Keynote & Invited Talks: 

• Empowering Education with Trustworthy AI: A Framework for Learning Enhancement,"  The University of Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria, June 3, 2024.
• Transforming Education Using AI, 8th International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology, Kolkata, January 12, 2024
• AI in Education: Transforming Learning with Generative AI, LLMs, and Chatbots, Jadavpur University, India, January 9, 2024
• Trust in AI: Building a Foundation for Ethical and Reliable Technologies - BBS, University of Bologna, Italy, September 15, 2023
• Keynote Talk: Trustworthy AI: Navigating the Problems and Challenges, 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology, IIT Dhanbad, India on March 4, 2023.
• Internationalization of Indian Higher Education, 5th Global Education Forum (GEF) 2022, Organized by the Indian Chamber of Commerce, Nov 30, 2022, New Delhi, India.
• IoT-based Fire and Smoke Detection in Smart Cities using Deep Learning, IEEE Santa Clara Valley CES, Santa Clara, September 17, 2019.
• Application of AI & Machine Learning in Data Science, jointly organized by Jadavpur University, Global JU Alumni Foundation, Calcutta Regional Centre - IIChE, Alumni Association of NCE & JU, Kolkata, July 26, 2019.
• Challenges & Limitations in Deploying Recommendations Systems, 6th Intl. Data Science Summit, Kolkata, August 10, 2018.
• Future Trends in Data Science, Data Science Boot Camp, TiE, Silicon Valley, December 2017. 
• The cloud and big data as the cornerstone for Smart Cities, IOT Tech Expo North America, Santa Clara, October 20, 2016
• Distributed Shortest Path Routing Strategies for Mobile Ad Hoc Wireless Networks,  at Ericsson Research Labs, San Jose March 9, 2016
• Problems & Challenges for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Location-based
  Services and Advertising - From Industry Perspective, at Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, December 2010
• Routing in Ad Hoc Networks at Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, January 2003
• Efficient Data Management for Pervasive Computing, IBM Silicon Valley Lab, San José, January 2002.

Professional Activities

• Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking.
• Member of the Organizing Committee & Co-Chair, IEEE ANTS Workshop, IIT Guwahati, December 2024.
• Member of the Organizing Committee & Co-Chair, IEEE ANTS Workshop, Jaipur, December 2023.
• Workshop Co-Chair: International Workshop on Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles and IoT, (UAV-IoT 2023), September 25-27, 2023, Toronto, Canada.
• Member of the Organizing Committee & Panel Co-Chair, IEEE ANTS, IIT Gandhinagar, India, December 2022. 
• Panel Co-Chair, IEEE ANTS, Hyderabad, December 2021. 
• Co-Chair, 2021 IEEE Summit on Future Technologies, August 2021, San Francisco Bay.
• Program Chair, IEEE International Summit on Future Technology on August 16, 2022, Fremont, CA
• Publicity Co-Chair, COMSNETS, January 2021.
•  Tutorial Co-Chair, IEEE ANTS 2020, New Delhi, December 2020. 
• Ad Hoc Reviewer, Wireless Networks, Ad Hoc Networks
• Ad Hoc Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Communications Letters
• Ad Hoc Reviewer, Decision Sciences Journal
• Co-Chair, IEEE ANTS Workshop, Bhubaneswar, December 2017. 
• Co-Chair, IEEE Smart World Congress Summit, San Francisco, August 2017.
• Co-Chair, IEEE ANTS Workshop, Bangalore, November 2016.
• Co-Chair, Big Data Applications for Enterprise, Industry and Business Track, IEEE Big Data Service, Oxford, UK, March 2016.
• Co-Chair, Workshop on Large Scale Complex Network Analysis (LSCNA 2015), Kolkata, December 2015
• Member of the Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), 2017,2016, 2015
• Member of the Program Committee, International Conference Theory and Practice in Modern Computing (TPMC), 2015
• Member of the Program Committee, International Conference on Soft Computing and Software Engineering (SCSE'15), 2015

• Member of the Program Committee,  International Conference on “Recent Trends in Information Technology” ICRTIT-2014
• Member of the Program Committee, IADIS Theory and Practice in Modern Computing (TPMC), 2012, 2013
• Member of the Program Committee, IADIS International Conference on Telecommunications, Networks and Systems, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• Member of the Program Committee, International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication (ADCOM), 2007, 2008, 2010
• Member of the Program Committee, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, 2007, 2008
• Member of the Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Computing: Theory & Applications, March 2007
• Local Chair, Third International Conference on Broadband Networks (BroadNets), October 2006
• Member of the Program Committee - 17th Annual IRMA International Conference, May 2006
• Member of the Program Committee - 6th International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC), December 2004
• Member of the Organizing Committee - First International Conference on Broadband Networks (BroadNets), October 2004
• Reviewer of major conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, ICC, AMCIS

Awards and Honors 

• Lucas Fellowship Award, 2006, 2007, 2009.
• Linda Morash e-Learning Innovation Fellowship 2008.
• University Planning Council Grant, Spring 08, Spring 07.
• Lottery Professional Development Grant, San Jose State University, 2006.
• CSU Research Funds Award, 2005-06.
• 菠菜网lol正规平台 Global Studies Institute Fellow, 2004-05.
• CSU-菠菜网lol正规平台 Faculty Award for Research, Scholarship and Creativity, 2003-04.
• Junior Faculty Career Development Award, San Jose State University, Fall 2002.
• Visiting Research Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, December 2002.