Educations

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) 2017
  • Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
  • University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  • Advisors: Professor Jinjun Chen (IEEE Fellow) and Professor Rajiv Ranjan (IEEE Fellow)
  • Thesis - Towards Efficient and Lightweight Security Architecture for Big Sensing Data Streams
• Master of Technologoy (M.Tech) 2012
  • Computer Science and Engineering (Specialization- Information Security)
  • National Institute of Technology(NIT) Rourkela, India
  • Advisor: Professor Bibhubdatta Sahoo
  • Thesis - Secure Data Collection and Critical Data Transmission Technique in Mobile Sink WSNs

Professional Experiences / Appointments

• Associate Professor – United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)
  • College of Information Technology
  • August 2025 -
• Visiting Associate Professor – Aberystwyth University, UK
  • Department of Computer Science
  • May 2024 -
• Associate Professor – IIM Bodh Gaya, India
  • Leadership Role: Chairperson (≈Associate Dean) of Research & Projects
  • Department of IT Systems and Analytics
  • May 2024 - May 2025
• Affiliate Professor – University West, Sweden
  • Department of Engineering Science
  • June 2023 - Dec 2024
• Assistant Professor – Khalifa University, UAE
  • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Aug 2021 - May 2024
• Visiting Professor – Central Michigan University, Michigan, USA
  • School of Engineering and Technology
  • July 2021 - Dec 2021
• Visiting Professor – Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  • School of Cyber Science and Engineering
  • June 2021 - June 2023
• Honorary Fellow – University of Technology Sydney (UTS), NSW, Australia
  • Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
  • May 2019 - May 2023
• Lecturer (Level G)/ Assistant Professor – Newcastle University, United Kingdom
  • School of Computing
  • May 2019 - June 2021
• Lecturer/ Assistant Professor – University of Technology Sydney (UTS), NSW, Australia
  • Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
  • Feb 2017 - May 2019
• Graduate Research Assistant – CSIRO, Australia
  • Data 61
  • April 2014 - March 2017
• Research Associate – Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC), Doha, Qatar
  • Intelligent Transport and Mobility Group
  • March 2013 - March 2014

Editor Services

Section Editor ~ (Associate Editors-in-Chief)

• Springer Nature Computer Science Journal
  • Section: Cognitive Computing and Digital Twin
  • Section: Dependable Cyber-Physical Systems and Cyber Security

Associate Editor

• IEEE Transactions on Big Data (2018 - )
• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2022 - )
• IEEE Potentials (2026 - )
• Internet Technology Letters, (John Wiley & Sons) (2017 - )
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (2021 - 2024)
• IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine (2017 - 2023)
• IEEE Systems Journal (2020 - 2022)
• Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier) (2019 - 2021)
• International Journal of Communication Systems, (John Wiley & Sons) (2018 - 2024)
• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) (2017 - 2021)

Invited Guest Editor

• ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence
• IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine
• Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
• Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing journal
• Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier)
• Information Systems Frontier
• Computational Intelligence

Grant Reviewer

• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK
• Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland
• Chilean National Science and Technology Commission (FONDECYT), Chile
• Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Qatar
• University of Jeddah, KSA

Thesis Examiner

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: University of Bradford, UK
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: University of Tasmania, Australia
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: IIT Roorkee, India
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: NIT Rourkela, India
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: Vellore Institute of Technology, India
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: Khalifa University, UAE
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) thesis: Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Pakistan

Invited Talks/ Keynotes

• 2025 'Adapting to tomorrow's Threats: Cybersecurity in an Evolving Digital World', Invited talk, IEEE CTSoc Bhubaneswar Chapter, India.
• 2025 'Evolution of Cyber Threats in the Connected World', Invited/FDP talk, Tezpur University, India.
• 2025 'Blockchain and AI-Powered Solution for Child Safety and Identification', Research Talk, Department of Science & Technology, India.
• 2025 'Edge AI for Real-Time Autonomous CPS: Security and Privacy by Design', Keynote, IEEE OCIT, India.
• 2025 'CPS 2.0: The Edge AI Imperative for Real-Time Autonomy', Keynote, DACS 2025, India.
• 2024 'From Network to User: The Transformation of Security with Adaptive Perimeter Design', Keynote, IEEE ICEC, India.
• 2024 'Optimizing Data Management for Robust Security', Pannel talk, DACS 2024, India.
• 2023 'Beyond the Hype: The Rise and Impact of Edge Intelligence', Pannel talk, IEEE PICom, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• 2023 'Is private Blockchain dead?', Pannel talk, IEEE ICBC, Dubai, UAE.
• 2023 'Software-Defined Perimeter: AI-driven Solution', University Level Talk, NIT Warangal, India.
• 2022 '6G Security and Privacy', Pannel talk, 6G Summit Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• 2022 'Adaptive and sclably Blockchain Consensus', Invited talk, IEEE UK & Ireland Blockchain, UK.
• 2022 'Software-Defined Perimeter', Invited talk, TII, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• 2022 'A future aspect of the user centric security solution', Keynote, IEEE ASSIC, India.
• 2021 'User-centric Data Security in an IoMT Workflow', Invited talk, IEEE WF-5G, Canada.
• 2021 'Next-Generation Solution to Securing the Systems', Keynote, ICICC 2021, India.
• 2021 'Decision Tree for the Adaptive Authentication', Invited talk, Central Michigan University, USA.
• 2020 'User-centric Security in IoT-Edge Environment', Invited talk, NIT Meghalaya, India.
• 2020 'Blockchain Portability for the Consumer Devices', Invited talk, University of Wolverhampton, USA.
• 2019 'IoT Workflow Orchestration Application', Keynote, ICCAN 2019, Bhubaneswar, India.
• 2019 'IoT Workflow Orchestration Application', Keynote, ICICC 2019, Bhubaneswar, India.
• 2019 'AI for Security and its Future', Invited talk, IIIT Bhubaneswar, India.
• 2018 'Blockchain for the Edge Computing', Invited talk, La Trobe University, Australia.
• 2018 'Blockchain for IoT', Invited talk, TCS R&D, India.
• 2018 'Integration of Distributed Computing', Keynote, ICIT 2018, Bhubaneswar, India.
• 2018 'IoT Systems and its Future in Cyber Security', Invited talk, Newcastle University, UK.
• 2018 'Blockchain for resource constraints', Invited talk, University of Leeds, UK.
• 2018 'Advances in Cyber Security', University Level Talk, NIT Rourkela, India.
• 2017 'Advances in Computing Research', Panel Keynote, IEEE SmartCloud 2017, New York, USA.