • Expert and Resource Person, Technical event MANTHAN, COER University, Roorkee, October 11, 2023.
  • Guest Associate Editor, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Springer (SCIE, DBLP, Web of Science) (Impact Factor: 2.58).
  • Editor, Journal of Spatio-Temporal Data Science, Inderscience.
  • Former Vice Chairman, IEEE Computer Society, India Council (2015-2018).
  • Treasurer, IEEE Roorkee Subsection, India (2021-Till Date).
  • Secretary, IEEE Roorkee Subsection, India (2018-2021).
  • Founder Faculty Sponsor, ACM Students Chapter, IIT Roorkee, India (2015-Till Date).
  • Founding Steering Committee Chair: SLICE workshop
  • Chaired Session in IEEE MASS 2017, the flagship conference in MANETs and Sensors.
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Service Computing.
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
  • Outstanding Reviewer: Elsevier Computer Networks.
  • Recognized Reviewer: Elsevier Computers and Security.
  • Reviewer: Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications.
  • Reviewer: Springer International Journal of Information Security.
  • Reviewer: Elsevier Development Engineering.
  • Reviewer: Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems

Technical Committee Membership

  • IEEE CS Smart Computing
  • IEEE CS Cloud Computing
  • IEEE CS Service Computing
  • IEEE CS Green ICT
  • IEEE CS Computer Communications
  • IEEE CS Distributed Processing
  • IEEE CS Security and Privacy
  • OPF Academic Discussion Workgroup
  • OPF System Software Workgroup
  • HPC Advisory Council
  • Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
  • Academic Workgroup, DMTA