Title Recent Research Trends in Sensor Networks

Dr. Sudip Misra
School of Information Technology
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Biography

Dr. Sudip Misra is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Prior to this he was associated with Cornell University (USA), Yale University (USA), Nortel Networks (Canada) and the Government of Ontario (Canada). He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, and the masters and bachelors degrees respectively from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Dr. Misra has several years of experience working in the academia, government, and the private sectors in research, teaching, consulting, project management, architecture, software design and product engineering roles.

His current research interests include algorithm design for emerging communication networks. Dr. Misra is the author/editor of over 100 scholarly research papers. He has won six research paper awards in different conferences. He was also the recipient of several academic awards and fellowships such as the Young Scientist Award (National Academy of Sciences, India), Young Systems Scientist Award (Systems Society of India), Young Engineers Award (Institution of Engineers, India), (Canadian) Governor General's Academic Gold Medal at Carleton University, the University Outstanding Graduate Student Award in the Doctoral level at Carleton University and the National Academy of Sciences, India - Swarna Jayanti Puraskar (Golden Jubilee Award). He was also awarded the Canadian Government's prestigious NSERC Post Doctoral Fellowship and the Humboldt Research Fellowship in Germany. Dr. Misra is the Editor-in-Chief of 2 journals - the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS) and the International Journal of Information and Coding Theory (IJICoT), U.K. He has also been serving as the Associate Editor of the Telecommunication Systems Journal (Springer SBM), Security and Communication Networks Journal (Wiley), International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), and the EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking. He is also an Editor/Editorial Board Member/Editorial Review Board Member of the IET Communications Journal, Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal (Elsevier), the International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science, the International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Internet Technology, and the Applied Intelligence Journal (Springer). Dr. Misra has edited around 6 books in the areas of wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, communication networks and distributed systems, network reliability and fault tolerance, and information and coding theory, published by reputed publishers such as Springer and World Scientific. He was invited to chair several international conference/workshop programs and sessions. He has been serving in the program committees of over a dozen international conferences. Dr. Misra was also invited to deliver keynote lectures in over a dozen international conferences in USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa.