Awards, Invited Talks and Professional Activities

Awards

Keynote/ Invited TalksIMG_5271

Keynote Speaker

Invited Speaker

  • “Introduction to AI”, SAC/UTSA Engineering Transfer Bridge Program, September, 2023.
  • “Revolutionizing Mental Health Care: The Role AI in Promoting Well Being”, IEEE Lone Star Section Life Members, 2023.
  • “Deep Reinforcement Learning”, BITS Pilani, 2023.
  • “Enhancing Humanness in Future Generation Cyber Physical Systems”, GITS Udaipur, 2023
  • EMBS Chapters Torch Relay Public Webinar, IEEE Day 2022.
  • EMBS One Chapter One Story, IEEE Day 2022.
  • ACM Women India Grad Cohort, 2022.
  • ACM Princeton Chapter, 2022.
  • Using Cognitive Machine Learning to Build Safe and Secure Internet of Things Devices, ACM-Women, Duke University, November 2021.
  • ACM Sacramento Chapter Distinguished Speaker Series, Future Worlds AI & ML  – Virtual Lecture, May 2021.
  • “CollabAI: Accelerating AI Innovation through open source tools”, Tinker with an AI Scientist, UTSA Matrix, May 2021.
  • CSE Webinar organized by IIT Jodhpur, on “Brain Variable Reward Structure for Cooperative Machine Learning in IoT Network”, March 2021.
  • Faculty Development Programme on Modern Cryptography, Blockchain & IoT Security : Challenges, Solutions & Future Prospects (MCB-IoTs-2021) organized by Dept. of CSE at University Institute of Technology at Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (UIT-RGPV) Bhopal, March 2021.
  • Invited Speaker at “2020 International Symposium on Automation, Information and Computing”, ISAIC, Beijing, China, December 2020.
  • Invited Speaker at Short Term Training Program on Cyber Security and Forensics, organized by Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, India, October 2020.
  • Invited Speaker at IEEE Life Member Affinity Group September Meeting, 17 September 2020. 
  • ACM tech talk at University of Texas, San Antonio, ACM Student Chapter, February, 2020.
  • Speaker at IEEE EMBS Chapter, San Antonio, “A Novel Deep Learning Strategy for Classifying Different Attack Patterns for Deep Brain Implants”, January, 2020.
  • Speaker at AT&T labs, Austin, USA by IEEE Austin ComSoc & SP and EMBS & Computer Joint Chapters, IEEE Austin Special Session on “Data Analytics for Improved Security in Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles”, December 2019.
  • Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University, “Secure Information Systems”, December 2019.
  • Speaker at I International engineering congress in the Industry 4.0, Universidad Continental, Peru, South America, November 2019.
  • Speaker at 2019 IEEE Smart City Summit, Disruptive Technologies enabling Innovative smart city use cases, (5G, IOT and AI), Austin, November 2019.
  • Department of Computer Science, the University of Texas at San Antonio, “Pointers in C”, August 2019.
  • Department of Computing Sciences Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi on the topic, “Virtual Memory”, July 2019.
  • The University Transportation Center (UTC) Undergraduate Internship (UI) 2019 Summer Symposium Series at UT, Austin on the topic, “Data Analytics for Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems“, July 2019.
  • IEEE ComSoc Summer School at National Instruments, Austin on July 17, 2019.
  • School of Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Central Missouri, “Cyber Physical Systems”, Warrensburg, MO on July 8, 2019.
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, “Special Topics on Database Systems” on July 5, 2019.
  • Guest Lecturer at University of Texas, Austin on the topic, “Recursion” for Business Analytics Students for Course MIS 304, May 2019.
  • “Strategies for Making Cyber-Physical Systems Secure” at ECE department, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 28 March 2019.
  • AT&T labs, Austin, USA by IEEE Austin ComSoc & SP and EMBS & Computer Joint Chapters, talk on “Improving Security in the Internet of Things(IoT) through Bio-Inspired Approaches”, 20 December, 2018 .
  • University of Texas, Austin on the topic, “Database Management” for Mccombs School of Business for Course MIS381N, 7 November, 2018.
  • IEEE Austin ComSoc & SP and EMBS & Computer Joint Chapters, talk on “Security Solutions for the Internet of Medical Things” at AT&T labs, Austin, USA by , 25 October, 2018 .
  • University of Texas, Austin on the topic, “Future of Autonomous Vehicles” for Transportation Oriented Students for Course CE321, 16 October 2018.
  • The University Transportation Center (UTC) Undergraduate Internship (UI) 2018 Summer Symposium Series, University of Texas, Austin on the topic, “Blockchain Technology to Make Self-Driving Cars Safer”, 2018.
  • University of Texas, Austin on the topic, “My Journey with Python” and “Classes and Objects Programming” for Business Analytics Students for Course MIS 304, April 2018.
  • Spotlight Session at “Young Professional Track” at the IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference, Agra December 2016.
  • Talk as an IT Expert on 101.3 FM Udaipur on 4/8/2012.
  • Talk and live implementation on “Software Testing Test Bed for Video Traffic over Wireless Networks“ in National workshop on quality assurance services for software and web applications organized by SIG-WN’s, CSI, KGH Solutions, United Arab Emirates, Unico Management Solutions on 21 August, 2010.

Session Chair-Panelist

  • Session Chair, S1-3: CT01: Application-Specific CE for Smart Cities (SMC), ICCE 2025.
  • Session Chair, Session 34 (Security, Privacy, and Content Protection), CCNC 2025.
  • Panelist, Leadership San Antonio Association, 2025.
  • Panelist, Data Center Community Information Session, 2025.
  • Program Committee, ACM Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems, 2025.
  • NSF Reviewer and Panelist, 2025.
  • Panelist, Developing Career Pathways in Data Science and AI at Community Colleges, ADSA Annual Meeting, 2023.
  • Panelist, “N2 Women Event: Inclusive Excellence – What does it actually mean?” at IEEE SmartComp, 2023.
  • Supporting Mentor for NSF CIMA LSAMP Alliance, San Antonio College, 2023.
  • Session Chair, ”Deep Learning Theory”, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN, 2023
  • Panelist for NSF 2022.
  • Panelist for San Antonio Community College STEM Career Event, November 2022.
  • Session chair, International Conference on Information Systems and Emerging Technologies and International Conference on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Namibia, November 2022.
  • Session chair for AI for CPS Security SaT-CPS 2021: Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems, April 28, 2021.
  • Panelist for First Doctoral Symposium, ACM Mysore, Jan 2021.
  • Session Chair at “2020 International Symposium on Automation, Information and Computing”, ISAIC, Beijing, China, December 2020.
  • Session Chair for the track, “Security and Usability” at 10th IFIP IEEE International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, (Spain) June 2019.
  • Session chair for the track “Communication” at The Seventeenth International Conference on Networks held at Athens, Greece, 2018.
  • Panelist for the theme, “Challenges in Urban and Mobility Systems and Networks“, at the Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT), held at Athens, Greece, 2018. Talk on, “Blockchain Technology and self-driving cars”.
  • Proctor at Wichita State University, Kansas, USA for CMfgE exam, November 2016.
  • Session chair for track on “Cellular 1″ at IEEE Sensing, Communications and Networking (SECON), 2014.

Professional ActivitiesIMG_6166

Editorial Board/ Professional Positions

Technical Program Committee/ Administratice Activities

  • Contest Co-Judge and Foreign Teams Contact, ICPC TxState TEXAS-MEXICO Invitational Programming Contest 2023.
  • ACM International Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (BlockSys), 2022.
  • Local Arrangements Chair and Treasurer for ACM WiSec, 2022.
  • TPC Member for Workshop on Big Data for Cybersecurity, 2021.
  • TPC Member, ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (SaT-CPS 2021)
  • TPC for the workshop on “Smart Health and Internet of Medical Things” as part of the IEEE World Forum on IoT conference https://wfiot2021.iot.ieee.org/.
  • TPC Member for 3rd Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (BlockSys co-located with SenSys-2020)November 16, 2020, Yokohama, Japan.
  • TPC Member for International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT’20).
  • Scientific Committee Chair for  workshop 1st International Electronic Conference on Actuator Technology: Materials, Devices, and Applications.
  • Publicity co-chair for 1st ACM Workshop on Recent Trends of Internet of Softwarized Things (IoST-5G&B) in conjunction with ICDCN 2021.
  • Student Branch Chapter Advisor University of Texas -San Antonio Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
  • Technical Program Committee Chair, International Conference on Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Windhoek, Namibia, 2020.
  • Technical Program Committee Sixteenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, IARIA, Portugal 2020.
  • Member of Steering committee for IMS2018, IMS2019, IMS 2020 Project Connect, which provides opportunities for students from under-represented minorities to network with industry and academicexperts in the area of RF and Microwave Engineering.
  • Organized International Seminar on “Blockchain Technology & Innovative Applications” at the Department of Computer science & Information Technology, Janardan Rai Nagar Rajasthan Vidyapeeth (Deemed-to-be University), Udaipur & in Collaboration with Computer Society of India, Udaipur Chapter, 2020.
  • Organizing Committee Member, “IEEE Summit on Disruptive Technologies and Applications Towards Smart Cities”, Austin, October 2019.
  • Program Committee Member of International Conference on Secure Knowledge Management in Artificial Intelligence Era, 2019.
  • Editor for the special issue “Parallel and Distributed Deep Learning” cooperated under SCI index, Journal of Grid Computing 2018.
  • TPC Member of NextCom 2017 organized by CT Institute of Engineering Management & Technology Shahpur Jalandhar, India.
  • Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of IEEE ETNCC 2015, International Conference on Emerging Trends in Network and Computer Communication, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia.

Reviewer :

  • 2023: IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE International Conference on Device Intelligence, Computing and Communication Technologies, IEEE Internet of Things
  • 2022: ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, ACM Computing Surveys, Artificial Intelligence Review, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Southeast Decision Sciences Institute 2022, IEEE Transactions on Emergency Topics in Computing, IEEE Sensor Letters.
  • 2021: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, Computer Networks, Computer Surveys, IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things, IEEE Access, MDPI JRFM, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, MDPI Sensors, Southeast Decision Sciences Institute 2021, TechScience Press.
  • 2020:  IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems, Springer Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, MDPI Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Springer MultiMedia Tools and Applications, Springer Cluster Computing, Elsevier Information Processing and Management, Information Systems Frontiers, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, MDPI Mathematics, Journal of Sensors, International Journal of Information Security, Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society, Elsevier Computer & Security, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, MDPI International Journal of Financial Studies, MDPI Sustainability, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Access.
  • 2019: IEEE Internet of Things, ACM Computing Surveys, Elsevier EE-Health, Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Elsevier Building and Environment, IET Electronic Letters, IET Smart Cities, International Journal of Information Security, IEEE Access 2019, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, ICDIS 2019, IET Communications, IET Electronic Letters, IET Networks.
  • 2018: IEEE Access 2018, IEEE IPCCC 2O18,  IEEE Internet of Things, IET River Valley Technologies, SNSP 2018, IEEE ICC, IEEE Access, IET’s The Journal of Engineering (JoE), IEEE ICCCN 2018.
  • 2017:IPCCC 2017, CEEC 2017,Elsevier Ocean Engineering Journal 2017, IEEE PIMRC 2017, IEEE Access 2017, Journal of Decision Systems 2017, AsiaCCS 2017, IEEE ICCCN 2017
  • 2016: IEEE IET Wireless Sensor Systems 2016, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2016, IPCCC 2016, IEEE symposium on Multimedia 2016, IEEE ANTS 2016, IEEE ICCCN 2016, IEEE SmartGrid Comm 2016, BDCloud 2016.
  • 2015: IPCCC 2015